Sentence examples for vanguard action from inspiring English sources

Despite marching constantly alongside Murat and Emperor Napoleon, Nansouty's Ist Corps of cavalry reserve saw little action, combating brilliantly in a vanguard action at Ostrovno and then briefly at Vitebsk.

(Germany legislated to regulate social media firms over hate speech takedowns last year but it's in the vanguard of government action).

"Shuttlesworth was in the vanguard of direct action, pushing towards confrontation.

Immediately after Obama spoke in Paris, pledging that the United States would be in the vanguard seeking global action, the Republican-dominated Congress voted to scuttle his recent Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut carbon emissions.

Hobday, A. J. & Pecl, G. T. Identification of global marine hotspots: sentinels for change and vanguards for adaptation action.

Hobday, A. & Pecl, G. Identification of global marine hotspots: sentinels for change and vanguards for adaptation action.

In a report of October 15, Stahlecker wrote that they had succeeded in covering up their vanguard unit (Vorkommando) actions, and it was made to look like it was the initiative of the local population.

Those of us at the vanguard of climate change action have always understood that the environment is beyond price.

A series of engagements followed that almost ended in a disaster for the Arabs like the "Day of Thirst" five years earlier, but in the end, through the inspirational bravery of a few Arab leaders and the actions of the vanguard under al-Harith ibn Surayj and Qatan ibn Qutayba, the Arabs broke through and reached Bukhara, which they laid siege to.

While he said that Britain had been in the vanguard of European countries in taking action to curb defence sales to Russia, it had still not gone far enough.

Some members of the trans community have expressed their revulsion at the actions of this violent vanguard.