Sentences with phrase «which abrupt»

A number of components or phenomena within the Earth system have been proposed as potentially possessing critical thresholds (sometimes referred to as tipping points, (Lenton et al., 2008)-RRB-, beyond which abrupt or non-linear transitions to a different state ensues.

Hard - edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas.

Not exact matches

But merlot had a rare and abrupt crash, sabotaged by a single event in 2004: the Oscar - nominated vino - centric buddy - dramedy Sideways, in which the characters trash - talk the crowd - pleasing grape.

Global bonds went on a wild rollercoaster ride last week, with the price swings being particularly abrupt in the U.S. and German markets, which have long been viewed as the safest and most liquid in the world.

The development could bring an abrupt end to the high - stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States, which was inflamed by revelations in 2013 from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs.

The minimum wage dispute might not equal a setback to Ramaphosa's leadership, which was widely cheered following the abrupt end to the corruption - tainted, unpopular Zuma administration in February.

In addition, based on the relatively unusual combination of overbought, overbullish conditions, inflation pressures, and the like, I once again staggered our put option strikes, which results in a lower «implied interest rate» earned on our hedges, in return for tighter protection in the event of an abrupt market selloff.

While we do not all necessarily agree with the manner in which he dealt with the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, we sincerely believe that his abrupt and belated termination for this conduct, occurring months later and on the heels of his public testimony about his oversight of the investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election, has the appearance — if not the reality — of interfering with that investigation.

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the bull market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the bull market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that bull final market peak.

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that final market peak.

The experience of the death of the gods, or of God, is a consequence of an abrupt transition which causes the traditional symbols to collapse since they no longer illuminate the shifting social reality [Harvey Cox, «The Death of God and the Future of Theology,» New Theology No. 4 (Macmillan, 1967), p. 245].

Finally, before turning to the Joseph story which begins in chapter 37, we ought to look briefly at its abrupt interruption in the narrative of chapter 38.

It is probable that both Matthew and Luke used Mark in a form which broke off at 16:8, and this ending, though abrupt and awkward, may well be original.

Indeed the past history of human intelligence is full of «mutations» of this kind, more or less abrupt, indicating, in addition to the shift of human ideas, an evolution of the «space» in which the ideas took shape — which is clearly very much more suggestive and profound.

Can we study the process by which we come to an abrupt stop?

Yet so prone are we to care most about what is near at hand, the fear of atomic destruction is probably less keen in most minds than is the energy crisis which means less oil and gasoline available, less fuel for heating, and an abrupt change in American life - styles.

Thus does John Updike report on Wilmot's abrupt and irreversible deconversion experience at the outset of In the Beauty of the Lilies, a four - generation saga which is partly a fictional version of Updike's family history, partly an account of the decline of religious faith in America, and partly a reflection of Updike's own angry, personal struggle to find religious meaning.

But ministry, despite the grim landscape in our generation, has within it the signals of transcendence, the possibility that frustration (which is the obverse of wonder) is not the last word, that even abrupt events invite us to that intellectual activity we call wonder.

Is an instantaneous conversion a miracle in which God is present as he is present in no change of heart less strikingly abrupt?

If a new quest of the historical Jesus is to be undertaken on any large scale, it must have some specific Impetus in terms of the meaningful concerns of our day, comparable with those which characterized the original quest and its abrupt discontinuation.

One of the important truths which this very useful book underlines is the simple fact that as neither the Church nor the doctrine of the Church came to an abrupt end with the death of the last apostle and the conclusion of the New Testament, Greek itself well outlived the apostolic period and continued to enrich the Church through history, philosophy, theology, hymns and sermons for a long time after 100AD.

He quickly got out of the car, with the TV cameras zooming in on a large leak underneath it, which contributed to the abrupt spin.

His retirement was somewhat abrupt after an injury - riddled 2015 season in which he rushed for a career - low 417 yards.

I know you address this above, how abruptions take time to actually terminate the life of a baby, which is so true... we have abrupting moms walk in who have been bleeding for hours and their babies are usually fine as soon as we get them out....

Child led weaning is a process where the child decides he or she is ready to stop nursing, which may be abrupt or gradual.

For some families it is a mother - initiated process while for other families it is a child - led process; either of which can be gradual or abrupt.

At the time I thought the process was abrupt and unprofessional, but given subsequent engagements with consultants in which flowery five - syllable words and pretty presentations took the place of substance in a process that took many months — I'll take short, curt and competent anytime.

At that March meeting, SUNY Poly Provost William Durgin announced that, «due to issues that he can not discuss,» Dr. Haldar «was no longer the Interim Dean,» which was met with «general concern... about the opaque and abrupt process surrounding [Dr. Haldar's] departure,» the lawsuit states.

However, the roughly 14 - minute announcement — which also featured remarks by Kenneth Raske, President of the Greater New York Hospital Association, and Rick Cook, COO of the Healthcare Association of New York State — came to a somewhat abrupt close without any attempt to entertain questions from the press.

The decision comes just two days after Thompson's funeral, which governor spoke at, eight days after his abrupt death from cancer and less than two weeks after the borough's top law enforcement official announced he would take a leave of absence to combat the disease.

The head of the State Police, Joseph D'Amico, blindsided Gov. Andrew Cuomo with his abrupt resignation, which was fueled in part by his being used a pawn in the rift between the governor and Mayor de Blasio, sources told The Post.

Mr. de Blasio and his Police Commissioner Bill Bratton ripped into the tabloid today for telling «flat - out lies,» targeting a spate of recent stories which claimed bad blood between Mr. Bratton and a top department official led to the official's abrupt departure and that Mr. de Blasio's wife, a key member of his administration, never wanted Mr. Bratton as the city's top cop.

Fuentes» abrupt departure from the office, which helps direct and administer federal entitlement funds under the Community Development Block Grant program, came as a surprise to most observers.

Mr. Bharara is investigating the abrupt closure of the governor's anti-corruption Moreland Commission earlier this year, which may well represent a larger concern for Mr. Cuomo than his Republican challenger, Rob Astorino.

Bloomberg was infuriated by the governor's abrupt announcement about his bill, which came on the heels of the Senate's 33 - 27 passage of Sen. John Flanagan's legislation to repeal LIFO.

That includes the potential for abrupt climate change and the factors amplifying warming in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

But they've been especially interested in the most recent period of abrupt global warming, the Bølling - Allerød, which occurred about 14,500 years ago when average temperatures in Greenland rose about 15 degrees Celsius in about 3,000 years.

The SecurEau team developed water quality sensors to be installed in a drinking water system, which allows an alert to be issued rapidly when abrupt changes in the quality of water are detected.

But in the months before graduation, he developed terrible allergies to the animals he had been using in his studies, which forced an abrupt shift in his career path.

As anyone who follows biomedical science knows, research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has fallen significantly since 2010 — the end of the abrupt 2 - year infusion of «stimulus» money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which temporarily boosted spending.

«Egypt and the Nile are very sensitive instruments for climate change, and Egypt provides a unique historical laboratory in which to study social vulnerability and response to abrupt volcanic shocks,» says Manning.

The team of researchers, which also included David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto and Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, began by investigating whether the extinction at the end of the Cretaceous was an abrupt event or a progressive decline simply capped off by the meteor impact.

The antiquated heating systems in many Spanish churches create abrupt variations in temperature and humidity which can negatively affect the conservation of its artistic heritage, especially in tall ceiling areas.

In particular, I predict an abrupt shift in pattern formation as rainfall is decreased, which dramatically affects ecosystems,» says Sherratt.

The study also provides new evidence for just how sensitive glaciers are to temperature, showing that they responded to past abrupt cooling and warming periods, some of which might have lasted only decades.

The abrupt metal - insulator transition that we investigated could also be forced to take place under influence of, for example, a light flash, which could find applications for better isolating the computational units of quantum computers.»

As a result there was an increase in moisture transport out of the Atlantic, which effectively increased the salinity and density, of the ocean surfaces, leading to an abrupt increase in circulation strength and temperature rise.

To be sufficiently abrupt, the distance over which conditions change must be shorter than the wavelength (which for a particle is related to momentum).

«Classical case studies in which you've seen abrupt changes in climate data.

For the abrupt changes during the 1970s and 1990s they calculated predictions which began a few months prior to the beginning of the observed climate shifts.