Definition of "furtherance" []

• The act of furthering, advancing, or helping forward: "Pakistan does not aspire to any . . . role in furtherance of the strategies of other powers” ( Ismail Patel). (noun)

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• "I personally am sickened by those who hide behind empty platitudes in furtherance of justification of raping and killing innocent and weak people under specious claims of justification."
• "All the exceptions to the first amendment hold that the immediate act of producing the speech is a crime, or is subject to criminal or civil penalty: fraud, speech in furtherance of a crime, libel etc."
• "That process — not beyond but in furtherance of what the legislature wrote — is what I mean by standards of review."