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We should gradually increase imports to reduce the large surplus between U.S.-China and gradually buy less U.S. debt. Holding so much foreign-exchange reserves exerts a great deal of pressure on our monetary policy.

With exceptionally strong business fundamentals, an outstanding new product platform and gradually improving global conditions, we look for a return to our more traditional sales and earnings performance levels in the second half of the year.

The orders situation in the German manufacturing sector is excellent. It strengthens the European Central Bank's resolve to tighten interest rates and gradually normalize them.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

We do not view it as a change in policy. China is reforming its capital accounts - carefully and gradually relaxing controls on many of the 43 different lines of the capital account. We think this is the right way to do things.

Both exports and domestic demand are on a good footing. Production is likely to improve gradually in the coming months.

Brendan has been a mentor to me, ... He went out on the track and showed me the line. He told me to get out there and run my pace, and I will gradually build up my confidence. In the test session, I was only two-tenths of a second off of him, so I'll take that as a confidence booster.

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

Originally I thought I'd go back to the H.G. Wells novel. But gradually I realized the beauty of the Howard Koch and Orson Welles version.

After the first of the year, there will be a transition period during which consumers will still see packaged food on store shelves without the revised allergen labeling. However, these will gradually disappear, as the Department of Consumer Protection food inspectors actively monitor manufacturer compliance.

Someone who smokes may want to simply put the pack down and call it quits, but for instance, if you smoke 10 cigarettes a day, cutting back to nine and so on until you gradually quit might give you the best chance of sticking with your decision.

Something in-between is probably where we are. While the economy remains weak, inflation will gradually grind down. When the economy picks up, it's unlikely then that inflation will grind down further.

financial assets decline only gradually when households are in their retirement years.

Some districts see them as purely a money item, and they lose sight of their importance. Money for office hours needs to be gradually built into a budget.

Companies are making new investments in technology and initiating IT projects to support business growth, ... As a result, managers are expanding their work forces once again, adding IT personnel gradually to meet individual staffing needs.

Demand for final goods is gradually recovering. Prices for these products will stay positive, though their gains probably won't accelerate.

A zero-depth entry point would be something to make the pool more accessible to handicapped people. It is like a ramp that is on the shallow end of the pool that gradually extends into the water so that they can basically just take their chairs right into the water.

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

They start out following an experienced inspector and then gradually that experienced inspector fades back and lets this person take the lead.

Quarantines will be lifted gradually when they reach 30 days, just as if nothing happened.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Preparing the markets for a rate hike is a process in which the Fed gradually has to back away from its unduly pessimistic stance of recent months. This will take some time, but the process is now underway.

During the recent downturn, the legacy carriers have gradually used up their financial cushion of aircraft and other assets they can borrow against. If they are forced to face a new crisis, they may fail more quickly than they have in the past.

There's still potential for the markets to gradually move upwards over the year, and M&A can help. There is quite a lot of institutional demand. Equities are still not particularly expensive.

This treatment will last anything between 48 and 72 hours and then we will try to gradually wake the prime minister.

We got information gradually as the details came out and people understood what had happened and how it was affecting the country and the rest of the world.

This was a great team win. We are gradually becoming a solid program for our level.

I usually have rough time in the fall and swim a lot better second semester and I've been gradually dropping times to where I want them.

They self-soothe. But gradually they'll accommodate for what real life is.

This game was very typical of us. We started out strong, took the game to the opponent and gradually lost concentration and came down. This team is unpredictable.

This is one of the more talented teams we have had. But we need to continue working each and every practice. We are gradually becoming more team-oriented.

This is something that's going to happen gradually over time.

This is a capability you need to be competitive. We started with e-mail and instant messaging, and gradually instant messaging has evolved to include voice.

A deterioration in overseas demand may gradually affect the Japanese economy, like a body blow.

(In Australia) we didn't have the luxury of gradually bringing Jacques back into the action. He came straight back and the workload (was high). He hurt the elbow again. We want to avoid that this time, and slowly integrate him back into the team.

Inflationary pressures are gradually easing, which should offer scope for interest rate cuts, but near-term relative economic strength has led us to pencil in the first cut coming in May rather than in the first quarter.

In the early 70's you had wonderful games and attention for two competing tournaments. Gradually the NCAA decided it was worth more and more money to drive the NIT into second class status.

If you have these big huge goals they are not as attainable as smaller goals. It's better to start out slow and gradually increase - that way you don't get burned out. But you've got to have a plan.

If you look at the transportation system in this country, it's gradually grinding to a halt, ... Now you've got the price of fuel going through the roof, and we've got a whole transportation system that's built on cheap fuel. One of the ways to solve some of the fuel problems cheaply is right here.

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

I'm not forming any hard opinions one way or the other. It's way too early. . . . Gradually things clarify themselves.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

I'm gradually getting back. I feel like I'm about 85 to 90 percent.

Studies have shown that high; unmet need is a barrier to college for many low-income students. The bill will gradually lower charges for some students, known as origination fees, over the next five years.

That has been going well. The first day we did it I asked for a show of hands if that was the farthest they had ever run at one time, most of the freshman raised their hands. We're gradually getting used to it. We are also doing less of the traditional static stretching and focusing more on dynamic stretching, which involves a lot more movement and gets the muscles a lot more warmed up.

Not having the big hitters we had last year, we have to take advantage of as many errors as we can, all the small-ball opportunities we get. We did a good job of that. We're gradually getting better at it as we move through the season.

It's not a term people throw around because it's incredibly hard to do, but it does appear that we're headed for a soft landing. What we're looking for is for economic growth to gradually moderate in the months ahead, with inflation remaining under control.

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

Confidence is gradually recovering. The main issue has been gasoline prices and they've fallen back from their highs.

Consumer prices are increasing and that will give Fukui confidence to change policy. We are gradually reducing our bond holdings.

Consumer spending, together with domestic investment spending, are leaving the Japanese economy a little less dependent on exports. Over the past decade, Japan has been notoriously unable to develop a self-sustaining recovery. We're gradually getting out of that rut.

It's pretty well accepted that the economy is gradually building momentum, and Kmart has declared bankruptcy,

It's part of a pattern at the Post where they're gradually been getting rid of all the people who write interesting copy on China or Hong Kong and toning down the paper. It's basically a process of self-censorship.

The Internet is gradually becoming more of a standard way to shop. It's convenient to use, especially as people are more confident now of using their credit cards online. Web vendors are giving customers what they want like free shipping or the option to order online and pick up the goods at the store.

The Fed can take comfort in the fact that core inflation remains tame, despite some modest inflationary pressures - gradually rising wage inflation, tighter capacity constraints and higher oil prices.

The Federal Reserve has responded to the balance of market forces by gradually raising the federal funds rate over the past year, ... Certainly, to have done otherwise -- to have held the federal funds rate at last year's level even as credit demands and market interest rates rose -- would have required an inappropriately inflationary expansion of liquidity.

The lack of musical education means that music is in danger of gradually losing its place in society.

The U.S. housing market appears to be gradually losing steam under the weight of higher mortgage rates, ... Even so, the market remains exceptionally healthy by any yardstick.

It took a long time for wheat to become successfully naturalized in China. It gradually spread from northwestern China to the East and to the South.

I therefore have no reason to believe that the analysis of the samples was not regular. Yes, the laboratory found EPO traces in many samples. It may be that EPO traces disappear gradually from urine, but it cannot be that no EPO should be in them and then it emerges as if from nowhere.

It has gradually evolved. As America changed the people that came here wanted something a little better. For years they had been asking for a place to stay out in the country rather than a hotel room in town. It was hard for me as a farmer to understand that they came from a corporate world in the big city. They wanted a different experience.

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

I just kind of gradually was able to lift more within two weeks very little pain and of course a small scar.

High gasoline prices gradually eat away at income. The effect isn't felt all at once. We have seen consumers change their behavior in recent months and there should be further changes if prices stay at these levels.

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

In the past, I think there had been low expectations for Kyocera's electronics parts business, so I think investors had gradually started to view it as one of the losers in the tech sector. In that sense, these earnings are a positive surprise.

In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions

Interest rate cycles globally are gradually changing but we expect no great impact upon the global economy.

Can the government introduce price relaxations gradually enough so as to keep CPI at two-three percent a year?,

Campbell Ogilvie has gradually relinquished day-to-day involvement with the club's football administrative tasks. He will now assist the board, acting as a consultant on strategic footballing matters and give up his executive duties while remaining as a director of the board in a non executive capacity.

I'll obviously have to be aware of trying to gradually increase my intensity and work-rate on court, but I'm confident it's going to be totally healed, ... My stomach has responded well to rest although I've still got to be careful over the next few days not to over-do it.

I'll have to be aware of gradually trying to increase my intensity and work-out, but I'm confident that it's going to be totally healed by the time the US Open rolls around, which is obviously good news.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me

By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you

Home buyers need something visible on-screen to surprise them, ... If it's the dollar gradually losing another 10 percent or mortgage rates creeping up 1 percentage point, that's not going to do it.

He's progressing well. He feels good about it. The soreness is gradually dissipating. I would say he's on schedule for the opener, although we're going to be cautious. I don't see him playing this week.

He's probably the only pitcher that I know who really didn't need to warm up. You know most guys start out warming up slow and gradually increase their speed. When I knew Elmer, he went to the mound, he opened up and he was just about full speed on his first warm-up pitch. That struck me as being unusual.

Good news is that banks' lending attitude seems to be gradually becoming far more accommodative than in the previous recoveries.

Generally, (Indonesia) is still gradually improving. When we had the positive outlook, we thought it was improving faster.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

The two sides have expressed the readiness to gradually realize trade balance through joint efforts in the process of development,

The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be anymore

There still is a lot of negotiating that will have to be completed in November, including the specifics of the agreements and time frames. But in essence, North Korea has agreed to end its existing nuclear weapons and ongoing development and to include inspections in exchange for a U.S. agreement not to invade or attack North Korea and to gradually normalize relations.

They will continue to gradually reduce the sedatives and they will observe his responses. This is a process that could take several days.

It's clearly yen positive, especially when China is gradually allowing the yuan to appreciate day by day.

After Game 5 was over, everybody was upset and kind of thinking about the game and what went wrong, trying to figure it all out. Then gradually you start realizing, oh, we've got to get ready for the next game. So your attitude changes, your mood changes. We got in here Saturday night, and by the time everybody went to bed, I think everybody had gotten their frustration out.

As has been reported, lending competition is heating up. It seems the market is gradually coming to doubt if all banks have bright earnings outlooks from an expected end to quantitative easing.

Anthony started to play better and better the last few weeks, ... I guess a big man who plays both ways has to take a few plays off, but those have gradually decreased each week. He pushed himself more in the preseason than any other year. He actually spent the night before the Neshoba (Central) game in the hospital because he'd gotten dehydrated.

As all carriers more aggressively promote subscription-based models, they are also testing price inelasticity by gradually inching up average pricing. To grow the market, carriers must work in tandem with publishers to provide real value for a more expensive subscription, rather than treating it as just another pricing tactic.

The Indian retail market is gradually but surely opening up, while China's market becomes increasingly saturated.

The current mechanism is in the right direction. I think in terms of flexibility, (the yuan) is gradually determined more and more by market forces and demand and supply of the market.

The country is gradually becoming more anti-smoker. I'm not sure who will have the bigger pull.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

The general slowing in the growth of the leading indicators over the past year suggests the pace of economic growth should gradually slow over the next three to six to nine months.

The economy is still growing at an above trend pace and with slack in labor and product markets all but fully absorbed, inflation pressures will begin to gradually build this year.