Some see it as in effect the end of the Syrian uprising that began with peaceful protests against Assad’s police state in 2011, with opposition fighters working toadvance Turkey’s interests at the expense of the revolution’s goals.
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, andadvanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
1838,William H[ickling] Prescott,History of the Reign ofFerdinand andIsabella, the Catholic.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell,→OCLC:
This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, whoadvanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land[…]
To move forward in space or time.
Tomove orpush (something)forwards, especially forcefully.[from 14th c.]
1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible,advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?
To make (something)happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, tohasten.[form 15th c.]
[S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either toadvance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us.
This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later,advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.
Toprovide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; tolend.[from 16th c.]
On the urgent representations of several parties of the first importance in the City of London, the bankadvanced 120,000l. to the Governor and Company of the Copper Miners […].
1711 May, [Alexander Pope],An Essay on Criticism, London:[…] W[illiam] Lewis[…]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor[…], T[homas] Osborn[e][…], and J[ohn] Graves[…],→OCLC:
Some ne'eradvance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town[…].
Ghosts, it isadvanced, either do not exist at all, or else, like the stars at noonday, they are there all the time and it is we who cannot see them. The stories in the following pages were written on the second of these assumptions.
Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women toadvance in the workplace.
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1708,Jonathan Swift,The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government:
For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the likeadvances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him
As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to makeadvances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.
1923, Walter de la Mare,Seaton's Aunt:
I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified byadvances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
1945, Tom Ronan,Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page59:
[A]nd Rosamund though quite a genteelly brought up young lady had responded to hisadvances by slapping his face.
1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, inGay Community News, volume11, number 5, page14:
In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed would be hostile to his friendlyadvances.
