The dissent also rejected the suggestion by the majority that the tribe's gradual assimilation weakened its claim:

A gradual assimilation of the ideas of John Cage considerably influenced the development of his music in the later 1960s.

The tensions faded with the gradual assimilation of the city's small Chinese population and repeal of exclusion laws.

Cutting out, there's no gradual assimilation.

Even the gradual assimilation of his disappointment would leave scars and blights, like a landscape after fire.

The gradual assimilation of Norwegian immigrants into the American population resulted in a dwindling reader base.

He deemed their societies "fetishistic", but believed a gradual non-coercive assimilation was the way to turn them into Positivists.

In these centuries a process of gradual assimilation took place among the native population.

For those that did not become a part of this community, theirs was a gradual assimilation into the general Spanish population.

During the course of the 20th century, the general statutory approach has moved towards the gradual assimilation of conditional sales and hire purchase.