Sentences with phrase «long process of change»

This could come about by a long process of change, a gradual movement toward a fuller personal loyalty and a more Christian society on earth.

«Notwithstanding elements of the irrational, chaotic and the destructive in the long processes of change in the cosmos, matter as such is «legible.»

Academy officials plan to hold a series of meetings around the country to drum up support for the report, the first step in what Lane sees as a long process of changing public attitudes.

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Change is a gradual process, and most big changes are made by taking small steps every day over a long period of time.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to ease the process of going public, recently widening the use of private draft - stage listings for example, long - term secular changes in the capital markets suggest that private funds are likely to remain equally, if not more, appealing to growing firms than public financing.

These changes will go a long way to paving a road for a nascent new private sector in the process of recreating itself.

The Payoff You may get many mixed signals in the process of changing the way you sell, but it won't take long to see results.

Automate as You Go As the size of your eBay - bound inventory grows, you may find that the processes and systems you had in place at the outset no longer serve you as well as you need them to, says Bastos, who advocates changing your system, despite the challenges that come with it.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

A spokesperson from Dick's said, «We are in the process of destroying all firearms and accessories that are no longer for sale as a result of our February 28th policy change.

A three - step process to anticipate and shape change, beginning with the identification of 70 + macro drivers that were refined into 8 dynamics defining the future for connected consumers, which constituted the basis for a highly immersive two - day Future Forum bringing together 10 outside experts, 13 internal stakeholders and 14 agency partners, from which a consumer - centric company vision and Future Playbook was developed around «4 Big Bets» over near -, mid - and long - term horizons.

The Windows division no longer exists at Microsoft, marking the end to a four - year process of changing Microsoft's culture.

Because it's in the name of national security, Trump could circumvent a longer, more complicated process for changing trade policy at the World Trade Organization.

«In order to get a perfect gradation between two forms in the upper and lower parts of the same formation, the deposit must have gone on continuously acc.umulating during a long period, sufficient for the slow process of modification; hence the deposit must be a very thick one; and the species, undergoing change must have lived in the same district throughout the whole time.

The process of changing your view will be a long one, if you want to embark upon that journey.

The longer we wait to begin that process of transition, the more painful the change will be.

Pete do nt worry because the future religion will unify all of us, its not the ultimate but for a long time it will be.After the dialectical process of change involving us the theists in one hand and the atheist in the other, we will arrive to merging of faith.though its beyond our lifetime, scientific methods of prediction and reckoning is ongoing

So simple and straightforward and a welcome change from the long list of ingredients and processes I find in so much of gluten free cooking.

The takeover has transformed the valuations in the industry and has the potential to change the long - term economics of the dairy and milk processing sector by injecting about half a billion dollars in capital.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Life After Wenger will not be a long and tough process we all have to endure.There are WORLD CLASS MANAGERS out there who would be proud to have the opportunity to manage OUR club.I believe the change would immediately have a positive impact on the team.Overnight some of these players would realise the cosy little life they have had under Wenger was the exact opposite of how a Premiership Football Club should be run.Most will be out overnight with the majority leaving at a time that's right for the club.

Green poop while pregnant: Prenatal vitamins can change the color of your poop to green because the bile and bacteria can't process the stool that long to turn it to brown.

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.

In 2009, after a long and contentious process of national dialogue that led to the approval of a new Constitution, the Republic of Bolivia officially changed its name to Plurinational State of Bolivia.

The process seemed to be abnormally long (up to 3 days and 3 nights) in the areas where opposition enjoys strong support, and was marked with constant conflicts, strange power cuts in the polls and international observers or observers from opposition parties not being let into the polls at all: all symptomatic of possible attempts to alternate the results and change the voting papers.

«The process of the taxpayer getting its money is going to be longer and slower than we hoped in the past because the economy is recovering slower and the regulatory picture has changed,» the chief executive said.

I expect this is just the beginning of a longer process designed to bring meaningful change to the New York State Assembly.»

MPs who are worried about their futures do not want to speak publicly about the process, but one said privately: «What Corbyn and [John] McDonnell want is to change the constitution to ensure the left have control of the party in the long run and that a Corbyn supporter takes over from Jeremy.

Sampson said: «Krueger is a proven reformer who can successfully work with Gov. Cuomo, the Assembly, and Senators on both sides of the aisle to restructure the budget process through long - term changes that radically reform how we spend taxpayer dollars.»

While he used to represent the same district, it changed after a 2000 redistricting process to what Schumer called one of the most conservative in the city, despite having a 3 to 1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans and a long history of Democratic elected officials.

The Senate Republicans, who control the process along with Assembly Democrats, have long been pushing for redistricting reform in 2022 instead of 2012, and their initially proposed lines were grotesque and cynical enough that it'd be hard to change the lines and not make them «less hyper political.»

Some of the changes he brought in long before he became prime minister began that process.

Clause 23 of the bill changes the process for calculating duty on long cigarettes.

The 2011 referendum proposing to replace the first - past - the - post (FPTP) voting system with the alternative vote (AV) was the culmination of a long process led by political parties and organised pressure groups pushing for change.

In August 2014, Connor told the Daily News that the IDC Initiative was in the process of re-registering with the state Board of Elections as an independent expenditure committee, a change that would allow it to spend unlimited sums as long as its spending decisions were made independently of candidates» campaigns.

Another change would no longer allow for gun registrations to be made public and give counties and the state Division of Criminal Justice Services more oversight of the license recertification process, not State Police.

The move marks the latest in a series of policy changes in which the governor — whose fiscal conservatism and ties to business interests have long left progressives in his party disenchanted — has circumvented the legislative process in order to take the state in a more left - leaning direction.

Now we need to study how, in the real world, and in the long - term, the processes of biochemical efficiency and lifespan will change.

Now the economic downturn has slowed some of those process of the change but as long as you've got 12 million or 13 or 15 million people in South Florida ringing the Everglades then all of what you try to do in the Everglades will be human denominated, and you won't get a natural system back.

«We take the potential of climate change very seriously, and we're at the beginning of a long - term process,» Lyle Petersen says.

«The Middle Pleistocene was a long period of about half a million years during which hominin evolution didn't proceed through a slow process of change with just one kind of hominin quietly evolving towards the classic Neandertal,» said lead author Juan - Luis Arsuaga, Professor of Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

New experiments by UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers suggest that immortalization of skin cells, which is essential to turning them cancerous, is a two - step process: a mutation in nevus cells slightly raises levels of telomerase, which keep the cells alive long enough for a second change, still unknown, that up - regulates telomerase to make the cells immortal and malignant.

Developing a better understanding of the large - scale mechanical changes that occur over longer distances, specifically the process by which the extracellular matrix is pulled into compact, highly - aligned «bridges,» could eventually form the basis of treatments for related diseases.

«The change in flux described by our model happens over extremely long time periods, and it would be a mistake to think that these processes that are bringing about any of the atmospheric changes are occurring due to anthropomorphic climate change,» he said.

Until recently, it was considered that such evolutionary processes would only happen through slow accumulation of changes over exceptionally long periods of time.

This may help us to understand how processes such as learning and memory formation, which require long - term changes in the brain, arise from the short bursts of electrical activity through which neurons signal to each other,» Greenberg said.

If we can alter and adapt our civilization to be compatible with a changing world we will then have an opportunity to begin the long process of mitigation in safety.

The reconstruction produced by Dr. Mann and his colleagues was just one step in a long process of research, and it is not (as sometimes presented) a clinching argument for anthropogenic global warming, but rather one of many independent lines of research on global climate change.

We analyze and model the flux of terrestrial materials from land to sea — the origins, pathways, processes, and food web consequences — in the context of long - term environmental change.