Sentences with phrase «gradually become less»

Many of us have watched an aging family member or loved one gradually become less able to care for themself as they grow older.

Your aim is to gradually become less of a prey, and more of a predator.

The senses gradually become less acute though cats adjust their lifestyles to compensate.

In counterconditioning you will be undoing these learned associations and creating new ones, and as your dog unlearns these associations and learns the new ones, the outward manifestations will gradually become less intense, fade and eventually go away.

If you stop exposing your puppy to new experiences after puppy class, your pup may gradually become less confident in the world and new behavior problems may develop.

First, as the decades have passed, «local» has gradually become a less accurate way to describe, much less to organize, public education in America.

Over time, you can gradually become less helpful as your child learns on how fall asleep on his own.

If your child has a lovey, his attachment to it is likely to peak at around 18 to 24 months of age and then gradually become less intense.

At first a DNA test revealed he was entirely Irish, but as the data set changed, he gradually became less Irish.

Gradually they became less and less welcome, and had to seek out some private residence for their meetings.

The departure of Assumpcao for Muang Thong United in June deprived the club of their top scorer, and Lita gradually became a less regular starter.

You may already notice how baby's movements are gradually becoming less trembling or jerky.

Their skin is gradually becoming less wrinkled and red, as white body fat builds up beneath the skin making it look smoother and paler.

Segall said, «The measurements indicated the plate boundary was gradually becoming less locked over time.

Or they might «digitally rust», gradually becoming less faithful unless we make a concerted effort to preserve them.

By his early twenties, the episodes gradually became less frequent, with his sleep time reduced to about 16 hours a day.

Moving east this layer of lime - containing soil gradually becomes less until it is gone in eastern Kansas.

Austen biographer Claire Tomalin argues that Sense and Sensibility has a «wobble in its approach», which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph.

The bitch gradually becomes less important to the puppies and the period of socialization arbitrarily terminates after weaning.

Just because phishing is gradually becoming less of a threat does not mean you are safe from cyber criminals.

Not exact matches

Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes flesh of his flesh.

Gradually the pendulum swing from theory to theory has become less wild, and a small body of reliable results has emerged.

The former distinction mentioned above — that between lower and higher levels of individuals — suggests that the habits of the higher - level ones will be less binding, so that as scientists move to increasingly higher levels, the laws will become increasingly imprecise, gradually becoming what some would prefer to call mere «generalizations.»

The analysis, however, is less interesting, depending as it does on a version of «secularization theory» that views religion as becoming less necessary as people in developed societies gradually sense they are more secure.

So it makes sense that since my son and grandson George have become vegan, I too have returned to my roots and gradually become much less interested in meat» — Salma Hage

Pumps that cycle at a lower speed than a baby nurses (fewer than 60 cycles per minute) and are used more than twice a day may cause your milk supply to gradually become mismatched to your baby's needs, and produce less milk than your baby wants.

When the method works, children gradually accept that no one will come to their aid, and, as a result, their behavior becomes less disruptive (Reid at al 1999).

We made it through our first six months, with him happy, healthy and thriving, and me feeling good enough to keep going — though gradually less and less as solid food became a bigger focus — right up to now, still nursing at sleepy times, just days away from his second birthday.

However, for the countries of Western Europe, as the centuries passed and memories of Holy Wars gave way to the hopes of the enlightenment, the boundaries of Christendom became gradually less important than the boundaries of «Western civilization» which were both culturally and politically narrower than those of Christendom.

The basic state pension should gradually become more generous and less means - tested, paid for by an increase in the retirement age up to 69, Adair Turner said today.

The result, says Bekenstein, is a «gradual information outflux» with «the black hole entropy becoming gradually less and less» until in the end it vanishes as the black hole vanishes.

This allows them to gradually rely less on adult support and become more «self - regulating», both intellectually and emotionally.

To begin with, they orbited close to the plane of the ecliptic in the same direction as the planets, but their orbits were deformed by the galaxy's tidal force and by interactions with nearby stars, gradually becoming more inclined and forming a more or less spherical reservoir,» Morais said.

Gradually, HAT is becoming a less - neglected disease, mobilising an increasingly large scientific community through studies such as these.

My hope is that those kinds of alliances will gradually spread around the world and war will become even less likely in future.

As students progress, the robot gradually reduces the force used to lead them, so they become less reliant on its guidance.

Through a regular yoga practice and this continued awareness, yoga students with scoliosis might find that it gradually becomes natural for them to stand taller, and perhaps even notice that they are breathing easier and moving with less pain.

You're gonna think exercise is the worst thing possible, or if you gradually move into a more active lifestyle, you'll notice less pain, less soreness and you'll just become a natural part of your lifestyle.

Although we know almost nothing about Jack's background (beyond his occupation) and even less about who Pavel is and how he comes by his clients, we gradually become aware that such things are red herrings.

As well as improving his less honourable skills, Addie gradually helps Moses become a slightly more responsible and honest man too, which leads to a final dilemma as to what to do with the young girl.

The less one knows about this movie going in the better, so suffice to say that from this goofy beginning, Tickled becomes ever darker, gradually uncovering a world of big - money lawsuits, blackmail, secret identities, and exploitation.

When you start from the beginning and develop gradually, the end goal becomes less of a fixed point and more of an eventuality.

When teachers «gradually do less of the work while students steadily assume increased responsibility for their learning, it is through this process that students become competent, independent learners.»

However, when he retrieved a list from his memory after short intervals of time that gradually increased, the forgetting curve would become less steep.

And since people tend to become less tolerant of risk as they age, you may also want to pare back your stock exposure gradually throughout retirement (although there's also an argument for a «reverse guide path,» or starting with a relatively low stock exposure and increasing it later on).

On sufficient improvement in market internals, we would be inclined to establish call option positions that would gradually take us to a significantly less hedged position on persistent market strength, but we do not expect to eliminate our put option defenses until the combination of valuations and market action becomes clearly favorable, or until it is reasonable to expect a sustained economic recovery within a quarter or two.

Gradually, he became less afraid and joined Sultan on top of the table by the window.

It won't happen overnight, either — your puppy's temperament and personality will gradually start to even out and, as long as you keep up with obedience training, his unpredictable puppy behaviors will become less and less frequent.

Gradually the «I'm so excited I can't contain myself» periods will become less frequent and less intense.

Once they become older and pick up bad habits, they will gradually worth less.