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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 to advance 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, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?

[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 to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us.

I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.

“I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.

Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […].

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 to advance in the workplace.

I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.

The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.

In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.