Sentence examples for were gradually able to from inspiring English sources

By showing the impact school had on those first few students, we were gradually able to persuade others.

Where they had found work as undocumented crew on other vessels subsequently, they were gradually able to improve their conditions.

Luckily after taking over Alaska back in the 1950s we were gradually able to seize control of one of the American political parties, the one with the ivory.

Both the English and the Dutch were gradually able to gain supremacy in the seas not just in and around the English Channel but in all the European waters.

However, the Romans repulsed the great invasion of Syria and Anatolia by Pacorus and Labienus, and were gradually able to take advantage of the weaknesses of the Parthian military system, which, according to George Rawlinson, was adapted for national defense but ill-suited for conquest.

He was gradually able to win the elephants' trust.

"SOME suppliers at the cheap end are gradually able to move up and become a brand," Mr. James said.

Later in his life he is gradually able to see himself with as much clarity as he views his surroundings; he is able to remember the nightmare he once forgot.

In the trial, in mice, the team showed that when defects were filled with a biodegradable sponge soaked in the drug, the tooth was gradually able to rebuild itself.

Indeed, Muhammad might not even have attracted attention had he not sounded like other holy men, but, by eschewing any source other than the one supreme being, whom he identified as Allāh ("God") and whose message he regarded as cosmically significant and binding, he was gradually able to distinguish himself from all other intermediaries.

Friendly Mart was gradually able to move into the personal spaces of customers and could create customer loyalty.