Meanings of gaining too in English

She was dangerously attractive and was gaining too great a hold on Max.

They were gaining too fast now to turn away.

Thus, Apple would need to find new ways to keep the phone from gaining too much weight.

For he cannot be a good man who is always gaining too much and spending too little (Laws; compare Arist.

Foreign companies must also navigate a government bureaucracy that exists in part to keep non-Chinese businesses from gaining too much control over domestic markets.