vanguard

• This vanguard will be led by task force staffer Harry Wilson, a former hedge fund executive, and include experts from the Boston Consulting Group and investment bank Rothschild. —  Freep.com - RSS
• In order to contrast it with the perception of the Soviet Union as the vanguard, we need to maybe go back to 1966, when Mao made it very clear (and the Party seemed to back him on this), that the Soviet Union was pursuing policies that were not sustainable over the long term, and furthermore that the Soviet Union was trying to establish a hegemonic position in the so-called communist world. —  Political Affairs Magazine
• In the vanguard were the Goths, who made an effort to settle, in Scythia, but they were forced to move on when Attila, who is known as the Scourge of God, swooped down upon them with his Huns. —  The Story of Russia
• I found that the Germans were steadily advancing and that the vanguard was about seven kilometers out of the city. —  A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
• And in the vanguard was the famous expedition of Lewis and Clarke, which went overland to the mouth of the river Columbia. —  A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.

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