When two people love each other, their impulse to procreate is gradually overtaken by the need to consume.
Many of the jihadist foreign fighters in Syria were radicalised online as "the search engine gradually overtakes the library and the classroom as a source of information".
Over the last five years, the average Canadian's net worth has gradually overtaken that of the average American's, to the tune of an extra $40,000 dollars per household.
After it was opened to foreign trade in 1858, Chaozhou was gradually overtaken in size and commercial importance by Shantou, although a rail line completed in 1906 to connect the two cities slowed down this process.
Sure enough, as the camera pulls back over the opening credits, the music swells: a militarist fanfare that is gradually overtaken with a cheery melody meant to symbolize the unvanquished spirit of the imprisoned poultry.
And this is the first year in history that comedy events outnumber drama, the heart and soul of the festival that has been gradually overtaken by the much more reliable ticket-selling entertainment of stand-up jokers.Drama just wasn't selling.
At Crosby beach in Merseyside, 100 of him stand gazing at the sea, in the sea, half-buried by sand or gradually overtaken by barnacles; at the temporary Event Horizon in London, for a summer 31 Gormleys stared out from various prominent London locations.
It's written as a confessional, so from the start you know it's going to end badly, but your exasperation with the feebleness of Nick the narrator is gradually overtaken by curiosity to find out just how calamitously things will pan out.
For Vizio, this is a significant step ahead for the company at a time when it is playing some catchup against Samsung, which once trailed Vizio but gradually overtook it as the leading smart TV player.
The executive body was initially installed in the apartments of Marie-Antoinette, situated on the first floor, but also gradually overtook the offices of Louis XVI.
