Thus Hume was writing the history of the Common Law of England from its origins through its continuing gradual absorption of the international Civil Law.

The key factors encouraging gradual absorption and then integration are being identified, while the failure of sectarianism to be completely eradicated looms large in the investigation.

Meanwhile the gradual Syrian absorption of Lebanon and erosion of the rights of the Christian minority there have been ignored by the West.

There was no reply-three months earlier the Tsarist Council of Ministers had already decided on a policy of gradual, cautious absorption of Uriankhai by encouraging Russian colonization.

This was also accentuated by the gradual absorption of the original smallholdings into the larger holdings of today's farming demands.

By coating the salt with cellulose, he extended digestion of the tablets to as long as 12 hours, and the gradual absorption prevented the side effects.

Briefly, however, the term derives from the state's gradual absorption of voluntary sickness benefit and pension schemes.

Because it is not a takeover of either company but a gradual absorption of Warner by Time, the deal involves no new debt for the combined entity.

Among no other peoples in the New World do we find, as we do in the realm of the Incas, a slow and gradual absorption of the individual by the state.

The ten books of madrigals show a gradual absorption of the styles of other composers in the orbit of the courts of Mantua and Ferrara, particularly Wert.