Several forces are responsible for this seemingly inexorable growth: the aging population, the AIDS epidemic and the unchecked inflation in health-care costs.

Even Mr. Mooney acknowledges that the inexorable growth of cable marks "the diminution of television as a cohesive social force."

Resisting all the forces that push towards an inexorable and frightening growth in inequality must be Labour's fundamental guiding force.

The main problem facing the railways was the inexorable growth of road competition.

And they worry about the inexorable growth of suburbia.

A. The amazing strength of plants, from the mighty oak to the slenderest shoot or root, involves their inexorable growth and expansion by cell division.

Without cocaine revenues, the inexorable growth of the movement would have been slower.

Given the inexorable growth of Los Angeles, it was perhaps inevitable that Ken and Elaine Steward would ultimately be driven out.

Here we look at public expenditure, its form, size and apparently inexorable growth.

Masur paces the first movements with great skill and builds climaxes with just the right sense of slow, inexorable growth.