Sentence examples for gradually imposed from inspiring English sources

Direct rule was gradually imposed over the region.

China, North Korea's economic lifeline, has gradually imposed greater economic sanctions on its neighbor, including caps on oil.

Priestland's third penalty gave the Scarlets a 16-3 lead their greater astuteness merited, but Ospreys gradually imposed themselves after the break.

Despite a ferocious start from Serena, Venus absorbed the shock and gradually imposed her long-limbed presence on her favorite tennis court.

But, partly because of tighter regulation, increases in the cost of insuring houses and cars are expected to be less pronounced, as they are gradually imposed over the next year.

Although over the next 20 years the Tokugawa gradually imposed restrictions that closed Japan to almost all trade and intercourse with foreign countries, the Shimazu were able to continue their trade with the Ryukyu Islands.

The hotter, drier climate gradually imposing itself on southeastern Australia is forcing changes to agriculture.

The gradually imposing dementia, rare for this disease, was making it increasingly difficult to have a complex discussion.

The government says it is aimed at protecting young people from the harms of alcohol, but secularist opponents accuse the government of gradually imposing an Islamic agenda.

Inexorable economic and social forces will gradually impose their alterations, and the bureaucracy and political system will adapt: they will have to, even if the aim is merely to keep everything the same.

I would gradually impose a stiff fossil-fuel tax (producing not a 10 or 15percentt price increase but a doubling or maybe a tripling of prices) to discourage fossil-fuel use and encourage new energy sources.