Sentences with phrase «major switch from»

Some advocate a major switch from coal fired generation to gas fired on the basis of apparently large gas reserves which is what the Brits thought during the Thatcher years.

This is likely to see a major switch from coal to gas in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands (the UK has largely already achieved this switch owing to its higher domestic carbon - support price).

Also a major switch from grains to fruit would mean a reduction in protein produced, and basically a switch from a staple to a luxury.

Not exact matches

«They are paying early termination fees in order to get customers to switch, and everyone followed, so if you look at the major changes that have occurred in the industry, from payment plans (to) turning off termination fees, no contracts, getting rid of roaming (charges), it's a longer list of things that are precipitated by them doing it first,» he told CNBC by phone.

Over at Freelance Switch, Collis Ta'eed bought cows from Oxfam's Unwrapped service on behalf of their clients, then named these new bovine friends after major projects the team had worked on.

In his 2006 book, A Thousand Barrels a Second, Tertzakian predicted a new energy break point within 10 years, when major economies would switch from one «disadvantaged» source of energy to one, or several, other options.

«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for switching electronic signals in small devices.

Another major success for Stellar Lumens was marked when another currency, Irene Energy decided to switch platform, migrating from Ethereum to Stellar Lumens platform.

Aside from the major change of switching distributors, the tequila producer applies a straightforward business strategy for bringing up the business.

Submitting to pressure from animal rights groups including Mercy for Animals and the Humane Society of the United States, Walmart joins dozens of other major food companies making the switch.

His increasing devotion to the team forced him to switch majors from lab - intensive biology to economics last year.

Luiz has been a major part of that as Conte has switched to a 3 -4-3 system with the former PSG star at the heart of his defence, and Redknapp has been impressed with what he has seen from him.

As reported by The Guardian, Barcelona will splash out $ 147m in total on the French international after his summer move from Borussia Dortmund, and he will be expected to fill a major gap left by Neymar up front after his big - money switch to Paris Saint - Germain.

Oxlade - Chamberlain is the second major Liverpool signing in two days, albeit midfielder Naby Keita's # 48m switch from RB Leipzig is delayed until next summer.

Stoke new boy Xherdan Shaqiri has revealed manager Mark Hughes was a major factor in his club record # 12m switch from Inter Milan.

The decision to switch the indexing of public sector pensions from retail price index to consumer price index, implemented in April, has already prompted major disquiet, however.

Note also that, judging from the tables, ComRes have switched over to prompting for UKIP in their main voting intention question in this poll — as with their last national poll, it does not seem to have had a major effect (UPDATE — I think this is because ComRes have changed turnout weightings, so that there is a tighter turnout filter for the Greens and UKIP than for the main parties).

Scientists have previously said the switch from a fissure - type shield volcano to an inland cluster of nested stratovolcanoes was caused by a tectonically driven rearrangement of major border faults.

Whenever a major new instrument switches on, the dance between theory and observation in science always turns from a stately waltz into a chaotic jitterbug.

Over the last few decades, popular songs have switched from major to minor keys: In the 1960s, 85 percent of the songs were written in a major key, compared with only about 40 percent of them now.

A major discovery from those inquiries was that one player in that rewiring, a protein called ATF2, can switch from its usual tumor - preventive function to become a tumor promoter.

A switch in the major outer - surface proteins (Osp) of B. burgdorferi from OspA to OspC accompanies this change in location within the tick (3, 4).

According to the scientists, these results show that although the gene variants — which make individual humans different from each other — in general have a small impact on disease development, the gene switches in which they reside can play a major role.

That's why I switched from a largely pre-med major to plant biology for my PhD.

It started when I switched my major from business to philosophy (plus a minor in psychology) at 19 years old.

The major switch that occurs in the absence or reduction of exogenous glucose is that the body transitions to running on fatty acids, ketone bodies (KBs), and small amounts of glucose derived from gluconeogenesis (making glucose from amino acids and other substances).48, 49

The major side effects are all involved with the stress that comes with switching from a sugar burner to a fat burner who is keto adapted.

He told me that retailers preferred applicants with an analytical background, so I switched my major to Finance from Marketing.

But anyway, I switched my major from biology to business economics and realized that all of my life, I've always wanted to become a business owner which made my decision the right decision.

A major difference may be language, but if you join the Amigos site mentioned above then you can switch the whole site from one language to another literally at the click of a link at the top of the page.

One major Nintendo staple is missing from the Switch: The Virtual Console.

Gameloft's Dungeon Hunter franchise has gone through some major changes during its life on the App Store, the biggest one being the switch from premium to freemium, a move that was seen as anathema by many players.

Rounding up all the big superhero news from the past week... Unfortunately, due to some major technical issues (resulting in a switch to a brand new server), it's another abridged edition of The Week in Spandex this weekend.

It's not too much of a wait, but it's the first time we've seen a staggered release for one of the Switch's major first - party games - and given how the console is region free and how easy it is to pick up games from the Japanese eShop, we can only presume the version coming out in Japan on September 28th won't have full localised language options.

One major facet that separates the Switch version of Skyrim from the rest is the exclusive Legend of Zelda armor and weapons that you can acquire by using an amiibo.

There aren't any major improvements for this re-release on the PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch, aside from the portable aspects for Nintendo Switch.

It was then that she decided to switch majors from pre-med to art history.

I switched my academic major at the University of Wisconsin from pre-medicine and nutritional sciences to urban education and spent the next decade working with city youth.

Responding to rulings by the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the several Claremont cases against the state's school finance system, the state made major changes in 1999, switching from a local to a statewide property tax.

Laird selects students from all kinds of majors — biology, communications, business — and many end up switching to education.

The only major modification Rath made is a switch from right - to left - hand drive, a simple conversion built into the Mini's design to enable its production for markets worldwide.

Along the left side of the screen, all the major phone functions are available, from top to bottom: Contacts, Recent incoming and outgoing calls, Keypad, and Change, which allows you to switch off between different paired devices.

The linked Adaptive Shift Control (ASC) system switches between three different programs depending on input from the major control systems throughout the car.

It's been 17 years since the 911 switched from air - cooled to water - cooled engines, and the iconic sports car has received yet another major change that sets it further apart from the original concept «Butzi» Porsche conceived in the early 1960s.

Engine options for the W213 E-Class will see a major update, thanks to the switch to inline - 6 engines from the current V6 engines, [20] along with a new generation of four - cylinder diesel engines, codenamed OM654, and existing four - cylinder petrol engines.

Open e-Readers is becoming a major trend in 2014 with the core operating system switching from Linux to Android.

You often hear of the success stories of authors switching from a major publisher to self - publishing, but there are more failures than successes.

Rotheram motioned Mills to draw the blackout curtain against the sunset, then threw the switch and took a seat across from the lieutenant and the major, studying the man in the armchair.

The sad situation appears to be that journalism across the board is suffering from the current switch to web based news and marketing as the major news honchos deal with reduced growth in advertising dollars.

If the major publishers switch to selling ebooks without DRM, then they can enable customers to buy books from a variety of outlets and move away from the walled garden of the Kindle store.