Sentence examples for leapfrogging ahead from inspiring English sources

At $59,281, the metropolitan area slipped from 9th to 10th in median household income, with Seattle leapfrogging ahead.

Africa has embraced mobile communications and is leapfrogging ahead, achieving technological and developmental gains that few envisaged.For me, this speaks volumes about the potential of Africa.

The only way to view the event is on horseback or by leapfrogging ahead in trucks on dirt roads and waiting for a glimpse of the dogs as they run by at a trail crossing.

MegaFon also asserted that it could execute a strategy of "leapfrogging" ahead of developed markets by providing much of the population with wireless broadband, because few Russians have broadband of any type.

Mr. Cola, 44, became this city's police commissioner last week, leapfrogging ahead of more experienced officers, after serving as president of the 500-member patrolmen's union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

As time runs out on a do-nothing agency, the proposal is now listed as the department's top priority, hurriedly leapfrogging ahead of such earlier concerns as workplace risks from silica, beryllium and other dangerous substances, and the growing problem of construction crane accidents.

But the tactic of using piracy to leapfrog ahead?

The narrative leapfrogs ahead in sudden fast-forward leaps.

Other programs have leapfrogged ahead and investors have proven tough to negotiate with.

The hidebound health-care systems of the rich world may resist new technologies even as poor countries leapfrog ahead.

China's firms have not managed "to leapfrog ahead and bend or even suspend the law of comparative advantage".