The election of Charles Heberden as Principal in 1889 led to a gradual reversal in Brasenose's academic failures, although its sporting performance suffered.

In return for the support of the sugar barons, the state crushed a wave of peasant revolts in the Northeast known as the cangaço, marking the reversal of the drastic but gradual decline of the Northeastern latifundios from the 1870s to the 1930 revolution.

Increasingly the history of the German Revolution appeared as the history of its gradual reversal.

Diocletian's accession in 284 did not mark an immediate reversal of disregard to Christianity, but it did herald a gradual shift in official attitudes toward religious minorities.

This precursor to the effects of the Suez Canal ( 1869 ), coupled with the advent of steam shipping that was not reliant on trade winds led to a gradual reduction in the number of ships calling at St Helena and to a decline in its strategic importance to Britain and economic fortunes.

Like Britain, a gradual liberalization of trade laws as part of the free trade movement meant less smuggling.

Law in the People's Republic of China is currently undergoing gradual reform, as many elements inside and outside the country emphasize the need to strengthen the rule of law in China, and international trade and globalization spur transformations in various areas of Chinese domestic law.

The global integration of economies effected by these agreements has resulted in a gradual shift of the composition of wealth among the elites in many large industrial states, from industrial activities, whose proceeds derived mostly from domestic sales, to financial activities, whose profits are stem from substantial investments in foreign trade, including developing markets.

As China pursued its gradual transition from central planning to a market economy, and increased its participation in foreign trade, the renminbi was devalued to increase the competitiveness of Chinese industry.

The agreement provides for the gradual creation of a free trade area covering at least 80 % of the trade between the parties over a 10-year period, though economic crises in the region have derailed progress at integration.

Because of the bomb damage and the gradual decline in local trade, after the war there was a major redevelopment of the town in the 1960s.

Albers ' founding was gradual and began with trade and industries centered around the train depot central to the town, which was established by Air Line Railroad in 1891.

Charlestown experienced a gradual decline from 1780 through 1820, which was caused by decreased trade and shipping with the British Empire.

The resulting failures in administration brought on a gradual decline of the Portuguese trade monopoly.

There was also a " Social Partnership Agreement " with the trade unions, whereby unions agreed not to strike in return for gradual, negotiated pay increases.

The second factor was getting public spending under control by a series of agreements, termed ‘ social partnership ’ with the trade unions – where gradual increases in pay were awarded in return for no industrial action.

During the Napoleonic Wars, trade between Europe and Britain evaporated, resulting in the gradual decline of the wallpaper industry in Britain.

The natural superiority of Eretria's harbour and the importance of trade to the Euboeans is one explanation for this gradual population migration from Lefkandi to Eretria.

Up until this time Wareham had been an important port ; however the growth of Poole and the gradual silting of the river caused a decline in trade and by the end of the 13th century most of the foreign trade had transferred to Poole.

Even without Blakeney they retained some of their earlier Conservative-linked views, such loyalty to the king, anti-trade union legislation, free trade within the British Empire and a general preference for the rural, although these were bolstered by fascist-influenced policies such as limiting the franchise, gradual purification of the " English race " and stringent restrictions on immigration and the activities of immigrants admitted to Britain.

Situated on the southside of the River Tefi, the arrival of the railway to Cardigan saw a gradual decline of trade from the port, with goods now travelling on the railway.

But the strategy of the trade union was indirect, gradual, peaceful, and systematically organized across the anthracite region, while that of the Molly Maguires was direct, violent, sporadic, and confined to a specific locality.

Following the establishment of the Portuguese colony of Angola in 1575, and the gradual replacement of São Tome by Brazil as the primary producers of sugar, Angolan interests came to dominate the trade, and it was Portuguese financiers and merchants who obtained the larger scale, comprehensive asiento that was established in 1595.

It specified the specific tasks of the Party in the struggle for socialism: completion of the expropriation of the bourgeoisie ; administration of the economic life of the country in accordance with a single socialist plan ; participation of the trade unions in the organization of the national economy ; socialist labour discipline ; utilization of bourgeois experts in the economic field under the control of Soviet bodies ; gradual and systematic enlistment of the middle peasantry in the work of socialist construction.

Bhera declined in importance due to the gradual shifting of the course of the Jhelum river, due to which the town lost its access to trade as the result of its location on the banks of the river.

Gorbachev's policy of glasnost ( literally openess ) meant the gradual democratisation of the party.

Gradualism, from Latin gradus (“ step ”), is the belief in or the policy of change by gradual, often slow stages.

The renewal of the German alliance remained the principal orientation of Manuel's foreign policy for the rest of his reign, despite the gradual divergence of interests between the two empires after Conrad's death.

An example on the feasibility of the elimination of weapons is the policy of gradual reduction of guns in Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate.

He presided over a gradual domestic liberalisation and a thaw in foreign policy, shown by the reconciliation with Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia, which Stalin had expelled from the communist movement.

This policy led to the gradual collapse of the frontier, which was infiltrated by Turkish bands even before the death of Michael VIII in Pachomios village, Thrace in December 1282.

It allowed for extensive consultation about economic policy and stated that necessary structural change would be gradual and agreed.

* Result of aggressive policy circumvention, rather than a gradual attempt to change a policy

His policy was that of continuity and gradual Africanization of the government, keeping many colonial civil servants in their old jobs as they were gradually replaced by Kenyans.

State socialism is a socialist economic system which advocates public ownership of major industries, remedial measures to benefit the working class, and a gradual process of developing socialism through government policy.

The Smith administration fought against African Marxists during the Bush War as part of its campaign to maintain its policy of a gradual transition of power, and negotiated an Internal Settlement with black moderates in 1979 – this agreement led to majority rule, the renaming of the country to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and a coalition government led by the country's first black prime minister, the United African National Council leader Abel Muzorewa, who included Smith in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio.

Protests and demands became more focused: the cocaleros continued protesting against eradication of a milenary plant ( coca ) although Banzer ’ s " Coca 0 " policy had been replaced by the earlier subsidized crop substitution policy for gradual coca reduction but not total eradication ; the indigenous farmers of the La Paz Aymara region wanted a " re-founding " of Bolivia, with the recognition and inclusion of Bolivia's indigenous ethnic groups as legitimate political blocs, and a type of economic de-centralization based on said recognition of indigenous groups as legitimate political actors.

While the Right has dominated Federally since the 1950s, the gradual shift of the paradigm of economic policy within Australia towards the Right, particularly since the 1970s, has led to the situation where past leaders of the Right, such as Ben Chifley, would now be considered in the Socialist Left ; especially in comparison to more recent Right leaders such as Paul Keating, Kim Beazley and Kevin Rudd.

Governments should aim for a neutral monetary policy oriented toward long-run economic growth, by gradual expansion of the money supply.

However, ACPO ( Association of Chief Police Officers ) policy is that arrests are a last resort and a more gradual approach should be taken in such circumstances.

In NSC-68, it can be defined as " a policy of calculated and gradual coercion.

The strengthening of the Hamas organization amongst the Palestinians, the gradual disintegration of the Palestinian Authority and the Fatah organization, and the Israeli disengagement plan and especially the death of Yasser Arafat led to the policy change of the Hamas movement in early 2005 which started putting greater emphasis to its political characteristics of the organization.

While he instituted no radical departure from the New Look approach, the changing nature of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, the related assumed need for continental defense systems, and the pressing question of how to respond to local or " limited " wars, dictated a gradual shift in defense policy.

Politically, the Heimwehr suffered a decline in support and significance due to the pan-German, nationalist allure of the Nazis and Italy's gradual reorientation of its foreign policy towards Germany.

This is because the Islamic regime appear to have adopted a deliberate policy of gradual eradication of existing churches under legal pretenses.

Although many Mexicans wanted to abolish slavery, fears of an economic crisis if all of the slaves were simultaneously freed led to a gradual emancipation policy.

It said that the British policy was " increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to progressive realization of responsible government in British India as an integral part of the British Empire ".