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Gilman has passed the point where its problems are still lovable quirks. We need to make it function as a building. The heating, lighting, and plumbing have to work, and the noise level has to be manageable. Secondly, the building has gradually ceased to be as supportive of the work that goes on here and as nurturing of the community as it once was. We need to change that.

From next week I can start building things gradually back up to normal.

I don't think we ought to make too much of this (dollar spike) but it does represent what we're going to see more of, which is China gradually accommodating its behavior to the wants of globalization and the global marketplace.

From the point forward, the camera has been in my hand up until today, ... From studying art photography at Southern University, I've gone from color, to black and white, and now gradually to digital.

Global economic conditions have been progressing as we expected during the quarter, thus resulting in the gradually improving volume trends, ... I am pleased to say that we are experiencing improving unit case volume trends in each of our operating groups when compared to the trends of the previous two quarters.

If we allow hostile takeovers to happen without limitations, we would gradually lose our domestic brands and innovation capability.

He's grown an inch, and he's gradually put on weight. Strength is a big thing.

He has gradually relaxed and he doesn't look before he steps now. Whatever needs to have the attention paid to, he's right there.

He gradually started learning the more he misbehaved, the less time he got to spend on the horse. He began to make conscious decisions not to act out.

He'll gradually get back to where he needs to be as long as he doesn't get major doses of minutes. It would be great to have more practice time, but he's been in this situation before and he's familiar with it.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

We've been told that it will take a state law to have the culvert covers removed. Some of our citizens are taking it into their own hands, and the covers are gradually coming off.

We suffered a lot in the first 25 minutes. Then we gradually took control of play. It was a match we could have won, and also lost. The penalty was not sensational, but the arm and the hand of Bayern defender should not have been there.

His presence will always be here, ... But I don't think he would like to be known as a figure that weighs heavily on everybody else. I think he'd like to say 'well, I've done my bit, you get on with your bit now'. The place is adorned with his pictures, which is quite right. But I've been to some clubs where it (the memory of a former great) can be a noose round your neck. It's not such a big problem here. He's well loved rather than worshipped. I think loving something is better than worshipping something. With worship you're kind of pushed into it. It can be a scary thing. It can be indoctrinated into people to worship a particular god. Love is a different. That has to gradually come on. You can't push anybody into loving anybody, but they all loved Jock.

The owner had many animals and gradually became overwhelmed, eventually keeping them all in closed crates and small rooms as his illness progressed.

There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better.

We must gradually arrange things to get rid of foreign (aid) injections,

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

He continued the fight against inflation that Volcker began and has gradually managed to squeeze inflation out of the system.

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.

I think it is gradually becoming a given that the BOJ will at some point next year end its quantitative easing policy.

I think the price decline pressure is gradually easing.

I think the dollar will continue to do what it has been, which is gradually weakening.

I think we had normal consolidation here. It seems like people are banking on a better second half. I don't think it's going to run away, but it's going to get gradually better.

It is legitimate for you to think about withdrawing your troops, but it must be done gradually and in consultation with the Iraqi government.

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

I think they're obviously trying to cherry pick where there's a gap in the market and use that going forward to gradually roll out other products.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Just as the institutional long-only market has become more focused on value added, retail funds are likely to follow gradually in the years to come.

Japan's consumer spending is pretty firm, and it's expected to pick up momentum further in the next fiscal year. So far, the growth in consumption hasn't caught up to the pace of economic growth, but we expect it will gradually play a role as a locomotive for economic expansion.

Japanese companies are regaining pricing power by gradually reflecting rising manufacturing and labor costs in their product prices. The Bank of Japan may raise interest rates as early as August.

I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.

Our kids have gradually played a little better. Our kids are coming off a disappointing loss against Bloomington. The positive thing is we played well for longer period of time. The disappointing thing is it's a loss. There are no morale victories.

Recent trends show the price pressures are well contained, with the exception of oil, ... The core CPI rose at just a 1.8 percent annual rate over the past three months, which is slightly below the 1.9 percent year-to-year gain. That means the core CPI is unlikely to accelerate in the next few months and allows the Fed to continue its policy of just gradually pushing up interest rates.

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

Price rises are gradually feeding down the production chain. This is starting to affect consumer prices and would make the exit from deflation more solid.

Price rises are gradually feeding down the production chain.

Starts at year-end 2003 will provide additional support for GDP during the first two quarters of 2004 as construction activity gradually brings these buildings to completion.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Many gourmet-style foods begin in trendy and exclusive restaurants and gradually transition to food-service establishments that serve mainstream consumers. As the product becomes recognized and popularized, you will see it available in more settings.

Market players are expecting that Mizuno and Fukui may start preparing the markets gradually for an eventual increase in interest rates, and are listening carefully to their speeches.

Listen, if they wanted to do this thing gradually I could understand that. Say you want us to wear slacks and a shirt this year and then next year add jackets and whatever. But to do it all at once is just more than I think is necessary. To just jump up and say wear suits or you get fined is nuts.

I think politics are a sideshow right now. We think the best thing an investor can do is step up their buying gradually as prices move lower.

I think most of the staffing implications have already been taken on board. It has been happening gradually over a period of time.

It could very well be that kids who last year were in a comfort spot of, 'This is my spot, this is where I'm going to hit,' and then you mix it up a little bit. It was nice to see we'll be gradually getting Courtney back. She should be back before you know it -- she's healed and that will take us up another notch.

We not only have Sanders' homestead, we have his boat, ... People are gradually finding it ... . More and more people are calling, making inquiries.

Most issuers waited until at least mid-2005 or later. Credit-card companies should have started implementing this guidance a long time ago. They should have done so very gradually ... That hasn't happened. But we haven't been flooded with complaints, either.

You just want to hang there and let the spacecraft gradually adjust the asteroid's course.

Will we get along better after all this? ... Yes, because we're big people, and we'll gradually put this behind us. But it was disgusting.

Where we spray it works. We are gradually tightening the noose.

While we still expect the housing market to cool gradually -- and the data over the past couple of quarters has been consistent with that view -- the February existing home sales number shows the considerable strength that is still in the residential sector.

While we were explaining the potential his home had, he gradually became more excited. Soon enough, he had sold his custom lot and planned to focus on remodeling his current home to suit his families needs.

We hope that the current calm and stability will gradually install itself throughout the country.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before.

While city people continued their strong spending, rural people have increased their spending only gradually due to lower incomes. This trend will continue for the rest of this year.

We're willing to work with the United States to take effective measures to increase China's imports from the United States and work hard to gradually address the trading balances in the two-way trade in the further expansion of our trading ties and economic cooperation,

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

We've been gradually replacing all the buildings in the fort to try to make them more historically accurate. But we've retained one thing from 1957 the Discovery Tower.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

We haven't been able to stretch him out, so we're trying to gradually increase him.

We have now been able to track star formation in galaxies out to modest distances, more than half the age of the universe, and we find that all galaxies, big or small, seem to be fading gradually so that they are less active today than they were further back in time.

Those arguing that the Fed will soon take a time-out from gradually normalizing the level of the fed funds rate will have found little encouragement in these minutes.

We are in a weak El Nio that started a few months back and is gradually building. Typically what ends up happening is we get more 'cyclogenesis' --the formation of storms -- taking place in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico off of the Texas coast. Once these things form they tend to track towards the Northwest. It puts (Lufkin) in proximity for some rainfall.

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

We still expect mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, so the best window may be right now for potential home buyers who have been on the sidelines,

Trading in future contracts led the market today, with bullish sentiment there gradually spreading to cash bonds. This is probably because some investors took heart from a pullback in the equity market here.

We believe China's trade surplus will gradually drop, but it will take time before it drops dramatically.

We began installing LED lights a couple of years ago. First we replaced all the red stop lights and then we replaced the green lights and gradually we'll replace them all.

When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.

We are working hard with the aim of reaching an agreement, and we are not thinking about failing, ... We are at the final stage of the negotiations and we are gradually getting close to turning the corner.

We will gradually expand the project to cover the central and western cities and rural areas, to benefit more adolescents in poverty-stricken areas.

We will gradually discontinue these interim arrangements and services as Virgin Blue and other carriers grow.

We think (we) can allow market supply and demand to gradually bring about a greater effect on the exchange rate float.

This treatment will last anything between 48 and 72 hours and then we will try to gradually wake the prime minister.

We got information gradually as the details came out and people understood what had happened and how it was affecting the country and the rest of the world.

This was a great team win. We are gradually becoming a solid program for our level.

There are a few tentative hints -- higher new orders, a drop in the inventory-to-sales ratio -- that the period of maximum weakness has likely passed. Although further declines in output are anticipated, the rate of decline should gradually diminish.

With exceptionally strong business fundamentals, an outstanding new product platform and gradually improving global conditions, we look for a return to our more traditional sales and earnings performance levels in the second half of the year.

financial assets decline only gradually when households are in their retirement years.

We see very high vulnerability on the Jersey coast. These things are not going to happen tomorrow. It gradually unfolds over the course of the 21st century. But we will be spending ever-increasing amounts defending the coast.

We need to have a little bit of energy and more intensity than what we have. We were able to gradually grind it out. That's what we're going to have to do, because we don't have a heavyweight team that's going to knock you out.

You can't climb to the second floor without a ladder. Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

The orders situation in the German manufacturing sector is excellent. It strengthens the European Central Bank's resolve to tighten interest rates and gradually normalize them.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

We gave a good account of ourselves, but Reed-Custer gradually wore us down. Pivonka had a good game running the ball. He just kept hammering away at our defense and that wore us down late in the game.

You have to just gradually get your rhythm back when you're struggling a bit as he has been.

Through the volatility, the trend in claims is gradually downward again, consistent with the labor market slowly starting to regain momentum after a setback in late 2002.

Through the presence of the pleasant stimulus (food) whenever the rabbit was shown, the fear was eliminated gradually in favor of a positive response.

We weren't executing so we decided we were going to pull them out of the zone but that wasn't working effectively. We needed to do it and we gradually opened it up enough to where they had to really extend. We weren't stalling; we were trying to get them to come out of the zone.

We were looking at about 70 pitches tonight for Jason. I think he finished with 80. He had 70 in the seventh, and he wanted to finish the game, so we went ahead and gave him those 10. We're trying to gradually bring him back so he will be our Friday starter.

The problem has always been that Apple was first but other companies have been able to come in and undercut them on price, and gradually appropriate all the features that made Apple special.

We expect the truck mix to gradually improve through the remainder of the year, but fleet sales will likely recover, offsetting some of the mix benefits.

We should gradually increase imports to reduce the large surplus between U.S.-China and gradually buy less U.S. debt. Holding so much foreign-exchange reserves exerts a great deal of pressure on our monetary policy.

We should expect the insurgency not to just go away, but to gradually reduce.

We do not view it as a change in policy. China is reforming its capital accounts - carefully and gradually relaxing controls on many of the 43 different lines of the capital account. We think this is the right way to do things.

Both exports and domestic demand are on a good footing. Production is likely to improve gradually in the coming months.