Gradually, Dubček either dismissed his friends and allies or forced them to resign, and on April 17 , 1969 Husák replaced him as first secretary.
Prince Gong's authority was gradually undermined, and he was dismissed in 1865 and again in 1884.
Gradually, charges against other officers were dismissed.
Drink gradually took its toll and Mussorgsky was dismissed from government service in January 1880.
Dr David Webster, visiting professor of Glasgow University, claimed the system had a gradually parallel secret penal system – a view dismissed by one Tory committee member as 'completely absurd and bizarre'.
As reporters gradually caught on to the game, the Gore camp confidently dismissed as inside-the-Beltway nattering any suggestions that their candidate was too negative, though they kept an eye on their internal polls.
Since then, the Will Walker who dismissed irrationality as foolish, silly, and frivolous has been gradually replaced with a new person, Will Walker 2.0, the most insane, superstitious, irrational person that you'd ever care to meet.
Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as "a third-rate burglary," but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president's reelection campaign.
He deftly dismissed red herrings while picking up on clues that others might ignore, gradually homing in on the accurate diagnosis.
War or revolution struck Orwell as a false choice, however, and in "Homage to Catalonia" he dismissed it as a pretext under cover of which the Communists were gradually consolidating power.
