"These acts of violence are becoming systemic, and these gangs of minors are sinking gradually into real criminality," he said in a statement.
Sometimes they do very well in the long run, she said, but some go through an agonizing roller coaster of ups and downs and then sink gradually to death, despite everything doctors can do.
What's needed if Spain is not to sink gradually back into a sort of bucolic, early 20th-century Mediterranean poverty is a revolution across the board in attitudes to work.
The rest of us would sink gradually toward poverty, except for that Social Security check, which rises with inflation and arrives each month no matter how long we live.
"One evening as I sat watching a spectacular sunset from a small hill overlooking a flat, endless sea of sand, the sun looked like a huge orange-red fireball sinking gradually into the earth".
Like any object hotter than the surrounding environment, the hot air balloon cools down over time, which causes it to sink gradually.
Anyone might have surmised that the earth is round, on the basis of everyday observations especially the way distant ships sink gradually below (or rise above) the horizon.
These range from the soft option, in which freedom of movement is retained and your club's latest tricky winger can still be imported with impunity from Ligue 1, to the full Farage, wherein any player from overseas requires a work permit, and the English football league sinks gradually into irrelevance.
For AR (Fig. 1, panel b), the living biomass C sink gradually increases until 2003, due to the constant annual rate of AR prior to 2008 (see Fig. 7 in the "Methods" section).
However, this carbon sink is modeled to be much weaker than that in the past, even with the beneficial effects of increasing CO2, and the sinks gradually turns to carbon source with further climate change for SWL reaching above 3 °C (Fig. 6; Table 4).
