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Example sentences for: advancement

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Liberal social scientists latched onto Elkins' theory as a rationale for creating policies to tear down the barriers that were impeding black advancement in the 1960s.
Teyler, having no heir, bequeathed his fortune to the advancement of the arts and sciences, and there is an interesting collection of scientific instruments among other artifacts.
Being an optimist, however, she feels certain that success will be the outcome, and the only one who might be disappointed with the advancement of the calendar is Zsa Zsa Gabor.
A regional accent has only recently come to be seen as a bar to advancement in politics.
As managers begin to cross borders to work for companies outside their native country, they bump into a barrier they probably never imagined--the wall of parent-company nationals that stands between them and advancement.