1.   About the time this outcry was gathering momentum, a curve ball landed like a left hook.

2.   The international relief effort appears to be gathering momentum.

3.   The principle that nature worked by the simplest means was gathering momentum during the thirteenth century.

4.   The move towards natural gas as the vehicle fuel of the future is gathering momentum.

5.   A trend toward a new austerity in commercial design seems to be gathering momentum as a new fin de siecle approaches.

6.   Along with the violence, a new proposal for peace was showing signs on Monday of gathering momentum.

7.   But even as the antiwar sentiment here is gathering momentum, conservatives in the north have tried to turn the conflict into a religious crusade.

8.   But the campaign against him and other senior managers was gathering momentum.

9.   CDPD still lags far behind Ardis and RAM, although after a series of technical delays its rollout now appears to be gathering momentum.

10.   Consumer prices barely budged in May as a slowing economy throttled back an inflation threat that seemed to be gathering momentum a month earlier.