But there are also much more mainstream switches that emerge gradually.

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Not only is it in the interest of Microsoft to promote the platform, but also for the carriers who are looking to increase competition in their supply chain and gradually decrease the impact of smartphone subsidies.

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In the three elections since then the Cambodian leader has gradually eased up on the hardball tactics, occasionally jailing or exiling critics, but also wooing opponents into the fold with promises of power.

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But in the years that followed, she also suffered the more earthly fate of saints: her corpse was gradually cut up and distributed for display in reliquaries around the Roman Catholic world.

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