On January 17 , 1945 Warsaw was captured by Zhukov, after it had been surrounded; and on January 19 his armoured spearheads drove into Łódź.
And, in case her prodigious fundraising record creates any doubt, she is a leading backer of campaign finance reform and has pledged to spearhead a drive to pass legislation in the next Congress.
The couple soon immigrated to the United States, where Ernestine Rose began to spearhead the drive for equal rights for women.
Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division, which will spearhead the drive to Baghdad, slept in the open last night as a sandstorm subsided.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, leading American suffragists, formed a new organization in 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSAA), to spearhead the drive to give women the vote.
Poland is to spearhead a drive to encourage "more and more" eastern European countries to join the EU when it takes over the presidency of the 27-member union in July, the prime minister has said.
José Manuel Barroso, president of the European commission, is due to hold talks with Gordon Brown in London early next month on the wider economy, including the banking crisis, and is expected to spearhead the drive for approval of the measures.
To help overcome this hurdle, the Barilla family hired Mr. Artzt -- the former chairman and chief executive of the Procter & Gamble Company, who earned his spurs making brands like Pampers known from Estonia to Ecuador -- in 1994 to spearhead its drive overseas.
In towns and cities across the UK, major retail chains are already appointing staff to build relationships with local shops, support local groups and spearhead the drive to improve high streets.
The university has decided that, because of the People's Republic's increasing economic traffic with the outside world, it needs a proper international-law library--a decision we heard about from an American lawyer, Jerome Alan Cohen, who has been asked by the university to spearhead a drive for $3 million, which is what the building is expected to cost.
In 2002, he put together — largely through his own gifts — a dazzling collection of eighty-seven major works by American artists, to fill certain gaps in the museum's permanent collection, and he is expected to spearhead the drive for Piano's addition and for the enhanced endowment.
