Sentence examples for was advancing fast from inspiring English sources

Three years ago, I was visiting Iraq as the self-declared Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was advancing fast in territories to the north and west of Baghdad, after a stunning capture of the country's second major city, Mosul, where I spent my college years as a young man from central Iraq.

Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told an international meeting in Paris on Thursday that the four-day offensive was "advancing faster than planned".

Whatever happens during and after the elections, Ukraine is advancing fast towards a financial abyss.

Cancer medicine is advancing fast, guided by new insights into immunology and genetics.

About 87% of US buildings are now air conditioned, and trends in the developing world suggest it is advancing fast down the same route.

If you worry about the wind ceasing to blow (which it rarely does at sea), schemes for storing energy in batteries and with hydrogen are advancing fast too.

This suggests that Iran is mastering the multi-stage technology needed for scarier missiles.Many weapons experts now think that the clerical regime's missile (and nuclear) capability is advancing fast.

Motorised Isis columns have been advancing fast here, taking some 35 per cent of the country and inflicting defeats both on other Syrian opposition fighters, notably Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate, and on the Syrian army.

The Hindu triumphalist belief that India -- despite its gigantic problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease -- is advancing fast toward superpower status is widely shared among the Indian middle classes who have benefited most from the neo-liberal economic reforms of the last decade.

As reported in the Background section, modular tools for modeling in Synthetic Biology are advancing fast as well as repositories of biological parts.

But science and technology is advancing faster than ever before.