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

The organism slowly gained increasingly precise visual information.

As leisure time and disposable income generally rose through the 20th Century, miniatures games slowly gained a following.

It was disseminated around England by bureaucrats on official business, and slowly gained prestige.

After the construction of nearby West 6th Avenue and Interstate 70, West Colfax Avenue through Denver's West Colfax Neighborhood, Northeast Lakewood, and Edgewater slowly declined and gained the seedy crime reputation and reality of its eastern counterpart.

* Nickelodeon, the first children's television channel, launched in 1979 ; it slowly gained in popularity over the course of the 1980s and early 1990s.

William Butterfield, the original architect, a High Churchman himself, produced a vigorous masterpiece of Victorian Gothic, among his few secular buildings, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner characterized as " manly ", and which, Charles Eastlake asserted, defied criticism, but which only slowly gained adherents during the later 20th century.

However, it slowly gained primacy through the work of Hippodamus of Miletus, who slowly planned and replanned many Greek cities in accordance with this form.

Over the years Brown Township grew slowly, but it never gained a large population.

The residents of the area gained full U. S. citizenship and slowly assimilated into American life over the next half-century.

This panel slowly gained recognition, and the daily comic strip began August 24, 1919 in the New York Daily News.

Initially the components of the car were entirely manufactured by Mitsubishi but slowly local parts were used as technologies were transferred and skills were gained.

It started slowly: 10-20 cards a day were sent in the first weeks, 1000-2000 a day over the first summer, and then it gained momentum rapidly.

As the British slowly gained the upper hand in the Battle of the Beams, they started considering what the next German system would entail.

Nevertheless, the film slowly gained a massive cult following in the years following its release, including in the golf world.

Nevertheless it was shut out of government until the outbreak of the Winter War and only slowly gained back support.

While the movement initially slowly gained members ( including bands like Oval ), the techniques of Glitch later quickly spread around the world as many artists followed suit.

High tensile ( H-T or HT ) fencing is a special hard, springy steel wire was introduced in the 1980s and has slowly gained acceptance.

This slowly gained currency, especially because of the undeniable fact that the B. E. 2c and B. E. 2e were kept in production and in service long after they were obsolete and that the B. E. 12 and B. E. 12a were indisputable failures.

Although the Spanish gained the upper hand when they finally controlled the ports of the region, the population of Davao grew very slowly until the arrival of Christian missionaries in the area.

In comparison to liner crossings, cruising voyages gained popularity ; slowly at first but at an increased rate from the 1980s onwards.

The film slowly gained a cult following through word of mouth when it was distributed as the b movie in a double feature with Mario Bava's Black Sunday and eventually with The Last Woman on Earth.

As they slowly gained, Walter Schirra put Gemini 6A's computer in charge of the rendezvous, and at 5 hours and 4 minutes, he saw a bright object that he at first thought was the star Sirius, but was in fact Gemini 7.

Having lost all momentum they moved slowly upwards, so tightly packed that even the most indifferent archer could scarcely fail to hit his target.

As momentum slowly built towards unification of the two regional denominations, conservative pastors and lay leaders became alarmed by the PCUS's drift from orthodoxy and historic confessional and biblical standards of the church.

Even though there is little intervening evidence for writing during the millennium and a half between the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilization c. 1900 BCE and the first appearance of Brahmi in the mid-4th century BCE, the Indus hypothesis is slowly gaining momentum because of the sheer differences between how Semitic alphabets work and how Brahmi works for an Indo-Aryan language.

The momentum, progress, and optimism built up around Ebbhead was slowly eroded by the group's ( very expensive ) three years recording the follow-up album, Big Hit.

Today's computers often feature separate equipment for both types of wireless communication, although Wireless USB is slowly gaining momentum to become a competitor of Bluetooth.

The magazine slowly but steadily gained momentum beyond the borders of the Province of Livorno, and it is now read in most Northern and Central Italy.

It consists of four monothematic movements and has a perfectly symmetrical structure: music slowly emerges from silence ( 1st movement — a passacaglia ) and builds towards a fast climax ( 2nd — a scherzo and moto perpetuo ), keeps its momentum ( 3rd —" a continuous melodic line that never goes back on itself "), and finally slowly fades out ( 4th — a theme and variations ).

Since the discontinuation of the Wispa bar in 2003, a host of internet campaigns and an online petition to bring it back slowly gained momentum.

Abraham's equation suggests that in materials through which light travels more slowly, electromagnetic fields should have lower momentum, while Minkowski suggests it should have a greater momentum.

His career slowly gathered momentum in the early 1990s, when he alternated between small-screen guest spots in TV shows like The Equalizer, NYPD Blue and Law & Order and small roles in films such as Last Exit to Brooklyn and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Population levels then slowly expanded, gaining momentum in the early 16th century.

What started out as a five-person initiative slowly gained momentum as funding for the BDFFP grew and became a successful midsize research project operated by a larger staff.

The song's momentum built slowly in the U. S. throughout the latter months of 1997, ultimately leading to a CD single release on 3 March 1998 by Virgin Records America, helping the song to reach number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Its brightness peaked in May with an apparent magnitude of about 3 and slowly declined in the following months.

Richmond emerged from the smoldering rubble of the Civil War as an economic powerhouse, with iron front buildings and massive brick factories. Canal traffic peaked in the 1860s and slowly gave way to railroads, allowing Richmond to become a major railroad crossroads, eventually including the site of the world's first triple railroad crossing.

The increase in population peaked before World War I, falling slowly in the aftermath until World War II began an exodus from London towards the new towns under the Abercrombie Plan for London ( 1944 ).

The area's population peaked in 1976 at 29, 448 and has been slowly declining since.

The population peaked at 3, 282 in the 1970 census and slowly declined during the final two decades of the twentieth century.

However, the large number of pubs slowly declined throughout the 1900s, having peaked in the earlier years of the century.

The trade peaked in the late 17th century and was slowly replaced by Chinese kilns in the early 18th century ; it ended in 1756, as social conditions in China settled with the full establishment of the Qing Dynasty.

Starting in the mid-1930s, Guardia officers began being issued with the M1937 or M1942 American peaked caps, in either light tropical khaki and Olive Drab wool cloth, which slowly began to replace the campaign hat in service dress.

The Jewish community grew slowly until World War II and bolstered by refugees in the late 1930s, peaked at about 2, 100.

The run peaked in the 1970s before slowly fading away altogether by the late 1980s.

The post-Civil War nativism peaked just after the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and then slowly faded with the growing popularity of the National Anthem.