As Obama coldly noted in 2009, during the midst of his Afghan policy review, he wasn't "interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in Afghanistan" but rather for how it advanced US national security interests.
They have also been tasked to consider trends that they noticed throughout the trip and how it advanced their understanding of China-Latin America relations.
To be considered for the award, a restoration project would have to demonstrate how it advanced understanding of how older machines were built and worked, said Kevin Murrell, secretary of the CCS.
The Atlantic article references Wikipedia to explain the fair use term: "To justify the use [of copyrighted material] as fair, one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new.
Ultimately, the measure of a great city is not only how flawlessly it advances the causes of good taste and intelligent urban planning, but also how well it accommodates its mistakes.
Among younger activists and rising politicians, the American right has a plausible theory of what its role in our politics ought to be, and how it might advance the common good.
"When designers and editors choose one fat girl to salivate over, and revel in her avoirdupois, I'm not sure how much it advances the cause of using girls of all sizes in a magazine," she wrote.
