Sentence examples for was gradually adopted from inspiring English sources

The Adam style, however, was gradually adopted.

This system was gradually adopted by libraries throughout the English-speaking world.

The French system, under which the consular service had been long established as part of the general civil service, was gradually adopted by other nations.

Through these contacts, Islam was gradually adopted by the more-southern Kyrgyz, although it has remained merely a veneer on the national culture.

Solvay's method was gradually adopted throughout much of Europe and elsewhere and by the late 19th century had supplanted the Leblanc process, which had been chiefly used for converting common salt into sodium carbonate since the 1820s.

The concept of marital breakdown was gradually adopted in the United States during the 1970s, when many states began to permit "no-fault" divorces, which do not require an injured party to prove specific misdeeds.

Nonetheless, the new approach is being gradually adopted by state schools, and will be applied to private ones next year.

Most of the Babylonian weights and measures, carried in commerce throughout the Middle East, were gradually adopted by other countries.

Some of the bejeweled silk formal garments were gradually adopted by the church to become vestments in the Middle Ages.

The chief features of Hill's system were gradually adopted in varying degrees by other countries throughout the world, first among which were Switzerland and Brazil in 1843.

It was a radical challenge which, like many of the ideas of the late 60s and early 70s (feminism is another example), were gradually adopted and distorted by the ongoing voracious expansion of consumer capitalism.