Sentence examples for gradually transferring from inspiring English sources

NATO is gradually transferring responsibility for security in Afghanistan to the Afghan police and military.

It aimed at preparing tropical Africa for self-rule by gradually transferring local authority from tribal chiefs to members of the Western-educated elite.

The administration hopes to finesse that possibility by seeking not one resolution but a series of resolutions, leaving control of Iraq's oil in United Nations hands for the moment but gradually transferring other parts of the economy to the new Iraqi authority the United States is assembling.

But Abbas and Fayyad will not be able to sustain this timeout if Netanyahu resumes settlement-building in September, when the partial freeze expires, and if Israel doesn't soon start gradually transferring control of major West Bank Palestinian towns to the Palestinian Authority.

Several other proposals of this type were put forward, and a further variation combined the airfoil characteristics of a ground-effect machine with an air-cushion lift system that allowed the craft to develop its own hovering power while stationary, then build up forward speed, gradually transferring the lift component to its airfoil.

HAS insists on the importance of preserving and gradually transferring skills acquired to new contexts.

Big companies do not leave overnight; they gradually transfer ideas and jobs to friendlier environments.

It will also gradually transfer municipal "subsidised" schools to the education ministry, but not make them free.

Her marriage did not survive, however, and she gradually transferred to a London base, ostensibly for the sake of her son's education.

Under General Petraeus's predecessor, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Americans' primary mission was to gradually transfer responsibility to Iraq's security forces.

In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned.