Sentence examples for force gaining from inspiring English sources

In denying the rookie back William Green and the Cleveland running game, Bell was a force, gaining leverage inside the Cleveland backfield on several running plays.

In other cases, pirates have captured vessels from under the nose of patrolling naval force, gaining control of the ship's bridge in five minutes ahead of even the fastest naval response.

Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in 2006, and Hezbollah militiamen took control of large parts of Beirut last year by force, gaining an effective veto power over government decisions.

And he's betting on that force gaining enough momentum that it will ultimately change the system, not just in L.A. but elsewhere, too, in a way that really realigns the education debate.

In June 1940 Italy entered the war on the side of the Axis Powers and he began combat operations against the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Air Force), gaining his first successes during the Italian invasion of Egypt.

This tour de force gained 17 imps.

In the United States, environmental advocacy, as an organized social force, gained its first serious momentum as part of the youth movement of the 1960s.

Hizbullah, the strongest militia in Lebanon and the country's dominant political force, gained many admirers as the most effective enemy of Israel.

But led by Brasidas, hero of the Battle of Delium, a Spartan force gained important successes in Chalcidice in 424, encouraging Athenian subject states to revolt.

Information in the criminal complaint revealed that the Baltimore task force gained administrator access to Silk Road after arresting one of its employees.

A similar size force gained victory at Wandiwash in the south where, between the 1740s and the 1760s, the British and the French fought out another part of their global confrontation.