forward march

His organization wants federal wildlife officials to take even more aggressive steps to stop the forward march of the invasive owls.

So artists have had to create a kind of whisper network to withstand New York’s unimpeachable forward march, which the art market has, ironically, enabled.

A hyperbolic Seattle Post-Intelligencer heralded its opening as an “epochal event” and a “milestone in the city’s forward march.”

Without going into detail, he said the forward march had been uneven, with pitched battles being fought over areas about the size of three football fields in some locations.

It’s an inspiring little narrative, the forward march of justice and whatnot.