A senior Pakistani official said the operation was part of a gradual effort to bring the militants under control.
Around the country, gun rights groups are pressing what supporters call a deliberately gradual effort to ease state laws restricting the carrying of concealed weapons.
A1 Muslim Women Seek Inclusion A small number of Muslim women in the United States are challenging the lack of inclusion of women in worship and communal life, in a gradual effort that has met mixed success.
As the problems became evident, Fed officials said last year that they would study how the disclosure policy -- adopted initially as part of a gradual effort to become less secretive -- might be changed to avoid knocking the markets off balance.
Mrs. Clinton, who has been working on a memoir, has undertaken a gradual effort to re-engage politically and otherwise after years of remaining above the partisan fray and focusing on diplomacy.
In recent years, China has begun a pilot program that allows banks in a number of cities and provinces to settle cross-border trades in renminbi, part of a gradual effort by China to promote the use of its currency in international trade.
It has been a gradual effort and as such, something totally new in Mourinho's career.
At this point, gradual grassroots efforts offer the best hope for a breakthrough.
And instead of demanding new preconditions for talks -- an apology for the Cheonan, for example -- we should mount a gradual pragmatic effort to engage in new discussions, not as a reward for bad behavior or to talk for the sake of talking, but to make us more secure.
Theirs is a very traditional Chinese family-run business.Private businesses have proliferated in China since the early 1990s, thanks to the Communist Party's gradual abandonment of efforts to keep them in check.
