The idea evolved over the course of a year, Mr. Riley said.
How have attitudes, policies and laws involving firearms evolved over the course of the nation's history?
He himself has noted how the business world has evolved over the course of his career, waking up to the benefits of a diverse workforce.
"All these issues evolved over the course of the past 30 years, but people wanted to see them fixed in months," Reddy said.
"When the president talked about how his position has evolved over the course of some years, there are a lot of people for whom that's the case".
As the circus evolved over the course of the 20th century, many worked to teach and preserve the fundamentals of the art form.
Realism evolved over the course of the century, but few finished works achieve the feeling of inner, psychologically complex life that you find later in Rembrandt.
As much as both teams have evolved over the course of the season and have gained tough victories in the tournament, neither can completely kick the mind-sets that each brought to that Preseason N.I.T. matchup.
For a model Mr. Donilon has James A. Baker III, another convention delegate wrangler turned foreign policy statesman, and he is known to resent the idea that he has not evolved over the course of his career.
Having gradually evolved over the course of nearly two dozen studio albums, from three Zepplinesque players prone to excess into a strenuously accomplished and versatile unit, Rush unites metalheads, computer geeks, and po-faced Ayn Rand fans in adoration of its erudite and burly rock.
It helps that there is no single, authoritative source for these stories, which might have originated in pagan rituals and have slowly evolved over the course of 600 years and countless retellings as songs, pageants, plays and novels into a loose but instantly recognizable collection of characters, situations and themes.
