Sentence examples for gradually driven from inspiring English sources

The digests originally carried no advertising, but after World War II they were gradually driven to it by rising costs.

Farc began as a rural movement, but has been gradually driven into bases deep inside Colombia's near-impenetrable jungles, some of which are almost the size of Switzerland.

The Swedes were gradually driven out of the Commonwealth, despite an armed intervention on their side by Transylvania's Prince György II Rákóczi, who aspired to the Polish crown.

Another Swedish novel, Doctor Glas, by Hjalmar Soderberg (Anchor, $12), records the psychic unraveling of a Stockholm doctor, gradually driven by an inner voice to murder a repulsive local pastor.

Here, we have a British and an Iraqi soldier who, having started out as mirror-images, are gradually driven by demonic influence into mutual slaughter; but current conflicts are the consequence of specific political decisions rather than a Mephistophelian curse.

Phil Daoust Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop This brief, exotic novel tells the story of Antoinette, a Creole heiress who is married off to an unnamed Englishman, falls in love with him but is gradually driven mad.

This led to the advent of the wooden stage, which, through a combination of traps, slots, and elevators in the stage floor, was able to provide an extraordinary number of visual effects that gradually drove perspective scenery from the stage.

In 1620, however, the combined forces of the German Catholic League and of the Holy Roman emperor and king of Bohemia Ferdinand II, under Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly, gradually drove them back toward Prague.

Sanctions, and the loss of business confidence that accompanied them, gradually drove South Africa into a cul-de-sac and forced it to surrender, conditionally, to Mr Mandela and the ANC.

Joy of learning Combining league tables with detailed central government proscription of the national curriculum gradually drove creativity and the joy of learning out of education, alongside subjects like music, art and drama, which were considered marginal.

"People would go, 'Poor boy! Poor boy!'" The hypocrisy of people behaving like that whilst espousing the Bible's code of not judging others gradually drove the pair into mischief.