Sentence examples for soon advancing from inspiring English sources

A distant cousin to Eleanor Roosevelt, he put his connections to work as reporter, soon advancing to the role of syndicated columnist.

But the Tigers still had a chance, Leyland said, adding that he would not be surprised if his team was soon advancing in the playoffs and energizing its fans.

The Scruggs defense lawyers soon advanced this notion themselves.

Leavitt soon advanced from routine work to a position as head of the photographic stellar photometry department.

An eloquent speaker even in her youth, she soon advanced to the national finals, where she was the only black contestant.

As a surgeon, Halsted was extraordinary; he soon advanced to chief at Hopkins and pioneered treatments for breast cancer, hernias and gallstones.

At age 16 Sidney joined MGM as a messenger boy, and he soon advanced to the position of film editor and then to assistant director.

He soon advanced to full-blooded political activism and was jailed in the 1970s for trying to establish a student opposition movement with colleagues from Croatia and Slovenia.

Starting as a bass-baritone in the chorus of "Carousel," he soon advanced to his first full solo role: the fatherly high priest Sarastro in Mozart's "Magic Flute".

Whatever the quality of his bricklaying, he soon advanced himself and became a building contractor.

Realizing that the Mexican army would soon advance towards the Texian settlements, Houston advised all civilians in the area to evacuate and ordered his new army to retreat.