Sentence examples for small vanguard from inspiring English sources

But Corporal Gallegos, 23, is part of a small vanguard of military amputees who are benefiting from new advances in upper limb technology.

With thermal solar panels, a geothermal-powered heat pump and a slick touch-screen system in the living room that automatically raises and lowers window shades depending on the carbon dioxide levels in the interior, the Moscow active house is one of a small vanguard of green residential buildings popping up in the country.

Today a small vanguard of digitally adept scholars is rethinking how knowledge is understood and judged by inviting online readers to comment on books in progress, compiling journals from blog posts and sometimes successfully petitioning their universities to grant promotions and tenure on the basis of non-peer-reviewed projects.

But even this small vanguard is beginning to have an impact on policy debates, though mainly at local level, and to launch legal challenges to companies and to the government.That public pressure is now more easily applied thanks to a freedom-of-information law which was passed in 2001, and to quite sweeping judicial reforms that became law in 2002-04.

The Kobani reinforcements, led by a small vanguard of about a dozen troops, are expected to eventually number about 150, providing badly needed assistance to the city's defenders.

In 1476, while marching to yet another battle with the Ottomans, Vlad and a small vanguard of soldiers were ambushed, and Vlad was killed and beheaded — by most reports, his head was delivered to Mehmed II in Constantinople as a trophy to be displayed above the city's gates.

The Taliban crept back into Helmand after the US-led air strikes in 2001, with small vanguards secretly preparing the way for larger groups to follow.

Unlike the Germans, French and Americans, the British no longer believed that heavy armour for the conning tower served any real purpose given that the chance of hitting it was very small; Vanguards conning tower was therefore protected with 3 inches of armour on the face and 2.5 inches on the sides and rear.

Over the last week, a smaller vanguard, in platoon strength of about 30 soldiers each, had taken up six positions along the border.

But it quoted Thomas Fischer, an analyst at the Bertlesmann Stiftung think tank, as saying that a smaller vanguard of member states might agree on treaty changes that could be adopted by the other European partners later on.

Lilburne, Hunt added, "was deeply concerned at the way in which a small, narrow vanguard could take over the governance of a country, showing incompetent disregard for the rank and file, ruling within a self-selecting clique, led by a self-absorbed leader... Now, no one is suggesting that Douglas sees any equivalence between the Cameroon Project and the worst excess of Cromwell's New Model Army.