Sentences with phrase «more gradual shift»

In that sense re-direction is a more gradual shift in investment focus than a switch.

It's a more gradual shift in focus on fat loss or muscle gain.

Whereas many companies offer a «dual ladder» and the choice of science or management, at others the move to management is less a choice and more a gradual shift.

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Pardy expects we'll see a gradual shift out of integrated oil companies and into riskier, more volatile exploration - and - development and oilfield services stocks that can offer more upside, although he stresses that you can't lose sight of the companies» balance sheets.

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.

7 Our Franklin Templeton auto sector analysts estimate the ownership mix will shift somewhat more toward fleet, but the change will be smaller and more gradual than some people may currently believe.

Your retirement plan should plot gradual shifts toward more bonds as you approach retirement.

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.

Historian of religions Diana Eck traces the growing popularity of the term «spirituality» to the l99Os when the word «religion» came to seem too static and institutional in its connotations, and a gradual shift occurred to the more non-sectarian term «spirituality» Eck herself uses the latter term to designate «the disciplined nurturing of inner spiritual life» (150 - 51).

For some women, it's more of a gradual shift to feeling better.

When you return, you won't have the benefit of any gradual shift at bedtime, so many parents find that their babies» sleep schedules are even more difficult to regulate once the trip is over.

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.

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».

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....

Coverstone said the district's gradual shift into this budgeting approach also helped because some principals had more experience with how this worked before the district implemented student - based budgeting in all schools.

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.

This gradual shift to more conservative investments is designed to reduce your risk as you approach retirement.

His experiences in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 and the death of his father have been cited as influences on his gradual shift toward a more contemplative mood in his work.

Once you have the tonal planes (or large sections of dark, mid-tone and light), you then build up the more gradual tonal shifts based on what you already have.

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.

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 company expects energy demand to grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.

Other notable PHA - detected adjustments are minimum (and more modest maximum) temperature shifts associated with a widespread move of stations from inner city rooftops to newly - constructed airports or wastewater treatment plants after 1940, as well as gradual corrections of urbanizing sites like Reno, Nevada.

The reason for this shift, new research suggests, is the gradual warming of winters brought on by climate change.It is thought that because brown owls are more visible to predators during times of heavy snow, they have, in the past, had a harder time surviving into the breeding season.

It looks to me like they are slightly reducing the early twentieth century warming as well as making the mid century cooling more gradual rather than a sudden shift after the war.

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.

Some users are reporting the automatic brightness transitions triggered by the feature are now more gradual and consequently not as immediately noticeable while they're happening, which may be why Google's engineers opted to implement a real - time visualization of the shift.

This gradual but pervasive shift in workplace culture that packs more employees into less room has been a blow to conventional office buildings in downtown Los Angeles and other financial centers.