gaining ground

With anti-immigrant parties gaining ground, few governments are ready to open up to north Africans.

Jones says the situation represents progress from a few years ago, when the Taliban appeared to have the upper hand and was gaining ground.

And with Republicans gaining ground this political season, get ready for a particularly painful bout of it.

Witnesses say street fighting continues inside Sabha but that rebel forces appeared to be gaining ground.

After years of victories by leftist candidates, market-friendly conservatives and moderates are gaining ground in the region.

Protectionism is already gaining ground in the US, with the proposed bail-out of the American car industry.

Anti-immigrant parties are gaining ground in Europe. Britain has been fretting this week over lapses in its border controls (see article).

Google (GOOG) is gaining ground in display ads, leaving Yahoo a smaller piece of the pie it once dominated.

Rising gold prices have led to a stockmarket rally, based on hopes that the global economic recovery is gaining ground.

But were the autocrats right all along? In the wake of revolution, Islamist movements have been gaining ground.

Meanwhile, once-marginal anti-immigration politicians have been gaining ground.

But as consumers become savvier about protecting their privacy online, the new techniques appear to be gaining ground.

and, legal translation, the means for such exchanges, is gaining ground in importance on translation of other special-purpose texts.

In the United States, in particular, an " essentialist " mistrust of Islam in all its forms has been gaining ground.

The principle that big businesses, whether public or private, should make their performance known is gaining ground.

America is still "number one, " but China is fast gaining ground.

As China's economy expanded, wealthier Chinese auction buyers were gaining ground on their Western counterparts.

Commercial-property derivatives, however, are gaining ground.

Such piety[8], however, sits uncomfortably with the gambling, the neon lights and prostitution that are forever gaining ground.

The worthies endorse several of the big ideas now gaining ground among reformers.

Despite its leading position in much of the world, Google has had difficulty gaining ground on Baidu.

Acupuncture anesthesia is rapidly gaining ground in surgical operations.

Minute by painstaking minute, we protesters were gaining ground, and our numbers were growing.

In Libya the Islamists may also be gaining ground.

But Mr Steinmeier, contesting his first election, has recently been gaining ground.

One view gaining ground is that victory at the next election will go to whichever party is brave enough to ditch its leader.

In Bonn last week, a separate Mexican proposal to raise billions of dollars was gaining ground.

Anti-immigrant parties are gaining ground in Europe.

Mr. Bush says US forces are slowly but surely gaining ground on terrorists in Afghanistan.

India and Pakistan are gaining ground and are on the verge of completing eradication.

Despite its recent setbacks, the voucher movement is gaining ground in state legislatures and some state courts.

At first he was denounced from all sides. Yet his idea is now gaining ground.

In-store promotions are gaining ground over campaigns.

No wonder, then, that the phrase "peak oil" has been gaining ground even faster than the oil price.

Forests are also gaining ground in the world's two most populous countries, India and China.

But those in the SADC who have wanted to tackle Mr Mugabe more robustly are gaining ground.

Campaigners for gay marriage say they are gaining ground, though very slowly.

Anti-smoking campaigns are gaining ground.

Right now, the systemic approach of Bert Hellinger is really gaining ground in Germany.

Gaining ground against Google, not catching it, is the current goal.

They are steadily gaining ground in Scrabble, poker and bridge.

"This is a clear trend across Europe, which has been gaining ground and becoming more mainstream in many countries. "

In other words, gaining ground here takes time.

They are steadily gaining ground in Scrabble, poker and bridge. And they are even doing pretty well at crossword puzzles.

Before the censorship dispute Google had been slowly gaining ground in China.

Gaining ground in China, which now represents less than 2% of Wal-Mart's total sales, is critical.

Yet without a doubt it is the second kind of sentence that is gaining ground in modern English.

T4, a code generator that comes with VS 2008, is slowly but surely gaining ground.

The threat to Firefox now, however, is that otheralternatives are gaining ground.

True, we have been beaten in a few battles, but our army is gaining ground every day.

The use of third-generation technology, such as Westinghouse's AP1000 reactor and Areva's EPR reactor, is gaining ground commercially.

gaining ground on the speeding car

Free press in China is gaining ground