Sentence examples for has been gathering strength from inspiring English sources

But since then Swift has been gathering strength.

U.K. Independence Party, which has been gathering strength in working-class areas.

A recovery in retailing has been gathering strength for months, showing up first at the high end; now stores catering to every class of shopper are benefiting.

By February, Cobden happily observed how Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had aroused "our old anti-slavery feeling … and it has been gathering strength ever since".

The decision follows years of pressure from animal-rights groups, and is part of a trend that has been gathering strength for years.

The attacks were apparently an attempt by the Sudanese government to check the advance of the Justice and Equality Movement, which has been gathering strength recently.

The Taliban and al-Qaeda forces, driven from Afghanistan half a decade earlier, had returned and had been gathering strength since late 2006.

Rumours of a similar move at M&G have been gathering strength since the disastrous attempt by its partner, Prudential, to take over Asian insurer AIA.

New conservation science, or eco-pragmatism, as this set of principles and concerns was coming to be called, had been gathering strength for some time, and various environmental organizations had adopted some of its ideas.

Water arced into the mangled remains, and steam poured out of Reactor No. 3. A more decisive maneuver had been gathering strength, with far less attention, for several days.

Arabi, a native of Homs, where an armed fightback has been gathering steam since August, suggests the Free Syria Army's strength is about 15,000 nationwide.