Sentence examples for ground rapidly from inspiring English sources

The Protestant movement gained ground rapidly in Austria.

"That's the trait of a concentrated fund -- it can lose ground rapidly and make it up quite quickly".

JAKARTA, Indonesia — From Pakistan to Gaza and Lebanon, militant Islamic movements have gained ground rapidly in recent years, fanning Western fears of a consolidation of radical Muslim governments.

Through late 2008 and into 2009, the economic facts on the ground rapidly began to support Darling's analysis, not the prime minister's.

This analysis gained ground rapidly and I saw a notional profit of close to £100 within a couple of days of opening my short position at Empire.

Firefox became the "9%" player, and gained ground rapidly, peaking at about 24% of browser use in November 2009; there were times when the release of a new version of Firefox was an internet event.

"At the end of the year," he said, "the state was losing ground less rapidly".

The reason the dollar appears to be losing ground quite rapidly now is that foreigners are slowly but surely losing confidence in U.S. equities.

Although the Nikkei 225 stockmarket average has been shedding ground pretty rapidly of late on August 11th it dropped by 4% this fall has been punctuated by brief rallies.

He was still last turning for home, but made ground so rapidly in the straight that he was a couple of lengths adrift as Valseur Lido and Road To Riches jumped the last.

If a common pendulum is free to swing in one direction and if the ground moves rapidly in the direction of freedom of the pendulum while the pendulum is motionless, the pendulum will tend to remain in place through inertia.