Sentence examples for gradual extension from inspiring English sources

Arung Palakka then emerged as the most powerful ruler on the island; internecine warfare, however, paved the way for the gradual extension of the Dutch hegemony.

A gradual extension of interventions to Yemen, Somalia, Iran and Pakistan would further stretch the West's resources and put enormous strain on NATO's cohesion.

The history of the suffrage, or franchise, is one of gradual extension from limited, privileged groups in society to the entire adult population.

The church itself is unusual because it was built in one phase, between 1450 and 1470, with a spectacular fan-vaulted ceiling, instead of the usual pattern of gradual extension over centuries.

Giolitti sought to defuse popular discontent by social reforms, the gradual extension of the right to vote, and public works and to conciliate the major organized opposition groups in the country, the Socialists and the Roman Catholics.

But the politics of terror and assassination are probably secondary, among jihadis, to the gradual extension of their control over rural and semiurban stretches of western Pakistan — a power base that, at least in the short term, can be disrupted only by the Pakistani military.

The wars reflected the decline of the Ottoman Empire and resulted in the gradual southward extension of Russia's frontier and influence into Ottoman territory.

Our calculations revealed that a 1 mm distraction of the posterior compressor distractor device produces 1 2° gradual knee extension.

Injection of MutL (200 nM) resulted in the gradual length extension of the ssDNA to 1 µm by ∼100 s (Fig. 5D).

While EGFR in the controls was sorted in polarized fashion with gradual outward extension, it remained perinuclear in the SHP2 silenced cells.

In fed-batch bioreactor cultures, the engineered cell lines exhibited a more gradual viability loss and extension of culture times of 36 72 h, with corresponding delays in escalation of caspases 2, 3, 8 and 9 activities, compared to the control cultures utilizing cells transfected with the vector backbone.