Sentence examples for gradually widening from inspiring English sources

And human rights case law is gradually widening the definitions.

Weak productivity has also contributed to Italy's gradually widening competitiveness gap.

There is a pattern of awareness to growing up, a process of learning to frame your own experiences and put them into a gradually widening context.

By 1900, Drake promoters were appearing in the Midwest, at first calling on only those named Drake but gradually widening the offer.

Instead of preventing meritocracy, as some people fear, I believe that quotas help promote it by gradually widening the choice of candidates.

After gazing slowly at us, he traced the fingers of one hand around his lips, gradually widening the circles to his face, then eventually looping his arms overhead.

In other hostage cases, Mr. Perles said, lawyers have gradually widened the circle of people entitled to grief damages.

His scope gradually widened as instruments were built to his specifications (e.g., microtonal pianos, harmoniums, trumpets, and clarinets).

The shelf was narrow in its southern half but gradually widened toward the Antarctic Circle to the north before narrowing again.

Over the next decade, the government gradually widened the scheme to include more unemployed people and the upper age limit for compulsory participation was increased to 49.

In the early stages of that transition, only elites could vote; the franchise gradually widened to include a broader share of the electorate.