And human rights case law is gradually widening the definitions.
Weak productivity has also contributed to Italy's gradually widening competitiveness gap.
There is a pattern of awareness to growing up, a process of learning to frame your own experiences and put them into a gradually widening context.
By 1900, Drake promoters were appearing in the Midwest, at first calling on only those named Drake but gradually widening the offer.
Instead of preventing meritocracy, as some people fear, I believe that quotas help promote it by gradually widening the choice of candidates.
After gazing slowly at us, he traced the fingers of one hand around his lips, gradually widening the circles to his face, then eventually looping his arms overhead.
He lived in London for 12 years, from 1908 to 1920, gradually widening his poetry to absorb natural forms of speech and, at the same time, the life of the city.
One song, "If Only," gathers strength around a drone, gradually widening with two electric guitars, organ, saxophone, bass and drums; another, "Gone Like the Season Does," keeps making fresh chord changes, stepping sequentially from one level to another.
