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As we now know, Turkish intelligence was able to follow the gruesome act “live,” and then disclose it gradually to the rest of the world.
Although Christians have largely sought to remain neutral in the conflict, they have become involved gradually, some by taking up arms and others as victims of kidnapping and violence.
If this trend is allowed to continue, the Middle East will gradually lose its Christian congregations.
Germany’s dominant position, which has seemed absolute since the 2008 financial crisis, is gradually weakening – with far-reaching implications for the European Union.
If Bush’s new military plan is a temporary step to buy time to move in the direction of the Iraq Study Group’s proposals of training Iraqi forces and gradually withdrawing American forces, there may be something to be said for it as one last chance, but only if it is accompanied by the diplomatic advice that the study group also suggested.
Doubling average household income by 2020 – the target set at the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Congress in November – is likely to release 64 trillion renminbi ($10.3 trillion) in purchasing power, with China’s huge internal market gradually becoming a new long-term driver of domestic and international growth.
As workers' consciousness of their rights increases, they are gradually more and more apt to appeal grievances to the courts: from 1995 to 2001, adjudicated labor disputes rose from 28,000 to 101,000.
Gradually energy production is becoming more difficult to control.
These two systems operate side by side, but the border that separates them has gradually become more porous, and the open breaches in it have become ever greater.
In the middle of that decade, the US Federal Reserve began gradually tightening its policy – much as it is doing today – with the federal funds rate peaking in 1995.
Moreover, Bolivia is not alone: the shift from military rule to democratic politics in Latin America during the past 20 years is gradually, fitfully, but consistently, broadening political empowerment beyond the traditional elites and dominant ethnic groups.
This can now change, at least gradually.
The world economy would heal, but in a slow and uneven fashion, as advanced economies muddled through while the more dynamic emerging world gradually closed today’s income and wealth gaps.
Even if central banks did retain their independence, it is doubtful that they would be able to steer inflation gradually to, say, 2%, and then keep it there.
Gradually, funding is being channeled toward regions in need of assistance in the fight against climate change.
Europe will enter an extended period of competitive deterrence, during which it will gradually abandon its old social values.
Macri will phase out, albeit gradually, the stringent price and capital controls favored by the Peronists.
As a result, there is less resistance to ending patients' lives “for their own good,” with only the family's consent substituting for that of the patient, or even without the family's consent, and the practice gradually becomes socially acceptable.
The Climate’s Low-Hanging FruitNEW YORK – Next month, signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, to consider an amendment to the treaty that would gradually reduce, and eventually eliminate, the use of hydrofluorocarbons.
Now these have gradually shrunk to nothing.
Having achieved the latter, it can declare at least half a victory and gradually start lifting rates.
Gradually, confidence grew, and financial markets began to function again.
The idea is simple: The tax would decrease gradually as oil prices rise, and then increase again when prices eventually come back down.
If the adjustments are asymmetric – larger increases when prices fall, and smaller decreases when prices rise – this system would gradually raise the overall carbon tax, even as it follows a counter-cyclical pattern.
British legal experts take pride in the fact that their country’s constitutional order evolved gradually over time, rather than through the kind of dramatic political ruptures that have shaped so much continental European history.
As he put it in 1997, “As we move into a new century, the market-stabilizing private regulatory forces should gradually displace many cumbersome, increasingly ineffective government structures.”
Second, as consumers reacted to lower energy costs, demand adjusted only gradually.
With the blurring of the old battle lines, politics is gradually being reshaped into a contest between advocates of open, globalized societies and defenders of inward-looking tribalism.
The Syrian revolution is essentially a civilian and political rebellion against dictatorship – one that is gradually unraveling Assad’s regime.
As China’s neighbors grow increasingly dependent on the Chinese market, the logic suggests, America’s influence in the region will gradually decline.
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