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    1. My original view [since revised!] was that “if you can’t give it away you might as well give up!” I also wanted to distribute copies to gain feedback as family and friends are not always the best critics


    2. Remember, I said in the beginning that if you just read this book, you will gain knowledge, but if you do the work, you can transform your life! This book is designed to help you in the most efficient way possible


    3. Her therapist thinks something similar, though instead he tells her that she is trying to gain control over her life by ironing clothes


    4. She thought Herndon wanted to accuse him of stealing it from New Brazil, but that would be counter productive and would give away a lot more information than it would gain


    5. Of course he would probably give more information over that pillow than what he would gain


    6. Do this sincerely without seeking personal gain or recognition


    7. It is well-accepted principle that without risk there can be no gain


    8. He paid a high price in order to gain us in Jesus Christ


    9. " He ducked outside the shop and left Travis to mull over what he had already revealed, what he had to gain or lose by telling more


    10. "Look, I respect your tradition Travis, and I respect everything that you had to do in order to gain that mark, but you have seen what they are capable of, you saw what happened to Rocco

    11. His strange new work colleague Moses Tah, an immigrant from the battle-scarred West African state of Liberia claims the ability to give him these powers, but is he for real? If Moses does possess the powers that Michael wants, will he be able to gain them? If he can learn them in time, will they be enough to change the destiny of the people around him? Lives are at stake; families, friends, colleagues, innocent bystanders


    12. We all know our Qaidic faith was founded as a means of using faith to gain power


    13. Ava's loss to the Brazilian community had been more of a gain for what they increasingly saw as their most important business competitor, the Kassikan


    14. How can we gain more insight to what the darkness and the depths represent if the Spirit and the waters are the opposites? The problem really comes down to the deep being opposite of the waters


    15. "They could gain all our technology from Alan's memories


    16. Everyone has the big signs and plaques trying to gain your attention away from all others and onto their storefront


    17. When we gain that glory, we will be eternally joyous


    18. But how do we escape this judgment and achieve the first resurrection to rule and reign with Christ? It says the martyrs will gain this victory


    19. If you could gain the


    20. They gain something out of focusing on negative energy, so

    21. When the Spirit is poured out, we gain wisdom and insight that we did not know before


    22. That in itself constitutes that we should gain the wisdom of God and learn to hear that Spirit so that when/if the moment should come we can give answer


    23. What is it to us (or Him) if we struggle through this life to gain the greater glory? But when we struggle and suffer here on earth, we are quick to point the finger and question God


    24. that if we yearn for it, but do not act to gain it, we breed our


    25. By doing this, not only will a competition gain more followers and more interest, it is also going to elicit more people to want to engage in the contest and to post their own submissions, which are going to help you as the business owner in the end


    26. An example would be for me to sit in watching the soaps every evening; this would be short term gain


    27. On the other hand, if I sit in studying every evening, this could be considered painful while I’m doing it, however in the long term I will have gained skills and knowledge and I could possibly go on and gain better employment


    28. They could find nothing to put their finger on, but it continued to gain strength


    29. gain in confidence you can practice it against one wall and after


    30. That once you have slimmed, the Yoga way, you will be able to eat as you please and not gain an ounce

    31. It is the easy way out and you will gain nothing from employing it


    32. She'd made a name for herself as a woman of honour, desperate to help her community gain self-respect and sometimes mere existence


    33. People with lumbago should also practice it as it brings relief from this and allied complaints, and those with constipation and digestive troubles would also gain much relief from practicing and perfecting the Spinal Twist


    34. As the eulogy issued forth, my eyes met with those of the bishop and he looked at me with such an expression of sympathy I found myself swallowing and gulping and fighting to gain control


    35. The ease of tension was momentary again but a huge gain


    36. But where is the gain?


    37. excitement of engaging in a new activity coupled with the closeness that you gain from spending


    38. Strangely, the fisherman’s wife did not suffer from morning sickness, nor did she eat for two, gain weight or find cute little knitted bootees of any interest whatsoever


    39. 'Look, these days antiquity thieves zone in on a target and use highly sophisticated strategies to gain possession and then they sell to the highest bidder irrespective of the damage they inflict


    40. They say you eat more when you quit smoking and, as a result, you gain weight

    41. There was no gain in letting the man sit there and sweat, even though his department could hardly be considered important with the war going on


    42. Meditation is the best way that I know to gain this skill


    43. Establish the energetic imprint of peak physical health and immune building so that viruses simply won‘t gain entry


    44. and we are the ones to gain from it


    45. here to gain faith and to gain the experience of living


    46. order to gain access to those emotions


    47. Gain that is not or is necessarily money but instead selected


    48. You will gain the exposure you


    49. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the


    50. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or














































    1. Many years ago when tests were run on the toxicity of DE, it was found to be beneficial to the animals fed with it as they gained weight and seemed healthier then those not fed DE


    2. Tdehsi's body was born to a hired mother by a father named Leand, a body with a stormy and tragic life until Ava gained control of it


    3. He has gained a little weight back


    4. There might be something in the amorous line to be gained after all


    5. they negotiated and gained allies


    6. While the revolution in the small town gained


    7. nothing is gained from it


    8. On the other hand, if I sit in studying every evening, this could be considered painful while I’m doing it, however in the long term I will have gained skills and knowledge and I could possibly go on and gain better employment


    9. Daniel watched as they gained altitude


    10. He has gained their trust

    11. Unfortunately, Cyberia’s appreciation of art and craft was based on the experience gained at her finishing school, where she had spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours and making decoupage kittens out of old socks and yoghurt pot lids


    12. He gained the strength to hit the ball rather than rely


    13. on the experience gained at her finishing school, where she had


    14. After the mainlanders gained a lot of influence, yeah, without our consent


    15. You will have gained time and will have wasted less, such as what you use


    16. Without what is gained there is nothing lost


    17. Within two months they had weeded out the worst of vermin that had occupied that Hold and in the process gained the respect of the townspeople


    18. that he might know how much every man had gained by trading


    19. 16Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds


    20. 18And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds

    21. 17And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two


    22. Today he may have lost the sanctity of the small heaven he had believed in since 2152, but they had all gained a much greater one


    23. even worse news that he had somehow gained intelligence of the


    24. Having finally gained the heights


    25. They had somehow or other also gained curves in all the right places and this forced their admirers to retrace their most recent memories for any prior evidence of same


    26. not to mention the confidence she had gained during the hand-to-


    27. gained his full attention, she smiled regally and nodded once in what


    28. He looked at all their files and chased down all their friends files that were in the system, but he didn’t find anyone who had gained anything by the overdose or the download of the ghost


    29. “I did not take the charges as being directed specifically against Althart, I took it as within my prerogative to investigate any who might have gained by the availability of the body Ava was put into


    30. “We have followed the money also, to see if anyone seems to have gained or lost a great deal of money during that time

    31. There was no one on any committee in that area who had gained anything unusual during that time


    32. As they gained the road, waved farewell, and headed back into town


    33. Unlike their first, untutored attempt, this time the wagon moved easily and as they repeated the movements, even gained a bit of momentum


    34. Allcock gained Harry's attention, to which Harry merely shrugged his shoulders and adopted a most innocent expression


    35. Titania gained a great respect for the late Mr


    36. Where are your riches? What have you gained?


    37. with the knowledge they had just gained


    38. But the kids looked around and could still see the village still had imps all around, and it would surely only be a matter of time until they gained their strength back


    39. He would contact Harry immediately with instructions to proceed with the plans once he gained her approval


    40. has gained power by his wealth, he

    41. It was amazing how much respect could be gained in such


    42. How much was gained from condensing the water out of the smoke at the highest possible levels in the chimneys


    43. satisfaction gained from simply peeing by the side of the


    44. As he watched them labor, Brodin still found it strange that, among the rest of the Triad, his people had somehow gained the title ‘dwarf’


    45. and we find in the process that we have gained a new faith in a


    46. He decided he had little loyalty to the secretive weirdos from Wescarp and would give up their address if it gained him some info in return


    47. During the late war, the Dutch gained the whole carrying trade of France, of which they still retain a very large share


    48. gained by the unsuccessful twenty


    49. In what is gained upon the first of those branches of commerce,


    50. consists the advantage which the town makes by its manufactures; in what is gained upon the














































    1. The stubble on my chin was growing softer now that it was gaining its critical beard length and my hair was becoming ragged at the back of my neck


    2. How many times has it been that someone will start a church with the heart to truly live and teach others to live the apostolic lifestyle, but after a certain point in growth and after gaining a certain amount of property, they suddenly change


    3. This will in turn lead to more new customers, more site visitors to your online business page and eventually to more profits due to the increase in the number of customers you are gaining through social media


    4. Upon the gaining of our glorified bodies, we are able to endure the face of God


    5. He wondered if he was actually losing his affection for Desa and gaining more for Luray


    6. to give and receive love and it’s about gaining all the


    7. You are now gaining the understanding and the


    8. ’ I said gaining confidence


    9. She paused for comment, but had at last succeeded in gaining their considered attention


    10. The Triodines were close behind and gaining

    11. gaining a considerable amount of experience in the minutiae of his


    12. been gaining momentum lately


    13. Justice was gaining the upper hand


    14. She spent months mining that one response, and gaining a lot more respect for the native civilization in the process


    15. Other than gaining attention by dropping rocks, Gordon's Lamp was a gnat to this civilization and would probably never be noticed in day-to-day life


    16. Over coming that and gaining courage is another


    17. Every passing day, Drau’d seemed to be gaining on him in height, yet was still a long way from filling out to match his girth


    18. The vain hopes of gaining some of the great prizes is the sole cause of this


    19. of gaining ten or twenty thousand pounds, though they know that even that small sum is


    20. "Concern for the risk of Alan's memories being read overwhelmed concern for the knowledge he was gaining

    21. The hell with that outhouse now, she was still gaining speed as she passed that


    22. The rebels made short work of their emotionless enemies, gaining the final upper hand


    23. They relished gaining information


    24. He’d outwitted Stenarch, gaining even greater respect from the townspeople


    25. Willow’s research turned up some interesting information about demons gaining power


    26. After gaining their eye contact and attention, she


    27. Worse, the torches appeared to be gaining steadily on her


    28. Gaining these skills doesn’t happen by osmosis – they must be learned, and learning depends upon a foundation of developmentally appropriate experiences where children can succeed, but also where they fail and learn how to deal with failure by trying again and again


    29. Once you can do this, you are well on your way to gaining the power to be happy


    30. The airbus headed east, gaining a hasty momentum that seemed out of place in this landscape

    31. If it meant gaining an insight onto their nature he could argue for the continuation of their contact, though perhaps not of such intimacy


    32. Do you think they really would use the Aquifer for gaining trading concessions?”


    33. But the arts of popularity, all the arts of gaining proselytes, are constantly on the side of its adversaries


    34. They possessed, too, in a much higher degree than their adversaries, all the arts of popularity and of gaining proselytes; arts which the lofty and dignified sons of the church had long neglected, as being to them in a great measure useless


    35. It now looked like we as well as the Manchester’s were in danger of being isolated without any support and so the only option was to withdraw in good order so that instead of gaining eight miles we had gained about one if we were lucky


    36. We could tell they were impressed and quite agog with what we had told them they said how lucky we had been to be back in the line gaining experience but we didn’t see it that way


    37. be regarded as one of those pedantic pieces of hypocrisy which, instead of gaining credit with anybody, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them to the suspicion of buing a greater knave than most of his neighbours


    38. Gaining a sense of the game has nothing to do with actually becoming proficient at


    39. interference and gaining influence with the Union leaders back


    40. each other in preventing the Confederates from gaining a

    41. He was tired, though Arawn was gaining strength from the ki’mera that continued to flow into Adem’s chest and his sheathed sword, mostly fanning around the hilt


    42. This mission felt like a desperate final attempt at gaining some advantage


    43. But the prospect of somehow gaining fourth or fifth level access left him physically shaking


    44. ” “I think that the way of gaining entrance is simple enough, but we will have to watch out guides very carefully


    45. I managed to avoid the obstacles, but I noticed that the truck was gaining on us and slamming into the dumpsters, bins and cans, tossing them aside as if they were cardboard


    46. should have been gaining all sorts of weight on her food, but with all of my other


    47. Ironically, this trend appears to be declining among Blacks and Whites, although a reemerging phenomenon appears to be gaining momentum among ―recently‖ arrived ethnic groups spanning second and third generations or perhaps it only seems that way


    48. After finally gaining his feet the Custodian scowled at Grindel through the one good eye left to him


    49. By the sheer stupidity of the brain eaters, one could discard the idea of gaining the wisdom of the


    50. Gaining the information, yet caught in a cauldron of hostile














































    1. d) Capital gains from the sale of shares


    2. It then gains more detail as we progress through Genesis


    3. During the day the young man went off to commit his musical crimes in shopping malls and bus stations, only to find that he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers and flustered financial advisers because Cyberia had scorched their whites


    4. I can follow his argument about the precision he gains by averaging more samples


    5. he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers


    6. For what is a man advantaged, if he gains the whole world, and loses himself, or be cast


    7. I don’t think there’ll be any capital gains involved, but I’ll check with one of our taxation experts


    8. paycheck of hers and used the ill-gotten gains to buy drugs


    9. His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit


    10. His extraordinary gains arise from the high price which is paid for his private labour

    11. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits ; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains; they complain only of those of other people


    12. will find that their annual gains bear but a very small proportion to their annual expense, even


    13. The prophets are like the air force that gains air superiority


    14. The landlord gains both ways; by the increase of the produce, and by the diminution of the labour which must be maintained out of it


    15. As the capital of an individual can be increased only by what he saves from his annual revenue or his annual gains, so the capital of a society, which is the same with that of all the individuals who compose it, can be increased only in the same manner


    16. The gains of both are mutual and reciprocal, and the division of labour is in this, as in all other cases, advantageous to all the different persons employed in the various occupations into which it is subdivided


    17. To improve land with profit, like all other commercial projects, requires an exact attention to small savings and small gains, of which a man born to a great fortune, even though naturally frugal, is very seldom capable


    18. When two places trade with one another, this doctrine supposes that, if the balance be even, neither of them either loses or gains; but if it leans in any degree to one side, that one of them loses, and the other gains, in proportion to its declension from the exact equilibrium


    19. UFC gains a lot more popularity


    20. That way Atmos gains the strength to protect us from the worst ravages of the desert

    21. A prayer also gains strength when it is conducted in a union of more than an individual i


    22. Ironically, most people today place so much emphasis in attaining material gains and disregard their true spiritual nature


    23. A diligent judge gains a comfortable, though moderate revenue, by his office; an idle one gets little more than his salary


    24. The person who finally pays this tax, therefore, gains by the application more than he loses by the payment of it


    25. He gains their esteem and affection, by that plan of life which his own interest and situation would lead him to follow


    26. The government neither gains nor loses by the additional tax, which is applied altogether to remedy the inequalities arising from the old assessment


    27. Their wages are computed according to the common rate of the district in which they reside ; and, that they may be as little liable as possible to any overcharge, their yearly gains are estimated at no more than two hundred working days in the year


    28. If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint; and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance


    29. During the barbarous times of feudal anarchy, merchants, like all the other inhabitants of burghs, were considered as little better than emancipated bondmen, whose persons were despised, and whose gains were envied


    30. The price had, it seems, before the tax, been a monopoly price ; and the arguments adduced to show that sugar was an improper subject of taxation, demonstrated perhaps that it was a proper one ; the gains of monopolists, whenever they can be come at, being certainly of all subjects the most proper

    31. “Our Division the 31st has been given the job of forming the defensive flank of the whole Fourth Army this will involve us driving east to capture the village of Serre and then turning north and consolidating our gains


    32. “With a bit of luck the Germans will be finished and we should be able to walk over and secure their trenches as per the plan then the second and corresponding waves will follow the first wave and as they pass through us we will consolidate our gains


    33. However, if their stance fails to serve as a deterrent to – primarily – the US, then any strategic gains are sure to be only short term


    34. Thus: As of 2010, the richest one per cent of Americans paid forty per cent of all capital gains and income taxes


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    36. You will go into subsequent phases stronger, larger and with a greater awareness of your individual muscles, all of which will contribute to even greater success and better gains as we move though the rest of the program


    37. Where they used to see gains one pound at a time, from one week to the next, they’ll now see gains of 3, 5 or even 10 pounds in spurts


    38. They know that small gains in these areas can make them appear to have 20-pounds more muscle overall


    39. This is why you’ll see gains in size much more quickly


    40. ance and your recovery rate so that you can realize better gains in size from your weight-lifting program

    41. With this phase, you’ll not only lose fat, you’ll still see some gains in muscle


    42. Like I said earlier, the primary goal of this phase is fat loss, but you will likely see gains in mass at the same time


    43. muscle gains, but that


    44. Whereas the Slave Owner or Imperialist sought to exploit human resources for personal economic gains, the social engineer, on the other hand, seeks to exploit the under-utilized capacity of individuals or groups for utopic reasons


    45. These taxes include, however are not limited to, consumer taxes, school and property taxes, ―sin‖ taxes, egregious taxes on inheritance or the ―death tax‖ and capital gains taxes whose earnings are taxed twice, no less


    46. “His dad goes there every year to count his ill gotten gains


    47. Really; it’s just a question of how much altitude it gains or loses as it climbs and dives


    48. We’re hoping to stir up enough public outrage to put a stop to it before it gains any momentum


    49. This theory gains added corroboration in the discoveries made in places far removed from this scene of possibly deeply buried devastation


    50. All the teams had made gains in lap times this season, to varying degrees







































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    Synonyms for "gain"

    amplification gain profit addition increase put on gather advance gain ground get ahead make headway pull ahead win arrive at attain hit make reach acquire bring in clear earn pull in realise realize take in benefit derive obtain procure secure get accomplish accrual accumulation advantage profits get to better forward improve near progress overtake approach

    "gain" definitions

    a quantity that is added


    the advantageous quality of being beneficial


    the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input


    the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating


    obtain


    win something through one's efforts


    derive a benefit from


    reach a destination, either real or abstract


    obtain advantages, such as points, etc.


    rise in rate or price


    increase or develop


    earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages


    increase (one's body weight)