"The Americans looming up — dim, vast, portentous — in their millions like gathering waves — the barbarians of the Roman empire," Henry James, having absorbed the view of his English hosts, lamented in his notebook in 1895.
To attain this objective, a within-subjects longitudinal research design with eight data gathering waves was adopted as the primary methodology to ascertain changes in the participant's level of math anxiety across two sessions that took place on separate days.
But it comes amid a gathering wave of niggling challenges to government control.
The new mayor ought to try to tackle another housing challenge, posed by the city's changing demographic: there are more single households, thanks to the young urban migration and the silver tsunami, that gathering wave of urban-minded retirees.
As far as I know they were the first cemetery board to do so, but they join a gathering wave of universities, churches and synagogues, city governments and pension funds.
There are signs that Mr. Oren may be riding a gathering wave.
Each family encounter of this kind — sometimes traumatic, sometimes cathartic, often a mixture of the two — is an isolated, intimate event, yet from a million such moments a social force emerges, a gathering wave.
Shortly after Mr. Bush spoke, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, issued fresh warnings about the gathering wave of home foreclosures while pledging new regulations to limit the impact and crack down on predatory mortgage lending.
Each family encounter of this kind sometimes traumatic, sometimes cathartic, often a mixture of the two is an isolated, intimate event, yet from a million such moments a social force emerges, a gathering wave.
Where the acid-drenched, "freaks not hippies" hard outer edge of the counterculture met the gathering wave of post-60s revolutions in gender and sexual identity, there they built their merry little parallel universe of beautiful insane misfits, innocents and oddballs, Egg Ladies, singing assholes and dog shit-gargling 300-pound drag queens.
"So literally, by gathering gravitational waves we will be able to see exactly what happened at the initial singularity.
