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  • Barbara Wallraff, a widely published writer on language issues, questions the frequent assumption that, because American culture furthers innovation and openness to new ideas, that culture is inseparable from the English language: Even if the vanguards in all scientific and technological fields, everywhere in the world, used English in their work, once the fruits of their labor became known to ordinaiy people and began to matter to them, people would coin words in their local languages to describe these things.†  (source)
  • They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards the four cardinal points of progress.†  (source)
  • The vanguard spread out behind them, a slow-moving forest of lances and banners and spears.†  (source)
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  • We're the vanguard.†  (source)
  • A vanguard of six-armed Earthborn threw a volley of stones that shattered the bone-and-jewel floor like ice.†  (source)
  • I can make out the gray and balding head of my younger son in the vanguard.†  (source)
  • The newspapers said he'd have to wait, that the program called Vanguard would get the first chance.†  (source)
  • Those in greatest jeopardy, the troops in Mifflin's vanguard, were still holding the outer defenses.†  (source)
  • They dashed against the rows of stakes, covering them with slick blood and limp corpses as the ranks at the vanguard were crushed against the posts.†  (source)
  • Writers, artists, and savants of America's progressive vanguard have, for years, passed through his living room, pollinating him and his two brothers.†  (source)
  • Harlon, Doc, Ira, and Franklin swept forward with the rest of Easy Company, in the vanguard of the attack.†  (source)
  • In a moment the vanguard appeared around the bend.†  (source)
  • everything quality that creeps into innocuous remarks and becomes the vanguard of estranged feeling.†  (source)
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