Sentences with phrase «gradual changes at»

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.

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The change is likely to be gradual at first, and it's not yet clear which markets will see it after the U.S., but over time, shoppers will begin to notice star ratings and top reviews on product pages changing.

Keep in mind that Pure Barre's changes are gradual at first, so you should not expect to get your dream body overnight.

«The statement carried only modest changes in wording, but they were meaningful nonetheless, highlighting that the Fed is optimistic on the outlook and intent on continuing to raise rates at a gradual pace,» said Westpac analyst Elliot Clarke.

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

Sometimes there is a gradual, and at times almost imperceptible, change in values, motives, feelings, and modes of responding to situations.

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.

At first all these changes were quite gradual.

While we still need to preserve deterrent power in the non-Communist world, there can be a gradual change in the feelings on both sides concerning what is at stake in the Cold War.

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 claim that Coles and Woolworths were about to sell Foster's Group beers including Carlton Draught and VB at below cost is another instance of the gradual eating away of famous brands now vulnerable because of changing drinking habits.

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.

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.

Dr. Carol Ash, director of sleep medicine at Meridian Health, suggests making a gradual change by moving bedtime up by 15 minutes until you're back to normal.

You can not make this a radical change; it should be a gradual process, perhaps leaving out one nursing session at a time.

There have been continuing tensions between workers and intellectuals, the role and power of the unions and - at least in the early period - whether to work within the political system and seek gradual change.

The change is gradual, with one atom changing at a time.

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.

«Sally is right that it would take a sea change in policy at the NIH» to gradually shift money «from R01s to training grants,» Tilghman writes in an e-mail that emphasizes the importance of making the shift gradual.

The researchers documented long stretches of gradual change in all three species, with different features changing at different times.

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.

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.

All that is beside the fact that significant changes to body composition, whether it's fat loss or muscle gain, happen at a very gradual rate that is easily monitored.

Continue this gradual change until you're leaping out of bed at your preferred time — ready to tackle the day.

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.

Students at this point in their lives are in the midst of significant physical, psychological, social, and emotional changes associated with the gradual transition from childhood to adulthood.

Change was gradual at first, then success fed on success.

An increased share of disadvantaged students could affect overall district test scores, but with a gradual demographic shift, changes might be small or imperceptible from year to year and don't necessarily indicate changes in school quality, said Michael Hansen, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.

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.

At the moment, the path for future changes in the federal funds rate is expected to be a gentle upslope, so the upward push for mortgage rates should be gradual, but this may change over time.

To make matters worse, the change can be so gradual that we don't notice the weight gain until kitty gets on a scale at the annual exam at the vet.

Due to the increased nutritional needs of the mother cat (queen), your vet may recommend a gradual change in diet to a high potency cat food at some point.

A gradual change can be accomplished by making a mixture of 75 % of the old food with 25 % of the new food for at least the first 3 - 4 days.

This process is gradual and requires multiple strategies and collaboration at every level in order to see true systemic change.

A dog can resume their normal diet through a gradual change starting at that time.

On top of this, the story is told without any words at all, no voice - acting, no text, just a gradual change of scenery each level.

LINDA NOCHLIN: But you also must feel some sort of gradual process of change, or certain directions you'll go in at one time and not in another.

The assumption of gradual, smooth change carries with it (at least among many policy makers) the assumption that, should a response become necessary, reversing negative trends will be similarly smooth and predictable.

The public has a short memory, and because climate change is a gradual problem, we may end ignoring it until something truly disastrous happens, at which point, it may be too late.

As these particular events took place at the end of a local warm period caused by orbital forcing (see Box 6.1 and Section 6.5.1), these observations suggest that under gradual climate forcings (e.g., orbital) the climate system can change abruptly.

Typing «climate change» into the search box reveals, over 12 months, a peak of interest last December (Cancun), followed by a slump, then a small rise and a gradual decline thereafter (although there is a slight rise at the end of August).

Also, the rate at which climate changes is also important — species can adapt to gradual changes to their environment, they struggle with rapid changes.

There is smoking gun evidence that it left at the past cyclic climate changes gradual and abrupt that points to the sun.

Gradual, insolation - driven millennial - scale temperature trends in the study area were punctuated by several abrupt climate changes, including a major transient event recorded in all five lakes between 4.3 and 3.2 ka, which overlaps in timing with abrupt climate changes previously documented around the North Atlantic region and farther afield at w4.2 ka.

279 Abrupt change from wet to dry in the Sahara (at least, as measured by offshore dust) as the axial tilt 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).

«TCR was originally defined as the warming at the time of CO2 doubling (i.e., after 70 years) in a 1 % yr — 1 increasing CO2 experiment (see Hegerl et al., 2007b), but like ECS, it can also be thought of as a generic property of the climate system that determines the global temperature response ΔT to any gradual increase in RF, ΔF, taking place over an approximately 70 - year time scale, normalized by the ratio of the forcing change to the forcing due to doubling CO2, F2 × CO2: TCR = F2 × CO2 ΔT / ΔF»

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).

Folland's erroneous adjustment had been originally criticized at CA in 2005 here and further discussed at length in March 2007 at CA here, a post in which I observed that no climate scientist had made any attempt to validate Folland's bizarre adjustment and that correcting Folland's error (through a more gradual and later changeover to engine inlets than the worldwide overnight change that Folland had postulated after Pearl Harbour) would have the effect of increasing SST in the 1950s, in turn, potentially eliminating or substantially mitigating the downturn in the 1950s that was problematic for modelers.

The air circulation systems move latitudinally poleward or equatorward depending on whether there is net cooling or warming of the air at a gradual if variable rate all the time and climate shifts in any given location depend mainly on the changing position of that location in relation to the latitudinal position of the major air circulation systems.