Sentences with phrase «precipitating change»

As the provision is stated, the precipitating change in the physical environment could be to components not directly subject to Federal jurisdiction.

Young folks can be a powerful force in precipitating change in the society.

The conditions precipitating this change — lower volumes and value of crude oil from Mexico, and increasing demand from Mexico for refined products from the U.S. as prices are rising — may not be the new normal.

It is not accidental that Barth's recovery of Anselm precipitated the change in his program from «Christian Dogmatics» to «Church Dogmatics.»

Moreover, it seeks to adapt to and with those changes; and it may sometimes seek to precipitate change.

• The desire to be a caring, participative father increases men's ambivalence about smoking and precipitates changes in smoking (Westmaas et al, 2002)

What happened to precipitate this change in the influence of American art?

Furthermore, we show that only moderate perturbations in the abundances of radiatively active volatiles may be sufficient to precipitate changes to new climate regimes.»

A number of things can be at the heart of a need to precipitate a change.

Just as important, the Company's commercial success had precipitated a change in public sentiment, effectively silencing critics of its aggressiveness.

Such discrepancies in parent — adolescent perceptions may result in conflict and precipitate changes in the parent — adolescent relationship, including changes in the adolescent's decision - making autonomy (Collins & Luebker, 1994; Hill & Holmbeck, 1986; Holmbeck, 1996; Holmbeck & O'Donnell, 1991).

«What really precipitated the change was risk adjustment,» says Donald Wood, Federal president and COO.

Not exact matches

The moment marked a palpable change at CME, precipitating conversations about how the exchange could built a high - caliber product that could balance a number of customer interests.

«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.

It's just too much effort to make a change that isn't precipitated by something.

This situation, combined with rapidly changing consumer behavior, has precipitated a sea change in lending...

Technological change and market expansion can precipitate radical overnight changes in income distribution.

My greater hope is that we would precipitate the inevitable by voluntarily and willingly initiating the change now.

The nation, in its internal aspect, that is, as society, underwent profound changes which precipitated problems for the Hebrew thinkers.

The changing consciousness of women has already begun to precipitate what will become a massive crisis in marriage.

Through the bodily action precipitated by the purposes of the momentary dominant occasions within the organism, the actual situation is changed as well as the perceived situation for subsequent dominant occasions.

The change was precipitated by a recent randomized control trial, in which supplementation with 4,000 IUs a day was shown to be safe and highly effective at reducing vitamin D deficiency among pregnant women.

Another major change in the landscape was precipitated by research that questioned the traditional punishment — abuse dichotomy.

In France, the inverse process precipitates people to rely on the state to avoid moving forward — to avoid change.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

In Scotland and Wales the aftermath of this closely fought contest precipitated important changes in their constitutional arrangements.

The changes in the Town Clerk's office were precipitated by Kathy Rounds, former 1st Deputy Town Clerk, being promoted to the post of Town Supervisor's Confidential Secretary upon the retirement of Sherryl Burdett, who served in the post for many years.

If the parents of more than two children are precipitated into claiming benefits through a change in circumstances, like redundancy, a partner leaving them or being bereaved, then their children will suffer.

At the Albany stop, Gil Quiniones, President and CEO of the New York Power Authority, told a room full of community, business and government leaders that the focus of the tour is locally - based microgrids, a move precipitated by climate change.

In a previous post, I poked my nose into the debate over whether climate change will precipitate more conflict.

For more than three billion years the mats captured and precipitated sediments, building reefs over a hundred metres high and hundreds of kilometres long, and changing in composition and complexity as new forms of life appeared.

«Forcing the employer to incorporate the full cost of employment, including the cost of injury or disease precipitated by a workplace that is designed for sitting for the majority of the day, will incentivize employers to change their workplace design as necessary in order to avoid liability,» said Pedersen.

These changes are important because intimate partner violence is strongly tied to mass shootings: A 2015 report by the Congressional Research Service found more than one fifth of all public mass shootings between 1999 and 2013 were precipitated in part by domestic disputes.

«When the heart is strained, it can lead to changes in the atrium — the top chambers of the heart — and it's here where we believe structural abnormalities can precipitate atrial fibrillation,» Foy said.

They also enable us to document body - size changes in species over time as a result of climate change, and to track the increase and spread of some species and the decline and disappearance of others (and no, their decline was not precipitated by collecting them for museums).

The hormonal changes of pregnancy and menopause can certainly precipitate large weight changes.

These benefits are especially important for the prenatal population, as certain anatomical changes of pregnancy (e.g., change in center of gravity, joint laxity, etc.) are known to precipitate negative effects on the pregnant body.

In fact, although rosacea can also be precipitated by «hot or spicy food and drinks, alcohol, physical exercise, high temperature environments or abrupt changes of temperature,» [8] the number one trigger for rosacea is sun exposure.

The simple process of repetition also has an important effect: thanks to «neuroplasticity», the process by which the brain can «rewire» itself, repeating knowledge and techniques can precipitate structural development of neural pathways and subsequently bring about real, lasting change in the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals.

This change was precipitated by reports showing that American students were in core classes much less than their international counterparts.

In North Carolina, the state implementation of a Technology Portfolio requirement for all initial teacher licenses issued after January 1, 1999, precipitated significant changes in preservice teacher education.

And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events - involving a bag of «jinxed» money, a suave American, a trunk full of heroin, a hustler taxi driver, and a rich doctor's daughter - that changes Robert's life forever.

In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world's economic and political orders.

Sometimes the change is precipitated by the President's choice to lead an agency, as in the case of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

It was precipitated by changing my banking from TD to BMO.

And ii) Trump as President really could happen (for much the same reasons as the Brexit vote), but now the market (like the GOP) already seems to be moving on to bargaining (& acceptance)... And anyway, a) East Coast - West Coast shame at the idea of a Trump presidency shouldn't precipitate an actual market decline, b) a President who likely ends up isolated from Congress is sure to be pretty ineffectual (as Obama's proved), c) if Trump manages to get anything done, it would probably be stimulative for the market, and d) if Hillary wins... yawn, plus ca change!

Christine Hackett, president of Petropics, says this shift in demand was precipitated by the pet - food recalls of 2007, which prompted consumers to pay greater attention to the products they were buying and ultimately changed buying patterns.

Their artworks explore changes in perception precipitated by our digital age, and closely parallel the cubist vernacular of fragmentation, non-linearity, simultaneity, and decenteredness.

And since the remedy, drastic cutbacks in fuel production, was so extreme, many of these people went way out on a limb with their concerns, precipitating a veritable firestorm of anxiety — since nothing less than a form of sheer hysteria could be powerful enough to produce the necessary changes.

These are outcomes that would irreversibly change regional climate patterns, disrupt agriculture, precipitate greater flooding in some places, more sustained droughts in others, and accelerate sea level rise.