Sentence examples for which they advanced from inspiring English sources

The Shakers were devoted to visionary experience, a goal toward which they advanced, in part, by the requirement of complete chastity.

On 14 June the Germans launched two failed counterattacks after which they advanced their trench to within 150 meters of the Canadians but made no further assaults.

He co-authored a memorandum with Brigadier General Dwight Eisenhower in which they advanced the position that the determinations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff "must be taken as authoritative unless and until modified by the same or higher authority".

Their final airborne mission of the war was Operation Varsity in March 1945, an assault crossing of the Rhine, after which they advanced through Germany, reaching the Baltic Sea at Wismar by the end of the war.

Second, participants during practice controlled the time at which they advanced through the feedback screen (and on to the next block) by pressing any computer keyboard button, instead of having to wait a specified amount of time as was required during the fMRI session.

He and his family belong to a farm-share program in which they advance money each year to a farmer a few miles away in return for the farm's crops.

David Marc and Robert J. Thompson, authors of "Prime Time, Prime Movers," in which they advance an auteur theory of television, considered Mr. Schwartz an innovator who made a "surgical strike into the national psyche".

They control 35,000 square miles of territory across two countries, on which they operate advanced US military equipment seized from the Iraqi army.

The previous three weeks in which they had advanced 7000 yards to the Hongorai had been costly for them, however, with the Australian 24th Battalion losing 25 killed and 95 wounded.

Every day until 3 August, these two brigades alternated riding out from their base at Romani towards Katia at about 02 00 and bivouacking until dawn, at which time they advanced on a wide front until German or Ottoman fire was provoked.

For the advancing Australian infantrymen, the burden was made even greater by heavy rain which turned the tracks over which they were advancing into a muddy morass that could not be traversed by motor transport.