Sentences with phrase «drastic turns in»

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It turns out that over the past 20 years, we haven't seen a drastic increase in tuition costs, but rather a shift to a new rebate model.

Allergan Plc's chief executive on Monday said he was opposed to fundamental changes to the drug company's business strategy, even as its board considers drastic moves like splitting the company, selling off assets or doing deals to turn around a steep drop in its share price.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

Their effect was shattering, and especially in the case of Paul, the enemy of the Christian movement, they had the effect of turning upside down the whole outlook of the people concerned and reversing the course of their lives in the most drastic and complete way.

I intend to confine myself to the three points that preachers traditionally allow themselves (more aptly, perhaps, the three wishes that fairy - tale characters are always granted just before they are turned back into frogs) I wish, first of all, that one might avoid the statistical traps that lie in the path if one relies too much on changing church membership figures — in this case the figures that are supposed to show drastic decline and weakening in oldline Protestantism since the 1960s.

As it turned out, this century has seen a drastic erosion of Christianity in the very centers from which it launched its missionary activity — namely, in Europe and North America.

That would be a drastic about - turn, which could see the 27 - year - old head to Merseyside for a fee in the region of $ 10 million (around # 7.1 m).

Liverpool's bumbling back - line was the subject of intense, often deserved, criticism in the early part of the season, but improvements since the turn of the year have been drastic.

BUT if the problem turns out to be the board that are intent on conning the supporters, far more drastic measures will be required if we are to see Arsenal succeed in our life - times.

Dismissing him before he has had the opportunity to deserve a proper review is to turn football into an exercise in exorcising personal grievances, frustrations and entitlements by proxy, as there is no basis in his performances to take such a drastic view.

Relations between Cuomo and the Legislature took a drastic turn for the worse in the fall when the governor's appointees to a special pay panel blocked what would have been the legislators» first pay raise since 1999.

Mr Lansley knows the impact of the strike is not likely to be quite as drastic as that - those who voted against the strike are still set to turn up to work on Thursday, and the BMA only represents two - thirds of doctors in the first place, and even some of the doctors on strike will be at their surgeries, and are likely to see some patients, according to a leading doctor quoted by the Guardian.

There is no district like it and we can do report after report and they will all say the same thing, that East Ramapo is in trouble and needs drastic changes to turn things around.»

That's the sort of drastic turn that would excite everybody, and it may happen in the near future.

It turns out that by becoming fat - adapted and increasing ketone levels in the body, there is a drastic decrease in inflammation, particularly in the brain tissues (2).

Yohimbe is known for increasing sexual desire, reversing erectile dysfunction, and even aiding in weight loss, but does not always work on everyone and can have drastic side effects - which can be quite the turn - off indeed.

Cassidy Scerbo plays a new Nova, the most drastic turn from her original character, in an entirely believable and appropriate to Sharknado way.

But in 1971, cop movies took a drastic turn, becoming grittier and faster and more violent.

At first just awkward, the situation turns eerily malevolent when additional guests — all white — arrive, as if Peele had crossed a movie like Betrayed, a 1988 thriller about going undercover in a white supremacist hate group, with The Stepford Wives, that twice - adapted tale of one small community's drastic solution to the problem of uppity women.

The film starts reasonably well, but takes a drastic turn for the worse the moment Hutton appears, bug - eyed and dressed like one of Peter Pan's lost boys exclaiming her dialogue in a ridiculous accent at an incredible volume, like a ten year old girl doing a Cletus the Slack - Jawed Yokel impression in a wind tunnel.

The city's vaunted downtown renaissance has yet to touch its public schools, and local and state leaders have turned to drastic measures in efforts to reverse decades of failure.

Practically instantaneously, I noticed a few drastic changes: students actually readover my feedback, they asked questions about my feedback, and in turn they willingly made revisions to their assignments!

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is requireIn the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is requirein school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

But when he turned to more drastic solutions, such as closing schools and revising teacher pay and benefits, many objected to his downsizing plans — which were accompanied by an invitation to charter schools to set up shop in - district.

The drop between sixth and seventh is drastic — whereas the manual 911 «s engine turns almost 3200 rpm at 80 mph in top gear, the PDK's is loafing along at just 2200 rpm.

Check out the new MINI Cooper Countryman for a drastic improvement in steering, traction, and stability, while providing some serious sticking power on those tight turns.

This is a drastic change for a series rooted in turn - based strategy and message boards everywhere have erupted with confused and angry sentiments from fans of the series.

You may always turn the vision on, get a look around, and turn it off again, but in doing this players are often hit with jarring animations and drastic color changes, disorienting them.

Perhaps many too many leaders of the global political economy are spurning the moral obligations, responsibilities and duties associated with their stations in life by turning a blind eye to the gigantic scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen precipitating the extirpation of species like the polar bear, the reckless dissipation of non-renewable natural resources and the drastic degradation of the environs of our planetary home.

I just wonder if they will get upset when the price of taxis go into orbit., Let's say the cost of that diesel truck hauling their goods to the store that possesses their next potential purchase turns into an unavailable purchase, because people are demanding a controversial cause be addressed in such a fervent and drastic way.

The 17 marine scientists who authored the new study argue that «drastic action» is needed from world leaders to turn around the trend in rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to protect coral reefs.

So unless there is a permanent, drastic, progressive and one - way alteration in the chemical makeup of the oceans over geological epochs (which would entail the massive evolution of hydrogen gas and the production of oxygen, chlorine or hydrogen peroxide) or a similarly huge increase in its potential energy (levitating it off the ocean floor), the energy involved will still have to be dissipated as heat (there's nowhere else for it to go, unless you get all science - fictiony and assume it vanishes into hyperspace or turns into neutrinos or something).

A festering problem Lloyd reported on last year — the invasion of British Columbia's forests by voracious mountain pine beetles — has taken a drastic turn for the worse, according to a new study published in

You'll be glad to know that the KM folks are less drastic in their hope to turn the tacit into the explicit.

In a conversation over Facebook Messenger, an app most reviled for its bullying tactics that force people to download and use it, writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar talks about how his engagement with social media took a drastic turn.

Thanks to our state and national lawmakers, I now know that until and unless there is a drastic shift in the composition of our Legislature and Congress, until the preservation of life becomes more important than the political machine, I might have been the one who needed to use that active shooter training on Feb. 14 — a day about love that turned into one about the worst kind of hate.

Everybody is different and while the difference in things like academics will only influence the job, pay or social status that a person has, difference in parenting skills will have a drastic effect on the child, his life and in turn his time as a parent and development of his parenting skills.