Sentences with phrase «gradual shift from»

«This growth was likely spurred by several factors, including a warm winter that allowed builders to stick to construction schedules, last year's strong home construction starts, and a gradual shift from building apartments to individual homes,» says Joseph Kirchner, senior economist at realtor.com ®.

This will become increasingly pertinent as technology continues its gradual shift from back - office to front - office: artificial intelligence is currently one of the hottest topics in Big Law.

Most of the dozens of scientists and activists I spoke to date the rise of the melancholy mood to the failure of the 2009 climate conference and the gradual shift from hope of prevention to plans for adaptation: Bill McKibben's book Eaarth is

In late 2012 we began work on our original IP «101 Ways To Die» as part of our gradual shift from work - for - hire to own IP development.

There are also dog owners who found that a gradual shift from one dog food brand to Innova is necessary to prevent digestive upsets.

If this is the case, we must expect a gradual shift from social definitions by race to social definitions which emphasize class membership.

It's about the characters» misadventures, the assortment of supporting players who pop on screen every now and then, and the main characters» gradual shift from a mother and daughter who don't understand each other to a mother and daughter who do.

As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything but.

«The entire sequence is Twin Peaks in microcosm, a gradual shift from the (relatively) ordinary to the abstract, as circumstances escalate from the dramatic to the dark and inexplicable.

«You need to help your body make the gradual shift from sleep, a yin state, to a waking, or yang, energy state.»

«But there is a gradual shift from treatment to prevention.

Work and pensions minister Mike Penning has said that a gradual shift from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment will mean a the change can be handled «in a more gradual, controlled and manageable way».

If there is a story of Miliband's political journey in the last five years, according to the senior campaign aide, it is his gradual shift from Wood to Beales — from Miliband's more radical instincts to the cautious tactical politics he had learned during his long stint under Gordon Brown at the Treasury.

Gradual shifts from what is familiar to the child to what is possible are best for children.

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At the heart of the framework, he says, is a «gradual release of responsibility, where you shift the responsibility over from the teacher to the student.»

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

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.

This certainly indicates the gradual shift of users to the online market from the traditional medium of grocery purchasing.

By shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disaster.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

From an earlier emphasis on the need of conversion, the emphasis shifted to gradual growth in Christian character.

I don't think there was one true version of socialism, and the gradual shift in agenda began rather earlier, and from 1983 - 92 made a lot of sense.

Gradual downsizing of those tools, including oval hand axes, occurred from 615,000 to 499,000 years ago, a stretch characterized by frequent shifts between wet and dry conditions, the scientists say.

Over that same period, movies with an R rating declined from 40 percent to 23 percent among the top 30, «paralleling a gradual shift of violent content in top - grossing movies from the R to PG - 13 category,» the researchers said.

«Water yields from southern Appalachian watersheds in decline since the 1970s: Climate change, gradual shifts in forest structure implicated.»

«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.

A gradual shift of the balance of anterior (green) and posterior (blue) field might have led to the evolution from fins into limbs.

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.»

Another important driving force comes from the CA3 → CA1 projection, which is out of phase with the entorhinal input, leading to a gradual phase shift as a function of depth within CA1 (Brankack, et al. 1993).

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

The shift from bright comedy to rather grim drama is gradual enough to carry the audience along, but it's rather startling to end up somewhere so serious after such a cheeky start.

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.

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....

The most that can happen is a gradual shift to Windows 8 as the choice of operating system in place of Android for future tablet PC from these companies.

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.

The shift dates back to the Social Security Amendments of 1983, which made numerous changes to strengthen the program fiscally, including a gradual increase in the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 67.

Over the past decade, there has been a gradual aggregate shift from public equities to fixed - income and alternative assets, reflecting growing interest in reducing investment risk, especially in limiting the volatility of plan liabilities (Figure 6).

Head east to visit the Knifeblade Sandblow, resulting from the gradual sand shifts on the island.

David Richard Gallery will present an exhibition of abstract paintings from the 1970s by Leon Berkowitz (1911 - 1987) that features subtle and misty transitions of color evocative of the gradual shifts in the forces of nature and the inspiration for the series.

The drawings and paintings emerge from a gradual yet progressive interaction that leads to a complex network of shifting...

The drawings and paintings emerge from a gradual yet progressive layering that leads to a complex network of shifting...

Shifting from sprawl and long commutes to sensible urban design is going to be a long and gradual process.

Gradual changes in composition resulting from decreased evergreen conifer productivity and increased mortality, as well as increased deciduous species productivity, can be facilitated by more rapid shifts associated with fire disturbance where it can occur.

Robert I Ellison: Dynamical complexity explains both persistence and abrupt shifts in climate data — and demands that we change our expectations about future behaviour from slow and gradual to abrupt and potentially large.

Dynamical complexity explains both persistence and abrupt shifts in climate data — and demands that we change our expectations about future behaviour from slow and gradual to abrupt and potentially large.

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.

Paleo research shows the shifts from glacial periods to interglacials, and back to glacials weren't gradual at all (at least not during the second half of the Pleistocene — the Age of ice ages).

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.

There'll just be a gradual shifting of positions - partly driven by people like the forecasting expert in the Ecologist article - experts from other disciplines who will gradually bring a little sanity to proceedings.

Changing pathways — for example, shifting from on - going coastal protection to gradual retreat from the most exposed areas — can be challenging and may require new types of interactions among governments, industry and communities.