Sentences with phrase «change thrust»

The current situation reminds me of the maxim «some persons change; others have change thrust upon them.»

I hope law schools will change on their own terms rather than have change thrust upon them.

It's tricky to change the thrust — and the tone — of a story in its second installment, but I think the creators of Kung Fu Panda 2 have pulled it off.

«The administration had made it very clear they are changing the thrust of U.S. policy to allow the private sector in Cuba to blossom,» said Pedro Freyre, chair of law firm Akerman LLP's international practice.

By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer May 4, 2016 Change Thrusts Investors into a New World, Creating Opportunity for the Open - Minded Heraclitus is right that nothing endures but change.

Such changes thrust society into a deep swamp of materiality where materiality became the foundation of value.

He invented the modern short story by changing the thrust of the narrative from mere relation of events to the revelation of character through incident.

As each arena is destroyed and torn apart, the worlds can evolve and change thrusting the characters into new levels.

Climate change thrusts upon us the question of what kind of world we want, what we care about, what kind of ancestors we want to be.

Not exact matches

Although they say they do not intend for the minister to dictate his aims for the church, the thrust of Leading Congregational Change is that the pastor or transformational leader brings a vision that must be promoted, first to a chosen group of disciples, then to a «vision community,» and then — only when fully developed and plotted out — to the congregation.

Environmental conditions could be said to be the occasions of change in the activities of the organism; but the decisive thrust of evolutionary change was internal process of a sort.

For a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch as far as his bone and his flesh [and see] whether he will not curse you to your very face.»

They reversed the trend of apocalyptic narrative: instead of thrusting the decisive change out of the plot into the consummation, they brought the symbols of the end into the midst of the crisis of the story by applying them to Jesus.

The second attitude is to assume that nothing has changed, and so to continue with the old missionary thrust which is concerned essentially with mission abroad.

So the British people are having something thrust upon them, a huge change, on which they have never had the chance to vote.

I have slightly improved the thrust of this quotation: Whitehead actually (somewhat embarrassingly) claims that the «struggle for existence gives no hint why there should be cities» even though Hobbes» social theory provides just such an account, illustrating that cultural change and even transformation per se has necessarily little to do with the issue of evolution.

That repudiation, however, need not be the final word on the turmoil of the 1960s, a time when change was not, in fact, slow, and did not come with «deliberate speed» but was harshly thrust upon us.

Of course the rhythm of the immediate process has no being or achievement other than the determinate occasions it brings to fact; but that is the poignancy of change and becoming, always losing its thrust when it succeeds.

The first deals with the crucial matter of the church's role in prevention, including the dual thrusts of community outreach and change, on the one hand, and stimulating the growth of persons within the life of the church, on the other.

I've made plenty of mistakes along the way and plenty of detours, too — some detours I made deliberately and some were thrust upon me as circumstances changed.

Resilience to climate change is a big thrust of IRRI's work in improving rice varieties that will help farmers produce more rice with the same, or declining, amount of resources.

While twerking, hip thrusting, crotch grabbing, and other sexually suggestive acts aren't allowed, the changes give room for a lot more creativity that wasn't there before.

He was basically the best version of a «change of pace» back thrust into a full - time role.

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But as she begins to be ready for solids, you will observe a change in the way she moves her mouth — there may be less drool, as she is more capable of swallowing, and she will start to lose the «tongue - thrust reflex,» which expels objects — including food if attempted too early — from the mouth.

And he lists Major's achievements, a strong and growing economy, the foundations for peace in Northern Ireland and, the reinforcement of a sea change in British politics, thrusting change on the Labour Party.

The agency's main thrust is to promote sustainable development using the notion of a forested and green north to catalyze climate change reversal and improve livelihoods of the most vulnerable citizens in the area.

If true, why would northern national legislators band together to pass the Lagos - Kano rail project but the southern ones, in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, conspire to let go of a key infrastructure thrust, that could change the face of the South East and South - South economies for good?

The conference will also initiate moves away from rhetoric and false starts toward concrete, cumulative and comprehensive public policy thrusts for change.

The central thrust of AEC's legal argument is that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver changed the rules at the end of the process by requesting that even marginal investors in the group had to receive a license from the Lottery Division.

8.30 am Update: Ms Coffey has pointed out the thrust of Mr Collins's speech was against statutory regulation, and I have made the necessary change.

A new crop of mega-philanthropists — with names like Soros, Gates and Koch — is eclipsing the old guard, changing the rules and courting controversy by taking on hot - button political and social issues on both the left and the right that thrusts them into the spotlight.

Due to the ability in rotating wings as well as changing the direction of thrust power come by the tail motor, the Nsphere drone with independently controlled wings can take off and land vertically without runway and auxiliary equipment.

As the wings beat up and down, they aerodynamically twist to change their angle of attack (tilting upward or downward), using the same technique birds use to generate thrust.

From bloodless wars (fought with cyborg - controlled robots) to apparent mind reading, the cyborg age could change the meaning of being human and thrust us into another evolutionary realm.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

«If a swimmer registers how the flow pressure changes by hearing, he can better judge, for instance, how he can produce more thrust at similar energy costs.

Dawn's xenon engine doesn't produce a lot of thrust, but it can keep firing for months or even years, building speed and changing course.

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

Expect speeches at the summit to reference the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), even if the main thrust is more political than scientific.

Major research thrusts change over time, at present, they are:

Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.

By fine tuning the parameters for drag and thrust and then simulating the changing orbits as time progressed, I could watch on a computer monitor all those scattered points simultaneously migrate toward the single point (a = 2.8 AU, e = 0, i = 0) representing today's asteroid belt.

We're thrust out into this ever changing world, just trying our hardest to keep up with our Facebook news feed, not to mention Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Vine (ask your kids).

But the major dramatic thrust of this section is the change in Ronsel, who experiences what it's like to be both liberated and a liberator, also exploring a loving relationship with a white German woman.

Meanwhile, Conor is thrust into a life - changing experience, Mickey and Daryll sell a coke - and - hooker party to a Silicon Valley start - up and Bunchy and Teresa's relationship finds an unusual release.

Utilizing a combination of Kinect and the regular Xbox 360 controller, Steel Battalion Heavy Armor thrusts players into the role of Sgt Powers, a veteran VT Pilot who is the only one who can change the course of war.

Office jockey Nick (Jason Bateman, in his best performance in ages) has been passed up for a promotion by the sadistic Harken (Kevin Spacey); dental assistant Dale (Charlie Day) works under constant sexual harassment from Julia Harris, DDS (Jennifer Aniston, hilarious for a change); and chemical - plant employee Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) is suddenly thrust into the dominion of middle - aged frat boy Bobby Pellit (Colin Farrell, perfection).

Though it's not always easy to see these changes, the characters at the end of the film are quite different than the ones we're introduced to at the beginning, although the world they were born into, as well as the one they are thrust into, always seems to stay the same.

That all changes on Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird (Jennifer Jason Leigh) by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.