Sentence examples for gradually defeated from inspiring English sources

The team fought the fire for more than two hours, and gradually defeated the flames.

Her troops ambushed Chinese convoys and destroyed their camps, but were gradually defeated.

The partisans, many of whom fought as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA), were gradually defeated, as Soviet police and military reported killing 110,825 "bandits" and capturing a quarter million more between 1944 and 1946.

Unlike antibiotics which are gradually being defeated by ever evolving and strengthening super-bugs, or unlike surgical procedures that can carry a fairly high inherent risk, vaccines have the ability to inoculate one against illnesses that would have been a death sentence a century ago.

As traditional statistical methods are gradually being defeated by both the amount of data and the general absence of underlying hypotheses, data mining procedures are becoming increasingly popular and user-friendly.

Parties of the left gradually accepted defeat in the economic war and devoted their energies to winning the cultural war instead.

So monogamous Christian societies defeated and converted polygamous heathen ones, and monogamy gradually spread.Now this argument may well be wrong.

The Cape Colony repeatedly defeated the Xhosa people in the Cape Frontier Wars and gradually annexed their territories.

Although the Muslims neither won nor were defeated at the Battle of Uhud, their military strength was gradually growing.

A campaign to defeat Saddam gradually changed into a campaign to defeat terrorism and a form of Islamist extremism.

Quarrels with the Aedui led them to call in the German Ariovistus, who defeated the Aedui but occupied Sequanian territory in modern Alsace and gradually raised his demands.