“Even though the Bay Area was not in the vanguard of developing a distinct hip-hop style, audiences and dancers have embraced it with a vengeance.”

“A former hardcore kid, he was the vanguard of the rap-cum-rockstar, with noisy, opulent songs that were as influenced by Death Grip's rage as Cocteau Twins' dreaminess.”

“When the army advances on the enemy, these men by custom form the vanguard and on their return the rearguard.”

“As tempting as vanguardism may be, it's not a solution, nor a substitute for mass action.”

“There is no evidence that suggests rearguardism is any less dogmatic then vanguardism can be.”

“This was neither social democracy nor the Old or New Left, neither identity politics nor vanguardism.”

“We know that vanguardist groups resort to underhand tactics as a matter of principle, but this is a particularly scandalous example.”

“In some ways, it resembles a vanguardist revolutionary socialist organisation.”

“But in New York, the gifted young sculptor became a sort of society vanguardist whose soigne work was rooted in radical ideas that he made palatable.”

“This will ensure those following the vanguards will not be coming from a standing start.”

“The commissions were requested to be the exemplary vanguards of Human rights.”

“If the rest of the NHS stands around watching while the vanguards get on with it there will be little chance of them triggering something approaching system-wide change in the next three or four years.”