There's an accumulating international consensus that the blockade in Gaza has to be lifted.
Alec Guinness was just under six feet, a moderately large man with an accumulating gut in 1979 (he was in his middle sixties when "Tinker Tailor" was shot).
Smart but never smirky, the script (by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland) doesn't swing for the fences, relying on dry humor and an accumulating atmosphere of psychological dysfunction.
"What is happening in India nowadays is an accumulating scandal and a growing disgrace to this great nation," said Mr. Rushdie in the statement.
In fact, there is an accumulating body of reviewed, published research shaving away the high end of the range of possible warming estimates from doubled carbon dioxide levels.
If he could recall his adventures, he would have a history; he would have an accumulating past, a sensation, synonymous with experience and aging, of events layered through time.
The average person needs eight or more hours of sleep a night (teenagers need nine) to be fully rested, but most Americans are lucky to get six or seven, each night adding to an accumulating sleep debt.
Before Kuhn, most people understood scientific progress in terms of a series of heroic individual discoveries that contributed to an accumulating body of knowledge warranted, ultimately, by nature itself.
Then he was talking about the match with Borg again, making a tennis rivalry sound like a very public private relationship in which defeats are inseparable from victories, part of an accumulating intimacy with your opponent.
While medical and NHS leaders endorse widespread change with increasing urgency, and an accumulating weight of evidence shows that patients ultimately benefit, Kidderminster – Darzi calls it "the K factor" – has spooked politicians.
But the letters — together with an accumulating body of information, including his physical appearance and his testimony before military tribunals — were useful for me in bringing him back down to human scale.
