The arrival of the British immediately opened up trade with their North American and Caribbean colonies, causing a rapid transformation of Cuban society.

Meaning itself is seen as unstable due to the rapid transformation in social structures and as a result the focus of research is centered on local manifestations rather than broad generalizations.

* Catalyst for institutional transformation: the competitive modern marketplace demands rapid change and innovation, for which she believes distance education programs can act as a catalyst.

During these years policies were put in place which led to the rapid transformation of Malaysia ’ s economy and society, such as the controversial New Economic Policy, which was intended to increase proportionally the share of the economic " pie " of the bumiputras (" indigenous people ", which includes the majority Malays, but not always the indigenous population ) as compared to other ethnic groups — was launched by Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak.

A physically imposing, deliberative, and reticent man, Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his rapid transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding " van der " and his mother's surname " Rohe ", using the Dutch " van der ", rather than the German form " von " which was legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage.

" Revolution " is not necessarily defined by revolutionary socialists as violent insurrection, but as a complete dismantling and rapid transformation of all areas of class society led by the majority of the masses: the working class.

This enabled the rapid transformation of the breed into much sought-after army remounts: sure-footed, intelligent and athletic.

There has been a rapid transformation of the food retail sector in developing countries, beginning in the 1990s.

Urbanisation is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly village culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture.

Today, Gilbert encompasses and has made a rapid transformation from an agriculture-based community to an economically diverse suburban center located in the southeast valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area.

The railroad's arrival led to the rapid transformation of the small agricultural village into a major supplier of anthracite coal.

According to Hugh Honour, " so far from being, as is sometimes supposed, the culmination of the Neo-classical movement, the Empire marks its rapid decline and transformation back once more into a mere antique revival, drained of all the high-minded ideas and force of conviction that had inspired its masterpieces ".

It was a period of rapid transformation and its effects were widespread.

The transition between these two structures requires very little thermal activation energy because it is a diffusionless transformation, which results in the subtle but rapid rearrangement of atomic positions, and has been known to occur even at cryogenic temperatures.

Liverpool is currently undergoing a rapid transformation into a major CBD in its own right.

The last twenty-five years have seen the rapid transformation into media which are predicated upon the use of digital technologies, such as the Internet and video games.

Then Princeton, like many other old American colleges, underwent a rapid transformation.

Since the 1970s Sydney has undergone a rapid economic and social transformation.

Despite Malta's rapid transformation into a strategic naval base during the British period, the influence of Italian culture on Malta strengthened considerably throughout the 19th century.

All of these initiatives contributed to the rapid and radical transformation of Greenpoint.

Over the following year, he coordinated efforts to have the act recognized by all European states, and stated that his government's policies were centered on " as rapid as possible, the transformation of foreign diplomatic agencies and consulates in Bucharest into legations ".

This film genre was proposed to help build traditional moral values, which were deemed important during the rapid transformation of the nation's socioeconomic structure.

Bo's tenure in Dalian was marked by the city's phenomenal transformation from a drab port city to a modern metropolis, a ' showcase ' of China's rapid economic growth.

Throughout the 1970s the Imperial Iranian Ground Forces, as they were then known, underwent a rapid transformation and increase in strength.

" American exceptionalism " saw a rapid rise in usage during the late 2000s, as a response to worries over America's role in the global financial crisis.

Henrietta brought her friend Laura Forster ( aunt of E. M. Forster ), herself making a rapid recovery from illness.

His prudence and heroism preserved an un-walled Sparta against the revolts and conspiracies of helots, perioeci and even Spartans, and against her enemies, four different armies led by Epaminondas, that penetrated Laconia that same year, and again in 362 BC when they all but succeeded in seizing the city by a rapid and unexpected march.

Heartbroken in the knowledge that for days he was unaware of his wife's failing health and her lonely death, he moved on from painting to pursue a means of rapid long distance communication.

One such article was from the Daily Express, in which the interviewer noted " a lightening change came over her face ", which was the first public mention of the rapid changes in mood that became characteristic of her.

* First, these raptures sometimes seized upon her whole being with such force as to compel her to rapid motion ( e. g. towards some sacred object ).

Typical quotes are: " Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose "; " Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle "; about her childhood home in Oakland, " There is no there there "; and " The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared.

The female lays her eggs as close to the food source as possible, and development is rapid, allowing the larvae to consume as much food as possible in a short period of time before transforming into adults.

On the eve of his wedding to Mercédès, Fernand ( Mercédès ' cousin and a rival for her affections ) and Dantès's colleague Danglars ( who is jealous of his rapid rise to captain ), upon the suggestion of Caderousse ( a neighbour of Dantès ), send an anonymous note accusing Dantès of being a Bonapartist traitor.

Her rapid weight loss, done to modify her appearance by the time the pilot episode was filmed, caused serious kidney failure.

This does not prevent her from a rapid shift into best friend mode with Margaret, who confides with her about intimacies with her husband.

During the peak period of 1859 – 60, which coincided with Franz-Joseph's political and military defeats in Italy, her sexual withdrawal from her husband after three pregnancies in rapid succession, and her losing battle with her mother-in-law for dominance in rearing her children, she reduced her waist to 16 inches in circumference.

Turner remained an A-list film star leading lady until the early 1990s, when rheumatoid arthritis seriously restricted her activities and her movie career went into rapid decline. However some of Turner's choices of the time too also proved to be poor as she turned down lead roles in ' Ghost ' and ' The Bridges of Madison County ' which both became big hits.

In her concurrent position as Executive Director of the Garments and Textile Export Board, Arroyo oversaw the rapid growth of the garment industry in the late 1980s.

The growth was so rapid that, in one case, an executive who returned from a one-week trade show had to search two buildings to find her relocated staff.

Thus, her musical career went into a rapid decline, and the $ 139, 000 in settlement money was systematically depleted by the Chapmans ' management agency, Talent Management, Inc.

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

One downside was that the new democracy was less capable of rapid response.

In response to the rapid creation of new independent agencies in the early twentieth century ( see discussion below ), Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act ( APA ) in 1946.

In the second half of 20th century, combinatorics enjoyed a rapid growth, which led to establishment of dozens of new journals and conferences in the subject.

Nothing more was needed to ensure the rapid spread of the new association and Peter the hermit of Morone lived to see himself " Superior-General " to thirty-six monasteries and more than six hundred monks.

Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

In Britain particularly, good quality building stone became ever more expensive during a period of rapid growth, and it became a common practice to construct prestige buildings from the new industrial bricks, and to finish them with a stucco to imitate stone.

The implementation of the Wimax and HSPA technology by some of the Cellphone service providers are resulting in the rapid investment by other providers in the market to match the new and faster platform of services.

There are also 134 species of plants classified as " weedy " or " naturalised alien species ", being those unintentionally introduced by man, or intentionally introduced as ornamentals or crop plants which have now " gone native ", including 32 new species recorded since 1995, indicating a very rapid rate of introduction.

Technological advances, most notably in high-resolution spectroscopy, led to the rapid detection of many new exoplanets: astronomers could detect exoplanets indirectly by measuring their gravitational influence on the motion of their parent stars.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

The Foreign Legion now had a new role as a rapid intervention force to preserve French interests not only in its former African colonies but in other nations as well ; it was also a return to its roots of being a unit always ready to be sent to hot-spots all around the world.

End-user adoption of the new browsers was rapid.

The practice of medicine changed in the face of rapid advances in science, as well as new approaches by physicians.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

In some cases it acted as a labor union, negotiating with employers, but it was never well organized, and after a rapid expansion in the mid-1880s, it suddenly lost its new members and became a small operation again.

The origins of unions ' existence can be traced from the 18th century, where the rapid expansion of industrial society drew women, children, rural workers, and immigrants to the work force in numbers and in new roles.

That work with Ken Harrison and the UK MOD ( RRE Malvern ), in 1973, led to design of new materials resulting in rapid adoption of small area LCDs within electronic products.

Rogers sought to establish a new institution of higher education to address the challenges posed by the mid-19th century's rapid scientific and technological advances.

After playing the US Festival, and with the aid of the new medium of MTV, the band found rapid success in the United States.

The new mercantilism has different goals and focuses on more rapid economic growth based on advanced technology.

In the west and highland areas where the Spanish settled, the indigenous population was almost completely wiped out by the rapid spread of new diseases brought by the Spaniards, for which the native population had no immunity, and the virtual enslavement of the remainder of the indigenous people.

The new Emperor opposed Bismarck's careful foreign policy, preferring vigorous and rapid expansion to protect Germany's " place in the sun ".