Through gradual development it became primarily an honorary office.
What happens if the technology is lost -- through gradual change or catastrophic destruction?
Most scientists believe we achieved our intellectual status through gradual evolution.
The solo never paused but, over several minutes, passed through gradual accelerations and more marked changes of dynamics.
She was able to penetrate, too, into the others' motives and relations — grown-up insight seemed to come not through gradual accretion but all at once.
In that time, it has matured into what we now enjoy through gradual improvements to hardware and software: Better graphics, sound, displays, user interface, network connectivity.
Darwin's thinking about natural selection then used exactly the same assumptions to account for the origin of new species through gradual accumulation of small changes.
Eventually, a year of exposure therapy taught me to tolerate my anxiety-inducing thoughts without acting out compulsions, breaking the loop through gradual conditioning.
Eating that honey — just a spoonful a day — can build up immunity through gradual exposure to the local allergens that can make life so miserable for allergy sufferers.
Thereby, it was hoped, the country could bypass the slow, more typical process of industrialization through gradual accumulation of capital and purchase of heavy machinery.
Just as Darwin's ideas on evolution by natural selection were congenial to Victorian England's belief in progress through gradual improvement, anthropologists concede that many of them have been steeped in multiculturalism and diversity, and see them in a favorable light.
