Sentences with phrase «radical alterations»

This is not surprising since we fully expect the carbon cycle to respond to radical alterations to the climate.

Amid all of the obstacles, the film offers lesson plans about innovative education initiatives, examining the success of the Knowledge Is Power Program Foundation's network of charter schools, the Harlem Children's Zone that aims to guide schooling from infancy through college, and radical alterations to the school system in Washington, D.C.

It seems that Metal Slug Advance won't be making any radical alterations to the tried - and - true Metal Slug formula, which sets a lone commando against seemingly endless waves of enemy troops and a fantastic array of outlandish military hardware, with blowing up everything in sight being the only available recourse.

«We took the basic concept and asked how far can we go before we would have to make radical alterations to how these limbs work, and we found that limit at the eight - legged robot.

Really to give up anything on which we have relied, to give it up definitively, «for good and all» and forever, signifies one of those radical alterations of character which came under our notice in the lectures on conversion.

In the 1980s, treasury secretary Don Regan said the first Reagan reform proposal was written on a word processor to signal the administration's openness to negotiation and radical alteration.

Just how such a radical alteration of personal behavior in so intimate a sphere of life is to be achieved is not clear to outside observers; it may not even be apparent to the planners who envision these targets.

That the conservative judges should actually do such a thing does not involve any radical alteration in the «job description» of the justices.

What is editorially — and theologically — affirmed first by the Yahwist and tacitly by all subsequent handlers of the tradition (since they do not see fit to make any radical alteration in the Yahwist's outline) comes about not from the heavy - handed use of the red pencil, so to speak, but by the much more subtle editorializing achieved by the selection, arrangement, and juxtaposition of stories originally independent of one another.

Jessica, in the form of the repulsive Clive, struggles to adjust to this radical alteration and sets out to get her own body back before the upcoming prom.

The other alternate ending presents a more radical alteration but it was never filmed; instead, we find animated storyboards for the sequence.

This radical alteration of David's style was one of the rare instances of changing the very roots of one's art, as he suddenly concentrated on acrylic depictions of athletic young men, swimming pools, palm trees and perpetual sunshine.

Tweaking is a lot more likely than radical alteration.

Yet funny how that can't be contemplated: but a far more geologically radical alteration in arctic ice extent from a larger increase in arctic temperature changes and other factors, is so easily perceived and, taken as truth, even.

Which is to say any scientist who studies this who recognizes that our geologically radical alteration of the atmosphere naturally would present a threat of very simple — if to us quite major — accompanying, if lagging and inherently non linear and somewhat chaotic and volatile, shifts in the general global climate, and various major regions then again within it, as almost all, who actually professionally study this issue and professionally work in this field do, is immediately dismissed.

Unlike abandoning fossil energy, capturing carbon does not demand a radical alteration of national economies, global trade, or personal lifestyles.

So what is the case that radical alteration of the atmosphere wouldn't ultimately and significantly change things climate wise?

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)

And yet for skeptics, to reverse that presumption — again, the presumption being again that a radical alteration radical alteration of the long term heat trapping «quotient» of the atmosphere would not ultimately change climate, itself an expression of energy — «skeptics» require not just evidence, but proof.

Same with «radical alteration».

But more pointedly, climate change «skepticism» is based on the idea that radical alteration of the atmosphere would NOT eventually change things climate wise in a geologically major way.

It's a presumption that radical alteration of the atmosphere upward in terms of its thermal energy absorption and re radiation would NOT ultimately and significantly change our climate in a similarly radical, or at least major, way.

Today, the scene has undergone a rather radical alteration.

Not exact matches

Although one could imagine all sorts of radical Blue Sky tax reforms — or much less radical ideas like a carbon tax or a value added tax — in the context of the current debate about how to make some alterations to the current tax system, I would suggest the following five elements in the spirit of 1986:

But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy.

Further, the alteration of our inherited notions of perception can not occur without a rethinking of the nature of physical reality and a radical critique of dualistic mythology.

The process of senescence requires global alterations in the genome architecture and radical changes in gene expression.

They describe that the alterations are due to a disproportionate, though transitory, increase in the production of radical oxygen species (ROS) in the hypothalamus.

«The radical overhaul, which is the first major alteration to the Points program, comes at a time when Weight Watchers is trying to revive its recession - battered business.»

His radical struggle against traditional norms, incorporation of unorthodox materials, uncompromising concentration on neglected and downtrodden artists — these are some of the most crucial alterations contemporary period has to offer.

Although Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is no stranger to experimental installations, the Malevich rehang underlined how subtle alterations in established methods of display can still retain a radical charge decades after their original occurrence.

However, far from eulogizing Man's radical and possibly irreversible alteration of the landscape, Baltz offers a pessimistic view of the future.

To those who've paid attention to Hafif's artistic evolution, though, one alteration she made about three years ago still seems bold for a painter who built an international reputation on her single - color canvases and whose devotion to monochromatic painting put her smack in the center of the 1980s «Radical Painting Group.»

Then, as an expert, you cite from an interview the head of an organization created to refute the idea that geologically radical long lived greenhouse gas concentration level alteration of our atmosphere (said more correctly than the simplistic «climate change» phrase, it's a mouthful for our twitter age), poses a threat of significant climatic shift in response.

The Climate Change «side,» is based upon the presumption that such a radical atmospheric alteration would lead to increasing change for reasons that have been articulated for years, and that has even risen to the level of a theory now for many years, and has been further corroborated and strengthened by the very process of science that skeptics seek to constantly castigate and denigrate, rather than simply «show to be wrong.»