A friend or colleague amasses a tremendous amount of knowledge in some arcane or specialized field and mistakenly thinks this proficiency applies to everything.
Meanwhile, she amasses the data needed for her next decision.
Because Skoda is making Volkswagen look bad as it amasses awards for design, quality and customer satisfaction, its cars are perceived as superior, yet cheaper alternatives to its stablemates.
To create this preserve, Will amasses great tracts of land whose ownership is precariously perched on dodgy deals and promissory notes, and eventually the entire venture collapses.Stuffed like a taxidermy project with lifeless details scooped from the books listed in the Author's Note (for example, "Cherokee Dance and Drama"), "Thirteen Moons" is a rather heavy volume to throw across the room.
But it's a pantomime of actions and attitudes that are real, or may eventually become real if one side amasses the power to push legislation through America's hopelessly creaky, antiquated, broke-down political system.
His book had to better the work of François Quesnay, author of "La Physiocratie", and the man to whom Smith would have dedicated "The Wealth of Nations" had he lived.Quesnay was one of the first to think of the economy as a system of interacting parts, to be judged by the necessities and conveniences it produces, not the bullion it amasses.
Through Bryan Cranston's nuanced evincing of a thoroughly flawed man, viewers are able to witness Walt's metamorphosis into Heisenberg as the notches on his proverbial belt compound and his uncountable fortune amasses.
He thus amasses what the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, in reporting on the Trobriand Islanders, called a "fund of power".
The winner is the one who amasses the most seeds.
Christ is his more reflective and self-conscious alter ego who sometimes witnesses events at first hand and at, other times, amasses, through an informant, intelligence about his twin's oppositional sermons and "miracles" (which we deduce could have a rational explanation).
The N.S.A. scrapes and amasses enormous databases of global communications data, while Google constantly crawls the Internet, copying and indexing everything it can reach.
