Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
You gain a level of fearlessness performing when no one's there to see you.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
I did gain weight, but I don't care.
