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As the New South snowballs toward further urbanization, it becomes more and more homogeneous with the North -- a tendency which Willard Thorp terms `` Yankeefication '', as evidenced in such cities as Charlotte, Birmingham, and Houston.
Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.
The desirability of preserving such places as the Cape dunes and Stone Harbor sanctuary becomes more apparent every year.
The schedules are flexible so that the program can be accelerated as the public becomes more tolerant or realizes that it is something that has to be done, `` so why not now ''.
The need for reupholstering, redecorating, repainting becomes more infrequent.
So if a green stud makes a carpenter or a drywall finisher or anybody else waste even 20 seconds, the green stud becomes more expensive than a dry stud.
Failure confirms the threat, and the intensity of anxiety is increased as the required learning becomes more difficult, so that by the time the child reaches the third grade the decrement in performance is pronounced.
In so far as this goal is achieved, the society becomes more fluid, artificial barriers to social mobility are reduced, and people at the lower end of the social hierarchy share more fully in the material and cultural goods of society.
He becomes more callous, the population becomes more hostile, the situation grows more tense, and the police force is increased.
The fact that metropolitan churches of the major denominations have moved approximately every generation for the last hundred years becomes somewhat more intelligible in the light of this struggle to maintain economic balance.
But with today's demand for professional qualifications and specialized training, the need for `` outsiders '' becomes more pressing.
The pattern here pictured is clearly not peculiar to Notre Dame: it is simply that the paradox involved in this kind of control of the institution by `` the organization which actually owns '' it, becomes more obvious where there is a larger and more distinguished `` outside '' faculty.
The problem becomes even more complex where an enterprise is engaged in the manufacture of a wide variety of other goods in addition to the heavy electrical equipment.
Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).
Tadpoles ' eyes resemble those of fishes in structure but at metamorphosis the cornea becomes more dome-shaped, the lens becomes flatter and eyelids and associated glands and ducts develop.
However, as more and more deaths quickly ensue, it becomes apparent that there is an epidemic.

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but it becomes very important if foreign peoples react the way human beings typically do -- namely, by taking steps to end up on what appears to be the winning side.
When there is more than one substituent present on the ring, their spatial relationship becomes important for which the arene substitution patterns ortho, meta, and para are devised.
This phrase becomes important within future prophetic and apocalyptic literature.
Initially a study of systems of polynomial equations in several variables, the subject of algebraic geometry starts where equation solving leaves off, and it becomes even more important to understand the intrinsic properties of the totality of solutions of a system of equations, than to find a specific solution ; this leads into some of the deepest areas in all of mathematics, both conceptually and in terms of technique.
Accordingly, whether one is vulnerable or not can have a major impact on scoring and becomes an important factor in one ’ s bidding and play strategies.
The stream gradient becomes nearly flat, and lateral deposition of sediments becomes important as the stream meanders across the valley floor.
The important fact is that at very high velocities the behavior of the particle-like modes becomes distinct from the relativistic one-they can reach the speed of light limit at finite energy ; also the faster-than-light propagation is possible without requiring moving objects to have imaginary mass.
* Within the region where radiative effects are important the description given by the idealized greenhouse model becomes realistic: The surface of the Earth, warmed to a temperature around 255 K, radiates long-wavelength, infrared heat in the range 4 – 100 μm.
A gas which is quickly removed from the atmosphere may initially have a large effect but for longer time periods as it has been removed becomes less important.
When severe hypoglycemia has persisted in a hospitalized patient, the amount of glucose required to maintain satisfactory blood glucose levels becomes an important clue to the underlying etiology.
However, the distinction between mass and weight becomes important for measurements with a precision better than a few percent ( because of slight differences in the strength of the Earth's gravitational field at different places ), and for places far from the surface of the Earth, such as in space or on other planets.
The end-to-end traceability of data flows through n-tier systems is a challenging task which becomes more important when systems increase in complexity.
In particular, quantization, namely the construction of a quantum theory whose classical limit is a given and known classical theory, becomes an important area of quantum physics in itself.
Effort then becomes more important than having the right genes.
However, when the well becomes very narrow ( on the scale of a few nanometers ), quantum effects become important.
Gram-stain / smear becomes important in identification of rare and possibly more serious organisms.
In many cases, however, it is useful to consider random variables that are functions of other random variables, and then the mapping function included in the definition of a random variable becomes important.
An immediate and important consequence of this distinguishing feature is that in the relational model the Cartesian product becomes commutative.
It is important for the code documents to be thorough, but not so verbose that it becomes difficult to maintain them.
As logistics competency becomes a more critical factor in creating and maintaining competitive advantage, logistics measurement becomes increasingly important because the difference between profitable and unprofitable operations becomes more narrow.
The establishment of the imperial city in partnership with Taihō Code is important to Shinto as the office of the Shinto rites becomes more powerful in assimilating local clan shrines into the imperial fold.

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As resistance towards antibiotics becomes more common, a greater need for alternative treatments arises.
: When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries.
Victor is a tragic comedy character and sympathy is directed towards him as he becomes embroiled in complex misunderstandings, bureaucratic vanity and, at times, sheer bad luck.
When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.
They direct replication towards each other – the extension of one primer by polymerase then becomes the template for the other, leading to an exponential increase in the target segment.
The inaccessibility can be understood as follows: once a measurement is done, the measured system becomes entangled with both the physicist who measured it and a huge number of other particles, some of which are photons flying away at the speed of light towards the other end of the universe.
The sphere becomes an ellipsoid with two bulges, pointing towards and away from the other body.
It becomes clear that the boys have mistaken Simon for the beast and murdered him both when Golding describes " Simon's dead body move out towards the open sea ", and on the morning after when Ralph tells Piggy, " That was Simon .... That was murder ".
* High-definition television becomes very popular towards the second half of the decade, with the increase of HD television channels and the conversion from analog to digital signals.
* 487 BC: Athenian Archonship becomes elective by lot, an important milestone in the move towards radical Athenian democracy
When the exercise becomes difficult towards the end of a set, there is a temptation to cheat, i. e., to use poor form to recruit other muscle groups to assist the effort.
Autumn generally starts sunny in September and becomes more cloudy and rainy towards October, while temperatures usually remain above until November where days start to cool down to around.
Since automobile use tends to be greater than public transportation use, it also becomes the norm for people to work towards car ownership.
Satellite view of Trieste Built mostly on a hillside that becomes a mountain, Trieste's urban territory is situated at the foot of an imposing escarpment that comes down abruptly from the Kras Plateau towards the sea.
* The Athenian Archonship becomes elective by lot from all the citizens, an important milestone in the move towards radical Athenian democracy.
More precisely, the Roche limit is determined by the fact that the function f, which can be regarded as a nonlinear measure of the force squeezing the ellipsoid towards a spherical shape, is bounded so that there is an eccentricity at which this contracting force becomes maximal.
The mare neighs at Svaðilfari, and " realizing what kind of horse it was ," Svaðilfari becomes frantic, neighs, tears apart his tackle, and runs towards the mare.
Debt bondage is classically defined as a situation when a person provides a loan to another who uses his or her labor or services to repay the debt ; when the value of the work, as reasonably assessed, is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt, the situation becomes one of debt bondage.
It is through the lens of this framework, which is essentially a centrifugal movement of backing up from the text towards the archetype, that the social function of literary criticism becomes apparent.
As governments start losing their legitimacy, violence becomes an artificial means towards the same ends and is therefore found only in the absence of Power.
Massachusetts Route 8A runs from Charlemont towards its terminus at the Vermont border, where it becomes Vermont Route 8A ( this route, however, never rejoins Vermont Route 8, but rather joins Vermont Route 112 ).
The gold arrow, according to Pratt, points towards a " brighter future "; the arrow becomes a sword, honouring the sacrifices of Newfoundlanders in military service when the flag is draped as a vertical banner.
Maria was disappointed, but learned it was probably better the teacher was behaving professionally, towards the end of the second season and the rest of the series Maria becomes Brock's girlfriend.

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