But the discipline Mr. Rubin has gradually imposed on the Administration's economic thinking goes far beyond the President's public comments.

Over the following two hundred years colonial rule gradually imposed Spanish cultural standards on the subjugated peoples.

According to the Washington Post in 2008, the cemetery gradually imposed increasing restrictions on media coverage of funerals beginning about 2005.

The Princes had gradually imposed an orderly plan on the city.

Sanctions were imposed gradually, step by step, and it did cost the outsiders too.

According to the Washington Post, over the past several years the cemetery has gradually imposed increasing restrictions on media coverage of funerals.

Under the proposal, first developed by Robert C. Pozen, an investment executive, benefit cuts would be imposed gradually on future retirees.

Initially, deejays were granted complete control over the playlist, but a fairly loose rotation system was gradually imposed over the first few years.

So the new line of the Comintern was gradually imposed on the Balkans.