But the momentum still seems strongly in favor of China's pirates.

But over the course of the trial, as momentum seemed to shift to the defense, the second-guessing began.

"The momentum in this just seems to be going away."

If the momentum seemed to be turning, Kent took it back.

But the momentum seems to be in the direction of relaxing controls.

Looking at sales for only 1999, the momentum seemed to accelerate.

And the momentum the network was supposed to be building at the end of last season seems to have stalled.

But for now, momentum seems to be more important than precision.

That means the momentum seems to be in the wrong direction.

The momentum had seemed on the side of abortion opponents.