At last, the soldier gradually lowered his arms.
We did not complain about taxes, and we gradually lowered the debt.
This was done through a series of trade negotiations that, from the late 1940s, gradually lowered tariffs on manufactured goods.
Meanwhile, it has gradually lowered its forecast of Thailand's economic growth this year, from 6% in January to 4% now.
That is because the tolerable level of a pollutant is gradually lowered, and lowered again, until the air — or water, or whatever it is — is clear.
Once part of a lawn, their growth has been gradually lowered with hay rattle, a semi-parasitic plant with lemon-yellow flowers.
He has gradually lowered sales and corporate taxes, avoided climate change legislation, supported the oil industry against the environmental lobby and increased military spending.
But doctors and hospital executives said that insurance companies have gradually lowered payments for visits to emergency rooms, often resorting to what is known in H.M.O.
He has gradually lowered sales and corporate taxes, avoided climate change legislation, promoted Arctic sovereignty, upped military spending and extended Canada's military mission in Afghanistan.
Now, however, no dancer can ever have so gingerly, gradually, lowered herself to the floor in the famous fall at the end of the Tema Russo; and in the Elegy that follows she repeatedly spent time adjusting her hair.
The grazing gradually lowered the tree line, converting forests to meadows and setting in motion wider changes that, a few millennia later, would make the impact discernible to scientists.
