"gradual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Shifting alliances and the gradual encroachment of European-American settlement led to some Miami bands merging.
- Ending this damaging tax policy would allow more farms to be passed on from generation-to-generation and help prevent the gradual encroachment of development.
- The change was marked by the gradual encroachment of vegetation, thin woods watered by a multitude of small springs from the mountains secret sources.
- Ever since the completion of the new tower in 1870, there had begun a very gradual encroachment of the sea upon the beach.
- The gradual encroachment of the state in the succeeding centuries took on the dimensions of a tidal wave in the twentieth century.
- He has also long railed against what he sees as the party's gradual encroachment on the Constitution.
- The gradual encroachment of the newly formed mendicant orders into the university was the immediate cause of this.
- The federal Indian Claims Commission, however, decided in the 1970's that the Shoshones had lost the land through "gradual encroachment" of the settlers.
- The park, dating back to the 17th century, has suffered gradual encroachment.
- I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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