He added: "More stretched house prices to earnings ratios, the prospect that interest rates will start to rise before long (albeit gradually) and tighter checking of prospective mortgage borrowers by lenders will likely have some limiting impact on buyer interest".
Air emission and wastewater treatment standards are gradually becoming tighter all over the world.
But many also complain that they still lack the tools to properly manage the competitive power markets that have gradually supplanted tight regulation and local utility monopolies over the last few years.
IN Bill Viola's 2004 video projection "The Raft," 19 people of varying age, race and sex gradually accumulate in tight physical proximity, as though waiting for a bus or cramming themselves into a subway car.
A cast dressed in purple in the beginning gradually changed to orange tights.
The kora was matched against both the dry, stuttering sound of the n'goni, the traditional Malian lute, and a very western wash of keyboards, for a slow, drifting mood piece that gradually developed into a tight, punchy work-out.
That should include a process for acknowledging Iran's right to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes under safeguards, limiting uranium enrichment and gradually lifting sanctions under tight conditions.
For those with unfortunately shaped heads, there is still hope: Ms. Donoghue said there are slight variations on the cut, like a "subtle fade," in which the hair "hugs the nape and hairline a little tighter and then gradually fades into a round shape," which tends to be more flattering.
Once back in Africa, he determined to starve out Carthage with a blockade by land and sea; gradually the cordon was drawn tighter around the beleaguered city, and in the spring of 146 it fell to his final assault: after six days of street fighting the citadel was captured and Carthage was destroyed.
