Sentence examples for gradually asserted from inspiring English sources
In the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc Pontus gradually asserted itself among the petty Hellenistic states of Anatolia, annexing Sinope (modern Sinop) as its new capital (183 bc).
Detroit, which finished first over all in the 30-team league, gradually asserted its dominance over a Carolina team that had the 16th-best record.
Yet this is some Bayern team and they deserved their victory because of the way they gradually asserted control when the goals arrived in the second half.
Thanks to the control that the Arabs gradually asserted over the sea routes to Constantinople, they climaxed their earlier assaults on Armenia and Asia Minor with a four-year siege of the great city itself (674 678).
In Steiermark the margraves of the family of the Otakars of Steyr had gradually asserted themselves under conditions similar to those of the Babenbergs over their rivals, the noble families of the Eppensteiner, Formbacher, and Aribonen.
There was political in-fighting over the institution's future, but he gradually asserted himself and won praise from Spanish music critics for his choice of operas and his musical interpretation.
Initially there are two of them known simply as A and B. They are joined by a newcomer, C, who starts as an innocent novice but who gradually asserts her authority.
Over the following six months, the foreigners came from all points of the globe, gradually asserting their will over opposition groups that were failing to press home their early gains on the battlefield and offered no convincing plan for the type of society that would eventually emerge from Syria's ruins.
But, curiously, what becomes apparent as you follow the band's arc through the eight albums (plus one double CD of B-sides and outtakes) corralled in the new box set, The Complete Studio Recordings, is that as Ferry gradually asserts total control over the band, the music becomes less characterful.
To come out and not only score 13 unanswered points in the second half but to gradually assert such control that they could easily have added 15 more showed a character and class that not all believed they possessed.
China is indeed gradually asserting its own Monroe doctrine in the Asia Pacific.
