By using instruments of gradually increasing size, the vagina is gently, and with minimum pain at each stage, taught to yield to an object of the appropriate shape.

By the 16th century, a cappella polyphony had further developed, but gradually, the cantata began to take the place of a cappella forms.

The phrase " Doom clone | Doom clone " was initially popular to describe the style of gameplay in Doom-like games, but after 1996 was gradually replaced by " first-person shooter " By 1998 the phrase " first-person shooter " had firmly superseded " Doom clone "

By the end of the 18th century preterist exposition had gradually become more widespread.

By limiting outside influences, these policies would gradually cause almost complete isolation of Soviet composers from the rest of the world.

By gradually changing from “ oooh ” to “ aaah ” and back again, a spectral glide is created, emulating the ‘ sweeping filter ’ effect that is the basis of the ‘ wah-wah ’ guitar effect.

By the 16th century, a peculiar official language was formed: a mixture of Old Church Slavonic, Ruthenian and Polish with the influence of the last of these three gradually increasing.

By the 1960s, refinements in ballpoint pen production gradually ensured its dominance over the fountain pen for casual use.

By the 19th century, only ten percent of this forest cover remained and the European settlers introduced several new exotic grass, lupin, pine and macrocarpa that gradually supplanted the native vegetation.

By the mid-19th century, the Japanese soy sauce gradually disappeared from the European market, and soy sauce became synonymous with the Chinese product.

By reasoning using " induction " Bacon meant the ability to gradually generalize a finding based on accumulating data-he advised proceeding by this method ( building a case from the ground up ).

By bringing attention back to the present ( e. g. by focusing on their breath ), clients gradually begin to observe their thought processes rather than reacting to them, thus, facilitating occupational engagement.

By only gradually increasing the spin rate, torque is spread along a much longer section of barrel, rather than only at the throat where rifling is eroded through repeated rifling engagement.

By necessity as the number of cars increased county roads were gradually improved.

By the mid-19th century, as Roaring Spring was first growing, the regional peculiarities of folk architecture were gradually disappearing under the railroad's and the industrial revolution's influences.

By bringing greatly increased quantities of paperwork to daily life, the duplicating machine and the typewriter gradually changed the forms of the office desk and transformed the nature of office work.

By 1857 he was a professor of geology at the University of Vienna, and from there he gradually developed views on the connection between Africa and Europe ; eventually he came to the conclusion that the Alps to the north were once at the bottom of an ocean, of which the Mediterranean was a remnant.

By the year 1000 the government no longer knew how to issue currency and money was gradually disappearing.

By dusk, other Cuban ground forces were gradually advancing southward from Covadonga and southwest from Yaguaramas toward San Blas, and westward along coastal tracks from Cienfuegos towards Girón, all without heavy weapons or armour.

By contrast, an arrival rate exceeding an exit rate would represent an unstable system, where the number of waiting customers in the store will gradually increase towards infinity.

By the end of the 1980s many acts had been dropped by their labels and the solo careers of many New Romantic stars gradually faded.

By late 1920, Stresemann gradually moved to cooperation with the parties of the left and centre — possibly in reaction to political murders like that of Walther Rathenau.

By late 1973, his pop star fame gradually began to wane, even though he achieved a number three hit, " 20th Century Boy ", in February and mid-year " The Groover " followed it to number four.

By increase or decrease in the proportions of their constituent minerals they pass by every gradation into one another, the distinctive structures also of one kind of rock may often be traced gradually merging into those of another.

By various grants from the abbots, the town gradually attained the rank of a borough.

By improving stress-management, the technique can be an adjunct to psychotherapy for people with disabilities, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, panic attacks, stuttering, and chronic pain.

By re-assessing and changing the light sources used, it is often possible to reduce energy use and pollutive effects while simultaneously greatly improving efficiency and visibility.

By determining the timing between the activation of the first and second switches, the velocity of a key press can be determined — greatly improving the performance dynamic of a keyboard.

By 1881 the Volta associates had succeeded in improving an Edison tinfoil machine to some extent.

By the early 1990s engineers were able to digitize video signals, greatly improving storage efficiency.

By improving ‘ natural surveillance ’ of shared land and facilities of nearby residents by literally increasing the number of people who can see it, and increasing the familiarity of residents, as a collective, residents can more easily detect undesirable or criminal behavior.

By contrast, the leaders of the former Warsaw Pact intelligence community, when I was one of them, looked up to Andropov as the man who substituted the KGB for the Communist party in governing the Soviet Union, and who was the godfather of Russia's new era of deception operations aimed at improving the badly damaged image of Soviet rulers in the West.

By the early 1960s experiments in improving care had begun in some civilian centres.

By contrast, the origin in post-War Britain, while employing irony and parody, was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American popular culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while improving prosperity of a society.

By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was established to connect a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing.

By 1933, State Highway 34 ( later State Highway 199 ), had reached Azle from Fort Worth, greatly improving transportation capabilities between the town and the city.

By using the hammer production costs could be reduced by over 50 percent, while at the same time improving the quality of the forgings produced.

By using these phosphorescent materials, both singlet and triplet excitons will be able to decay radiatively, hence improving the internal quantum efficiency of the device compared to a standard PLED where only the singlet states will contribute to emission of light.

By improving standardized activities and processes, kaizen aims to eliminate waste ( see lean manufacturing ).

By far the best observed period is from 1850 to the present day, with coverage improving over time.

By incorporating a layer of cardboard / newspaper into a mulch, the quantity of heavier mulch can be reduced, whilst improving the weed suppressant and moisture retaining properties of the mulch.

By the mid 1990s, the debt markets were improving and KKR had moved on from the RJR Nabisco buyout.

By August 1921, the UK Save the Children had raised over £ 1, 000, 000, and conditions for children in Central Europe were improving due to their efforts.

By the late 1940s and early 1950s the state of the railways was improving as war damage and delayed maintenance work cleared more mainline track for high speed running.

" The end goals of such criticism is greater understanding and appreciation: “ By improving understanding and appreciation, the critic can offer new and potentially exciting ways for others to see the world.

" By improving governance of marine fisheries, society could capture a substantial part of this $ 50 billion annual economic loss.

By the latter half of the century, however, improving transport and communications meant that even remote parts of the Empire had access to publications such as the magazine The Builder, which helped colonial architects keep informed about current fashion.

By means of various forms, the Continuing Education Department meets the students ' and in-service medical staffs ' demands of improving and renewing knowledge.

By improving the companies ’ partnership, services for the Macedonian passengers will gain additional possibilities.

By turning unused ponds into viable fish farms, and improving methods of raising fish in existing ponds, many people can now earn a living raising and selling fish.