Once such an obsession has gained a hold, Balzac shows it growing irresistibly in power and blinding the person concerned to all other considerations.
Yet as the '70s went on, and the women's movement gained a hold in the public mind (and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment began gaining a hold in Congress and in statehouses), Edith herself gained a measure of strength and self-respect that deepened her character movingly.
But Stoke, who now have just three wins in 25 matches against Southampton, saw a Jonathan Walters effort ruled out for offside before the break, and then gained a hold in the match through N'Zonzi's first of the season.
So at first Achatz's cancer, which may have emerged as early as 2003, had only marginal success in gaining a hold in his tongue.
That means stabilising the crescent of Muslim countries, mostly outside the Arab world, where broken government has allowed terrorism to gain a hold.
Within California, solar technology has spread beyond highly environmentally conscious areas like San Francisco and Sacramento over the last decade to gain a hold throughout the state, Environment California's report indicates.
The study described a complex relationship between crime figures and the 1.4-million-member union, with organized crime gaining a hold on the Teamsters through violence, threats and payoffs.
In October 2007 the Dutch police broke up a trafficking ring that had been smuggling and exploiting Nigerian children, mostly girls, and which had also used threats of voodoo curses to gain a hold over them.
This colonizing effort had intelligible short-term military motives, namely, a felt need to gain a hold on the Thracian region the only part of the Athenian empire reachable by land and a desire to deny Athens access to its larder on Euboea.
Do-everything governments nearly always allow inflation to gain a hold".
