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Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.
With the shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, art likewise changed its focus, as much in its content as in its mode of expression.
Only during the 1970s and 1980s did television chefs such as James Beard and Jeff Smith shift the focus towards home-grown cooking styles, particularly those of the different ethnic groups within the nation.
With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia.
Work on a script for a further film has started although it was announced on July 13, 2011 that Raimi and Campbell would now shift focus to a remake of the original film.
This perceptual shift placed the focus back onto the life histories of individual organisms and how this relates to the development of community associations.
Groups that shift their bodily focus to sexual matters, such as Gut and the Meat Shits, are sometimes referred to as pornogrind.
Analysts continue to debate the actual benefits of the shift away from the import-substitution industrialization ( ISI ) policies of the 1960s and 1970s toward a new focus on free zones and assembly industries in the 1990s.
Olivier Roy argues that " Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century " when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and focus on Islamistation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on " sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions ," and rejection of Shia Islam.
Unfortunately, by the time the ECS made its retail debut, an internal shake-up at the top levels of Mattel Electronics ' management had caused the company's focus to shift away from hardware add-ons in favor of software, and the ECS received very little further marketing push.
This scramble coincided with a new era in global colonial expansion known as " the New Imperialism ," which saw a shift in focus from trade and indirect rule to formal colonial control of vast overseas territories ruled as political extensions of their mother countries.
Arguments which shift the focus of debate to " safer " but less relevant ground fall into this category.
The gap between rich and poor grew in the 1990s, resulting in popular dissatisfaction over the skewed distribution of the reconstruction's benefits and leading the government to shift its focus from rebuilding infrastructure to improving living conditions.
In time, the heavy emphasis on money was supplanted by industrial policy, accompanied by a shift in focus from the capacity to carry on wars to promoting general prosperity.
The increasing popularity of Windows prompted Microsoft to shift its development focus from cooperating on OS / 2 with IBM to building a franchise based on Windows.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly uses the POV shot with a tilt shift focus to imitate the lead protagonist loss of sight in one eye.
In a scene in which the focus does not gradually shift from one horizontal position to another — such as actors at each extreme engaging in rapid conversation with each other — the editor may choose to " cut " from one to the other rather than rapidly panning back and forth.
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ( whose much anticipated Smile project would not emerge until 2004 ), Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early " acid casualties ", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.
Artists and critics often credit Rakim with creating the overall shift from the more simplistic Old School flows to more complex flows near the beginning of Hip Hop ’ s new school – Kool Moe Dee says, “ any emcee that came after 1986 had to study Rakim just to know what to be able to do ... Rakim, in 1986, gave us flow and that was the rhyme style from 1986 to 1994 ... from that point on, anybody emceeing was forced to focus on their flow ”.
During the 1980s the magazine began to shift focus towards being a general " entertainment " magazine.
This question allows a shift in focus from the speaker's objectives to the effects and functions of the rhetoric itself.
* Algirdas Julien Greimas ( 1917 – 1992 ) developed a structural version of semiotics named generative semiotics, trying to shift the focus of discipline from signs to systems of signification.
By 1949, with the success of television threatening the film industry more and more, Harry Warner decided to shift his focus towards television production.
Continuing her classical training until the age of fifteen, her musical focus made a radical shift to rock & roll when John brought home a Fats Domino songbook.
Heidegger's later works, after the Second World War, seem to many commentators ( e. g. William J. Richardson ) to at least reflect a shift of focus, if not indeed a major change in his philosophical outlook.

shift and southern
In the second half of the twentieth century, however, there has been a gradual shift of political and economic power to Flanders, which, having modernized its economy, is now more wealthy and prosperous than its southern counterpart .< ref >" Belgium.
The communists ' consolidation of control also produced a shift in political power in Albania from the northern Ghegs to the southern Tosks.
The northward retreat of the tropical continental airmass ( CT ), is caused by the sun's northward shift from the tropic of capricorn in the southern hemisphere to the tropic of cancer in the northern hemisphere.
There was also a dramatic migratory shift of the population from northern to southern China, as the North held 75 % of the overall population at the dynasty's inception, but by its end was reduced to 50 %.
The railroads often determined whether a town grew or declined, and they contributed to a population shift from northern to southern Westchester.
The Medieval period of Indian history in the context of handicrafts showed a marked shift from north India to the Deccan and southern parts of the country, though the handicraftsmen under the Delhi Sultanate period flourished in the field of pottery, weaving, wood carving, metal working, jewelry, etc.
The county fell into economic decline after the American Civil War, as industry began to shift from southern Indiana to the northern part of the state.
Other examples of ongoing vowel shifts are the Southern vowel shift in the southern United States, the California vowel shift in California English, or the Northern cities vowel shift in Michigan, Chicago, and parts of upstate New York.
The March Against Fear signified a shift in character and power in the southern civil rights movement and was an event in which the Deacons participated.
The storylines of Heroes III and the Heroes Chronicles shift focus to the Gryphonheart dynasty on the southern continent of Antagarich, and introduces the Kreegan as playable characters and enemies.
The depletion of readily accessible fuel resources west of the Urals caused development and exploitation to shift to the inhospitable terrain of western Siberia, which in the 1970s and 1980s displaced the Volga-Ural and the southern European regions as the country's primary supplier of fuel and energy.
Old Frisian retains th in all positions for longer than Old Dutch and Old Saxon do, showing the gradual spread of the shift from th to d from south to north, beginning in southern Germany in the 9th century as part of the High German consonant shift, but not reaching Frisian until the 13th or 14th century.
At a more base level it led to a shift in voting patterns as the traditional class based voting started to break down and many of the working classes ( in particular skilled workers, home owners and those in southern England ) voted Conservative, whilst at the same time many public sector professionals turned away from them.
The shift in East-West relations and the increasing focus toward Eastern Europe, the southern region and the Middle East led to a changing of the focus of Third Air Force as well.
Schizaeales had a northern hemisphere concentration as late as the Mesozoic, but by the Quaternary, there was a clear shift to a southern hemisphere distribution
Metro officials considered shifting construction funds from the southern Green Line to the northern Green Line in order to start construction on that end of the line, but the D. C. City Council opposed this shift.
Further into the sea, the ice cover transforms into drifting ice having the thickness of 2 – 3 m. The southern winter winds shift this ice northwards, making polynyas near the sea centre.
In the northern hemisphere, a warm front causes a shift of wind blowing from southeast to southwest, and in the southern hemisphere a shift from winds blowing from northeast to northwest.
The High German consonant shift ( 3rd to 9th centuries AD ), in which the ( northern ) Low German dialects for the most part did not participate, affected the southern varieties of the West Germanic dialect continuum.
Of course, the Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt long ago in exactly this way, resulting in relative quiet along Israel's southern border and creating a fundamental shift in the regional balance of forces.

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