Sentence examples for to gather itself from inspiring English sources

Then it seemed to hesitate momentarily, as if to gather itself.

The insurgency was just beginning to gather itself, the Iraqis were seething at their occupiers, and there wasn't even electricity to lessen the Mesopotamian heat.

This was the sort of book, I supposed, that would build its meanings sentence by sentence, pausing to gather itself together again after every period.

Come term-time, the teenage body is in disarray as it is forced by a 7am wake up call - while still on Planet MTV time - to gather itself together, even though it thinks it's four in the morning.

Determined kids wade out a long way into soft brown silt to reach the tepid water, which barely has energy to gather itself into what you could call a wave.

But there is a new, more bitter wind blowing through the game in the Republic, one that has been whistling round the world for some years now and is set to gather itself into the defining dynamic of the next few years.

We decided to leave it for a few days to settle and gather itself before we planted more seed.

But it is far from clear that the European Union can gather itself to take these fateful steps away from nationalist identities to a truly European model.

Hollande, in a book entitled "Changing Fate," and timed to coincide with his campaign, wrote of "The Empire of Money," as if it were ruled by the Evil Zurg, and envisaged a day when the left would gather itself to strike back, using "the beautiful European adventure".

Hollande, in a book entitled "Changing Fate," and timed to coincide with his campaign, wrote of "The Empire of Money," as if it were ruled by the Evil Zurg, and envisaged a day when the left would gather itself to strike back, using "the beautiful European adventure". With the clear-up completed, though, and the hangovers fading, is now that day?

Given that Congress, under Democratic control, can't gather itself to let tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire, members of both parties are convinced that letting the payroll tax rate revert back to its current spot will be near impossible.