Moreover, the questions – easy full tosses at first – gradually get tougher, with Wells forced to confront his failures.
The city's gun laws gradually became tougher, requiring buyers to wait anywhere from six to nine months for a permit.
Popcorn necklaces are fragile at first, but gradually become tougher as the popcorn becomes stale.
Gradually, this tough-talking tomboy softens as she comes to accept and love her unborn child ("you're a California baby... Mexican and Indian and desert-tanned white") and seeks shelter with her foster mother in Rio Seco, a woman who -- significantly in this road novel -- has never learned to drive.
That said, most of the works the ensemble played on Saturday started out talking tough and gradually softening their harmonic edges.
As the days after cutting roll by, the stalk becomes tougher, and the sweetness gradually gives way to a progressively more bitter and cabbage-like taste.
If you are a younger teacher (like in your twenties), you may not be taken as seriously, so you need to be tough on them and gradually gain the students' respect.
It wants banks to be smaller over time, but it expects tougher regulations will surely, but gradually, cause that over time.
The goal of many in the Spartathlon is to build up a comfortable time buffer in the first part of the race, which they can gradually run down when the going gets tough in the later stages.
We have experienced a tough learning process and have gradually seen remarkable improvement by borrowing ideas from international communications and clinical exploration.
Back home Ruth is turned over to a tough "cult exiter" named P. J. Waters Harvey Keitell), but gradually he is overmatched.
