The market started a fairly orderly advance.
The result, rather than an orderly, coordinated advance on the French position, was a piecemeal entry of the regulars into the battle.
"Since prices have been advancing well beyond any reasonable measure of value, Thursday's declines felt more like orderly corrections than chaotic panics.
Passage of the competing spending plans does advance a more orderly budget process after nearly three years of crises and brinkmanship.
"The sensible approach should be to advance democracy in a gradual and orderly manner as advised by the central government.
Each trip (to Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Peru, Morocco, Burma, India, Russia) was thoroughly prepared for with advance reading and orderly itineraries, and then preserved — usually by his wife — in photographs of buildings and cities: pyramids, temples, mosques, streets, columns, ruins.
The protests, while entirely orderly and co-ordinated in advance with local police, delivered a sharp reminder to Obama the morning after his state of the union address of the enormous political challenges ahead as he tries to make good on his promise to act on climate change.
Just like the tactics of the great generals, by laying out the square in advance with clear, orderly lines, you insulate yourself from the chaos of improvisation.
Normally, Nato summits are mostly fixed in advance and proceed in an orderly fashion.
Perhaps more importantly, there would be less reason for turbulence in financial markets as the procedure for an orderly sovereign bankruptcy would be known in advance.
WHEN Myanmar's newly installed president and former soldier, Thein Sein, kick-started the country's political transition two years ago, he hoped to usher in a clean and steady advance towards some sort of orderly democracy.
