How To Use Get ahead In A Sentence
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They've seen in recent years how quickly it's possible to get ahead by job hopping, yet they crave security in the face of today's shaky business climate.
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Is it all really just a mutual self-help society for ambitious Sikhs to get ahead?
Times, Sunday Times
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Insectoid ads infesting every surface of your life - and don't be a chump, start advertising yourself now using brain-boring hallucinations right now! get ahead of the curve!
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It's tough for a woman to get ahead in politics.
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Last night he and Gervinho were deployed on either side of Chamakh, with the licence to interchange freely and to get ahead of the centre-forward.
Arsenal fizzle out after early promise – just like last season | Richard Williams
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If only our horse can get ahead of the leading runner,it can win the race.
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If a man takes an interest in our work, we can't help but think about the male superior who advised "using our sexuality" to get ahead, or the manager who winkingly asked one of us, apropos of nothing, to "bake me cookies.
Are We There Yet?
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Even now each state, moreover, seeks to get ahead of other states as it deals with its military and defense problems.
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Or maybe, we fear that if we pause for even an infinitesimal second, someone else will grab our place and get ahead?
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And most staff have to be bludgeoned into writing this material; anyone who volunteers and shows the real desire that he apparently has to cover it is likely to find it a great way to get ahead.
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Like humans, apes and monkeys have to live in complex social groupings in which guile is needed to get ahead or simply to survive.
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The party permits ordinary people to get ahead.
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But she turned out to be quite a manipulative, sassy young woman, who trampled on others to get ahead.
The Sun
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To get ahead is a really big thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the only way to get ahead in a big organization is to toe the line, then you'll end up with a stolid stratum of cautious time-servers.
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She is always stepping on others to get ahead
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They would have been able to get ahead, snuff out any threats and kill the game off.
The Sun
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They get ahead by a few points, then relax, get lazy.
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Are there things that a White woman can do to get ahead in the workplace that you think a Black woman never could do?
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When you think agroterrorism, the food process, all of those things, this is something we have to get ahead of.
CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2002
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Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind of cockiness, a determination to get ahead.
The song of the lark
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We need to get ahead of the curve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where people today would seek government posts or fame in the entertainment world to ‘get ahead,’ back then folks sought vicarships, bishopries, etc.
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That's why students of the U.S. S.hool of Music get ahead twice as fast -- _three times as fast_ as those who study old-fashioned, plodding methods.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930
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If only our horse can get ahead of the leading runner,it can win the race.
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Being a former northeast republican, but caring about who is chosen for the Supreme Court, being nondogmatic about imposing the American way upon the world except by example and caring about whether all Americans will get the opportunities and education needed to get ahead and strengthen our economy, the Palin choice was insult after injury.
Second-Guessing the Vice-Presidential Pick - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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If they want to get ahead, Ms McIntosh says, women have to be prepared to develop thick skins, and the confidence to take the knocks and criticism that go with a high-powered job.
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Hay puts the churchiness down to the type of people who wanted to get ahead, although the parsimoniousness of Hay the elder perhaps encouraged self-help.
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So finally we decided to get ahead of them and watch them as they passed us, but just as we had reached a point where they were approaching, the two kongoni gave a shrill alarm and the entire herd made off in tremendous haste.
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
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A filmmaker with as many misses as hits, like all great producers, Korda knew that to get ahead in the film business, you had to spend other people's money.
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In the face of dehumanization he remained human - and did not dehumanize his fellow humanity to try and get ahead or gain an advantage for himself.
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Those turning to the book for advice on how to get ahead in business are likely to be disappointed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The winner was niggled along halfway down the straight but quickened up surpemely well inside the final furlong to get ahead of Twice Over (6-1) and Byword (11-4) close home.
Talking Horses
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The best neutralizer of reporter aggression, of course, is when public relations professionals ‘get ahead of the story,’ that is offer information or take action before anyone requests it.
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It is, therefore, ironical that a city that was once at the cutting edge of the knowledge economy is in sleep mode, even as competitors like Chennai, Pune and Hyderabad get ahead.
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Mr Clegg insisted that "alarm clock Britain," which he described as the "aspirant middle classes" who were not comfortably off but worked hard to get ahead, would also benefit from putting action on social mobility at the heart of social policy.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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And now we are embroiled in another of track and field's endless efforts to get ahead of dopers.
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SC's Spoleto Festival USA reaches ticket sales target ahead of closing weekend SC's Spoleto hits sales goal ahead of last weekendCHARLESTON, S.C. - The Spoleto Festival USA enters its final weekend of concerts, plays and fireworks with good news amid tough economic times: It reached a scaled-back target for ticket sales, unless final events are rained out.
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I think, for the most part, they're opportunists without much dignity or pride, people who would sell out their own kind to get ahead.
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They would have been able to get ahead, snuff out any threats and kill the game off.
The Sun
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It's tough for a woman to get ahead in politics.
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In my nonage I used to carry grudges, when I matured I got even, now in my dotage I get ahead.
Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere
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Learn how to use your posture and gestures to get ahead at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rather, it creates an institutional framework in which, to get ahead in their economic engagements, even people who grow up entirely self-seeking and anti-social must attend to the general social good and the well-being of others.
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Either they think my parents force me to study, or pass me off as one of those compulsive workaholics - you know - the aggressive people who really take the philosophy that if you don't work to get ahead you fall behind.
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he used his wits to get ahead
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If they want to get ahead, Ms McIntosh says, women have to be prepared to develop thick skins, and the confidence to take the knocks and criticism that go with a high-powered job.
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It promoted Polgar, leaving his colleagues a memorable lesson on how to get ahead.
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford
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The factory met its production target ahead of time.
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If only our horse can get ahead of the leading runner,it can win the race.
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Most come from rural backgrounds and are poorly educated, handicaps for anyone who wants to get ahead in the modern urban-commercial civilisation.
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Like humans, apes and monkeys have to live in complex social groupings in which guile is needed to get ahead or simply to survive.
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a young man sure to get ahead
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Javier Mascherano headed away Aduriz's lob over Pinto, Carles Puyol leapt acrobatically to stop Alba sprinting on to another ball and Eric Abidal was alert to get ahead of Feghouli.
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We need to get ahead of the curve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Learn how to use your posture and gestures to get ahead at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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We need to get ahead of the curve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Learn how to use your posture and gestures to get ahead at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even now each state, moreover, seeks to get ahead of other states as it deals with its military and defense problems.
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However, the faster we can get ahead with the Development Project the better.
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He said: 'We cannot get ahead of ourselves.
The Sun
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For a chancellor to leak out details of his Budget ahead of the day it was due to be presented to the House of Commons would have led to the offending politician being carted off the Tower of London.
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But what he has left us with are precisely the various artful arrangements to be found there, and to become preoccupied with the ethics his work purportedly embodies is at best to get ahead of the critical task of assessing that work and at worst to engage in ungrounded speculation.
The Event of Truth
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Is it all really just a mutual self-help society for ambitious Sikhs to get ahead?
Times, Sunday Times
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If only our horse can get ahead of the leading runner,it can win the race.
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Political anoraks who want to get ahead of the game should read Winning Back America, the former Vermont governor's recently published campaign autobiography.
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One alternative is maybe to go via America to get ahead of the cloud and come in via Scotland.
Times, Sunday Times
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It takes cheap, commodified resources to use tech, and it takes tremendous effort in secure food and service supply to have a huge pool of non - [drooling bigoted idiot peasants who seek every petty opportunity to "get ahead" whether it's a good long-term idea or not], and that usually comes from stealing land, food, and opportunities from * someone* else.
Matthew Yglesias » Almost All Decline is Relative
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A trainer can become a lumper if they get ahead of themselves and don't properly split an exercise.
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Roasting pies in the sky on a big-ass bonfire is no way to get ahead in life.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Liberals will just spend the next 50 years convincing Black people that whitey is causing all their problems and all they need is just another affirmative action program and another government check to get ahead in life.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Freedom is not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life–from LBJ to Obama
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Purple Hearts are only given to American soldiers killed or injured in battle, and there have recently been cases of impostors using fake military medals to get ahead in business.
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The opportunity for a green field operator to get ahead of the pack and create a data only WiMAX network with multimode devices with cheaper spectrum and have roaming arrangements with cellular operators still exists.
Nokia Plans LTE Devices for 2010
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Learn how to use your posture and gestures to get ahead at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, as they approached the left-hand turn, he tried to get ahead, clipping the Ferrari.
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford
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If we want to get ahead of our competitors, we ought to invest more in R and D.
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That is to say, he isn't the type of guy who will get ahead of you in speed, but he outsmarts you.
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The success and rise of Dravidians is mainly due to their latent anglophonic skills more than anything else it certainly ain't anything specifically anatomic or cultural in the sense that Anglophonia is the edge you need to get ahead, climb the ladder, get to the top in this competetive world.
Why are South Indians so smart?
