Sentence examples for steadily given from inspiring English sources

Since the 1960s it has steadily given ground to films made from synthetic polymers such as polyethylene, polyvinylidene chloride, and polyethylene terephthalate.

While mechanical devices have steadily given way in recent decades to electronic ones that are faster, cheaper and more reliable, that trend may reverse at the molecular scale, where friction and wear and tear act differently.

China, for example, has steadily given foreign companies a greater measure of protection for intellectual property and last year signed on to Trips, when the nation joined the World Trade Organization.

Elaborated rules have steadily given way to principles, and only the riskiest firms (or those most likely to make a large splash if they go bust) routinely get heavy-duty scrutiny.In wholesale markets this approach has worked well.

I pointed out to the Central Valley farmers that over the past half century and more, farmers have steadily surrendered their choices, steadily given up one market after another until they are left, like my cousins in northwest Iowa, with only two crops and only one elevator to sell them to.

They were used by operators in local telegraph offices and switching centres, by press associations and other private networks, and by subscribers to international telegraphic message services such as telex Since the advent of low-cost, high-speed data transmission in the 1980s, teleprinters have steadily given way to computer terminals and facsimile (fax) machines.

Meanwhile, federal stimulus is steadily giving way to restraint.

The polite, effete Liberal Party was steadily giving way to the brawny politics of organised labour.

Flooring compositions based on epoxy resins have developed steadily, giving a hard, chemical-resistant, seamless, and firmly adherent floor covering.

The knowledge that they marched through the season so steadily gave the team the confidence to grind out a tough semifinal win against Maryland.

And meanwhile, absent other distinctions, you were steadily giving ground to a system of honors that valued nothing you hadn't done for yourself...