By that time, his comedy career had begun gathering momentum.
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"The campaign is only now really gathering momentum," the official said.
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The group has spent months organizing and gathering momentum around the issue.
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The move to regulate internet platforms in Europe has been gathering momentum.
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But the caravan kept gathering momentum, which ultimately carried it beyond the capital.
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Still the economy ministry said it expected the sector to continue gathering momentum.
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Thus, as we head into 85033, the economy appears to be gathering momentum.
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Although the details are yet to be worked out, the project is gathering momentum.
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The global economy is gathering momentum and expectations for higher inflation are picking up.
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Lately, a grassroots anti-flying movement has been gathering momentum in Europe, particularly Scandinavia.
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The Australian antiwar movement was gathering momentum, inspired partly by casualties among young conscripts.
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Klobuchar's campaign is gathering momentum, but is it too late to mount a serious challenge?
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Exasperation with the reforming pope has been gathering momentum among a minority of traditional Catholics.
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All of this comes amidst gathering momentum for a potential Cuomo challenger from the right.
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Nonetheless, electric aviation is gathering momentum, and it could take off sooner than we might expect.
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The carbon-farming idea is gathering momentum at a time when national climate policy is backsliding.
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Those expectations have been gathering momentum since Trump promised $1 trillion of new spending on infrastructure.
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While crude oil appears to be gathering momentum, I'm cautiously bullish on oil at this juncture.
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Near-term, Spajic recommend "some reduction of risk" given fears of a commodity-led correction gathering momentum.
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Yet even as Mr. Zuckerberg was making his case, a furor against his company was gathering momentum.
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Bowyer won the first stage and finished fifth, showing excellent speed and gathering momentum for the Playoffs.
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Williams, it seemed, was squandering too many break-point opportunities, and Kvitova was gathering momentum and intensity.
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Efforts to increase diversity in esports go back more than a decade but have started gathering momentum.
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That's a welcome change; up to this point, the revolution has been teased week by week, gathering momentum.
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On Saturday, it was gathering momentum on the social media platform WeChat, with more than 500 names attached.
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Regardless, the idea of rapid transportation is gathering momentum, and may get a boost from the federal government.
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Bishop made a couple of strong saves early in the period to prevent the Jets from gathering momentum.
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With the Black Lives Matter movement gathering momentum, she wanted to make her songs, and her life, public.
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This one leading into a right uppercut and clinch knee did a fantastic job of halting Miocic's gathering momentum.
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In an economy that appears to be gathering momentum, exactly why are some workers being left on the sidelines?
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The story moves in a straight line, gathering momentum and suspense even as it lingers over odd, everyday moments.
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Marvel continues to be the 800-pound gorilla of the comic book movie business, but DC's projects are gathering momentum.
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While economic data from Asia and Europe show faltering growth, a recovery in the U.S. economy has been gathering momentum.
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Democrats tried and failed to argue against Kavanaugh's nomination, gathering momentum in mass protests leading up to his eventual confirmation.
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With the popular protests gathering momentum, the lower house of Congress moved forward with an impeachment procedure that had been languishing.
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But with trust broken and the teachers' movement gathering momentum, they demanded a bigger raise, faster promotions and new union elections.
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The number of electric cars on the road is rising fast; green finance is gathering momentum; zero-carbon technologies are being developed.
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A pro-legalization campaign has been gathering momentum in recent years, with support from the former head of the Narcotics Control Board.
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At the same time, a vigorous reform movement, initiated by students in Beijing and including many poets and artists, was gathering momentum.
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Saudi stocks have been gathering momentum in recent months as investors anticipate foreign fund inflows when the kingdom joins emerging market indexes.
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And while the climate swerve may ebb and flow, it is gathering momentum and will have to be reckoned with for generations.
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Bieber was gathering momentum before he dropped "Sorry," to be sure, but nothing else could've cemented his revival in the same way.
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But as the country's political and economic crisis worsens, this new wave of Venezuelan cinema risks foundering just as it is gathering momentum.
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Sustainable investing is rapidly gathering momentum, too, particularly with a focus on themes that can enhance long-term risk-adjusted rates of return.
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But anti-hate groups say white supremacists and far-right extremist groups have been gathering momentum online and in underground movements for years.
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In both Detroit and Silicon Valley, as well as overseas, the rush to build a foundation for autonomous-driving technology is gathering momentum.
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Federer seemed to be gathering momentum for the stretch run, but the U.S. Open has long had nasty surprises in store for him.
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You're finding yourself fitting in with a new crowd and inspired to create art, and gathering momentum around social causes you're passionate about.
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He is keen to give an impression of gathering momentum in the campaign to destroy the "caliphate" in Syria as well as in Iraq.
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The great news is that Trump, the Senate, and the House are absolutely moving in the right direction, and gathering momentum on the way.
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With economic recovery gathering momentum, the priority for the government would be maintaining the status quo, says Izuru Kato, chief economist at Totan Research.
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But they also see their piece as a part of a much larger ecosexual movement, which they say is gathering momentum around the world.
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Women's rights advocates said that for India, the events of the past week had been stunning, with the movement in the country gathering momentum.
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In May 2011, as the peaceful uprising was gathering momentum, Assad declared an amnesty that released virtually all the Islamic extremists in his prisons.
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Those talks have concentrated on Mr. Cui's efforts to stave off punishing trade tariffs against China that are gathering momentum in White House discussions.
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Appreciation for what the 20-year-old achieved in defeating Williams has since been gathering momentum, with Nissan now appointing her its brand ambassador.
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Although the rule might have sped up a broader shift of investor money to "robo-advisers," the trend had been gathering momentum anyway, they said.
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"There are no shortcuts but we are gathering momentum and gaining in confidence," Finance Director Andy Halford told reporters on a conference call on Wednesday.
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Analysts said the incident could rally a sentiment supporting Britain to remain in the EU, at a time when the "Leave" campaign was gathering momentum.
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The bill appeared to be gathering momentum until May, when Mr. Temer was implicated in the broadening corruption scandal and charged in two criminal cases.
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The movement to permit the sale of alcohol at Scottish football stadiums – in line with almost every other sporting-sphere around Europe – is gathering momentum too.
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The protest, now in its sixth day in Kochi, Kerala's financial hub, is gathering momentum as the locals, activists, writers and politicians come out in support.
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Yet psychosocial maturity — measured by impulsivity, risk perception, thrill-seeking, resistance to peer influence — did not begin until age 245, gathering momentum through the early 20s.
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The latest survey results bolster the argument that Japan's economy, the world's third largest, is gathering momentum from a brisk export performance and firmer domestic demand.
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U.S. DATA: Industrial output in the United States rose in April, helped by an acceleration in manufacturing and mining, indicating that the economy was gathering momentum.
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Expectations coming in were sky high, with Alphabet's core Google ad unit ramping up its YouTube and mobile ad business and Microsoft's cloud-computing products gathering momentum.
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Washington (CNN)Despite stagnant poll numbers and gathering momentum behind his establishment rivals, Jeb Bush is getting critical reinforcements from a major figure in the financial industry.
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Poloz said every major region is gathering momentum and the synchronized growth phase is a positive, though everyone is in a different phase of the business cycle.
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Tiven said that the group's renewed fundraising efforts are gathering momentum, with 7,000 new donors who have given between $25 and $85033,000 each after the presidential election.
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Like a train gaining speed as it leaves the station, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is quickly gathering momentum, attracting some of the biggest names in tech.
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With a healthy lineup and eight wins in their last 11 games, the Yankees seem to be gathering momentum as they head into the playoff against Oakland.
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"Exports and output are gathering momentum," another source said, adding that a recent slew of positive data has heightened the chance the BOJ will upgrade its economic view.
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Next season, if Ferrari can carry their gathering momentum into 2020, could even see Leclerc challenging for the championship after losing out to Hamilton's Mercedes outfit this year.
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LONDON — Game of Thrones filming has started up again, cast sightings in Belfast have peaked, and speculation about what's in store for Season 29 is quickly gathering momentum.
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"Speaking of welterweights, I've seen that rumors of Conor fighting Robbie Lawler for the 170lbs belt at UFC 200 on 9 July have been gathering momentum," wrote Kavanagh.
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Mkhize is in the running to replace Zuma as ANC leader at the party's elective conference in December, and his campaign has been gathering momentum in recent weeks.
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Justice Antonin Scalia's death more than four months ago, just as the term was gathering momentum, certainly accounts to some degree for the court's less than robust performance.
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If confirmed, it would be a considerable blow to Catalonia's mainstream independence movement, which is proud of its overwhelmingly peaceful approach since it began gathering momentum in 2011.
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"Consultations with our allies, with like-minded partners, on how to respond to China's assertive international strategy have been frequent and are gathering momentum," a U.S. official told Reuters.
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Though Qualcomm's order alone will not rejuvenate Samsung's earnings, the deal suggests gathering momentum in the Korean firm's efforts to grow its foundry business to diversify its revenue stream.
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In addition, an eight billion euro 30-year syndication earlier in the week prompted investors to sell short-dated Italian bonds with the trade gathering momentum into Friday's close.
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Although a Ukraine-type revolution in Moscow to overthrow a corrupt authoritarian regime seems unlikely, a revolt of Russia's diverse regions against a despised central government is gathering momentum.
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C hristine Lagarde has signalled that the International Monetary Fund will upgrade its UK growth forecasts next month, as she said the global economy was gathering momentum, reports the Telegraph.
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In summer 2015, after spending a year gathering momentum through GamerGate — the opening salvo of the new culture wars — he convinced Breitbart upper management to give him his own section.
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New U.S. single-family home sales rose more than expected in June, reaching their highest level in nearly 8-½ years, the latest sign that the housing market was gathering momentum.
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FG: You know, the economy is gathering momentum, really, Europe is-, you know, is in good shape, and Spain is in good shape, as well, in terms of the economy.
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"The Brexit vote is obviously key to gold's appreciation because of the polling suggesting the 'Leave' campaign is gathering momentum, creating uncertainty over the outcome," ETF Securities analyst Martin Arnold said.
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Pakistan has been playing an increasingly vital role in the Afghanistan peace talks, which have been gathering momentum in recent months amid a growing U.S. desire to pull out its troops.
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At the national level, transpartisan partnerships had played a limited but real role in the slowdown of Pentagon spending growth, and seemed to be gathering momentum toward federal criminal justice reform.
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Facebook's acquisition of VR firm Oculus for $2 billion highlighted the gathering momentum behind the technology and inspired Janszen to go to China in search of a manufacturer for his products.
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But the trend toward legal boutiques is gathering momentum as elite lawyers aim to preserve the autonomy and power that they enjoyed when working in hard-charging United States attorneys' offices.
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So far, data on consumer spending, industrial production, goods exports and housing have suggested the economy is gathering momentum after growth slowed to a 100 percent annualized rate in the first quarter.
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For that reason, Mackenzie's film is quietly gathering momentum headed into the awards race; like Spotlight, it's not showy or preachy or over-acted, nor is it reaching beyond its thematic scope.
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Digi-Capital tracks thousands AR/VR/XR leaders across mobile AR (gathering momentum, but more traction needed), smart glasses (too early to tell) and VR (still all to prove, three years in).
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Governments in countries including China, South Korea, France, Italy, the UK, the US, and Spain have been told to stay at home and self-isolate to stop the coronavirus from gathering momentum.
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And if there were a bill that were gathering momentum as a legislative compromise, Republican leadership might feel that they had a way to avert shutdown without simply acceding to Democrats' demands.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core machinery orders unexpectedly fell for a third consecutive month in June, underscoring companies' reluctance to boost spending and conflicting with recent signs that the economic recovery is gathering momentum.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for U.S.-made goods rose for a second straight month in September and orders for core capital goods were stronger than previously reported, suggesting manufacturing activity was gathering momentum.
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The bill appeared to be gathering momentum Friday, as key holdouts in the Senate -- where Republicans have a slim two-vote majority -- signaled their support for the bill, some more directly than others.
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The rhythmic foundation is an electronic take on Kuti's Afrobeat; along the way it adds handclaps, strummed and plucked strings, clattering cowbells, synthesizer blips and more women's voices, like a movement gathering momentum.
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" Following them was Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont — perceived as the candidate gathering momentum in the days before the caucuses — who promised his crowd that "at some point the results will be announced.
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The White House, eager to capitalize on any idea to advance reform after last week's debacle, seems intent upon using this plan as a means of gathering momentum for further health-care negotiation.
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Since then, police have set up checkpoints around the city, and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has called for calm as her government attempts to slow a cycle of violence that is quickly gathering momentum.
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The Bank of England is watching for signs that Britain's subdued wage growth is gathering momentum as it considers when to follow up on November's first interest rate hike in more than a decade.
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One bill, which is gathering momentum among senators on both sides of the aisle, would slap new sanctions on Russia if the director of national intelligence finds that they interfere in future U.S. elections. Sen.
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Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan offered its most optimistic view of the country's regional economies in more than a decade on solid exports and private consumption, underscoring its conviction a steady recovery is gathering momentum.
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Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Monday that economic growth is gathering momentum and increasing the chances of inflation hitting his 2 percent target, reinforcing market expectations that no additional stimulus is forthcoming.
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The Bank of Japan on Monday offered its most optimistic view of the country's regional economies in more than a decade on solid exports and private consumption, underscoring its conviction a steady recovery is gathering momentum.
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Mnangagwa is slightly ahead in opinion polls, which are unreliable, but his challenger, Nelson Chamisa, 40, is gathering momentum and the vote may provide no clear winner, meaning a messy coalition may have to be formed.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan offered its most optimistic view of the country's regional economies in more than a decade on solid exports and private consumption, underscoring its conviction a steady recovery is gathering momentum.
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A proposal to connect Washington, DC and Baltimore via a maglev train is gathering momentum, with officials recently settling on two possible routes that could reduce trip time from 45 minutes to a mere 15 minutes.
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Still, the Bank of Japan is set to upgrade its economic assessment as early as this week to signal its growing conviction the recovery is gathering momentum, people familiar with its thinking told Reuters last week.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' economy was expected to have ended 2017 on a solid footing with growth in the last quarter gathering momentum from strong domestic demand, robust government spending, and a rebound in farm output.
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Throughout history, anti-Semitism has often been an early indicator that extremist thought is gathering momentum inside a society or is being used as a political tool by those keen to exploit resentment or radical sentiment.
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OTTAWA, June 13 (Reuters) - The interest rates cuts the Bank of Canada took in 2015 have largely done their job as the economy appears to be gathering momentum, the head of the central bank said on Tuesday.
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Why it matters: The study confirms prior research that, despite the knowledge that a powerful new technological force is gathering momentum, Americans remain unperturbed about their own well-being, leaving themselves potentially vulnerable to personal financial crisis.
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From people taking to the streets to raise awareness, to speaking out about sexual misconduct, and movements like #MeToo and Time's Up gathering momentum — it's safe to say that the gender equality discussion is here to stay.
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Earlier this month, the Edinburgh-based lender, rescued in a 45.5 billion pound ($59.8 billion) bailout at the height of the financial crisis, beat first-half profit forecasts, showing signs a long-promised recovery is finally gathering momentum.
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"A war waged on forests by pests is gathering momentum, and besides wood poachers causing deforestation, the pests have become the new drivers of desertification," said Mevion Chagwiza, an environmental activist affiliated to the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association.
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NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Monday that economic growth is gathering momentum and increasing the chances of inflation hitting his 2 percent target, reinforcing market expectations that no additional stimulus is forthcoming.
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Now, with the earnings outlook at its brightest in more than 7 years, borrowing costs still low and an economy gathering momentum, firms are once again looking to replace machinery and plants while governments are keen on infrastructure upgrades.
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"It seems that the oil supply recovery is gathering momentum in the world oil market, stimulated by gradually rising prices as well as improvements in drilling efficiency and well productivity in North America," OPEC said in its March report.
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TELECOM ITALIA, INWIT (*) The idea that Telecom Italia could decide to abandon its ongoing sale of a stake in tower unit INWIT and place an additional holding on the market instead is gathering momentum, Il Sole 2300 Ore said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Independent candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign for the French presidency is gathering momentum, according to two polls published on Monday that showed him closing the gap with far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of voting.
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Across Asia, more and more countries are being pulled into Beijing's orbit, with the timid stance adopted by Southeast Asian nations on the South China Sea at a weekend summit a clear sign this fundamental geostrategic shift is gathering momentum.
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The changes come at a critical moment for Biden's 2020 campaign, which is gathering momentum, adding to a delegate lead for the Democratic nomination and trying to build a machine capable of going toe to toe with Trump's well-prepared campaign.
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It's a US message that's been gathering momentum for the past few months, especially since both the British, French and German governments, along with the European Union, have recently said they'll continue using controlled amounts of Huawei equipment, in nonsensitive locations.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Confidence among Japanese manufacturers rebounded in October to match a peak last seen in mid-2007, a Reuters poll found, further evidence that the economic recovery is gathering momentum helped by a weak yen and strong overseas demand.
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In the summer of 2007, the bank stunned markets by leading a consortium of lenders in a 71 billion euro ($77.3 billion) takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro just as worries about a massive U.S. credit bubble were gathering momentum.
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A consumer rebellion against diesel — once the fuel of choice in Europe — is gathering momentum after the region's antitrust authorities said this week that they were looking into accusations that German carmakers secretly agreed to cut corners on pollution equipment.
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Euroscepticism and populist movements are gathering momentum in EU countries from Italy to France to Sweden, and the week before last, fiercely independent Switzerland, which voted against joining the EU in the 1990s, finally yanked its membership application for good.
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The inquiry is preliminary and has been overshadowed by the ongoing trial, which centres on the 2011 purchase of a Nigerian oilfield by Eni and oil major Shell, but it is gathering momentum, said three sources familiar with the probe.
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Just days before its debut, "Wonder Woman" is gathering momentum, suggesting it could exceed expectations at the box office — and finally put to rest what analysts say is a tired notion: That audiences are reluctant to see female superheroes on the big screen.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Across Asia, more and more countries are being pulled into Beijing's orbit, with the timid stance adopted by Southeast Asian nations on the South China Sea at a weekend summit a clear sign this fundamental geostrategic shift is gathering momentum.
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Without insight or dimension, developments that were shiny or novel when the forces that helped the rich get richer were just gathering momentum no longer dazzle 30 years later in a society that has become accustomed to a Wall Street-take-all economy.
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Big Japanese manufacturers' business confidence improved for a fifth straight quarter in the three months to December to hit a 11-year high, a central bank survey showed, a sign the economy is gathering momentum from robust exports and booming corporate profits.
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The central bank is set to upgrade its economic assessment as early as next week to signal its growing conviction the recovery is gathering momentum, people familiar with its thinking told Reuters, reinforcing expectations its next move would be to tighten monetary policy.
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Protests against Recep Tayyip Erdogan (then Turkey's prime minister) were gathering momentum, as were violent crackdowns — harbingers of the eventual attempted coup d'état in 27 and, in a more general sense, the terror and disorder that has subsequently swept across the country.
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"I think there are two really big challenges that are gathering momentum and that are going to be impacting agriculture throughout the next 20, 30 years," says Armin Scheben, a researcher in the School of Plant Biology at the University of Western Australia.
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The review is widely expected to recommend the introduction of a "technology-neutral" low emissions target (LET), with support for such a system gathering momentum over the last week among both the conservative government and opposition Labor leaders, who had previously preferred other approaches.
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For analysts, the combination of the BOJ's sit-and-wait message and the signal from the Fed on Wednesday that is no rush to raise rates again, fed a broader shift in sentiment that has been gathering momentum since the start of the year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The repricing wave that has swept through the US leveraged loan market is gathering momentum in the riskier second-lien market as tumbling institutional term loan yields open the door to issuers seeking to cut borrowing costs further down the capital structure.
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But after gathering momentum, the demolition crane grabbed a chunk of the roof and brought down the first red bricks of "Cité Gagarine," the huge housing project that once symbolized the success of the French Communist Party, and whose demise now conjured something else.
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But after gathering momentum, the demolition crane grabbed a chunk of the roof and brought down the first red bricks of "Cité Gagarine," the huge housing project that once symbolized the success of the French Communist Party, and whose demise now conjured something else.
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But last month, with the investigation gathering momentum, he took an unusual step to protect himself: He filed an injunction in Mexican federal court, hoping to temporarily suspend any possible arrest warrants against him, according to a statement he released and documents reviewed by The Times.
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From a wider perspective, Barcelona's tech ecosystem has been gathering momentum for years, helped by the annual presence of the world's biggest mobile tradeshow (MWC) — as well as more specific pull factors for startups such as a relatively low cost of living and an attractive Mediterranean location.
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Mr. Massey's campaign disputed the notion of any early stumbles and said he was sticking to a strategy and pointed to poll numbers — a 59-to-25 deficit in a head-to-head race with the mayor — as an indication that the hitherto unknown executive was gathering momentum.
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On the other side, with the election campaign gathering momentum, stand more than 20 Democrats, with different views, different ideas and a yearning to prove to the world that the current administration is no more than an aberration in American history; that the America they used to know will return.
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The cellphone evidence, which emerged at a hearing on Thursday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, was only the latest legal salvo in the case, which began in October when the Brooklyn district attorney's office obtained indictments against Mr. Hall and Mr. Martins — just as the #MeToo movement was gathering momentum.
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"The going-dark issue has been gathering momentum (in Congress) like a train coming down the tracks, but it still seemed for a while like it was going to be a long time before it got to the station," Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told Reuters in an interview.
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"We are also seeing that these campaigns are gathering momentum faster than usual and hitting their goals and even surpassing their funding goals in a matter of days, most likely thanks to the elevated profile of this particular cause in the news cycle and a heightened sense of urgency around it," she wrote in an email statement.
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Almost a year ago, as the #MeToo movement was gathering momentum in the United States, Karla Souza, a Mexican actress starring in the American television show "How to Get Away With Murder," spoke in an interview on CNN en Español about the abuse she said she had experienced at the hands of an unnamed director with whom she had worked on a different project.
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In the last few years, interest in queering the classics seems to be gathering momentum with books like Malinda Lo's Ash, in which a Cinderella-esque character chooses a huntress over a prince; former VICE contributor Sara Benincasa's Great, an updated version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, where both Gatsby and the object of her affection are girls; and Sassafras Lowrey's Lost Boi, a Peter Pan story about queer and trans street kids.
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