Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of furthering, advancing, or helping forward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of furthering or forwarding; promotion; advancement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of furthering or helping forward
- noun
Promotion . - noun
Advancement orprogress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
- noun the advancement of some enterprise
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Examples
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And at this point, the objection more properly becomes: But Congress could require you to do anything if it was in furtherance of legitimate commercial regulation, and the relationship was direct!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”? 2010
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Or, to put it perhaps a little more technically, Congress clearly has the authority to regulate noncommercial conduct when doing so is in furtherance of a broad commercial regulatory goal, and there is no authority indicating that this analysis is dependant on the nature of that noncommercial conduct, specifically including whether it consists of affirmative conduct vs. passive inaction.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”? 2010
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The indictment, handed up late Wednesday, lists four counts: possession with intent to distribute PCP; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession of two handguns in furtherance of drug trafficking; possessing those guns as a felon.
Prosecution of 'Teflon Defendant' progresses with indictment on PCP, gun charges Dan Morse 2010
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And at this point, the objection more properly becomes: But Congress could require you to do anything if it was in furtherance of legitimate commercial regulation, and the relationship was direct!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”? 2010
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The indictment, handed up late Wednesday, lists four counts: possession with intent to distribute PCP; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession of two handguns in furtherance of drug trafficking; possessing those guns as a felon.
Prosecution of 'Teflon Defendant' progresses with indictment on PCP, gun charges Dan Morse 2010
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Conspiracy liability requires an overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy.
Discourse.net: At the Sharp End: The Highest Officials Authorize Torture of a Clerk 2009
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All the exceptions to the first amendment hold that the immediate act of producing the speech is a crime, or is subject to criminal or civil penalty: fraud, speech in furtherance of a crime, libel etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Big First Amendment win in United States v. Stevens 2010
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I personally am sickened by those who hide behind empty platitudes in furtherance of justification of raping and killing innocent and weak people under specious claims of justification.
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That process — not beyond but in furtherance of what the legislature wrote — is what I mean by standards of review.
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Gerrymandered districts all but guarantee most incumbents reelection, while term limits offer a perverse incentive for cynical self-promotion in furtherance of individual ambition over cooperative collaboration in service of the public interest.
oroboros commented on the word furtherance
See opitulation.
January 22, 2010