He said: "Love Actually is having a gradual release in the United States.
"There wasn't an intentional enough gradual release of where they were".
This useful term for gradual release or step-by-step development was picked up by marketers in other fields.
There has been a gradual release of political prisoners who were detained on the grounds of opposition to the results of the controversial elections of 2009.
"There has been gradual release of political prisoners who were detained on grounds of opposition to the results of the controversial elections of 2009," she writes.
Instead, Hughson argued that letting him go on bail, instead of a "gradual release", would make him "more vulnerable to negative influences".
After contemplating an exhibit displayed at the factory, a work by Mario Merz that resembled a spiral of mismatched tables set up for a hotel buffet, Mr. Weld gave the go-ahead for a gradual release of state funds.
In those days, a gradual release was still the norm: you would have heard about New York and Los Angeles releases of, say, The Exorcist or The Godfather long before they showed up in your own neighborhood theater.
Partly this reflects the fact that historians' attention has been turned for some time towards the postwar years in Germany, with the gradual release of documents under the 30-year access rule.
The investigation by Kenneth Starr continued and the gradual release of details that leaked from Starr's office and witnesses in the case prepared the public for a more sympathetic reaction once the full truth was known.
Today marks the first lockup expiration of Facebook's gradual release of shares.
