Sentences with phrase «even gradual changes»

In the long - term, even gradual changes in climate may induce migration from the most affected areas.

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I'm betting the change was gradual, and he probably wasn't even fully aware of it for a while.

We have witnessed, within our own lifetimes, the legal battle to nullify state laws against miscegenation and the gradual change in social attitudes toward toleration and even acceptance of interracial couples in public.

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

I can sort of understand the impatience and understand the need for the instant fix — but even the most hardcore AOB has to see there have been huge gradual changes since the Ozil transfer.

And hey, that's the kind of thing that even Beth herself admits: she pushed herself and her competition hard to make WWE have no choice but to hire her, and she talks about how her performances during a «leaner» period in women's wrestling in WWE helped bring about the kind of gradual changes we're seeing today:

But even those who work or play in the marshes were misled for decades by the gradual changes in the landscape.

Even gradual climate change could cause abrupt problems in coming decades, including melting ice roads such as this one in Canada and making them impassable, a new report concludes.

This is valuable as you will able to see the changes even they may so gradual you won't notice them otherwise.

Average long - term weight gain in nonobese populations is gradual — in the cohorts we studied, about 0.8 lb per year — but accumulated over time, even modest increases in weight have implications for long - term adiposity - related metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.21 - 24 Whereas weight changes associated with any single lifestyle factor were relatively modest in our three cohorts, in the aggregate, changes in diet and physical activity accounted for large differences in weight gain.

But even the supporters of digital - over-film must admit that the change has not been as gradual as it perhaps should have been.

The emergence of ePub as the alternative to the Kindle, the entry of so many eReader companies, and the gradual change in mindsets certainly points to a time when a lot more than a few hundred, or even a few thousand, authors can make a good living from writing.

Because signs of illness in cats can be so subtle, even the most astute owner may miss some of these changes especially when the onset is so gradual.

While before this year the standard speeds were 30, 50, 70, and 110km / h, the areas between these speed changes had even - interval halfway km / h signs added to encourage a more gradual change in speed.

«Even with mitigation efforts,» the Summit report says, «climate change will continue to unfold for decades due to the long atmospheric lifetime of past greenhouse - gas emissions and the gradual release of excess heat that has built up in the oceans.

A sentence in Chapter 13 of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability states: «Up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation.»

Although sea - level rise typically is slow compared to many environmental changes, even this type of gradual sea - level rise may force other systems to cross thresholds and trigger abrupt impacts for natural or human systems unless adaptive measures are taken.

Even facing undeniably real problems — say, discrimination against gay people — one can make the case that gradual change has actually been the best option.

This opposes the previous view, especially from the US, that climate change was gradual and even negligible..

«Up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000).»

The contested IPCC statement reads: «Up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000).»