Sentence examples for gradually secured from inspiring English sources

Despite a multitude of hindrances (such as being thought unladylike), women's basketball gradually secured a foothold.

The authorities were still being warned of possible bombs in the school, but the building was gradually secured even though some injured students, including Pat Ireland, who climbed out of a second-floor window at 2 38, were not rescued until several hours after the shooting stopped.

Ad hoc international tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, though slow and costly, are gradually securing convictions.

The new measures taken by the authorities are in line with Chancellor Hitler's program of gradually securing complete control over the training of the youth of Germany.

Then, as now, a negotiated settlement represented the best way to lessen violence gradually, secure one's own interests and slowly move the situation to a point where one's values could begin to gain serious traction.

When you have these, you gradually make yourself secure.

Having secured my affections, he gradually loses respect.

There he secured the lowlands and gradually forced the Chinese to retreat to Tay-do.

This grew to 12 metres (40 feet) and gradually eroded one of three struts that secured the booster's base to the large external tank carrying liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for the orbiter engines.

Worried that Germany would have to pay in too much capital in 2013, a federal election year, Mrs Merkel secured a deal to build up the fund more gradually, over five years instead of two.

Taiwan since 2009 has gradually loosened rules governing Chinese investment on the island, and has also secured greater market access for its investors in the mainland.