The upturn has, however, been gradual, in part because policy makers have been eager to steer the economy toward more modest expansion in the hope of easing the risks of inflation, potential loan defaults and inefficient investment.
Make it gradual, work part-time, ease off the fast track and test out the waters of redefining who you are.
Planning for our next stage and ultimately for our home stretch is certainly a gradual process, parts of which we may not even notice occurring.
Given the screenplay's overt engagement with serious illness and gradual decline, "Memories" (part of the Museum of Modern Art's ContemporAsian series) never feels mournful or morbid.
Instead, Mr. Glass said the concerts represented the survival of Tibetan culture in a changed world and its gradual embrace as part of the fabric of American society.
From approximately the 75th day, the number of CFU started to decrease, suggesting a gradual dying of part of the population.
This was Cook's farm, one of the earliest survivals of the scattered farmsteads that were built as a result of the gradual clearance of parts of Selwood Forest.
As we wind down our journey through deep time, perhaps it is fitting that our previous five chapters carry with them five lessons: Nature is a tinkerer, not an engineer natural selection can only operate on existing variation leading to the gradual refinement of parts (i.e., RNA diversity, the origin of DNA, ATPase, etc)., not the sudden emergence of a complex whole.
The change in topic usage is gradual in most parts of the projection but seems abrupt in others.
A schism had existed within the Order since the Reformation had spread to Livonia in the 1520s, although the transformation of the country into a Lutheran region was a gradual process, resisted by part of the Order which to a varying degree remained sympathetic to Roman Catholicism.
