Sentence examples for unexpected advances from inspiring English sources
Its medieval brutality and the unexpected advances in Iraq toward Iran's western borders worried the public.
There are few novelists who have not received welcome and unexpected advances on film options, and sometimes the hope of film adaptation has influenced the novelist's style.
The Italian painters also made sudden and unexpected advances in the manipulation of perspective to describe the space of the scenes they were painting.
Electronic searching means that no relevant paper is likely to go unread, but narrowing the definition of "relevance" risks reducing the cross-fertilisation of ideas that sometimes leads to big, unexpected advances.
Sheikh spoke with cautious wonder at the unexpected advances in security in Mogadishu of the past few months, describing how the previously isolated president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, had even begun making regular visits to parts of the city outside Villa Somalia.
If we believe that this kind of exploratory, non-applied research is where the big unexpected advances come from then we need to support it to maximise impact.
Ultimately, the history of political activism is the history of setbacks and unexpected advance.
It was a reasonable question: two days earlier, in response to a swift, unexpected advance of North Korean troops, Truman had ordered American forces to South Korea.
The stoicism of the underequipped International Brigades and the joys of an unexpected advance, the arrival of longed-for supplies or a rare uninterrupted night's sleep are conveyed as well as the terror and eventual despair that becomes routine.
Suddenly, the unexpected Islamist advance and the French intervention inverted those tortuously negotiated plans — forcing some Malian units to fight right away while others wait for training later.
The unexpected military advance demonstrated anew the powerlessness of Georgia's security forces, which had no influence over the move even as it coincided with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's meeting with Mr. Saakashvili.
