Maybe it was the gathering momentum of events in the Congress.

By 2003 there was a gathering momentum behind the possibility of Yudhoyono being a presidential candidate.

We are anxious that government should be strong and yet fearful less the gathering momentum of executive power crush all else that is in our State.

It would have been like shoving a toboggan down a hill; after that first push it has its own gathering momentum.

They gambled that a gathering momentum for peace would draw the doubters into the fold.

Once in the lead there was no stopping the home side as they reinforced their gathering momentum with five second-half tries.

I agree with your analysis, but there is a gathering momentum for popular election.

The girl's face changed with the gathering momentum of ice slipping from a roof in spring.

A streak of white light extended: at first slowly, then with the gathering momentum of a stone dropping from a sheer cliff toward the sea.