Sentences with phrase «decisive shift»

A new eight - speed automatic transmission, with faster and more decisive shifts, should make the V - 6 and four - cylinder versions more enjoyable.

Over the years, through a series of decisive shifts in medium and intent, he turned to painting and drawing, embracing the phenomenological and spiritual legacy of abstraction as a transcendental, rather than purely formal, tradition.

A standard nine - speed automatic gearbox feels smoother and more intuitive than the older seven - speed unit used in the GLE400 Coupe; it provides quick, decisive shifts up and down the «box.

Brown argues that a decisive shift in the conception of generosity accompanied the transition from pagan to Christian society.

The sexual revolution was a decisive shift, perhaps even of human nature itself: we can fairly precisely date the arrival of the pill with this shift.

Its abandonment was not therefore a simple change in devotional habit, but the signal of a radical discontinuity in the tradition and a decisive shift in theological perception.

Ford commented briefly on this idea in The Lure of God, but a decisive shift occurred subsequently when he began to wonder how we can intelligibly speak of «the influence» of the Consequent Nature if it can not be prehended.

As a way of both documenting and deepening our sense of this decisive shift in the current climate of opinion, I shall consider briefly two very influential books that appeared within four years of one another, Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and Parker Palmer's To Know As We Are Known (1983).

Indeed, John Paul II's strategy toward communism marked a decisive shift beyond the more accommodationist currents prevalent in Vatican quarters during the pontificate of Paul VI.

Still, there can be little doubt that the campaign Corbyn fought marks a decisive shift in the politics of the Labour party to which all sections of the party will now be obliged to respond.

Our response to this must be a decisive shift to a more preventative service.

The decisive shift in federal climate policy will have little impact on businesses: Shareholders and large state governments have already pushed big business to act on the issue.

Jeremy Corbyn's hopes of remoulding Labour have been boosted by a detailed Guardian survey into the party at grassroots level that shows overwhelming support for him, a decisive shift to the left and unhappiness with squabbling among MPs.

The likely truth is that there has been no decisive shift since early October, with the two main parties within a point or two of each other.

In what is being billed as a decisive shift away from decades of Whitehall centralisation, Adonis also proposes that at least # 6bn a year of transport, housing, welfare and infrastructure budgets are devolved from central government to large city councils or combined authorities.

And it was then that his research made a decisive shift.

Michael Kirst, president of the State Board of Education, noted in the briefing that the plan delegates a great deal of control to local districts to spend funds as they see fit, marking a decisive shift from the rigid top - down requirements imposed by Sacramento and Washington over the past decade.

The Mayor's plan represented a decisive shift away from the policies of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, who closed dozens of persistently failing schools across the city during his 12 years in office.

Featuring work by 17 artists» Bye Bye Kitty» reflects a decisive shift away from the cult of the cute, or kawaii, that appears in the art of Murakami.

Organised by Marcia Tucker and James Monte, the list of exhibiting artists included Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis and Michael Asher, and the show marked a decisive shift in the way in which artists produced and presented their own work (9 at Leo Castelli, an exhibition curated by Robert Morris a few months earlier, had done the same but on a smaller scale).

His next exhibition at the gallery marked a decisive shift towards figuration and included such iconic works as Begging For It and The Polar Bear.

The solo exhibition Miss Solitude marks a decisive shift in the artist's practice, presenting viewers with a series of new work comprised entirely of assemblages and installations.

A titan of American art whose surprise 1964 Grand Prize victory at the Venice Biennale marked the decisive shift of the avant - garde from Europe to the United States for the rest of the century, Robert Rauschenberg led the kind of outsize career that filled copious tomes during his lifetime.

A decisive shift occurred in Mitchell's work when she moved in 1968 from Paris to Vétheuil, on the grounds where Claude Monet's first great garden was established.

In the 1970s there was a decisive shift in the way an image was perceived.

Certainly this time represents a decisive shift in the artist's personal life, but why Rauschenberg turned away in this period from the use of the found images and texts that had characterized his art from the mid-1950s onward is not clear.

The early 20th - century's turn towards modernism in painting was a decisive shift in interest away from artistic representation of acts of witnessing.

When Thompson returned to New York in 1963, his art underwent a decisive shift.

This has to change before we can make the decisive shift away from fossil fuels.

OPINION A quiet but decisive shift is underway from wind measurement systems that have been overtaken by advanced sensor technology, argues Pascal Storck

Stark warnings ignored The deadlock comes at the end of a year in which a global collective of scientists and policy advisers — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — has given stark warnings that climate change is gathering pace, needing a swift and decisive shift to renewable energy to avoid economically ruinous and catastrophic climate change.

The decisive shift in international opinion on global warming has not caused him to go back into his box, let alone recant his sceptical views.