Uday gradually won a vote of confidence from his father by creating the fedayeen, paramilitary units that attacked American and coalition forces fighting their way north toward Baghdad.
Like the computers, human players gradually won a higher percentage of games over time.
He bought the office, breaking local campaign-spending records by tens of millions of dollars in the process, and gradually won great popularity with his pragmatic and paternalistic liberalism.
After World War II, as the British started closing down their empire, South African whites who'd been in the country for centuries pushed for and gradually won complete independence.
Mary recovered during the autumn and winter, and gradually won over George Douglas to her own cause.
At the legendary debates, Einstein presented ingenious ideas supporting the idea of a "real world out there," but Bohr shot them all down and gradually won over the physics community.
All six actors are excellent, working together impressively and gradually winning our respect and sympathy.
"We thought it was at least a decade-long job, to take our efforts and present them to environmental groups and the general public, and gradually win support for this," said Earle Harbison Jr., the president and chief operating officer at Monsanto during the late 1980's.
Jokes were tucked into her choreography and arrangements -- one tossed in half a dozen television themes -- as well as her songs, and she gradually won over an audience that seemed unfamiliar with her superb albums.
Consequently, Shankara propagated his teachings chiefly to sannyasins and intellectuals in the villages, and he gradually won the respect of Brahmans and feudal lords.
