Meanings of gradual dismantling in English

A century later, the gradual dismantling of apartheid and segregation was helped by commercialisation, too.

Moves in the direction of system-wide community-based primary health care require a gradual dismantling of this fence.

But there's another, more minor theme to the decade: the gradual dismantling and dissolution of an older internet culture.

For them the remainder of life can only be the compulsory dismemberment of their small empire, the gradual dismantling of their being by inexorable destiny.