Sentences with phrase «scale shifts on»

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Republican lawmakers argue that the BAT would offset the price increase since the shift in the trade balance would cause the dollar to strengthen, improving the purchasing power of Americans and scaling back the effect on consumers.

That's a small numerical shift on a five - point scale, and yet that shift actually puts a woman back into a normal range of her peers.

The temptation is to focus only on the latter — to see a shift in scale as achieving a greater footprint through growth, acquisition and / or diversification.

A full - on globalization backlash could undermine hopes for shifting away from secular stagnation by derailing the nascent recovery in investment spending and productivity growth in the U.S. Global trade tends to boost productivity through fostering of competitive pressures, product specialization, scale economies, global value chains and technology transfer.

The succession of scientific discoveries and revolutions in physics over the last 500 years have led to fundamental paradigm shifts (Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962) in the way that science conceives of the reality of this universe both on the cosmological scale and in the subatomic realm, and perhaps even beyond this universe.

What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large - scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that «depended on work that had no other object than to keep people at work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained... an approximation of full employment» all without reference to the intrinsic quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction of the work that went into them.»

On reflection, there have been five major post-war shifts in the major parties, and the claim that Labour's challenge is on a greater scale than any of the last four strikes me as implausible hyperbolOn reflection, there have been five major post-war shifts in the major parties, and the claim that Labour's challenge is on a greater scale than any of the last four strikes me as implausible hyperbolon a greater scale than any of the last four strikes me as implausible hyperbole.

If he is successful in championing the Yorkshire - wide proposal designed by local authorities across the region, we could see an important shift in the devolution agenda in England — from a top - down to a bottom - up system, built on economic as well as identity motifs and with a much wider, regional scale.

As economists and others explore how biomedical research is shifting on a grand scale, Science set out to tell the stories of individuals.

Those moves represent a shift by Pfizer toward a more specialized approach to drug discovery and follow another trend in the industry: streamlining R&D by focusing on specific disease areas — a strategy biotechs already employ albeit on a smaller scale.

Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen

At 1.6 metres tall, the vertebra in front of me was on another scale entirely — it would need a forklift truck to shift it.

For tornadoes rated above F0, the lowest rung on the original Fujita scale of tornado strength, the shift is also close to 14 days, according to a preliminary analysis by Long and his colleagues that's not included in the new paper.

«It could potentially be a very large migration to the continental United States,» said Maria Cristina Garcia, a Cornell University historian, immigration expert, and author on large - scale population shifts, which includes a forthcoming book on climate refugees.

The change occurred at an astonishing pace: Within a few months, native lizards had begun shifting to higher perches, and over the course of 15 years and 20 generations, their toe pads had become larger, with more sticky scales on their feet.

When EF0 tornadoes, the weakest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale, were removed in a preliminary analysis not published in the paper, the shift broadened to nearly 14 days.

The historical land connections can reveal how much a structural change, whether that is the shifting of continents or even on a much smaller scale, like building a dam or paving a road, can influence ecosystems.

«While the potential exists for rapid shifts in energy systems at the regional level, energy transitions tend to occur slowly on a global scale.

Network analyses performed on the digitized map revealed that although Groane had never been subjected to large - scale planning efforts, the street network evolved to be more uniform in size and density, and its predominant shape shifted from triangular to rectangular.

Reindeer were concentrated regularly during several centuries on the same locations, resulting in dramatic vegetation shifts on a local scale.

«It's accurate for a funny reason — not because they really understood what was going on, but that they recognized that there was this potential for large - scale shifts to change the outcome in ways that we weren't detecting,» Pasek says.

And it's also load - balanced in the sense that with brain imaging you can see the oxygenated blood being shunted between different parts of the brain on a time scale of a second or two as activity shifts — these are the «hot» spots.

As his career moves him toward shifting the health education paradigm on a larger scale, he plans to continue to work one - on - one with clients because it's a uniquely rewarding part of his skill set.

I have not been using scales but feel no real fat has shifted on my body, sadly.

Check out this video on the Bristol Stool Scale along with more info on bowel movements here Congrats on making the shift!

As she began to change the inner workings of her mind using the potent technologies of Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Meditation, Breathwork, and Self - Care, everything began to shift on an accelerated, amplified scale.

I am in love with the small scale of the floral print on this shift dress.

LONDON, United Kingdom — As other luxury brands shift their focus away from wholesale and scale up their direct - to - consumer channels, BoF has learned that Marc Jacobs is set to close its last remaining London store on Mayfair's Mount Street.

«The success of both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, which have each sold over a million per title worldwide, has made us shift our thinking internally to not just core gamers, but to globalise our products, that they can be successful on a worldwide scale,»

The film does exactly what it promises to do: shows you a condensed year in the life of the paper and the people who create it as they address a rapidly shifting business climate while trying to remain true to the Gray Lady's goal to provide in - depth reporting on a global scale.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

Arnett also said that schools must be ready to foster a shift in classroom instruction and, on a larger scale, a change in school culture towards technology in the classroom.

Evidence lies at the heart of the shift toward true learner - centered practice, and bringing an evidence - focused culture to scale across all classrooms hinges on leadership.

«It's not a stretch, then, to imagine a rollback of federal policies that support high academic standards and quality school options could shift behavior among these voters on a broader scale.»

At convenings, CPAC members grapple with and explore questions around scaling performance assessments: training teachers to develop and implement assessments and to make instructional shifts based on data; calibrating teachers around student scoring; creating master schedules that allow students adequate time to work on their capstone projects or portfolios and teachers time to collaborate with each other and support students, and more.

The Report recommends three shifts in state policy that it says would boost the odds for growing school effectiveness at scale in every region of the State: test less and report results in ways that are more useful for parents, teachers, and other end - users; follow through on early advances in State support for principal leadership preparation and development; and fund schools equitably.

In the UK at least I can confidently say that we are definitely not seeing a massive shift to automatic transmission on the scale that appears to be happening in the US.

Also interesting to note that the CVT scores fairly significantly better on the Transport Canada fuel - economy scale, achieving city / highway numbers of 7.0 / 5.9 L / 100 km versus 8.1 / 6.6 for the stick shift.

But if that's not offered anymore, the weight shifts on the scales, does it not?

But nothing on this scale has happened before and we can see things shifting a little more on the axis.

On the face of it, the declining numbers of Bowker's ISBN output for Author Solutions between 2010 and 2015 — while self - publishing sectors generally show substantive gains — might appear to indicate a shift toward self - publishing and away from vanity publishing, as digital self - publishing platforms have grown in number and scale.

On a global scale, monetary policy has — and continues — to undergo a shift.

Body condition scoring (BCS) can indicate whether a horse is underweight to begin with, but an unexplained shift from one body condition type to another that is lower on the scale would indicate weight loss.

In blunt terms because the games were programmed for the PS3 not the PS4 that means recoding on a much larger scale than what Microsoft would have to do to run simulation Xbox360 processing on the Xbox one... That is just the blunt truth... and Sony knows that, that's why they shifted resources to make more ps4 built games than concentrating on Backwsrds compability..

- hear comments from GLaDOS as you play - sounds from the Portal series - «cake is a lie» graffiti makes an appearance, with «the cake is in the kitchen on floor 2» written below it - the three light - up sections of the toy pad must be colored by positioning a character on a colored pad - then you move the actual minifig to the correspondingly colored panel on the toy pad itself - find hidden items in the world using the toy pad as a guide - toy pad flashes red when you go in the wrong direction and then gradually shifts to green when you're going the right way - use an environmental «keystone» to scale Batman to about ten times his normal size - use Gandalf's gift for magic to propel a levitated Companion Cube through a series of tubes and onto a button

Though they focus on minor chords and scales throughout, there are lots of shifts in keys and modes, and the use of blazing - fast strings, pitched percussion (xylophones), and sweeping woodwinds are all very enjoyable on an aural level.

I have recently started a series of large scale rubbings on shaped paper — circle, arch, ovals — they are strongly related to my recent paintings, but are monochromatic — greys and blacks — and shift between being voids and objects.

Teresita Fernández's latest solo show of new work As Above So Below, opening at MASS MoCA on May 24, 2014, combines graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic.

Her work often takes on architectures, transforming space through radical shifts of scale or colonizing overlooked and peripheral spaces.

The large scale Water Lily Paintings verge on abstraction and are unsurpassed in their pioneering efforts at creating viable pictorial structure from color, surface, luminosity, value, hue and chromatic shifts.