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Carry forward   /kˈæri fˈɔrwərd/   Listen
Carry forward

verb
1.
Transfer from one time period to the next.  Synonym: carry over.






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"Carry forward" Quotes from Famous Books



... with some hesitation, and glancing aside at the girl. I could not determine how much of all this she actually believed, or how far I might venture to carry forward the deceit. Her eyes were upon me, but their shaded depths revealed nothing. I determined to take the chance. "Johnston requires more exact information as to the Yankee artillery, and thought I might get in around the right flank. ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish

... are understood, we will improve the chances for the acquisition of local industries through the coming of others from nearby states or by the establishment of new plants by some of our own people who are already well qualified to carry forward such enterprise. But whether it is brought about by these or any other means, the basic principle on which successful industries are built must be known and must constitute the ...
— Industrial Progress and Human Economics • James Hartness

... absent from Spain two years and six months. He returned broken in health, and the remaining two years of his life are only the sad history of his effort to relieve his name from dishonor and to leave to his sons a fair opportunity to carry forward his ...
— The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals • Edward Everett Hale

... the Human Race is still in its infancy may be seen in the fact that we still require Symbolism to help us to maintain and carry forward abstract thought to higher levels, even as children require picture books for that purpose. The Glamour of Symbolism, Rapture of Music, and Ideal of Art, which come to us in later years, had their beginnings when to the child every blade of grass was a fairy tale and a ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein

... enlarging it. But when my excellent friend puts forward a proposal to complete it, he should be informed that my library alone contains nearly 250 volumes strictly emblematical, and published during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By far the greater part of these are in Latin. To carry forward a work of such magnitude to anything like completion must therefore be rather ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 • Various


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