In sum, the German rulers were being gradually deprived of their triple role as feudal suzerain, defender of the church, and keeper of the peace.
A cockatoo, sealed inside a glass chamber, is being gradually deprived of air by a pump, as the long-haired, slightly manic lecturer proposes to demonstrate the existence of a vacuum.
With the thermal decomposition of coal macromolecules, the substituents on the aromatic rings, including side substituents and bridged ones, are gradually deprived by the release of micromolecules, e.g., H2, CH4, H2O, CO, CO2, etc. (Arenillas et al. 1999).
In other words, the AD patient is gradually deprived of the photic input and even more of the non-photic, darkness-related internal signal melatonin.
Unregulated fee-for-service payment is widespread and is both a cause and a consequence of the commercialization phenomenon, which is gradually depriving both urban and rural populations of access to primary health care.
This area was not truly opened to white settlement until after the American Civil War (1861 65), at which time the Plains Indians were gradually subdued and deprived of most of their lands by white settlers and by the U.S. cavalry.
The answer was: gradually.
Civilization was gradually petering out.
Is no mystery to be left to us? Technology has gradually deprived us of our dreams – even as it exposed them.
We are gradually improving.
