Sentence examples for progressively took from inspiring English sources

Stalin's followers also progressively took over the Spanish government, especially concerning themselves with hunting down local Trotskyites.

"While the British progressively took over more and more of the Mughal Emperor's power," writes Dalrymple, "the court busied itself in the obsessive pursuit of the most cleverly turned ghazal, the most perfect Urdu couplet".

Newly sober and married, Reed dropped his guard and plugged in his guitar for a tough-minded trilogy of albums that progressively took him through the darkness and into the light.

As American fighters took over the long-range escorting of USAAF daylight bombing raids, the Griffon-engined Spitfires progressively took up the tactical air superiority role, and played a major role in intercepting the V-1 flying bomb, while the Merlin-engined variants (mainly the Mk IX and the Packard-engined Mk XVI) were adapted to the fighter-bomber role.

"It's been disappointing to see the religious right progressively take over the Republican Party," Pitchford said.

The government has progressively taken control of airports, ports and key border crossing points, but much remains to be done.

Marie's fascination with Richardson's "impassioned diagonals" and the artist's equally vigorous brushwork progressively take hold.

In return, as these steps are progressively taken, they want sanctions relief and recognition of the right to enrichment.

This helps break the cycle of attracting young "replacement" smokers progressively taking the place of those older smokers who have quit or, too often, died.

His Soviet-equipped forces slashed across the Golan Heights and menaced Israel's survival in the early days of the 1973 war and have progressively taken over Lebanon since 1976.

She works with states of becoming and of vanishing, such as a woman playing a piano in a cemetery while totally veiled in mist as if she were a ghost, or a man whose upper body has turned to a mere swipe of gray, as if a region of shadows were progressively taking him over.