The phrase
"epochal change" means a significant and transformative shift that marks the beginning of a new era or period in history. It refers to a change that is considered groundbreaking, revolutionary, and has a far-reaching impact on society, technology, or any field of study.
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President Obama, seeking to capture a moment of
epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort on Thursday to break the stalemate in the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.
Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world
undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty.
The practical shape makes a ton of sense and could well become more popular here as strict fuel - economy requirements
force epochal changes in vehicle design and structure.
China's opening to the West furnished them with the esthetic tools to grapple
with epochal changes, to question and subvert, implode and rebuild the artistic conventions.
As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to
epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.
We like to imagine ourselves as at the heart of some
exciting epochal change, but in reality it's quite difficult to assess how, or if, future historians will read these volumes.
There is
an epochal change occurring, and Australians are also feeling that.
Especially at Vatican I and in the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), the Catholic Church embraced
this epochal change, and began to work out in earnest a new, genuinely post-Constantinian teaching on the relation of Church, state, and civil society, a teaching above all concerned to secure the freedom and independence of the Church from the modern state.
The most satisfying pieces are those such as Wobber's «Little Boy» and «Red Mountain,» where little carving or polishing was done, leaving the stone to display its inherent echoes of landscape and
epochal change.
«Such
an epochal change is conceivable over a 30 - to 50 - year timeframe consistent with the timelines for achieving a low - carbon economy,» Nathwani argued in a 2014 analysis that was featured in a report from the Canadian Academy of Engineering.