But Venice's gradual transformation into a theme park, overflowing with tourists by day, bereft of residents at night, is dreadful to behold.

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The emergence of Vinopolis is just the latest stage in the gradual transformation of British wine-drinking from a hobby pursued by cognoscenti to a mass pursuit.

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The bottom-up approach involves gradual transformation of the public psyche.

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Second, by implementing a gradual transformation, it gave everyday consumers the chance to slowly warm up to the idea of owning an Xbox 360 while the price continued to drop.

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Thai royals, for example, historically had their bodies cremated many months after death, with their remains being moved from urn to urn until the final day of incineration, in the belief that the soul moves through a gradual transformation, exiting the earth and entering the spiritual world.

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Meanwhile, Mr Thaci underwent a gradual process of transformation from left-wing guerrilla to mainstream political leader.

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The Recovery Act will double the supply of renewable energy, but the only way to truly spark an energy transformation is through a gradual, market-based cap on carbon pollution so that energy, clean energy is the profitable kind of energy.

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Western friends of reform in Russia should be under no illusion: The rationale for such an arrangement is not that it will ultimately produce the transformation of political and economic affairs in the former Soviet Union -- only on a more gradual, less tumultuous pace than originally envisioned by Yeltsin and his first administration led by Yegor Gaidar.

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