Sentences with phrase «gradual shift away»

If there is a gradual shift away from fossil fuels to nuclear, renewables, biofuels or whatever, this would result in a lowering of this estimate, so I would see it as an «upper estimate» within the reasonable range.

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....

This gradual shift away from relationships and marriage isn't entirely by choice.

The divestment would complete the company's gradual shift away from its original focus on generic drugs and nuclear imaging toward branded specialty pharmaceuticals, which now comprise the bulk of its revenues.

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It's all part of a gradual rhetorical shift away from talking about creationism and intelligent design toward casting doubt on evolution, says Joshua Rosenau, spokesperson for the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif. «They have this idea,» he says, «that it's a zero - sum game, so anything you can do to knock evolution down actually promotes creationism without having to say the word.»

So the gradual shift of publishing power away from large publishers and towards established name authors and less powerful more fractured publishers (whose individual power is weak but whose collective power is potentially strong) agents position would appear to be stronger.

I think that the case for benefits from rapid CO2 reduction (as contrasted with a gradual «BAU» shift away from fossil fuels as they become more expensive) is full of holes.

The legal industry is in the midst of a gradual, yet significant shift away from time - based billing, toward other, more customer - centric business models.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.'s annual report on the state of the country's housing says that the increasing numbers of seniors «suggests a gradual and modest shift away from single detached homes to smaller multiple units including condominiums.»