A team of British researchers who have studied how British GPs' manage their clinical practices and professional identity explains the development of British general practice thus [ 21]: From the late 19th Century the biomedical model based on hospital practice became prevalent and GPs gradually attempted to associate themselves with this model to maintain status.
(She argued that, like smoking, it's more effective to discourage the behavior gradually than attempt to "cure" it overnight).
Some of the most striking episodes stretch the patience most: there is a long sequence when a suicide attempt gradually turns to farce.
Gradually, in an attempt to move ahead, the high representative was granted by those who appointed him, not the Bosnians more and more power.Under today's holder of that office, Paddy Ashdown, a former leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats, "the Bosnian protectorate", says the ESI, "echoes the liberal imperialism of the past".
The range and complexity of Baldessari's work over the next thirty years gradually silenced persistent attempts to dismiss him as a joke artist, a mere purveyor of visual one-liners.
Faced with persistently high unemployment, an increasingly integrated world capital market and a rapid loss of competitive position to Japan, European governments gradually abandoned their attempts at bargained national accommodation with organized labour and gave preference to supply-side policies of competitive restructuring.
Through a repeated process of trial and criticism, the system doing the generation can improve its performance in unexpected ways, gradually bettering its attempts.
Gradually the therapists attempts to extend the chains of mutual responsiveness, introduces variations and games, and uses soothing responses to facilitate the regulation of the client's affective reactions, which may occur on reunion or at leave-taking, but which may also occur when the joint activities generate affective arousal.
Eventually you can stop answering altogether and if done gradually enough, their attempts to call you will grow further and further apart.
It was widely viewed as an attempt to gradually transform the Islamic Republic from a rigid Islamic state with an omnipotent cleric-for-life into something more like an actual republic, with powers shared by an elected President under term limits.
