What is another word for advance on?

Pronunciation: [ɐdvˈans ˈɒn] (IPA)

There are numerous synonyms for the phrase "advance on," including approach, move toward, progress toward, proceed, make one's way toward, head for, close in on, and draw near to. Each of these synonyms carries a slightly different connotation and can be used in different contexts depending on the specific meaning or tone desired. For example, "approach" may suggest a careful or measured approach, while "draw near to" may suggest a sense of urgency or proximity. Regardless of the specific synonym used, all imply movement or progression toward a specific goal or destination, making them useful for describing both physical and metaphorical journeys.

Famous quotes with Advance on

  • The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
    Robert Brault
  • We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
    Orison Swett Marden
  • We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
    Orison Swett Marden
  • Their [the political leaders'] skill consists in a quick perception of the people's wishes as to the road which they desire to travel. This ascertained, the leader places himself at the head of the moving column, and shouts loudly for the people to advance on his lead, which he assures them is direct, suitable, and pleasant. ...They will diverge no inch to please him, but he must crook and turn as their wayward fancy may indicate. He must bear all their censure, too, when the path taken leads into a quagmire; and, notwithstanding the mud and bruises, of which he obtains a double portion, he must maintain by argument that no other road could have been taken consistently with the prosperity, honour, and security of a great, wise, free, and virtuous people.
    Alexander Bryan Johnson
  • In Leopardi’s view, the universal claims of Christianity were a licence for universal savagery. Because it is directed to all of humanity, the Christian religion is usually praised, even by its critics, as an advance on Judaism. Leopardi – like Freud a hundred years later – did not share this view. The crimes of medieval Christendom were worse than those of antiquity, he believed, precisely because they could be defended as applying universal principles: the villainy introduced into the world by Christianity was ‘entirely new and more terrible … more horrible and more barbarous than that of antiquity’. Modern rationalism renews the central error of Christianity – the claim to have revealed the good life for all of humankind. Leopardi described the secular creeds that emerged in modern times as expressions of ‘half-philosophy’, a type of thinking with many of the defects of religion. What Leopardi called ‘the barbarism of reason’ – the project of remaking the world on a more rational model – was the militant evangelism of Christianity in a more dangerous form. Events have confirmed Leopardi’s diagnosis. As Christianity has waned, the intolerance it bequeathed to the world has only grown more destructive. From imperialism through communism and incessant wars launched to promote democracy and human rights, the most barbarous forms of violence have been promoted as means to a higher civilization.
    John Gray (philosopher)

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