Sentence examples for instead of gradually from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, instead of gradually succumbing to the lies and insinuations, he appears to flip into violent madness.

But the pace, instead of gradually winding down, progressively speeds up – and finally we're riding a wave of zane, with crowds of subsidiary characters cheerfully welcomed on to the screen and given entertaining and amusing things to say and do.

And instead of gradually raising the child tax credit from $600 to $1,000 per child by the year of 2010, for the benefit of 26 million families, we should raise it now.

This is why the general refuses to speak of a "drugs war", a metaphor that encourages the delusion that abuse can be eliminated by force, and talks instead of gradually reducing the abuse rate from 6% to 3%.

The committee found that household spending was increasing "at a moderate pace" — instead of "gradually," as it wrote in November — and "remains constrained by high unemployment, modest income growth, lower housing wealth and tight credit".

Worst yet, when the battery is low, the vacuum just stops working instead of gradually losing suction.

This was what the first experiment seemed to verify, but a more careful repetition showed that instead of falling gradually, as he expected, all trace of resistance disappeared abruptly just above 4 K.

They hypothesised that instead of being gradually ripped apart by gravitational forces, the event horizon would be transformed into a 'highly energetic region', and anyone who fell in would hit a wall of fire and burn to death in an instant - violating Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

During the nineteen-eighties, the American gut, instead of expanding very gradually, had ballooned: 33.3 per cent of adults now qualified as overweight.

At Kmart, the vendor allowances were recorded immediately as a reduction of expenses, and in many cases before products were sold, instead of being recorded gradually over the life of a contract, typically a full year.

"It's satisfying to produce something that people can hold and treasure and value partially for its physicality instead of something that gradually disappears," he said, referring to the way that Web articles and blog posts are often updated with fresh ones after a few hours.