Sentence examples for gradual acquisition from inspiring English sources
Although the land and the Somali clansmen (who were not consulted), so abandoned, were not recognized as belonging to Ethiopia, there was nothing then to stop their gradual acquisition by Ethiopia.
Yeats's work of this period takes its strength from his long and dedicated apprenticeship to poetry; from his experiments in a wide range of forms of poetry, drama, and prose; and from his spiritual growth and his gradual acquisition of personal wisdom, which he incorporated into the framework of his own mythology.
For Herbart, (moral) character, like all spiritual (geistig) aspects of human life, is not a natural given, but a gradual acquisition.
The ocean-science tradition reflected the global explorations and navigational aids of early modern times, and the gradual acquisition of real data on tides, waves, currents, coastal forms, and sediment.
Most morbidity and mortality in an endemic setting is in children less than 5 years old, and increasing resistance to infection and disease with age is thought to reflect a slow, gradual acquisition of protective immunity.
Compared with the established training system based on certification of the completion of a series or rotations and stays in certain healthcare units, the new model proposes a more structured training process based on the gradual acquisition of specific competences, in which residents must play an active role in designing their own training program.
The campus grew to its present size of 40 ha through gradual acquisitions of adjacent private lands, and remains the university's largest landholding.
Kuhn questioned the traditional conception of scientific progress as a gradual, cumulative acquisition of knowledge based on rationally chosen experimental frameworks.
Altogether, this measure of gradual cold acquisition ensures that only a prolonged cold exposure (the winter season) will lead to activation of the vernalization process.
A gradual, stepwise acquisition model of codon reassignment can reconcile the opposed and problematic hypotheses of multiple gains versus a single gain with subsequent loss.
"We had this concept that there had to be a gradual progression of skill acquisition," Jeff said.
