Sentence examples for was being advanced from inspiring English sources

And environmentalists could feel their cause was being advanced, even though implementation was far off.

Budapest's first state art museum in a century would be financed using an unconventional arrangement: the cost, then estimated at about $7 million to $8 million, was being advanced by the private developers.

Although Nesbit never called herself a feminist and even disapproved of the suffragette cause (though usually she explained this with the argument that socialist politics would only be advanced by full adult suffrage rather than the limited householder enfranchisement that was being advanced by many suffragettes), she was a woman who struggled constantly against traditional expectations.

This bizarre "birther" movement, out to prove that Obama is not a naturally born citizen, first gained notice in the summer of 2008 when it was being advanced by the author Jerome Corsi, a leader of the Swift boat assault on Kerry.

Following that meeting, solicitor Ciaran Shiels, speaking on behalf of the Donaldson family, said: "The one theme that has come of today's meeting is that the theory that was being advanced by BBC Spotlight earlier this week, that this was in some way carried out by the Provisional IRA or authorised by Gerry Adams, I think it's absolute nonsense.

Other, uglier motives are being advanced.

"A series of options are being advanced and implemented.

At the moment, none of those aims is being advanced.

"This is conduct that is being advanced to inflict economic harm".

As things stand, privatization of college lending is the administration goal that is being advanced.

Interestingly, similar – or exactly the same – ideas are being advanced by the Conservatives.