#advance

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary. ↗

— Jon Porter

#activities #advance #american #anniversary #been

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #compete #creative #developed #economy

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#around #becoming #benefit #britain #deal

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. ↗

— Quintilian

#boy #critical #develops #faculty #gives

I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#appreciation #before #came #deeper #during

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advance #civilization #every #kill #new

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #does #good #grace #humour

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#interpreters #nature #other #retreats #rival

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#agenda #becoming #best #breaking #compromised