Build toward the future, we always say, not away from the past.

For more than a year he had been building toward this moment.

The church may have been built toward the later half of the 19th century.

"You want to get something positive out of every spring and build toward the season."

In their own eyes they have been building toward this moment for centuries.

"It often takes a work in progress over several years to build toward success."

"Henry was building toward something all along through there," Joe said.

The minute the Giants seemed to be building toward something, they would give it away.

Rather, he is building toward a more than solid conclusion.

But the pressure appears to be building toward a confrontation, at least among Republicans.