Sentences with phrase «not dramatic shifts»

Yet the overall pattern is one of modest advance, not dramatic shifts.

It's not a dramatic shift but it's more a continual note to self to put yourself at the head of the business and evaluate the company and its business practices from there.

It's not a dramatic shift in the formula, yet it does just enough to keep this brilliant puzzle series from feeling stale.

Not exact matches

But does anyone think that a party still reeling from its inability to re-capture the White House that has seen a dramatic shift to the right in its core leadership in the past few years (Hint, maybe they can't see the forest for the extremely right - leaning trees) will be the party that wants credit, or the blame, for legalizing pot?

And he says despite the shift in titles, he doesn't expect an immediate dramatic shifts in his activities.

However, at nearly 63 times current earnings - a whopping p / e ratio, to be sure - even if the firm were to grow its profit to the level of Berkshire - $ 8.5 billion - it would still lack the liquid assets and marketable securities the house that Warren Buffett built has, and it would not have a diversified income stream, making it far more vulnerable to changes in the competitive landscape; a major concern when you contemplate that Google operates in an industry where dramatic shifts consumer behavior can happen overnight.

That's not to say that nothing has changed: there have been dramatic shifts since the pre-bubble years in the composition of local populations.

One of the most dramatic changes in my own denomination is the shift away from the adult midnight service on Christmas Eve to a wildly popular «family» service at an earlier hour, which by its very nature can not offer much in the way of a sermon or more challenging music.

The statement, published in the New York Times and several other newspapers, was intended as «a thoughtful Jewish response» to the «dramatic and unprecedented shift» that has occurred in Jewish - Christian relations, not only through reformulation of Christian teachings but through explicit ecclesial statements of remorse on the part of both Catholics and Protestants.

An even more dramatic shift occurs when the children begin to leave the nest.

The answer appears to be yes, although the shift is not as dramatic as some imagine.

Ireland's recent decision to approve same - sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country's Catholic reputation in ruins.Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

There may not be a more dramatic week - to - week shift in golf than going from the U.S. Open to the Travelers Championship.

The shifts weren't dramatic, but they were enough.

The Argentine international, not seen in a Spurs shirt since a League Cup tie at Liverpool on October 25 last year, took another step on his road to recovery following hip problems with a good shift in a Premier League 2 London derby at Hotspur Way that saw both sides have spells in the ascendency before reaching a crescendo with two dramatic goals in stoppage time.

«If parents really just learned from their own parents, we wouldn't witness such dramatic generational shifts as were seen in this study,» Vespa said.

Dramatic hormonal shifts occur when a body goes from pregnant to not pregnant in a manner of minutes.

Such a dramatic shift hasn't happened in the past in the run - up to elections, but never mind.

The global economic collapse of the last 12 months has produced a dramatic shift in public opinion on appropriate reward for a job well done and what should happen when things don't go well.

But the environment is not on most people's list of personal priorities and it will take a dramatic shift to put it there.

Otherwise, there has not been any dramatic shifts in public opinion.

Not so much homosexuality and the left, but homosexuality and the right, for that is the dramatic shift that has in truth occurred - and specifically under the current prime minister's watch as home secretary.

What the sheet doesn't note, and Greenberg points out, is that Siena, knowing they were showing a dramatic shift, was accurate.

So while it is not quite as dramatic as our overly keen sub editor would have us believe, this certainly reflects a shift in rhetoric from the Lib Dem leader.

He will accuse some new arrivals of not wanting to integrate with their neighbours, leaving some areas suffering «discomfort and disjointedness» following dramatic population shifts.

Helping teachers make this dramatic shift requires curriculum materials that are not just aligned to the new standards but also draw on the best available research about teaching and learning.

Our study suggests that at medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting, are not necessary to create abrupt climate shifts and temperature changes.»

Reaching grandparent age, they show, did not become common until the Upper Paleolithic, and it may explain the sudden and dramatic shift in behaviors between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic.

A slight variation on Mountain, come into it by standing tall with feet flat on the ground and gently rocking or shifting the weight forward and back and side to side — small micro-movements, not dramatic big ones.

Another thing I did not expect is the dramatic shifts in appetite.

Not only that, but you'll have a dramatic shift in the composition of your «MicroSpartans.»

We don't get quite such a dramatic shift here in Aus.

The online dating industry has not only seen tremendous growth in the past several years, but has also seen a dramatic shift in how and where people search for a potential companion and in what type of companion they are looking for.

Though the dramatic shifts didn't sit well with some of the devoted audiences — why would Luke Skywalker, the Jedi with truncated training who let his sister's son slip to the Dark Side, be a PTSD - crippled curmudgeon instead of his ebullient former self??

The neo-western style of the book story never really meshes well with the simmering thriller happening in the real world, but the dramatic and tonal shifts help break up any monotony that might creep in because on their own accord, each story isn't stellar.

There may be a broader awareness of some of the conditions, but I don't really think that there's been some dramatic shift.

Vaughn had done dramatic roles earlier in his career, but he became known mostly as a comedic actor from the early 2000s on, making the shift seen in this film not so shocking.

The significance of the Common Core is that the advocates for the Common Core and the people who are designing the test talk very explicitly about, as Carol said, these instructional shifts, which have not been publicly debated, which got little public airing as 40 - odd states rushed to adopt the Common Core in 2009, 2010, and which portend a dramatic shift in how we teach 50 million children reading and math.

In three short years, the 45 states and the District of Columbia that joined the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Initiative have not only implemented new college - and career - readiness standards for public school students, but also required teachers to make dramatic instructional shifts as they align their curriculum to these more rigorous standards (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2012).

Progress comes at a cost of the old engine's intoxicating wail and instantaneous throttle response, but let's not be overly dramatic: The 488 still sounds delicious and revs so quickly that the LED shift lights on the steering wheel rarely have time to rest.

Honda wasn't kidding when it said the new Pilot will bring a «dramatic shift in design.»

The differences between the drive modes aren't so dramatic that you feel like you're driving a different car in each mode, but I found myself reaching for Sport for the slightly tighter - feeling steering and elevated shift points.

As dramatic as the shift to e-readers is, I can't believe anyone is having this discussion in 2015.

But I don't believe in making dramatic shifts because to do so sacrifices the benefits of effective grounding.

There has been a «dramatic shift» in banks» willingness sell a property for less than the mortgage balance to avoid foreclosing... short sales, typically change hands at a discount of about 20 percent to homes not in financial distress, compared with a 40 percent price cut for bank - owned homes, according to RealtyTrac Inc..

Lending standards are not making a dramatic shift.

I eased into stocks, not making dramatic shifts.

Logic, however, doesn't support the idea that sticking to the same stock allocation at all times is somehow safer than making reasonable efforts to shift your allocation effectively in response to dramatic price swings.

When the next Gears of War comes along — and lets not be naive about these things, we'll almost certainly see another Gears of War game someday — it'll probably have to be a fairly dramatic shift, from a story perspective.