While Mr. Hunter's early works trafficked in absurdist comedy, his plays have steadily moved toward realism, with the comedy now more embedded in character and situation.
But there have been repeated outbreaks of violence in Xinjiang in recent years, often the result of tensions between ethnic Uighurs and the country's majority ethnic group, the Han, who have steadily moved into the area, dominated its economic activity and placed curbs on the Uighurs' Islamic practices.
The proposal is in line with trends in New Jersey's constitutional history, where power and fiscal responsibility over the past five decades have steadily moved upward from county government to state government, said Edward Hartnett, the Richard J. Hughes professor of law at Seton Hall University Law School.
Over the past few years, women have steadily moved into many jobs previously open only to men, including on Navy submarines, in Army artillery units, and as Night Stalkers, the elite special operations helicopter crews, best known for flying the Navy Seals into Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011.
With changes in the philosophy of treatment for the mentally ill that have steadily moved patients out of institutional settings and into group homes since the 1960's, the population of New York's psychiatric hospitals has plummeted from a high of 93,000 in 1955 to about 6,000 today.
In the minds of many critics, we have steadily moved the line of what is acceptable corporate behavior, with many of our founding principles pushed aside in the name of profitability and financial gain.
For a quarter-century, the F.C.C. has steadily moved toward the deregulation of broadcasting.
Christopher Bailey has steadily moved away from the idiosyncratic groundwork he first laid at Burberry.
It spread to New England and has steadily moved south and west, crossing the Mississippi and just recently reaching Alabama.
Blake has steadily moved away from his dance-influenced start but where he'll go next is debatable.
However in the midst of this deep crisis the Greek government has steadily moved forward on many of our other "Doing Business" indicators by implementing structural reforms.
