Sentences with phrase «rather abrupt»

If your front door swings open directly into the living space, it can make for rather abrupt arrivals.

The process came to a rather abrupt halt after I'd entered all of my information; a second attempt was no more successful.

Certainly the rather abrupt rise in the rate of «unplaced lawyer candidates» — students unable to find articling positions — from 5.8 % in 2008 to 12.1 % in 2011 is an eye - popper and potentially a game changer.

One of the most intriguing and well - studied climatic events in the past is the Younger Dryas (YD), a rather abrupt climate change between ~ 12.9 and 11.6 thousand years ago.

The figure contained in icearea.ps provided with this data illustrates the rather abrupt jump in total northern hemisphere ice area around October 1978.

Sea - level change is limited for Mg / Ca temperatures up to about 5 °C above current values, whereupon a rather abrupt sea - level rise of several tens of metres occurs, presumably representing the loss of Antarctic ice.

My comprehension is that a rising moist air parcel reduces in temperature and volume gradually, but condensation occurs rather abrupt when the air parcel temperature reaches the dew point.

The offshore evidence suggests relative warmth prior to a rather abrupt decline around AD 1300.

«A rather abrupt change in the El Niño — Southern Oscillation behavior occurred around 1976/77 and the new regime has persisted... However, it is unclear as to whether this apparent change in the ENSO cycle is caused by global warming.»

According to McLean and Foster, this predominance of warm surface waters in the Pacific has heated the Earth, particularly in the NH, and generated a rather abrupt upturn in global warming after 1976.

Also, and without trying to give any spoilers away, the ending is rather abrupt and features gameplay that maybe was less prevalent in other areas of the game.

Or will you push a button that you have been told not to press, not knowing whether or not the button will release you from your current predicament or seal your fate in a rather abrupt way.

Those of you PS3 owners who are still a little distraught over the rather abrupt delay of Little Big Planet might still have a reason to turn your shiny gaming grill on this weekend.

That it's only for the opening act renders its end rather abrupt, and I would've liked to witness how it'd provide a different brand of challenge for the actual overworld (provided that it's ineffective against «boss» monsters like Lynels and Hinoxes, of course).

With the rather abrupt departure of Cormac Whelan last June, and the appointment of Aidan Brogan (the ex-SVP of Sales) as CEO, you've also got to wonder if margins / cashflow will be sacrificed for increased revenue growth (not necessarily a bad thing, ultimately)?

I'm very new to this rather abrupt and seemingly barrier-less community, a bit of a giveaway is the fact that I've just spent the last couple of hours, online, finding my way around Twitter.

An explosive beginning, lovable and despisable characters, questions of loyalty, moral inquisition all highlight the plot which comes to a rather abrupt end.

We were most impressed by the Dynamic setting's suspension calibration, but some editors found the rather abrupt shift points somewhat unsettling.

As for the content of these elisions, they're indeed pretty, erm, «elidible,» but there's a bit where Anna goes searching for Alex the moment she returns home from the hospital that might have added some much - needed texture to Alex's rather abrupt entrance into the narrative proper.

The opening feels rather abrupt because if you have played the demo, it is right from the start of the demo where our heroes are in a battle of life and death with Ultron Sigma.

And judging from the reaction of the mostly female YA audience in the theater I was in, there may be some dissatisfaction with the rather abrupt ending.

The climax brings to mind Marisa Tomei's classic testimony in My Cousin Vinny but quite pales in comparison since Legally Blonde's take is rather abrupt, not to mention the film's central trial plot leaves a lot to be desired.

I see now why so many people were turned off by the ending - it's like the director had no idea where this was going and just said «the hell with it» and tacked on the rather abrupt and disappointing end.

Things get complicated once again involving Vicky and some meddling by her Barcelona host, Patricia Clarkson (wasted in miniscule supporting role which mainly consists of greeting people as they get out of cars) and come to rather abrupt, somewhat satisfying, if only for its slightly non-standard, conclusion.

(Or in the Voice's case (remember, he was the «token Christian» I was sent on a date with by the Threads blog) sent a rather abrupt text message saying «No»!

Looking at the meteorological record one would note a rather abrupt cooling trend in the late 1890's followed by another but smaller in magnitude in the late 1940's.

It's rather abrupt and caught insiders — including the senator's Democratic colleagues — by surprise.

WRC driver Craig Breen's Wales Rally GB came to a rather abrupt and crashy end on day one after sliding his Citroen DS3 WRC into a ditch during SS5.

The additional price will be paid when we are forced to make a rather abrupt transition to other forms of energy.

The rather abrupt rise in interest rates this year has probably also played a part, and is certainly responsible for some of the increase in the stock market's volatility.

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It's a user - friendly approach that is less likely to keep visitor on your site, rather than scrambling for the «back» button while their business meeting comes to an abrupt halt.

In contrast, the present syndrome of overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield conditions is typically associated with abrupt and often steep losses, but is more commonly resolved over a period of months rather than years.

Rather than wait for the abrupt and drastic rise the future will inevitably bring, I am convinced we should have a fairly rapid planned rise in this cost from year to year.

On this basis, Eigen maintains that abrupt changes of a quite major sort are to be expected in the normal course of events, as a quasi-species centered on one sequence is rapidly replaced by a rather different successor quasi-species centered quite far away on one of the extensions of the former species.

Because your milk changes for the benefit of your child while you wean, it is better to make weaning a gradual, rather than an abrupt, process.

I've come to the point where I'm not averse to weaning; I just want it to be gentle rather than abrupt.

I immediately wondered if No. 10 — the «comms team», as Steve Baker would call it — had urged him to add it after I had reported his abrupt departure and rather terse response to me in the street.

President Trump — rather than deliver an «Apprentice» - style firing — left the axed U.S. attorney to announce that his acclaimed run atop the nation's No. 1 federal court district had reached an abrupt end.

Even if the near future doesn't unfold like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Research.

«We found a change in 14C that was more abrupt than any found previously, except for cosmic ray events in AD 775 and AD 994, and our use of annual data rather than data for each decade allowed us to pinpoint exactly when this occurred.»

Here, rather than observing the abrupt collapse phenomenon, by focusing upon small changes just prior to the abrupt phenomenon they found the tongue deformation.

A recent study suggests the result is likely to be a gradual release of greenhouse gases over many decades, rather than an abrupt pulse.

Rather than building tension with editing, we get abrupt jump scares.

And if that seems like an abrupt tonal shift, well, that's rather the point that actor turned first - time writer - director Xavier Legrand is making.

It helps you to consider the possibility that sometimes when a student is abrupt, he or she might simply be anxious (rather than deliberately rude).

Chicago Public Schools officials will phase out three South Side high schools over three years rather than shut them down this summer, an abrupt change to a long - standing plan to address schools that have struggled with enrollment and academics in one...

Clutch takeup is a bit abrupt and throttle response rather sharp for a twelve - cylinder, but once at speed, this 4000 - pound sled whooshes forward with silky certainty.

Gear changes are gradual rather than abrupt, ensuring a continuous delivery of engine torque and traction.

At times, coming up a car ahead with the ACC set to maximum following distance, rather than slowing gradually, the initial braking felt abrupt to the passenger.

The Dynamic mode ups the XF's performance capabilities via a stiffer suspension setting, but also brings rather jarring shifts some editors found to be a bit too abrupt.