It was to be done as all great things are done,--by the gradual and silent accumulation of power.

It is basically about gradual accumulation of forces for future change, which will take place simultaneously with a restructuring of society.

Among the most important factors leading to the new gubernatorial eminence, experts say, has been a gradual accumulation of formal authority.

This part of the painting is built up over weeks in a process of gradual accumulation, or sedimentation.

The gradual accumulation of decayed plant material in a bog forms a carbon sink.

Dangers: the only real danger from a fusion reactor is the gradual accumulation of radioactivity in the components and other materials used in the area.

But "The Golden Bowl," with its gradual accumulation of psychological stress, needs all that room to breathe.

From this gradual accumulation of minutiae, this keen awareness, poems emerge.

These types of innovations occur incrementally during production or use which leads to gradual accumulation of variations.

The gradual accumulation of minute variations did not fit with the facts of heredity.