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Salmond led the party into joining the "Yes-Yes" campaign for a Scottish parliament, arguing the "gradualist" rather than "fundamentalist" approach to gaining independence.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2024

He repeated it Sunday to explain why a gradualist approach to the situation, which would require financing, was not an option.

From Washington Times • Dec. 10, 2023

Moreover, Martin adds, if the gradualist idea is correct, different lineages of eukaryotes should have fundamentally and measurably different collections of genes, but he has shown they do not.

From Scientific American • Jun. 13, 2022

In defense of the classical gradualist theory of evolution, nearly all biologists in the late 1960s rejected the theory of endosymbiosis as presented by Lynn Margulis in 1967.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

China has generally implemented reforms in a gradualist or piecemeal fashion, including the sale of equity in China's largest state banks to foreign investors and refinements in foreign exchange and bond markets in 2005.

From The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency