Sentence examples for gradually takes over from inspiring English sources

The improvements at Bagram are also to accommodate NATO and its air missions as the alliance gradually takes over security duties in the country.

Drama gradually takes over from documentary as Mr. Wakamatsu introduces his characters, outlining the internal schisms and external forces that caused the student groups to unravel and splinter into extremist factions.

It gradually takes over the rest of complaints handling in vexed areas like fairness and balance (probably as a backstop to BBC in-house complaints procedures, thus mirroring the current state of press regulation).

And as Emily Eavis gradually takes over the reins of the biggest festival on the planet from her father, let's hope that Glastonbury will be become even more synonymous with these great girl power moments.

Mitch was a drug user, something which caused his death in 2005, but listening to him didn't sound like the ramblings of a typical stoner, but instead the thoughts of someone unencumbered by the conventional logic that gradually takes over us as we succumb to adulthood.

These increase after 2014.6, when the control imposed by a priori covariances gradually takes over from that of the observations.

One-stop shopping gradually took over, even in lower Manhattan.

"Ketchup" has gradually taken over from "catsup," a British spelling.

The market was held in Chicago until the late fifties when High Point gradually took over.

But after his fall Basra was gradually taken over by ferocious Islamist militias.

The younger Mr. Shanahan gradually took over the business, but closed it in 2003.