Sentences with phrase «gradual change as»

Perhaps lawyers and law societies can react to gradual change as well?

Or that there can be gradual change as well as quick «darkness to light» changes?

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As so often is the case, these gradual changes in the economic environment do not enter the consciousness of many of the professional observers, let alone the general public.

The new foods will be practically indistinguishable from the natural products from the outset, and any changes will be so gradual as to escape observation.»

So long as rate hikes and policy changes are gradual and well communicated, we believe markets can take the moves in stride.

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

Although he carefully denied (as social scientists do) that he was making predictions, he wrote that «we may expect these gradual changes in population composition to encourage many, or most, of the following developments.»

The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.

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.

Although my background includes graduation from West Point, Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, overseas service in Okinawa, Germany and Vietnam, combat duty as a company commander in Korea and chaplain assignments at every level of the army, including the Pentagon, none of this experience has prevented a gradual but inexorable change in my viewpoint during the past two years.

I doubt the Abrahamic god was originally seen as anything like as powerful or kind as he is now, with the gradual change leading to some of theinconsistencies we see.

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.

@EnjaySea «As you have emphasized by your comment, mutations create gradual changes in organisms.

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.

Daily weighing and calorie counting can help people fend off gradual weight change before it becomes permanent weight change as well as observe the direct consequences of the food they eat.

Lower numbers are better as this means slower digestion and very gradual changes in blood sugar.

In today's piece, I look back at the problematic start in August, the gradual change of September, and the upward momentum we saw as we ended October.

Most parents can agree that most often when they change their patterned response (as gradual or as caring as it might be) their baby notices and expresses frustration by crying.

ANDREA J. BLANCO: Well, as I've mentioned earlier: «the changes in breastfeeding patterns in this age group tend to be gradual.»

What we actually need is a more democratic model of impact where it is conceived of as impact upon the public debate; inspiring gradual, long term change — and in which academic communication is part of a mutual, democratic learning process.

I do think both the media and the government itself can easily caricature «Old Labour» (the idea was to create a caricature) as if ideas of gradual change, appealing to broad coalitions had not been thought of pre-1945, in 1945, in the 1960s, etc..

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».

Stability and gradual change were seen as key in maintaining the complicated structures of Saudi Arabian society and politics.

As a person ages there is a gradual, but marked change in these cognitive functions, which is referred to as «cognitive aging.&raquAs a person ages there is a gradual, but marked change in these cognitive functions, which is referred to as «cognitive aging.&raquas «cognitive aging.»

The difference between Paleoamerican and modern Native American facial features is likely a combination of additional waves of migration from Siberia, via Beringia, and genetic drift, a gradual change in appearance and other traits as populations divide, migrate and adapt, says Jim Chatters, a Seattle - area anthropologist who led the multinational study of Naia.

Like the earlier flight, we also saw gradual changes in the methane concentration as we traversed east to went and north to south.

«This study is one of the first to show that gradual and subtle changes in forest structure and species composition, driven by climate change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»

One of the findings that stands out, he says, is that pop music shows a pattern from biological evolution known as punctuated equilibrium, in which periods of gradual change are separated by explosions of complexity.

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.

Project co-leader Professor Claire Spottiswoode, of the University of Cape Town and the University of Cambridge, added: «We tend to think about camouflage as something that involves gradual evolutionary change in appearance — we don't often think of it as a matter of individual animal behaviour.

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.

The findings, which have been published in the journal Nature Geoscience, add to mounting evidence suggesting that gradual changes such as a rising CO2 levels can lead to sudden surprises in our climate, which can be triggered when a certain threshold is crossed.

Changes in that signature can indicate how an environmental threat — such as the gradual effects of climate change or increasing levels of human noise pollution — disrupt animal communities.

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.

Any changes as a plane navigates airspace should be gradual.

On p. 336: 271 Abrupt change from wet to dry in the Sahara (at least, as measured by offshore dust) as the summer sun gradually changes: Peter B. deMenocal, J. Ortiz, T. Guilderson, J. Adkins, M. Sarnthein, L. Baker, and M. Yarusinsky, «Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period: Rapid climate responses to gradual insolation forcing,» Quaternary Science Review 19: 347 - 361 (2000).

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.

Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are leading to a gradual decrease in ocean pH and changes in seawater carbonate chemistry, a process known as ocean acidification (OA).

They essentially serve as high - tech food diaries that track your progress so you can make sure that your gradual changes are paying off.

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

It is often most helpful, since the changes in men's hormones are so gradual, that as soon as the first sign of low HGH is apparent, the man gets help immediately.

You don't suddenly end up in the desert as you drive out of the mountains — the change is gradual, and there's a great deal of overlap.

People are different and change is gradual, try as much as possible to interact with your partner's religion, culture, and beliefs.

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

It's been a rewarding experience to see Garrel's cinema as it has changed over the years, incorporating and absorbing different longings and personalities and strategies (from the coming and going of writer Marc Cholodenko and DP Raoul Coutard to the gradual disappearance of Nico as an inspiration), and yet stayed absolutely and gloriously itself.

With a major, successful release in Mexico and the States, and on VOD, hopefully that change will extend, gradual as it may be, to the world at large.

Creating new resources, processes, and values is hard and gradual work — The temptation of any reform agenda — especially one as rational and intuitive as competency - based education — is to imagine that vis - a-vis policy change or of their own will, schools can simply flip a switch and suddenly exist in this new, mastery - based paradigm.