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And the liability relief was gradually stripped away.

After 1865, U.S. brevet rank was gradually stripped of its benefits, and officers were rewarded instead by decorations.

For his part, Bo was gradually stripped of all his posts, including his place in the Central Committee and the Politburo, and was finally kicked out of the CPC on 4 November, just four days before the National Congress.

Pretence and prevarication are gradually stripped away.

In the course of the evening, Miriam Buether's set is gradually stripped of furniture.

As their defenses are gradually stripped away, Howard and Ryan's exchanges become the crux of King's story.

The campy glamour of Berlin's pre-war Kit-Kat Club is gradually stripped away, just as the illusions of would-be writer Clifford Bradshaw Matt Rawlee) have been destroyed.

The editorial autonomy I had been led to expect has been gradually stripped from me, and I no longer feel that the magazine represents the true Tim experience.

In the UK this power has been gradually stripped away from city authorities through the decades as the state has become more centralised.

An episodic playlet by Richard Bean (author of English People Very Nice) about a Human Rights Watch rookie being gradually stripped of her idealism by her cynical colleagues, was as funny and silly as an end-of-the-year staff party show.

They believed that as the world economy grew more integrated, inefficient restrictions on the market were gradually stripped away, and the power of digitization was given free reign, the future would be one of prosperity expanding and freedom spreading.