Sentences with phrase «punctuated by periods»

BIPOLAR DISORDER Extreme mood swings punctuated by periods of generally even - keeled behavior characterize this disorder.

Earth's surface air temperature has significantly increased over the 20th century, although this overall global warming has been punctuated by periods of weaker / stalled warming or even cooling.

The fossil record shows periods of relative stasis punctuated by periods of relatively rapid change.

Pollock was a mercurial man who lived a hard and fast life, punctuated by periods of depression and reclusiveness, and struggled with alcoholism, but he was also a man of great sensitivity and spirituality.

Hence over the Plio - Pleistocene, East African climate is best characterised as a long - term trend towards increasing aridity punctuated by periods of precession - forced high rainfall leading to the periodic appearance of deep freshwater lakes.

It is important to remember that geological history contains numerous periods of slow evolution punctuated by periods of rapid evolution, which Steven J. Gould called Punctuated Equilibrium.

They are also studying the effects of patterns of activity — for example, whether a consistent level of moderate activity has different effects from overall low levels punctuated by periods of vigorous activity.

This section should be written in a way that makes it easy to skim, with compelling writing and relevant examples of work experience.When you describe your work experience, condense it into bullet points punctuated by a period.

In the fitness and personal trainer resume template for Word, the summary statement is a group of three sentences punctuated by a period.

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= > boy, good luck reconciling that with the fossil record which shows punctuated equilibrium: stasis for millions of years followed by a grand paroxysm of neccessarily interdependant mutations in a short period of time.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

It's periods of relative silence that are punctuated by extreme chaos and calamity.

Typically, these methods suggest putting your baby to bed when he's still awake and allowing short periods of crying punctuated by comforting (but not picking up) your child.

Unless any events come along to change things Westminster politics will have a bit of a quite period until conference season — punctuated, of course, by the extremely major event of the Scottish referendum in seven weeks time....

All winners are for professionals with active, high - energy days punctuated by slower, more thought - intensive periods.

One of the findings that stands out, he says, is that pop music shows a pattern from biological evolution known as punctuated equilibrium, in which periods of gradual change are separated by explosions of complexity.

While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.

These glacials have been punctuated by interglacials, short warm periods which typically last 11,500 years.

There would have been periods of grazing coupled with stretches of famine and punctuated by instances of all - out feasting.

Short bursts of intensive exercise punctuated by recovery periods work best for most people.

Have you ever noticed how periods of time with the most stunning blooms also tend to be the weeks punctuated by the most rain?

It seems odd, however, that The Ted would seek to get the bayonets a-rattlin» again with almost four hours of awkward period speechifying punctuated occasionally by random recreations of random early Civil War battles (Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville), each of which lead to the events of Maxwell's 1993 adaptation of The Killer Angels, Gettysburg.

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The two - hour, 45 - minute race on the roller coaster 1.54 - mile circuit was punctuated by frequent contact and three full - course caution periods.

It has been a good overall market, but it has been punctuated by a few periods of sharp corrections in stock prices.

The course of the disease may be cyclical, with periods of symptoms punctuated by times where symptoms are absent.

The first major survey of the artist to be presented since 2006, «Power Stations» spans a pivotal period in Hoyland's career, punctuated by his first solo museum show, at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1967, and his defining retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery (1979 — 80).

The period between 1926 and 1933 in Paris was Torres - García's most mature, punctuated by his co-founding (with Michel Seuphor) of the renowned Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square) movement, which presented the international art scene with an alternative to the Parisian Surrealists.

Dennis Masback, now in his late forties, has been exhibiting his work in New York for nearly two decades, a period punctuated by a moment of near - celebrity in the late»70s during which his work was compared to that of Jasper Johns and Brice Marden.

Working together over a two - year period, Open Sessions artists participate in ongoing studio visits and discussions, punctuated by small group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, as well as other self - organized shows in New York and abroad.»

There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between AD 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century.

Temperature has gone up in fits and starts over the 20th century; periods of relatively flat temperatures (circa 1945 - 1975, 1998 - 2013) punctuated by big increases (circa 1925 - 1945 and 1975 - 1998).

The MWP came to a fairly rapid end as the period of 1225 to 1275 saw the most active 50 year volcanic period of the past 2000 years, punctuated by the mega volcano of 1257.

«This means California is indeed experiencing more warm and dry periods, punctuated by wet conditions.»

The stable periods are punctuated by abrupt changes.

Instead, I was surprised to learn that Western North Carolina is predicted to have longer periods of extreme drought and wildfires, punctuated by heavier, extreme precipitation events (according to the latest National Climate Assessment, a summary of the expected impacts of climate change on the United States).

According to our reconstruction from 1538 the first major trough was reached around 1607 (Figure 11) It can be seen as descending from a peak attained by 1560, following a century long broadly warming period (according to Lamb) that punctuated the LIA into two parts, a relatively short period following the end of the MWP, and another following a return to periods of bitter cold weather at the start of the 17th century that is confirmed both in this reconstruction and that by Lamb.

Over the last half million years, our climate has experienced long ice ages regularly punctuated by brief warm periods called interglacials.

«Police work, like war, consists of long periods of boredom punctuated by short bursts of excitement,» he explained.