With repeated blows, the cracks would grow steadily until a hole was created.

It then developed steadily for a few years until it moved to Witney, Oxfordshire, in 1991, and was legally recognised as the European Youth Parliament International Ltd., a subsidiary of a charity created in 1992 for this purpose, the Fontainebleau Youth Foundation.

During the 1990s, QuarkXPress steadily won ground from PageMaker, and it seemed increasingly odd that Adobe — who had created PostScript, so vital to the working of DTP — still did not offer its own page layout application.

While Hasselblad had enjoyed a slowly but steadily growing reputation among professional photographers through the 1950s, the publicity created by NASA's use of Hasselblad products dramatically increased name recognition for the brand.

Since this debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of shōjo manga.

Several companies continue to license the Wolff name and use their lamps because of the name recognition, although this has steadily diminished over the years as other lamp builders have created lamps that are arguably as good as or better than Wolffs '.

After an earlier failed experiment on 21 October, the Belgians managed to open the sluices at Nieuwpoort during the nights of 26 October to 29 October during successive high tides, thereby steadily raising the water level until an impassable flooded marshland was created up to a mile wide and stretching as far south as Diksmuide.

In the pursuit of taking out the most of the materials, a whole range of experimentation is being made steadily, such as the one conducted in the cavern of Mendukilo ( Navarre ) by Juan Mari Beltran, aimed at providing a suitable txalaparta background for visits ( as of March 2008 ) based on sounds created by playing with elements from the very grotto.

The two railroads that created it were steadily losing passengers, freight traffic and money ; and were heavily burdened by years of accumulated debt, confiscatory property taxes, and extensive, money-losing commuter operations.

Ever since the Prince-Elector of Brandenburg had created himself King in Prussia at the beginning of that century, their domains had steadily increased through war and inheritance.

When it was created it covered the inner suburbs of Carlton and Fitzroy, but successive boundary changes have moved it steadily northwards.

) Regardless, the Zone Turquoise was created in the steadily shrinking areas out of RPF control.

Passage through the locks developed steadily, and in 1824, an inn was created for passengers on the steamboats, by converting one of the lock houses on the flight.

It became the church of the new town ( Neustadt ), which was created in 1625 inside the new city walls, and which grew steadily since.

While steadily grading to Moresville ( present-day Grand Gorge ), the high number of curves and grades created a big problem, as more digging, ties and rails meant higher costs to complete the rest of the railroad.

Bagnols-sur-Ceze expanded steadily after the Marcoule nuclear center was created in 1956.

The galleries ' collections grew steadily, with the Studio Gallery becoming renowned for having one of the best collections of African beadwork in the world, and by 2002 it was decided that more space was needed.

Kawai grand pianos have evolved steadily over the decades -- from the Model 500 / 600 built in the 1960s and 1970s, to the renowned KG Series in the 1980s and early 1990s that became extremely popular among teachers and institutions.

Its growth continues steadily on a par with past growth ; ;

Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

It winked as steadily as a metronome -- on, off -- on, off.

The fiscal discipline set by Finance Minister Djankov proved successful and together with reduced budget spending it placed Bulgarian economy on the stage of steadily though slowly growing in the mids of world crisis.

Overkirk's squadrons – 48 Dutch, supported on their left by 21 Danish – steadily advanced towards the enemy ( taking care not to prematurely tire the horses ), before breaking into a trot to gain the impetus for their charge.

The ships are firing on eight ships flying the British flag that are steadily approaching them from the right of the picture.

Filming on The Circus was continuing steadily when a fire broke out on 28 September, destroying the set.

Prices of petrol rose steadily in 2007 and 2008, leading to a transport union strike in Douala on 25 February 2008.

SOHO's 2000th comet was discovered by Polish amateur astronomer Michał Kusiak on 26 December 2010, and the numbers are expected to continue rising steadily for the foreseeable future.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

Mahuad concluded a well-received peace with Peru on October 26, 1998, but increasing economic, fiscal, and financial difficulties drove his popularity steadily lower.

His new ideas on the thyroid gland were initially controversial but his successful treatment of goiter with a steadily decreasing mortality rate soon won him recognition.

In the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish state originating in Anatolia, encroached steadily on former Byzantine lands, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

As months passed, Carías moved slowly but steadily to strengthen his hold on power.

Bogart disliked the roles chosen for him, but he worked steadily: between 1936 and 1940, Bogart averaged a movie every two months, sometimes even working on two simultaneously, as movies were not generally shot sequentially.

Cooperation between the U. S. and Indonesia on counter-terrorism has increased steadily since 2002, as terrorist attacks in Bali ( October 2002 and October 2005 ), Jakarta ( August 2003 and September 2004 ) and other regional locations demonstrated the presence of terrorist organizations, principally Jemaah Islamiyah, in Indonesia.

Weakness comes on slowly ( over months or years ) and progresses steadily and usually leads to severe weakness and wasting of arm and leg muscles.

sIBM weakness comes on over months or years and progresses steadily, whereas polymyositis has an onset of weeks or months.

The rules on burials and lay access to churches appear to have been steadily circumvented, at least unofficially.

German expenditure on ships was steadily rising.

Luxembourg's fortress, located on a rocky outcrop known as the Bock, was steadily enlarged and strengthened over the years by successive owners, among others the Bourbons, Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, which made it one of the strongest fortresses on the European continent.

The population grew steadily to support the tourism industry and by the 1940s, real estate speculators and journalists were referring to the area as the " Gold Coast.

The community grew slowly, but steadily throughout the rest of the century, with particular booms occurring in the decade after World War II and a real estate boom in the last quarter of the 20th century.

Residential real estate prices also rose steadily.

During this time, Kirkby Industrial Estate was steadily expanding to become one of the largest in England until, at its peak in 1971, the estate provided employment for over 26, 000 people.

The magazine grew steadily under his leadership, and he diversified into real estate sales and other ventures.

Urban decay contradicts the urban development of most of Europe and North America, in countries beyond, urban decay is manifest in the peripheral slums at the outskirts of a metropolis, while the city center and the inner city retain high real estate values and sustain a steadily increasing population.

By 2001, real property values were climbing steadily and Washington D. C. was experiencing a real estate investment boom in the residential, commercial and retail markets.

Cochabamba is a steadily emerging market within the Bolivian real estate industry.

In recent years, the population of Tiong Bahru estate has declined steadily.

The effects counter the development of most of Europe and North America ; in countries beyond, urban decay is manifested in the peripheral slums at the outskirts of a metropolis, while the city center and the inner city retain high real estate values and sustain a steadily increasing populace.