Sentence examples for gradually supersede from inspiring English sources

Although many scholars of policing expected that the strategy of negotiated management would gradually supersede the strategy of escalation of force in Western-style democracies, their belief was belied by numerous violent confrontations between police and protesters at various international meetings held in democratic countries at the beginning of the 21st century.

Online networking may indeed gradually supersede or at least take a place alongside of the offline network.

By the next century, English had gradually superseded French among the upper classes.

This early cult seems to have prepared the way for the Pure Land traditions involving Amitabha, which gradually superseded it.

In the 12th century, the ambo was gradually superseded by the pulpit, and it passed out of liturgical use.

In the later Middle Ages letters patent, which restricted the succession to male heirs of the grantee, gradually superseded other methods of creating earls.

For a few years his system was widely used for street lighting in European cities, but it was gradually superseded by incandescent lighting.

That uniformity persisted well into the late Renaissance but was gradually superseded by emerging national differences, new forms, and the increasing importance of Italy as a musical centre during the last half of the 16th century.

The fyrd was gradually superseded by the gathering of the thanes (feudal lords) and their retainers, but it was occasionally called out for defensive purposes even after the Norman Conquest (1066).

The village moneylender, limited by his need to know those he did business with, was gradually superseded by ever-broader impersonal markets that can cheaply mobilise colossal sums and sell more complex products.

Around 1300 the Arab ruler of Hormuz abandoned the mainland because of robbers and founded New Hormuz on the island; it gradually superseded Qeys as the most important Persian Gulf emporium, again becoming a market for India, and dominated other gulf islands and occasionally mainland Oman.