Sentences with phrase «for gradual changes»

Fully understand the need to ask for gradual changes so that the proposal has a chance of floating.

This allows for gradual changes in blood sugar levels.

Gould states that «the fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change,» and then proposed that «macroevolution proceeds by the rare success of these hopeful monsters, not by continuous small changes within populations.»

Mr Sharif is well aware of the army's red lines and the imperative for gradual change, leading many to believe that he will avoid adventurism in dealing with the top brass.

The prior outing did employ a black and white palette (supposedly because Walt thought color would lend an eery realism) and opted for gradual change through quick cutaways.

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These retinal and early cortical processes provide an underlying mechanism for lightness constancy — our visual system is less sensitive to gradual changes in luminance than it is to sudden local contrasts, and uniform regions are «filled in».

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) prediction for global growth of 3.1 % in 2016 remained subdued, and though it still expects a gradual recovery to follow, the IMF envisages this pickup will be driven almost entirely by emerging economies, as advanced economies grapple with headwinds such as changing demographics and declining productivity.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

For a while there was a gradual turning, with one single experience bringing about a sudden and dramatic change almost three years ago.

Macroevolution posed a problem to Darwin because his principle of descent with modification predicts gradual transitions between small - scale adaptive changes in populations and these larger - scale phenomena, yet there is little evidence for such transitions in nature.

The genius of Britain, discovered both in the internal relations of the home country and in the various parts of its actual Empire, is a curiously flexible method for the changing of the status quo — a method which prevented crises from reaching the desperation point, ensured the gradual development of liberty, and provided a model of the kind of change which is just in time to anticipate the resort to violence.

As reason sets human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.

In the third sense, we wait in hope for its coming, whether by gradual change or by an abrupt termination of earthly history.

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

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

But archaeology is most useful for recognizing broad patterns and tracing gradual changes in the material culture of a region — less so for clarifying specific historical events.

We don't demand or expect change, yet this often takes place as a gradual unseen process and looks different for every individual once a significant spiritual walk with Christ begins to take root.

And she explains the life of St. Francis very well - revealing, for example, that the process of change was a gradual thing and that it began with simple gifts to the poor and a real commitment to prayer, and the more dramatic events such as the encounter with the Crucifix at San Damiano came only after this preparation.

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.

The acceptance of punctuated equilibrium put to death the then prevailing thought that gradual change was the evolutionary mechanism of speciation (Darwinian phyletic gradualism, which had held sway for > 100 years, was utterly debunked)

For a change of focus, I thought I would tell the story of my gradual adoption of everything Google.

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.

Its been obvious to most that this squad of players has not been right since the end of that 1st great season under Bilic orchestrated on the pitch by Payet.This was followed by a disastrous Summer window when we bought bulk instead of quality, top that off with the Payet wanting to leave fiasco and we have never been the same since.Odd good displays which flattered to deceive but in general a gradual and consistent decline to the bottom.Moyes has inherited this group and i can honestly not see how it will change until January in the transfer market.He will not get a bumper warchest to improve thats for sure and who would want to buy some of these under achievers to create money for new buys.Its a mess and has been since that awful Summer transfer window plus on top of which far too many of this lot have under achieved drastically be it new players we have bought or the OLD boys.Its an ageing side especially at the back and needs a serious overhaul.

Because your milk changes for the benefit of your child while you wean, it is better to make weaning a gradual, rather than an abrupt, process.

Any changes would have to be gradual to ensure younger workers had time to prepare for the new arrangements, but Lord Turner warned that, although there was not currently a crisis of pension income or a quantifiable savings gap, there would be if action was not taken.

However, as H.M. Hyndman suggested in his influential England for All from 1881, «such changes as are needed may be gradual» and «in England, fortunately, we have a long political history to lead up to our natural development, the growth of a great nation such as ours has its effect on all portions of the people».

The paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould studied lakes in East Africa and on Caribbean islands looking for Darwin's gradual change from one species of trilobite or snail to another.

The first section, for example, is called «The catastrophic», and the intuition is that «small, gradual changes in causes give rise to small, gradual changes in effects».

The burgeoning world population (predicted to be 9.3 billion by 2050), changing consumer demand in third - world countries, the gradual depletion of prime agricultural land, the use of innovative technologies, and scientists who view plants as a source of industrial products as well as food all contribute to the good prospects for the ag - biotech industry, particularly in Canada.

It was only later that I changed my mind — a gradual, nay, ineffable process I should probably describe, for the sake of Beauty, as an epiphany at the end of a pier in Santa Monica while watching the sun go down through my Ray - Bans.

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

Brain changes A few decades ago, when researchers were laying the groundwork for the field of evolutionary psychology, the idea that evolution was primarily a gradual, almost geologically paced force «was a tenable view,» Laland says.

However, there's some evidence for very gradual evolution interspersed with crises, so in theory there may be plenty of time to intervene before the disease changes from being relatively benign into something dangerously aggressive.»

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigChange Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigchange litigation.

Every woman's experience is slightly different, but the basic premise of the solution is the same: take the time to listen to yourself, search for the root causes of your symptoms and implement gradual changes.

I used this product for a long period of time and the changes which I saw were steady and gradual.

You can go cold turkey and give up all the junk food, sugar, processed food etc. all at once, or you can opt for a more gradual change.

From gradual substitutions to a complete lifestyle change, the Hallelujah Diet has just the right plan for you.

Because sudden radical changes rarely stick, implement gradual healthy changes instead, like swapping out soda for 100 percent fruit juice with no added sugar — or better yet, milk or plain water or unsweetened tea.

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.

It was a slow, gradual change that occurred because your daily Caloric intake for that period exceeded your daily Caloric expenditure by some small amount.

In addition to body changes, drastically less free time and money to spend on shopping, curating clothes, and paying attention to fashion trends, and increased likelihood of kid staining, stretching clothes, theres also the fact that you basically put your entire wardrobe on ice for a year or more due to pregnancy and nursing, so it doesn't really get the gradual updating over time that people normally do, so the little wardrobe details like how pants or sweaters fit or which boots you have will just be a little more behind the fashion curve.

Added a warning to alert users and site owners of planned security changes to sites affected by the gradual distrust plan for the Symantec certificate authority.

In some ways, though, the film's real heart and conscience is old Thaddeus Stevens — who must wrestle with reconciling his deeply held beliefs on equality with the need for compromise that will lead to more politically palatable gradual change.

For items reflecting skills that take time to develop, changes on the Report Card should be gradual rather than sudden.

The greatest temptation for change in reform is a gradual watering down of the policies.

Schrag believes that these changes «point to a gradual shift away from the narrow focus on fact - based testing in math and reading, on creating many more charter schools, on «reconstituting» or closing sub-par schools, and on other business - model schemes that school reformers have pushed for during the past couple of decades....

These include a gradual reduction in the size of the Board of Directors, a change in the appointment process for the Nominations Committee, a process for appointing diverse members to the Leadership Council, and a shorter time line for returning election ballots.

For this reason we have to rely on the political will of the next ruling party and on a gradual change of awareness.

But I couldn't get through it because Grace's gradual change was too gradual for me, and at times, too much time spent on atmosphere over character.