0 the part of an army or navy that leads an attack on an enemy --
1 the front part of a group of people who are moving forward, esp. an army --
That orbit had to be left behind in order to consolidate his position in what, as he presented it, was the theoretical vanguard.
I hope that we never initiate changes, nor even find ourselves in the vanguard.
Yet they are habitually bracketed together as the vanguard of positivism, of course, and indeed were close after the 1850s.
He continued to see himself as part of a vanguard modernist elite engaged in a crucial battle against a broad front of obstructionist conservative forces.
Conflict can become a positive force when transformed and drama can be in the vanguard of its transformation.
There is no indication of its precise circumstances; of how the revolutionary vanguard would be recruited, led, or organized; or what tactics it would use.
And in the 1860s, the horsewoman was in the vanguard of style in women's publications.
There was a capitalist vanguard and there were missionaries of capitalism.
