1.   It served as a catalyst which greatly accelerated the pace of change within the Empire.

2.   We need to accelerate the pace of change in our backward country.

3.   As a result, South African companies are rapidly accelerating their pace of investment.

4.   Back on track, the chain is accelerating the pace of new store openings.

5.   A slowdown in the economy, after almost four years of steady growth, could only accelerate the pace of defaults.

6.   Affirmative action has accelerated the pace at which minorities and women take their rightful place in society.

7.   But once in charge, he sharply accelerated the pace and began bargaining for a bill in earnest.

8.   But the emergence of the Internet as a global standard in the last five years has vastly accelerated the pace of change.

9.   But the Justice Department has accelerated the pace of its inquiries in the last two weeks.

10.   But while experts say federal funding will help realize that promise and accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, treatments may be a decade or more away.