Sentence examples for has gradually slid from inspiring English sources
The ruble has gradually slid from 23.4 to the dollar in early August, before Russia's war in Georgia, to 36.2 to the dollar last week.
Mr. Balagus said the three main nationalist parties -- the Muslim-led Party for Democratic Action, the Serbian Democratic Party and the Croatian Democratic Union -- have gradually slid from their wartime positions of absolute dominance.
Over the past year or so Schwartz has gradually tested his PowerPoint slides on experts and politicians, including some of the fiercest skeptics of previous plans.
Meanwhile, the country slid into a severe recession that has gradually undermined many long-held values and government policies, from how children are to be educated to the traditional subordination of individual desire to collective plan.
It is an easier path, and probably a smarter one; the film accommodates them with ease, whereas the pathos of "About Schmidt" — of the careful, Chekhovian work that it could have been — gradually slides away, like the lovely shots of the open road and the encompassing flatlands through which the loner drives.
Tourism has gradually gained significance.
That agreement has gradually eroded.
And Alber Elbaz has gradually won.
Mr Capriles has gradually gained ground.
That practice has gradually become unacceptable.
