The foundations of this foreign policy were gradually undermined in the 1930s.
Prince Gong's authority was gradually undermined, and he was dismissed in 1865 and again in 1884.
Steele's health was gradually undermined by his cheerful intemperance, and he was long plagued by gout.
After the arrival of the Portuguese in the late 15th century, the position of the Arabs was gradually undermined, but the Portuguese made little attempt to penetrate into the interior.
Innocently melodic, repeating violin motifs combined with sparkling percussion effects are gradually undermined by rumbling bass figures; a steady beat, played by pizzicato strings, is overwhelmed by full-ensemble cacophony.
From the mid-10th century, Sāmānid power was gradually undermined, economically by the interruption of the northern trade and politically by a struggle with a confederation of disaffected nobles.
Hanging separately Cottoning on The Afghan plague Your move Acknowledgments Reprints Related items Corporate ethics: Big oil's dirty secretsMay 8th 2003Across the region, leaders have extended their terms of office in a series of referendums, and the role of parliaments has been gradually undermined to give more power to the executive.
Qualifications defined by wealth were gradually undermined by inflation, and restrictions on voting proved difficult to enforce in practice.
There is for example the epistolary story, Mr Simonelli and the Fairy Widower, told in the restrained diction of an educated English gentleman--until the austerely Victorian setting and its accompanying comedy of manners is gradually undermined by the encroachment of faerie wildness; and the narrator himself, who had seemed to conform to a type, is revealed to be somewhat other than what he seems.
By this logic, Democratic infiltrators are gradually undermining Republicans' control over their territory from within.
