Sentence examples for steadily ground from inspiring English sources

The cuts and contraction of recent years steadily ground down morale.

A brutal counterinsurgency campaign by the authorities in Chechnya has steadily ground down the last vestiges of a rebel movement born of two bloody wars in the North Caucasus that left tens of thousands dead.

Now that the DUP is in the ascendant, they see him as irrelevant.Mr Trimble has been steadily ground down by opponents of power-sharing inside his party, and by the adroitness of the still acerbic Ian Paisley, 79 this month but apparently restored to health after a period of illness.

But it was Bradford's relentless power game, whether from the huge Tongan wings Lesley Vainikolo and Tevita Vaikona or the props Joe Vagana, Stuart Fielden and Paul Anderson, which steadily ground down the young Warriors, allowing the Bulls to capitalise with three well-worked tries in the last half-hour.

At a time when revelation was steadily losing ground to reason, the "spiritual quest" took quasi-scientific turns.

At a time when ISIS is steadily losing ground in the Middle East to the Iraqi and Syrian governments, the Peshmerga, and the YPG sacrificing its fighters on the ground for a symbolic attack in Europe is unlikely to be a worthwhile trade if any other option presents itself.

They are steadily gaining ground in Scrabble, poker and bridge.

But the fact is that Detroit is steadily losing ground to its Japanese competitors.

His company was steadily regaining ground, according to the reporter Leslie Kaufman, but had a central vulnerability.

In the second half of the 20th century it steadily lost ground to synthetics.

Assad was steadily losing ground to the rebels, who are dominated by Sunnis, Iran's rivals.