Yet for all sorts of reasons this feels more likely to be a gradual end rather than a fresh beginning.

The sugar cane industry continued to flourish, however the coal came to a gradual end, and by 1967 mining had virtually ceased.

The anti-slavery plank of his platform called for a gradual end to slavery by the year 1850.

Eventually, the arrangement lead to a gradual end in Navajo raids as the tribe was able to increase the size of livestock and crops.

Their campaign focused public criticism on the Republicans and forced them to drop their major demand - the gradual end of rent regulations.

A gradual end to the recession could spark interest in some luxury products.

He favored a gradual end to slavery, and at one point owned slaves himself.

And it called for a gradual end to the practice of subsidizing residential service with business services.

The nation's largest teachers' union issued a report today calling for a gradual end to the tracking policy of grouping students according to past performance.

This had the potential to create a crisis of succession and led to a gradual end to fratricide.