Sentence examples for gradually destroying from inspiring English sources

The learning of Latin is enjoying something of a revival in state schools – gradually destroying the old, dumb myth that Latin is only for posh people.

Alas, it flunks that test.It hurts hereCalifornia's government is gradually destroying its competitive advantage in two ways: by snarling up its businesses in unnecessary red tape; and by under-investing in the infrastructure any economy needs.

In January, the minister of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, wrote that the obelisk's stay in New York had worn away its hieroglyphs and that the city's acid rain was gradually destroying it.

Unable to maintain a monopoly of force, the Lebanese state apparatus was powerless to stop the increase in violence that was gradually destroying the country's fragile social and political fabric.

Serbs are blocking roads too, and nationalist Albanians pelted Edita Tahiri, the Kosovar negotiator, on her return from Brussels with rotten tomatoes, saying that her agreement on customs was rotten and "gradually destroying the Republic of Kosovo".

For more than three decades, Californians have been gradually destroying what was once the best public-education system in the world by starving the state government of tax revenue.

During the development of type 1 diabetes, β-cell mass is gradually destroyed by infiltrating immune-cells [52], which results in a gradual reduction in both nβ and nc for each islet.

His obsession gradually destroys his health and his sanity.

As the drug does its work, it is attacked and gradually destroyed ("metabolised") by various enzymes.

Age-related macular degeneration is a common eye disease that gradually destroys central vision.

It gradually destroys the rods and cones that detect light in the retina of the eye.