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Brendan has been a mentor to me, ... He went out on the track and showed me the line. He told me to get out there and run my pace, and I will gradually build up my confidence. In the test session, I was only two-tenths of a second off of him, so I'll take that as a confidence booster.

Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

As the job market gradually improves, it should easily support consumer-spending gains of at least 3.5 percent this year.

As the Civic has moved gradually up-market, it has left room for a new entry level model (for Honda).

As the Civic has gradually moved up-market, it has left room in our lineup for a new entry-level model. With the introduction of Fit in April and all-new CR-V this fall, along with continued momentum from the new Civic and other key models, we're projecting Honda Brand sales of around 1.3 million in 2006, which would make it our 11th consecutive record year.

As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back.

Atmospheric conditions are expected to gradually become more conducive for strengthening.

At this point, Rita has become a potentially very devastating Category 5 hurricane. Fortunately it's over the open ocean of the Gulf of Mexico, and will be over the open ocean for the next day. But we expect it to gradually make a turn to the north.

Continuing on this unsustainable path will gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, our economy, our standard of living, and ultimately our national security.

An invisible line has been crossed, and the decline in Rumsfeld?s tenure has now begun. He has gradually alienated each of his core constituencies, including the Congress, the media, the think tanks, the defense industry and now much of the officer corps.

Elite has grown gradually since we started in 1999 and while we are a small company, we doubled our sales last year. When electric prices go up, people begin to think again of solar.

During the recent downturn, the legacy carriers have gradually used up their financial cushion of aircraft and other assets they can borrow against. If they are forced to face a new crisis, they may fail more quickly than they have in the past.

There's still potential for the markets to gradually move upwards over the year, and M&A can help. There is quite a lot of institutional demand. Equities are still not particularly expensive.

The trade deficit will gradually narrow, but you'll still see a reasonably firm clip continue in imports as investment is going to remain strong.

I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,

Things were going real well and they still are going well with my shoulder. It was better than I expected. A month ago I wasn't looking to be where I was at. It (the knee) is what it is. I don't know really what happened and how it came about. It just kind of gradually got more sore and sore.

The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don't like them.

It was very slowly moving, starting out bluish in color and turning gradually into a deep red as it penetrated deeper into the atmosphere. It lasted about one minute.

The size of the supply hole is gradually becoming clearer.

The system is rapidly losing its efficiency and credibility, ... Most former officials are watching in awe. An unknown and inexperienced movement has taken over and their incapability is gradually becoming evident.

The terrible pictures are gradually showing us the extent of the devastation caused by the hurricane,

I usually have rough time in the fall and swim a lot better second semester and I've been gradually dropping times to where I want them.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

Preparing the markets for a rate hike is a process in which the Fed gradually has to back away from its unduly pessimistic stance of recent months. This will take some time, but the process is now underway.

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Quarantines will be lifted gradually when they reach 30 days, just as if nothing happened.

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.

Originally I thought I'd go back to the H.G. Wells novel. But gradually I realized the beauty of the Howard Koch and Orson Welles version.

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

After the first of the year, there will be a transition period during which consumers will still see packaged food on store shelves without the revised allergen labeling. However, these will gradually disappear, as the Department of Consumer Protection food inspectors actively monitor manufacturer compliance.

A deterioration in overseas demand may gradually affect the Japanese economy, like a body blow.

After Game 5 was over, everybody was upset and kind of thinking about the game and what went wrong, trying to figure it all out. Then gradually you start realizing, oh, we've got to get ready for the next game. So your attitude changes, your mood changes. We got in here Saturday night, and by the time everybody went to bed, I think everybody had gotten their frustration out.

Something in-between is probably where we are. While the economy remains weak, inflation will gradually grind down. When the economy picks up, it's unlikely then that inflation will grind down further.

Someone who smokes may want to simply put the pack down and call it quits, but for instance, if you smoke 10 cigarettes a day, cutting back to nine and so on until you gradually quit might give you the best chance of sticking with your decision.

Some districts see them as purely a money item, and they lose sight of their importance. Money for office hours needs to be gradually built into a budget.

Demand for final goods is gradually recovering. Prices for these products will stay positive, though their gains probably won't accelerate.

Companies are making new investments in technology and initiating IT projects to support business growth, ... As a result, managers are expanding their work forces once again, adding IT personnel gradually to meet individual staffing needs.

Anthony started to play better and better the last few weeks, ... I guess a big man who plays both ways has to take a few plays off, but those have gradually decreased each week. He pushed himself more in the preseason than any other year. He actually spent the night before the Neshoba (Central) game in the hospital because he'd gotten dehydrated.

As has been reported, lending competition is heating up. It seems the market is gradually coming to doubt if all banks have bright earnings outlooks from an expected end to quantitative easing.

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

As all carriers more aggressively promote subscription-based models, they are also testing price inelasticity by gradually inching up average pricing. To grow the market, carriers must work in tandem with publishers to provide real value for a more expensive subscription, rather than treating it as just another pricing tactic.

A zero-depth entry point would be something to make the pool more accessible to handicapped people. It is like a ramp that is on the shallow end of the pool that gradually extends into the water so that they can basically just take their chairs right into the water.

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

This is something that's going to happen gradually over time.

This is one of the more talented teams we have had. But we need to continue working each and every practice. We are gradually becoming more team-oriented.

This game was very typical of us. We started out strong, took the game to the opponent and gradually lost concentration and came down. This team is unpredictable.

They self-soothe. But gradually they'll accommodate for what real life is.

This is a capability you need to be competitive. We started with e-mail and instant messaging, and gradually instant messaging has evolved to include voice.

They start out following an experienced inspector and then gradually that experienced inspector fades back and lets this person take the lead.

There were pretty rigid rules and real traditional music. Traditional choreography. It's gradually gotten more free, and the rules have changed.

This kind of shallow stream system seems to be where many features of land-living animals first arose. The species shows that evolution from life in water to life on land happened gradually in fish in shallow water.

They're a creature of habit and routine; they like things the same everyday . I gradually have to adjust their schedule for that one hour difference .

There is the chance that the totals will catch up in the next few months, but it's gradually tapering off from here on out.

As with any new car, there were some minor issues to resolve, but we did not encounter any major problems and gradually began completing some longer runs.

According to the grandparents, the child was shaken, nervous, obviously confused. Because, how can a five year old child handle this any way. They have no idea how to handle this. So he just withdrew himself from the situation. But thanks to his grandparents, they were able to talk to him. They gave him water, flushed the soap out of his system, reassuring him. So he gradually came back around.

It's feeling better every day, but there are a lot of things I need to get back. It's going to come in time, but I want to get them back as soon as possible. You kind of want to do as much as you can as soon as you can but I found out that's not the right approach. You've got to gradually build and try to get better every game.

It's a steady, rather than explosive, expansion in the economy with the employment and wage data gradually picking up.

I try to get into funds that are on tight, rising trends, gradually going up and up.

It is our strong belief that the dollar rally is gradually coming to an end and that we will eventually see renewed dollar weakness in 2006.

It is raining as far south as Oxnard now. It is gradually working its way down here.

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.

It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.

It's going well. We've just begun the resumption and, based on our assessment of the security situation, we will continue to gradually mobilize throughout the week.

It should not be introduced at high levels, where it will shock the economy. Instead, the GST should be gradually eased in and the list of taxable goods expanded over time.

It's part of a pattern at the Post where they're gradually been getting rid of all the people who write interesting copy on China or Hong Kong and toning down the paper. It's basically a process of self-censorship.

It's pretty well accepted that the economy is gradually building momentum, and Kmart has declared bankruptcy,

Consumer spending, together with domestic investment spending, are leaving the Japanese economy a little less dependent on exports. Over the past decade, Japan has been notoriously unable to develop a self-sustaining recovery. We're gradually getting out of that rut.

Consumer prices are increasing and that will give Fukui confidence to change policy. We are gradually reducing our bond holdings.

Confidence is gradually recovering. The main issue has been gasoline prices and they've fallen back from their highs.

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

The October home sales data were strong, but we are seeing more moderate price increases for new homes suggesting that the housing market is gradually cooling off.

That's the big lingering risk factor sitting out there on the horizon. Will we have a gradual adjustment, where the trade deficit gradually improves, or will we have an accident along the way?

Economists are expecting things to gradually improve but realize that we are in a tougher environment now. I expect that 3 to 5 years from now we'll have some respectable gains of 5 percent to 10 percent annualized returns, but don't build a plan for anything better than that.

Studies have shown that high; unmet need is a barrier to college for many low-income students. The bill will gradually lower charges for some students, known as origination fees, over the next five years.

That has been going well. The first day we did it I asked for a show of hands if that was the farthest they had ever run at one time, most of the freshman raised their hands. We're gradually getting used to it. We are also doing less of the traditional static stretching and focusing more on dynamic stretching, which involves a lot more movement and gets the muscles a lot more warmed up.

It's clearly yen positive, especially when China is gradually allowing the yuan to appreciate day by day.

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Not having the big hitters we had last year, we have to take advantage of as many errors as we can, all the small-ball opportunities we get. We did a good job of that. We're gradually getting better at it as we move through the season.

It took a long time for wheat to become successfully naturalized in China. It gradually spread from northwestern China to the East and to the South.

The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be anymore

The two sides have expressed the readiness to gradually realize trade balance through joint efforts in the process of development,

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

The U.S. housing market appears to be gradually losing steam under the weight of higher mortgage rates, ... Even so, the market remains exceptionally healthy by any yardstick.

They will continue to gradually reduce the sedatives and they will observe his responses. This is a process that could take several days.

There still is a lot of negotiating that will have to be completed in November, including the specifics of the agreements and time frames. But in essence, North Korea has agreed to end its existing nuclear weapons and ongoing development and to include inspections in exchange for a U.S. agreement not to invade or attack North Korea and to gradually normalize relations.

It's not a term people throw around because it's incredibly hard to do, but it does appear that we're headed for a soft landing. What we're looking for is for economic growth to gradually moderate in the months ahead, with inflation remaining under control.

The lack of musical education means that music is in danger of gradually losing its place in society.

The Internet is gradually becoming more of a standard way to shop. It's convenient to use, especially as people are more confident now of using their credit cards online. Web vendors are giving customers what they want like free shipping or the option to order online and pick up the goods at the store.

The Federal Reserve has responded to the balance of market forces by gradually raising the federal funds rate over the past year, ... Certainly, to have done otherwise -- to have held the federal funds rate at last year's level even as credit demands and market interest rates rose -- would have required an inappropriately inflationary expansion of liquidity.

The Fed can take comfort in the fact that core inflation remains tame, despite some modest inflationary pressures - gradually rising wage inflation, tighter capacity constraints and higher oil prices.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

I'm gradually getting back. I feel like I'm about 85 to 90 percent.

I'm not forming any hard opinions one way or the other. It's way too early. . . . Gradually things clarify themselves.

Inflationary pressures are gradually easing, which should offer scope for interest rate cuts, but near-term relative economic strength has led us to pencil in the first cut coming in May rather than in the first quarter.

(In Australia) we didn't have the luxury of gradually bringing Jacques back into the action. He came straight back and the workload (was high). He hurt the elbow again. We want to avoid that this time, and slowly integrate him back into the team.

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

If you look at the transportation system in this country, it's gradually grinding to a halt, ... Now you've got the price of fuel going through the roof, and we've got a whole transportation system that's built on cheap fuel. One of the ways to solve some of the fuel problems cheaply is right here.

If you have these big huge goals they are not as attainable as smaller goals. It's better to start out slow and gradually increase - that way you don't get burned out. But you've got to have a plan.