Sentence examples for gaining large from inspiring English sources

In 1974 Brazilian João Havelange was elected president, gaining large support from less-developed countries.

In 1974 Brazilian João Havelange was elected president, gaining large support from developing nations.

It was published by The Times of Israel, which said it had described Tehran's assistance in preventing Isis from gaining "large swaths of additional territory" in Iraq.

The prospect of Isis gaining large scale chemical weapons would raise the stakes significantly in Iraq, where a chemical attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja by Saddam's forces in 1988 left thousands of people dead.

The question has helped create a volatile period in American politics, with Democrats gaining large victories in 2006 and 2008, only to have Republicans return the favor in 2010.

A march drawing attention to the persecution of homosexuals in 1978 grew through the 1980s into the Sydney Gay (and Lesbian, after 1988) Mardi Gras, gaining large crowds and international prominence as an event and arts program (held annually in February).

Canada and Russia would gain large forest credits as well.

In both situations the United States gained large tracts of territory.

I have seen the same people lose and gain large amounts of weight.

In Sarajevo, a predominantly Muslim city, dozens of streets named after Communist revolutionaries were renamed after Muslim heroes, and political parties stressing Muslim identity gained large constituencies.

As a result, he gained large numbers of volunteers, unprecedented sums of Internet donations and the mantle of being the only viable and veritable antiwar candidate.