Examples of quicken

• The ' quickening ' of local governance was exactly that : the consolidation of governance through local and central collusion.

• The pace gradually quickens and the rather sad start evolves into a highly animated and assertive scenario.

• The prose in it, heavy and awkward, clomps along, rarely quickened by an active verb, a concrete noun, or a vivid modifier.

• After 1973, the pace of varietal development quickened, with 14 new releases (eight durum, six bread wheat, by 1993).

• Symons styles himself as our surrogate observer, quickening his perception, concentrating on various surfaces, objects, and activities.

• As noted earlier, good-quality soil farmers with extra cash had similar outcomes, but on poor-quality soils, slightly higher cash endowments quickened the establishment of viable farms and increased deforestation.

• The pressure groups were thrown up as imperfect and transitional answers to novel imperatives, in a process which began in the 188os and quickened in the 1890s.

• From that moment, the pace quickened.

• The effort has got to be quickened, tightened; employers, managers, foremen, workmen, must put their backs into it, to save the country.

• Now that he is in his exuberant twenties the pace is quickening.

• There really has been a great quickening in the pace of change.

• I think that a quickened public conscience has made some of these cases of more news value than they used to be.

• The pace of collapse quickened in the last quarter of 1991: from 900 collapses a week to 995, or 199 business collapses each working day.

• Assets which are now largely sterilised are quickened and made liquid.

• The tempo of progress quickened with constitutional discussions held locally in 1963.