Sentence examples for gaining great from inspiring English sources

Warlords control ports, airfields and roadblocks, gaining great wealth while offering little but trouble to the average Somali.

We have a lot of recent experience with breaking apart large, old, unlovely systems in the confidence of gaining great benefits at low cost.

Garcia, however, took on Woods last year in a thrilling back-nine duel at the P.G.A. Championship, losing by one stroke but gaining great respect at age 19.

In his famous ConningTower, he acted chiefly as anchor man in a game of snap-the-whip; he dug in hard & held fast while contributors came whistling along, a few of them gaining great spee as they flashed by.

Nevertheless, Leo XIII succeeded in gaining great prestige for the papacy, as was shown by the increase in countries having diplomatic relations with the Vatican, even non-Christian countries.

Because Mobile is one of the country's busiest seaports, and the only one in Alabama, Judge Thomas was assigned numerous maritime cases over the years, gaining great expertise in the field.

The issue is gaining greater internationally, too.

"They believe it undermines their gaining greater and greater authority and responsibility," he said.

Rail travel is gaining greater favor in Congress, which provides subsidies to keep Amtrak rolling.

By gaining greater control of its distribution network, Cadbury could negotiate with retailers directly.

The alliance is gaining greater ability to control and monitor Russian territory.