Sentence examples for vanguard role from inspiring English sources

In interviews Ms. Buss was remarkably modest about her vanguard role in a male-dominated profession.

The communards were "a very different kind of proletariat to that which much of the left has typically cast in a vanguard role".

It quickly became apparent that Putin had his own vision of Russia: a darker, less democratic place, in which the country's spy agencies would play a vanguard role, and with Putin unequivocally in charge.

When I asked one of those senior officials, Bouthaina Shaaban, whether the regime would ever loosen its grip, she told me, "We will always believe in the vanguard role of the Baath Party".

And California's vanguard role in that trend is undeniable, said Jon Costantino, a former climate change planner at the California Air Resources Board who is now a senior adviser to the Sacramento law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

Jean E. Jackson, a professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Cultural Survival had been influential in raising money and reaching legislators in developing countries and had played a "vanguard role" in informing the public "at a time when tribal peoples were being systematically annihilated" in the 1970s.

At the 10th Congress of the All-Russian Communist Party (1921), the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin declared that the party was not a debating society in which all opinions were tolerated and freely expressed; it was a "vanguard" party whose role as leader of the revolution demanded extreme discipline and a high level of organization.

In the field of application, the novel 2D material graphene plays a vanguard and outstanding role in this twenty-first century.

Al Qaeda does not play a vanguard or a leading role in the conflicts of the Middle East but is fighting mainly at its periphery.

A communique praised President Jiang Zemin's proposal for changes meant to broaden the reach of the party beyond its traditional role as "vanguard of the working class".

A renewed commitment to a more forward-looking, flexible yet integrative training vision offers opportunities for a bright future for young neuroscientists as they assume the role of vanguard of the enterprise that enriches our understanding of the brain.