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Al Nusra has held positions nearby for several months, and despite not launching a major offensive yet, their recent deals with other armed groups and this advance has triggered the Kurdish administration to believe they are gathering forces to attack.

It's a little dispiriting, that just at the moment when progressive ideas are gathering force everywhere, old animosities and new nationalist fervour stand between natural alliances.

But many economists are dubious that consumer spending and exports can keep growing robustly in the face of substantial challenges that are now entrenched in the United States and are gathering force in many other major economies.

The condemnations are gathering force: this week the Nelson Mandela Foundation – which has previously shunned political statements – warned that the wheels are coming off the state thanks to his political meddling for private interests.

The duke of Silesia, Henry II (the Pious), who had been gathering forces to reunite Poland, perished in the Battle of Legnica (Liegnitz) in 1241, and the devastation wrought by the Mongols may have contributed to the above-mentioned colonization.

In a new development the rival military factions from east and west claim to be gathering forces to take on Isis at its base in Sirte on the Libyan coast, but there are fears that they will end up fighting each other.

French activities in the Mediterranean theatre were raising concern among the Admiralty: Napoleon was gathering forces in Southern France but the destination of his army was unknown.

Civil society, while still weak, is gathering force.

I sense that a backlash may be gathering force.

Meanwhile, the consolidation in the industry is gathering force.

"This represents a shift in space operations that has long been gathering force," he said.