Sentences with phrase «shifts on a local scale»

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

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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.

-- 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 %.

This will shift the distribution of states on the local scale to a new equilibrium (i.e. a new climatology).