When disruptive change has penetrated to the third level of social order, the process of disruption rapidly reaches a point of no return.

At a third stage in the modernization process are such countries as India, Brazil, the Philippines, and Taiwan, which are ready and committed to move into the stage of self-sustaining growth.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The law at the time did not allow a third party such as COICA to participate in that part of the reexamination process.

In bicameral legislatures, there may be a process laid out for second or third readings of bills before a new law can enter into force.

Following unprecedented foreign led and domestic political interference with the CRTC's quasi-judicial independent regulatory process, within 6 months of its original decision, an abrupt CRTC " review " of its policy on third-language foreign services determined to drop virtually all restrictions and adopt a new " open entry " approach to foreign controlled " third language " ( non-English, non-French ) channels.

In the process, the Cowboys clinched their second NFC East title in three years as well as the third seed in the NFC Playoffs.

The Americanization of many immigrant families ' surnames was for the most part adopted by the family after the immigration process, or by the second or third generation of the family after some assimilation into American culture.

In November 2007, a consultation process began for the building of a new third runway and a sixth terminal, which was controversially approved on 15 January 2009 by UK Government ministers.

In the hypothetical example, this would assist the litigation process, because for example, if the injured person states that the driver ought to have alerted the third party, the driver may be aware that the law imposes no such duty, and can issue a motion ( or application ) to the court to have that part of the claim dismissed.

The ongoing expansion of existing settlements by Israel and the construction of settlement outposts is frequently criticized as an obstacle to the peace process by the Palestinians and third parties, including the United Nations, Russia, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States.

And third, the principles of contiguity ( how close in time two events must be for a bond to be formed ) and reinforcement ( any means of increasing the likelihood that an event will be repeated ) are central to explaining the learning process.

The focus of the third phase ( 2003 – 2008 ) is not yet clarified, but will require the completion of the indigenization process and the withdrawal of foreign economic support.

Mauritania's presidential election, its third since adopting the democratic process in 1992, took place on November 7, 2003.

The mediator acts as a neutral third party and facilitates rather than directs the process.

-Conglomerate M & A is the third form of M & A process which deals the merger between two irrelevant companies.

The third incident beam diffracts off this dynamic hologram, and, in the process, reads out the phase-conjugate wave.

In the context of customer service, standardisation refers to the process of developing an international standard that enables organizations to focus their attention on delivering excellence in customer service, whilst at the same time providing recognition of success through a third party organization, such as British Standards Institution ( BSI ).

Watercolour by the same artist purporting to show three thugs in the process of strangling the traveller: one holds the feet, another the hands, while a third tightens the ligature around the neck.

Security concerns have led to many ActiveX controls being blacklisted in the Internet Explorer process by Microsoft, which deploys the killbit via monthly Windows security updates to disable vulnerable Microsoft and third party code.

After Bill Clinton secured the Democratic Party's nomination in the spring of 1992, polls showed Ross Perot leading the race, followed by President Bush and Clinton in third place after a grueling nomination process.

While recuperating, May was initially absent when the band started work on their third album, but he returned midway through the recording process.

A third criticism that is sometimes made is that PADI over-elaborates the training process, leading to the award of large numbers of different certificates, certification cards and embroidered patches for any diver who continues their diving education up to advanced levels.

A pivotal, renowned, and polarizing figure domestically as well as in international politics since the 1960s, Palme was steadfast in his non-alignment policy towards the superpowers, juxtaposed to support of numerous third world liberation movements following the process of decolonization including, most controversially, economic and vocal support for a number of non-democratic anti-imperialist regimes.

In the second stage El was absorbed into the god Yahweh, the national god of the kingdom of Judah, who took over El's role as creator-god ; in the third stage the theme of creation by battle was replaced with creation by divine command ( paralleling an earlier development in Egyptian theology some 300 years previously ) and the process of creation itself was " de-mythologised ".

In general, the three-letter code uses the ISO 3166-1 country code for the first two letters and the first letter of the name of the currency ( D for dollar, for instance ) as the third letter.

It is a common perception that crochet produces a thicker fabric than knitting, tends to have less " give " than knitted fabric, and uses approximately a third more yarn for a comparable project than knitted items.

: APS third rail: The ground-level power supply system known as APS or Alimentation par le sol uses a third rail placed between the running rails, divided electrically into eight-metre segments with three metre neutral sections between.

" Everyone knows what the third word means, and everyone uses it every day.

" Everyone knows what the third word means, and everyone uses them every day.

The third word is something that " everyone " uses.

In Haskell syntax, "" prepends an element to a list, returns a list without its first element, and uses a specified function ( in this case addition ) to combine corresponding elements of two lists to produce a third.

A third method uses a device called an oli-net that wraps around the tree trunk and opens to form an umbrella-like catcher from which workers collect the fruit.

In each iteration, the PRGA increments i, looks up the ith element of S, S, and adds that to j, exchanges the values of S and S, and then uses the sum S + S ( modulo 256 ) as an index to fetch a third element of S, ( the keystream value K below ) which is XORed with the next byte of the message to produce the next byte of either ciphertext or plaintext.

However, third parties are more common in the Australian Senate, which uses a proportional voting system more amenable to minor parties.

" Vamp Willow served as an indicator of what Willow is capable of ; immediately before she flays Warren in one violent magical flash, she uses the same line Vamp Willow used in the third season: " Bored now.

A third proposed engine type uses annihilation gamma rays to heat an ablative sail, with the ablated material providing thrust.

The story uses the literary rule of three, expressed in this case as a " contrasting three ", as the third pig's brick house turns out to be the only one which is adequate to withstand the wolf.

The third method is best for a moonless and cloudless night as it uses two faint ' clouds ' in the southern sky.

Willard uses the third.

It uses a distinctive non-chronological third person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters ' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.

* In the third book of the Brother Cadfael series, Monk's Hood, the herbalist Cadfael uses aconite as an ingredient in a liniment, which is later stolen and used to poison a victim.

A third way to generate unpolarized light uses an EPR setup: A radioactive decay can emit two photons traveling in opposite directions, in the quantum state.

Thus, if a censor uses this method to intercept messages, he or she may then let the letter be sent to the intended recipient who will be unaware that the secret message has already been intercepted by a third party.

The Japan Football League, the current Japanese third division, uses the Promotion / Relegation Series only when the number of clubs in the league needs to be filled with clubs from the Japanese Regional Leagues.

Kerim uses bribes and trickery to have the two taken off the train, but he is later found dead in his compartment with the body of the third agent, both having been killed by Grant.

To provide 8 channels on a single fiber CWDM uses the entire frequency band between second and third transmission window ( 1310 / 1550 nm respectively ) including both windows ( minimum dispersion window and minimum attenuation window ) but also the critical area where OH scattering may occur, recommending the use of OH-free silica fibers in case the wavelengths between second and third transmission window should also be used.