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gain ground
1. The remaining Tanarian forces chose to withdraw and fortify the more defendable positions, allowing the enemy to gain ground and hopefully thin their resources
2. After some jumbling to gain ground Mel said we should separate the force field
3. started to gain ground on them
4. Logically approached, those Quranic exhortations were primarily to serve Muhammad’s agenda, first of subduing the neighborhood Jews and then for avenging himself upon the Meccans by subduing them into his creed that they had earlier spurned; and viewed even from the Islamic angle, it could have been the will of Allah to stir his Prophet into action to gain ground for the faith in the sands of Arabia
5. A voice far back in my mind warned me that I shouldn’t feel pleasure at his suffering, but I pushed it out before it could gain ground
6. “The natural impulse of red Light is to advance, to attack, to gain ground
7. "Undoubtedly," said Villefort, moderating the tones of his voice, "a marriage once concerted and then broken off, throws a sort of discredit on a young lady; then again, the old reports, which I was so anxious to put an end to, will instantly gain ground
8. " Even among the better part of the audience an absurd whisper began to gain ground that perhaps there would not be a fête at all, that Lembke perhaps was really unwell, and so on and so on
9. The peasants certainly had begun to feel perplexed: "What sort of person is he? He was found walking on the high road, he says he is a teacher, he is dressed like a foreigner, and has no more sense than a little child; he answers queerly as though he had run away from someone, and he's got money!" An idea was beginning to gain ground that information must be given to the authorities, "especially as things weren't quite right in the town