Sentences with phrase «slow change in their society»

Italian people are pretty tolerant of new ideas, but when it comes to the cross that will be a slow change in their society.

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Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

The umbrella crisis in Hong Kong further reveals that the old governance model crafted in 1984 and 1989 is too rigid and too slow to adapt to a fast changing young modern society.

Of course, even in ancient society there was a small amount of change and development going on all the time, but it was so slow that to man himself it was almost imperceptible.

Predictably, processing times slowed, and by 2003 they had climbed to several months, prompting a group of scientific societies that included the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), AAU, AAAS, and others to call for changes in the visa system.

According to Manning, this research not only alters the perception of climatic changes on various scales, from short - term shocks to slower - moving, long - term changes, but it is also revolutionizing the understanding of human societies and how the forces of nature shaped them in the past.

They report this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B that changes in the heartbeat due to temperature (the heart slows as it cools and then speeds back up as the fish resurfaces) and adrenaline, released from the stress of diving, alter the electrical activity of the heart cells to sustain the constant calcium cycling needed to keep the heart going.

With eras changing so rapidly, even education, the most slow - blooded body in our society, got dragged into the epicenter of it.

Incidentally, when trying to understand the history of art it's important to recognize that art does not change overnight, but rather reflects wider (and slower) changes taking place in society.

[ANDY REVKIN says: I was at the first Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto in 1988, but mainly recall the worried look on the representative from the Maldives, and the statement by Michael McElroy of Harvard, quoted in my 1988 Discover Magazine article on the greenhouse effect: «If we choose to take on this challenge, it appears that we can slow the rate of change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.

One of the major limits to climate change adaptation is the context in which it needs to take place and efforts to slow or reverse negative impacts need to engage the long - term place based change in economy, nature, and society.

To slow the rate of anthropogenic - induced climate change in the 21st century and to minimize its eventual magnitude, societies will need to manage the climate forcing factors that are directly influenced by human activities, in particular greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions.