The expansion plans only gradually gained momentum in 1941.

The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, the first recorded non-university football club in Canada.

In the Silver Age comics continuity, Clark gained superpowers upon landing on Earth, and gradually learned to master them, adopting the superhero identity of Superboy at the age of eight.

The franchise was slowly increased and Parliament gradually gained more power until the monarch became largely a figurehead.

In 1903 he arrived in Saint Petersburg where he gradually gained a reputation as a starets ( or holy man ) with healing and prophetic powers.

After the deaths of Calvin and his successor, Beza, the Geneva city council gradually gained control over areas of life that were previously in the ecclesiastical domain.

The Muslim states of Syria were meanwhile gradually united by Nur ad-Din, who defeated the Principality of Antioch at the Battle of Inab in 1149 and gained control of Damascus in 1154.

In the late 14th century, the Songhai gradually gained independence from the Mali Empire and expanded, ultimately subsuming the entire eastern portion of the Mali Empire.

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

The alternative terms " timbromania ", " timbrophily " and " timbrology " gradually fell out of use as philately gained acceptance during the 1860s.

Canada gradually gained greater and greater autonomy over a considerable period of time through inter imperial and commonwealth diplomacy, including 1867's British North America Act, 1931's Statute of Westminster, and even as late as the patriation of the British North America Act in 1982 ( see Constitution of Canada ).

He gradually gained in Peter's confidence serving first as the Russian ambassador to Constantinople, then as the head of the secret police.

Woodsworth gradually gained influence and power, and King was able to reach an accommodation with him on policy matters, since the two shared many common ideas and plans.

Before the French Revolution, France gained territory gradually through the annexation of a mosaic of independent entities.

Although the Swedish government, amazed at Mörner's effrontery, at once placed him under arrest on his return to Sweden, the candidature of Bernadotte gradually gained favor and on 21 August 1810 he was elected to be the Crown Prince and was made the Commander-in-chief of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Following the collapse of the last Sumerian " Ur-III " dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites, another Semitic people, gradually gained control over most of southern Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms, while the Assyrians reasserted their independence in the north.

It had also gained some currency in Spain by this time, and its use gradually spread to France.

The Communist movement gradually gained momentum as part of the Third Communist International in Inner Mongolia during the Japanese period.

Once they gained a small foothold on land, thanks to their preadaptations and being at the right place at the right time, favourable variations in their descendants would gradually result in continuing evolution and diversification.

Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity due to original programming, including initial hits such as Silk Stalkings and La Femme Nikita, which were gradually followed by Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, and other series.

At the professional level, sprinters begin the race by assuming a crouching position in the starting blocks before leaning forward and gradually moving into an upright position as the race progresses and momentum is gained.

It is gradually becoming accepted that the union pipes originated from the Pastoral pipes and gained popularity in Ireland within the Protestant Anglo-Irish community and its gentlemen pipers.

As Deng Xiaoping gradually gained control over the CPC, Hua was denounced for promoting the Two Whatevers policy.

" The patient was then offered food which he ate eagerly and gradually " gained strength, got rid of his delusion, and was completely cured.

Over the years the name O ' Connell Street gradually gained popular acceptance, and the name was changed officially in 1924.

" Privacy rights gradually expanded to include a " recognition of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and his intellect.

Alfred Schütz ( 13 April 1899, Vienna-20 May 1959, New York City ) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology, and who is " gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost philosophers of social science of the century ".

In 2004, the " National " brand was gradually phased out in Asia, the last market it was used in, with most products being rebadged under the " Panasonic " brand due to trademark restrictions with other companies worldwide containing " National " in their name and Matsushita's desire to unify their businesses under the Panasonic name for greater recognition.

He also toured the UK, performing at numerous venues such as the Lyceum Ballroom, Klooks Kleek and Mothers ; venues that would gradually gain recognition for the variety and quality of their musical acts.

Known as the 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School Formation Team, or informally as the Tutor Whites, the team grew in size to seven aircraft in 1971 using eleven pilots, and gradually gained recognition.

Muzika Mizrahit, the underground style of popular music enjoyed by Israelis of Sephardic origin, gradually gained legitimacy and recognition.

Andrew seeks legal protection stemming from his initial creative output and eventual full recognition as a human, by gradually replacing his robotic components with organic ones, and citing the process as a transformation from robot to human.

Before American recognition of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1979, the PRC lobby was practically nonexistent ; since that time, the PRC lobby has gradually strengthened, and by the 1990s, " China lobby " began usually referring to special interest groups acting on behalf of the PRC.

By late 1943 with a Capitol Records contract, a popular record in " Eager Beaver ", and growing recognition, the Stan Kenton Orchestra was gradually catching on.

The Peace of the King was sworn on his accession or full recognition, and the jurisdiction of his courts to punish all violations of that peace was gradually asserted.

The practice gradually spread and became viewed as obligatory only from the end of the fifteenth century, receiving formal recognition in 1502.

Since then, Pang Tong gradually gained more recognition among the scholar-gentry.

While these were " societies, fellowships and colleges of knights ", created by European monarchs in imitation of the military orders of the Crusades, granting membership in such societies gradually developed into an honour that could be bestowed in recognition of service or to ensure the loyalty of a certain clientele.

The band gradually began to gain some recognition and earn money.

Between 1981 and 1988, a Middle School was gradually introduced, and in recognition of the two levels of education, Loyola High School officially became known as Loyola Blakefield.

The competition has gradually gained recognition from Swedish game development companies and universities as a way for students to show their game development capabilities and thus increase their chances of getting employment within the game industry.

Some English versions have a recognition plot where Apollonius is shipwrecked and becomes a tutor to a princess who falls in love with him, and the good king gradually discovers his daughter's wishes.