Sentences with phrase «changing at a rapid rate»

I have wrestled with doubts and problems that have emerged since 2001 and very few churches address such issues or give the substance needed to a generation that knows the world is changing at a rapid rate with or without the church alongside it.

Their vision is changing at a rapid rate so it's understandable for it to be a confusing time for them.

However, staying current with compliance is no easy task, especially when company protocols and local regulations are changing at a rapid rate.

Crispin Inglis, CEO and co-founder of PropertyFox says the industry is changing at a rapid rate, «Following the global credit crisis and recession, the number of practising real estate agents registered with the Estate Agency Affairs Board has gone from 80 000 members in 2007, to 30 000 in 2017.

Not exact matches

Social media measurement can be overwhelming, and half the challenge is simply keeping up with the content that is being changed by the millions of living, breathing users and discerning what has value and what doesn't, while at the same time keeping up with the social media platforms that are developing at an equally rapid rate with their user activity.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

However, I am a Christian and I have seen vast changes in our society at a rapid rate.

I am not entirely sure it is man made (we'll leave this for another time) but you must admit the planet does seem to be changing at a rather rapid rate?

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

The conference focus was the rapid rate at which the learning industry has been changing.

Political scientist Samuel Huntington argued in his 1968 book, Political Order in Changing Societies, that in societies that experience rapid progress quickly, citizens» demand for quality public services grows at a faster rate than the government's capacity to satisfy the expectations.

The world of publishing is changing at such a rapid rate that one hardly knows which way to turn.

Short - term ARMs — those with up to a one - year interest rate change frequency — have, at times, caused borrowers trouble in times of quickly rising interest rates, since they can produce ever - higher monthly payments in rapid succession.

Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.

Hamish Jenkinson, Art Curator at Lights of Soho and former Artistic Director of the Old Vic Tunnels states: «With Soho changing at such a rapid rate, it's a great privilege to bring together so many fantastic artists, working together to ensure Soho's creative legacy is upheld long into the future.

The models can't reproduce the rapid climate change at the end of the Younger Drys, nor can the models reproduce the lapse rate in the tropics measured by radiosondes and MSUs.

An ice - free North coast in the past few millenia says nothing about the desirability of driving ice melt (or climate change generally) at extremely rapid rates.

If there is one lesson, it is that in times of rapid growth or recession, different parts of the economy change at different rates, and that differential alone can cause significant changes in the ratio of energy to G.D.P..

I am not entirely sure it is man made (we'll leave this for another time) but you must admit the planet does seem to be changing at a rather rapid rate?

Human activity — particularly the production of greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel emissions — is reshaping our planet, effecting rapid environmental change at a rate never seen before.

Polyak et al. (2010) looked at Arctic sea ice changes throughout geologic history and noted that the current rate of loss appears to be more rapid than natural variability can account for in the historical record.

Today climate changes are occurring at an increasingly rapid rate.

Also, the rate at which climate changes is also important — species can adapt to gradual changes to their environment, they struggle with rapid changes.

There has been no evidence of the change in rate while at the same time CO2 was rising at a rapid rate.

The IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment of climate change science concluded that large reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, principally CO2, are needed soon to slow the increase of atmospheric concentrations, and avoid reaching unacceptable levels.However, climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

The danger in the current GW is not due to the difference between a stable climate at average 15oC (your current average temperature numbers are wrong) and a stable climate at average 20 or 22 or 25oC or what have you, it is due to the extremely rapid rate of change and the resulting instability and the loss of biodiversity.

Glaciers and ice caps are melting at a rapid rate; animals and plants are shifting their range to accommodate warmer air and water; and planting seasons are changing, the report said.

At best, changes of such magnitude would trigger dramatic re-organization of ecosystems across the globe that would play out over the next few centuries; at worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualisticallyAt best, changes of such magnitude would trigger dramatic re-organization of ecosystems across the globe that would play out over the next few centuries; at worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualisticallyat worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualistically).

It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human - induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases -LSB-...] Since long - term measurements began in the 1950s, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been increasing at a rate much faster than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

We have discovered, however, that any difference between model simulations produces a rapid propagation of very small changes throughout all prognostic model variables at a rate many times the speed of sound.

With its ice cap and glaciers melting at a rapid rate, the island is at the center of climate change conversation.

â $ œFuture challenges for conserving polar bears and their Arctic habitat will be greater than at any time in the past because of the rapid rate at which environmental change appears to be occurring.

The incredibly rapid rate at which Canada's Arctic ice shelves are disappearing is an early indicator of the «very substantial changes» that global warming will impose on all mankind, a top scientist said on Wednesday.

The points you cite amount to little more than hand - waving attempts to distract from the real issues, and have only come up when they were confronted with undeniable evidence that climate change is happening at a rapid rate.

These feedbacks are the primary source of uncertainty in how much the earth will warm (side note: the question that most climate scientists who study the forcing due to CO2 try to answer is, how much will the long - term globally averaged surface temperature of the earth rise due to an rapid rise of CO2 to twice its industrial level, that is, 270 ppm to 540 ppm; it is currently about 380 last time I checked, and rising at ~ 3ppm / year, although this rate of change appears to be accelerating).

Small evolutionary changes (microevolution) do occur at rapid rates and have occurred in response to various anthropogenic changes.

It is a world with continuously increasing global population, at a rate lower than A2, intermediate levels of economic development, and less rapid and more diverse technological change than in the B1 and A1 storylines.

Richard Susskind painted his vision of how technology is a disruptive force to the legal system and how change must occur within the profession at a rapid rate otherwise the changes from outside the legal system will greatly limit the role that lawyers (and judges) will play in dispute resolution.

As David Lester, managing director of Brightworks Interactive Marketing points out, payment solutions are evolving at a rapid rate, with banks being challenged to keep up with the pace of change.

With the automotive industry evolving at a rapid rate, this company is looking for ambitious technicians who are willing to embrace change the brand... more