Sentence examples for gradually killed from inspiring English sources

Deriving strength from their large, poorly nourished numbers, the farmers gradually killed off most of the hunter-gatherers and drove the rest from their land.

In 1579, however, the fair came under the supervision of the imperial censorship commission (Frankfurt being a free imperial city), and this action gradually killed it.

WHEN, 65m years ago, an asteroid that fell near the Yucatan peninsula wiped out the world's dinosaurs, it did not exterminate them all at once, but triggered changes to the atmosphere that gradually killed off the survivors.

Starting in the lower reaches, moving ever further upstream as industry and urbanisation spread south, the river was gradually killed: the last trout was caught, close to the source, in 1934.

Japan's entrance into the war cut off Lyon's already restricted supply of Japanese cocoons, which, because they were cheaper than the French ones, had, since the beginning of this century, gradually killed off the silkworms and even the mulberry trees around Vaison and other towns.

As the drought in the Horn of Africa gradually killed everything Farhan Abdi Ali had worked for, all his life savings, he separated his animals into two groups: Those that produced offspring that could be sold, and those that produced milk.

The current capitalism, Greider argues, produces "greater inequalities, generation after generation," and is "gradually killing nature".

The herbicide is drawn into the rest of the plant and into connecting plants, gradually killing the entire system.

Dialysis is a tricky thing, rough on the body -- it keeps you alive while gradually killing you.

She upheld the industry's values and put on a good clean show, gradually killing off the rebellious Malena character and becoming a near-parody of complacency and sweet agreeableness.

Many feel that the party's predominance has sucked the life out of Japanese politics, gradually killing off the reflexes of both policy advocacy and outreach to the public that exist in most political parties.