Sentence examples for initial advance from inspiring English sources

Acton received no initial advance for her work but, unlike other female writers, had her name firmly imprinted on the cover.

The Italians' initial advance eastward, begun late in May 1915, was soon halted, largely because of the flooding of the Isonzo, and trench warfare set in.

On August 3rd, during ISIS's initial advance on Mt. Sinjar, the militants had laid siege to Kocho and Hatamiya, blocking the roads and killing anyone who tried to escape.

"We had the world's worst record deal," Mr. Partridge recalled, seated serenely now in the garden of the tidy house in Swindon that he bought with Virgin's initial advance.

The filmmaker gets a share of that revenue only if it reaches a certain predetermined level; it is common for filmmakers never to receive a payment beyond their initial advance.

The initial advance of the North Sea lobe is recorded by a westerly thinning advance till (LFA 1).

His initial advances are met by her quoting T.W. Adorno on Schubert, Schumann and the relationship between music and madness.

Keanu, attempting more acting than the recent John Wick demanded, is less certain: he's nicely courtly when shrugging off the girls' initial advances, and it's amusing seeing his inner Theodore Logan reawaken when the flirtation moves up (or down) a notch, but he gets hysterical during the morning-after parenting job.

The renewed bid for Inmet Mining represents a slight increase from a previously rejected $70.85-a-share takeover approach for the copper producer, and a 36 percent premium on the mining company's closing share price before it rejected First Quantun's initial advances.

The following quotation from a victim's police interview captures the way in which the promise of such goods motivated some victims to respond to offenders' initial advances: You're a young girl, Friday night, your mum and dad don't give you much money… if someone pulls over and says they're going to buy you a bottle of vodka obviously you're going to get in and want to go for a drink.

The 317th Mountain Infantry Brigade was added to augment the ARBiH force that made initial advances towards Kupres.