The SNP lost its overall majority in the legislature, but increased its number of individual constituency victories; Plaid Cymru only marginally increased its share of seats in the Assembly, but it was enough to break Labour's longstanding majority; and UKIP did not have quite as much the impact they were hoping for, even though they did make crucial advances in Wales and in London. (democraticaudit.com)
As we shall see presently, Maritain did not claim too much for the historical efficacy of the Christian intellectual tradition; he chastised its failures severely and gave credit to nonbelievers for crucial advances. (firstthings.com)
Research like this, that's made publically available, will help speed up crucial advances in drug discovery to save more lives from cancer.» (sciencedaily.com)