Sentences with phrase «slight shifts of»

Pervasive in Stoney's work and concurrent with his level of craft is a subtle humor and irony that results from slight shifts of perspective through juxtaposition and scale in artworks that seduce the eye and incite the imagination.

This week she's made the slight shift of refusing to answer a reporter's questions about whether she'd consider the post.

My model predicts that the coexistence of two species in a sympatric way can happen only if there is low competition or weak competitive exclusion between them and a kind of avoidance of competition that leads to a slight shift of the niche of a meta - population, which accumulated a series phenotypic difference due to genomic inclusions coming from other sources of genes.

«A slight shift of balance and the mice survive the equivalent of Chernobyl but are in big trouble when an oncogene is activated.»

Standing with your feet shoulder width apart, swing the sandbag from side to side in front of you, counterbalancing the movement with a slight shift of your hips.

The foundation stone of the Troma trash movie empire, this signals a slight shift of effort from the production of unfunny gross - out comedies (Stuck on You!

The zoning for Clark County Schools remains virtually unchanged with one exception being a slight shifting of boundaries for Manch / Lowman Elementary schools precipitated by the closure of Heard Elementary School on Nellis Air Force Base.

The bottom massage was a bit odd at first, but I felt that the slight shifting of the seating surface helped to ease fatigue during one of my longer trips — a 4 - hour ride from San Francisco to Sacramento and back to pick up new seats for my project car.

The slight shift of the release date is due to final adjustments in the game, that are required to provide to the fans with the best gaming experience they could have.

Not exact matches

In the past few quarters, the composition of growth has gradually shifted, with a slight slowdown in the pace of consumption growth offset by an increase in export growth, in line with the strengthening world economy.

Slight shifts westward and southward occurred in the models today, resulting in most of them bringing Irma very near or over the north coast of Cuba for 6 - 12 hours on Saturday morning.

I want you to know none of this was sarcastic, I'm very curious as to your toughts on this particular matter, because maybe, being as against the original post of this thread as you were, YOU could be the one making a slight shift in your perspective when all's said and done.

A slight but significant shift takes place in Whitehead's understanding of the relation of religion and metaphysics between the two books.

It shows that although there is statistically significant evidence that individuals change their views to match those of the political party they support, the shift in attitudes is relatively slight.

We shall not achieve it immediately, but we shall strive,» even his slight qualification of optimism gave warning of a radical shift toward a realistic temper.1 Whatever realism there has been in the spirit of democracy, and there has been a great deal, it has generally had superimposed upon it a vision of perfection, and with a notion of man's life as continually moving toward a higher and higher good.

In 1.9, the beginning of the sestet, a slight shift is evident at «Or wash it,» recalling the possibilities of baptismal washing, and in 1.10 the self - pity dramatically shifts to a decision for renewal through fire.

So basically: below - average tempo, slight pass - first tendencies, no extreme lean between spread and power, shifts in aggressiveness based on talent of personnel.

A slight change, of course, but there could be a shift in what Juve's formation and tactics look like.

The report recommended increased access to medical care and improvements in the quality of that care, and yet the focus of the economic and personnel resources of the city in response to the report have been blame - shifting, fear - mongering, and slight - of - hand.

If that makes just a slight shift in their eating habits, it might take a bite out of the obesity epidemic» (via WIVB channel 4, Buffalo, New York).

Often the bergs are so nicely balanced that the slightest melting of their surfaces causes a shifting of the center of gravity and a consequent turning over of «the mass into a new position.

This nonlinear approach — focusing on frequency shifts relative to signal strength rather than the frequency shifts alone — is especially useful because it is not affected by slight variations in size of the capacitors.

On the edge of a slight basin would be an abrupt horizontal shift between limestone and sandstone, with the older limestone slightly higher than the younger rock.

Slight shifts in the color of light coming from a distant star can clue astronomers in to an orbiting planet via the Doppler equation, which links changes in the wavelength (λ) of light to the motion (v) of the thing emitting it.

The two methods of detecting extrasolar planets, nicknamed «wobble and blink,» involve plotting tiny shifts in a star's motion caused by the gravitational tug of its orbiting planets, and catching the slight dimming in a star's light that occurs whenever a planet passes between the star and an observer's telescope.

Using a state - of - the art eye - tracking technology, which follows even the slightest eye movements, the researchers were able to closely monitor how the infants distributed their attention and how they shifted their gaze from one location to another when shown specific words and phrases.

The optical density of silicon naturally changes when it's exposed to even slight temperature shifts, making it a sensitive material especially suited for thermometry, according to Han.

When the researchers induced the clock cycles to shift with chemicals or slight changes in temperature, they found that the cells also varied in their adaptability to change, in keeping with the volunteers» reports of varying responses to jet lag and other disruptions.

«This causes a slight shift in the times of each transit.»

«Since the slight decrease in cancer mortality largely reflects changing incidence or earlier detection, rather than improved therapy, the logical next step, we believe, would be to shift more resources into an arena where we have proved that they make a difference and concentrate our efforts on prevention and early detection of cancer,» says Bailar.

An international team of 31 scientists found the planet after careful and repeated measurements of slight shifts in the color of the light coming from its host star, Proxima Centauri, which is a small, dim star in the Alpha Centauri system.

This second-most prolific planet - hunting technique looks for the slight shift in the wavelength of the light as the star wobbles due to the gravitational pull of the planet.

An inconsistent sleep cycle (because of shift work, for example, or jet lag, even drinking a significant amount of alcohol) can affect BBT and make that slight post-ovulation rise — of about half a degree Fahrenheit — difficult to detect.

A slight bend in the knees allows a shift in focus from releasing the backs of your legs to your back muscles.

This slight shift in thinking will save you hundreds of calories over the week, which will result in weight loss over time.

If elevated estrogen levels lead to even a slight shift towards DHT at the expense of testosterone, it could easily explain why women notice miracles when inhibiting them with Estroblock.

Rather, the heaviness really ads to the stability in terms preventing slight shifting / sliding or wiggling of the rack when racking or dumping a heavy weight.

It's a slight shift that makes a world of difference.

I spent the next four years continuing to work in the massive student theatre scene at NU while performing, so by the time I made my choice to switch, it was much more of a slight perspective shift than a total 360.

First, Joker is known for continually re-inventing himself (see Grant Morrison's latest incarnation of the character), so a slight shift in continuity could be sold, even in Nolan's reality bound universe.

But rather than merely recount the publishing of the Pentagon Papers by The New York Times and The Washington Post, The Post shifts its focus to slight north of center, to the newspaper's publisher, Katharine Graham, whose moment of empowerment in supporting her reporters — and discovering her own voice in a male - dominated community — makes for one of the most satisfying, and equally relevant, journeys of the year.

Once the action shifts to Vietnam, Kubrick's unsentimental documentary style places you in the thick of the battlefield where the slightest hesitation, act of compassion or humanity is punished by death and he makes no attempt to emotionally manipulate or preach simplistic anti-war messages.

The quiet, blossoming moments of burgeoning romance are sharply interjected by scenes of shockingly explicit violence, but these shifts in tone don't jar in the slightest, instead fuelling the uniquely compelling aspects of this immensely entertaining masterpiece.

The switch to more genre - based material doesn't work as well as the other tonal shifts throughout Vic + Flo Saw A Bear, but it's only a slight step down in terms of enjoyment.

Although I feel this shift is natural, there is a slight tinge of a jarring feeling but I feel von Trier hides it with the cinematography and the score, which is just as masterful and beautiful in respect to the film.

In English and language arts, you'd see more of a focus on nonfiction «a slight shift in the balance between fiction and nonfiction, favoring a greater emphasis on nonfiction since this is what people are typically reading in careers and so forth.

There are several factors that could possibly be contributing to this pattern in results, such as teachers adopting new strategies in response to the removal of the January series; a slight shift towards Facilitating Subjects affecting outcomes at grade A; and as the A * continues to bed in it becomes more important for highly selective universities and as such provides a greater incentive for students.

The slight semantic shift spoke volumes and implicitly informed me that my role in the community mattered, that I was considered a collaborative partner, and that I would get out of the session what I put in, from the very beginning.

Powertrain engineer Patrick Müller rides shotgun with us as we take the wheel, and he points out slight imperfections he intends on fixing in the last year of development, like the occasional harsh shifts from the transmission and a lugging from the engine at idle rpm.

These encounters included demeaning phrases like, «Let's see if we can sharpen our pencil a little more on that price,» complete with slight - of - hand, shifting - sand financial figures, and high pressure sales tactics that made me feel like I was nothing more than the next potential sale instead of like I was a real customer who deserved respect.