Sentence examples for gradually strengthening from inspiring English sources

By 1997, I was on the new combination treatment; it was gradually strengthening my immune system.

As I've been saying for months, and as Bernanke confirmed earlier this week, the economic recovery is gradually strengthening.

It feels to me more as though the economy is gradually strengthening, rather than achieving some sudden take-off.

In Syria, that might mean gradually strengthening the moderate Sunni opposition, which the US has hitherto kept on a tight leash.

In a sign that the bank's balance sheet is gradually strengthening, Citigroup said its Tier 1 common ratio under the Basel III accords increased to 7.9 percent in the second quarter, up from 7.2 percent in the first quarter.

The pace of growth measured by the index over the last six months has nearly doubled, "pointing to a gradually strengthening expansion through the end of the year," said Ataman Ozyildirim, an economist at the Conference Board.

And our economy should continue to get gradually strengthened through that.

"I think the most likely thing you'll see is an economy that gradually strengthens over the next year or two," he said.

State-owned enterprises have gradually strengthened their roles in the economy through a combination of monopoly power and access to cheap loans from state-owned banks.

Just how much the new tax law affected those decisions is impossible to say, especially since the number of companies raising dividends had been growing for much of the last year, as the economy gradually strengthened.

"Recent economic data are consistent with our expectation that the recovery should proceed at a moderate pace in the second half of this year, with the underlying momentum remaining positive," he said, adding that "private sector domestic demand should gradually strengthen further".