On the Watchtower, she was deprived of the aliens and began a gradual separation they hoped would sever her connection to the beasts.

The gradual separation of church and state.

The above events and trends lead to a gradual separation between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.

There had been nothing dramatic, no great debate, just a lot of jokes and heavy irony to start with, then a gradual, gentle separation.

This completed a process of gradual separation from the British Empire that governments had pursued since independence.

Predictably, perhaps, the rise in poker's popularity has meant a gradual separation from its roots.

The development of endovascular surgery has been accompanied by a gradual separation of vascular surgery from its origin in general surgery.

In the West, people had had time to adapt to the gradual separation of church and state, and had even created a spirituality of the mundane.

Between the old man and herself there had come a gradual separation, harder to bear than any former sorrow.

Voice exchange gradually died out after 1300, due to the gradual separation of voice ranges and the expansion of the ambitus of a composition.