Examples of using "Devancé" in a sentence and their english translations:
I was going to get bigger when my grandson got ahead of me.
I was going to get taller when I was overtaken by my grandson.
It still is true that men can start small enterprises, trusting to native shrewdness and ability to keep abreast of competitors; but area after area has been preempted altogether by the great corporations, and even in the fields which still have no great concerns, the small man starts with a handicap.