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.

Over time, he developed an approach known as structural functionalism, which focused on how institutions in societies worked to balance out or create an equilibrium in the social system to keep it functioning harmoniously.

Over time, amphibians shrank in size and decreased in diversity, leaving only the modern subclass Lissamphibia.

Over time, the alphabet developed into the form shown below.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

Over time, a host of software and computer industries have developed around the university.

Over time, she proved to be a scientific colleague to her husband.

Over time, especially with the suppression of rebellions, Athens exercised hegemony over the rest of the league.

The ULA had an issue similar to those experienced by other socketed CPU's ; Over time, the thermal heating and cooling could cause the ULA to rise slightly out of it's socket just enough to cause the machine to start exhibiting ' hanging ' or other startup-failure issues, such as a continuous ' startup beep '.

Over time, he gradually took over responsibility for the relationships between the small Bahá ' i exile community and the outside world.

" Over time, scientists would build on his initial ideas to form the modern synthesis.

Over a long period of time, the slightly denser regions of the nearly uniformly distributed matter gravitationally attracted nearby matter and thus grew even denser, forming gas clouds, stars, galaxies, and the other astronomical structures observable today.

Over time, biological warfare became more complex.

Over time the standards developed to cover many aspects of tangible engineering, and then engineering methodologies including quality systems, safety and security.

Over time the forms of and ideas about communication have evolved through progression of technology.

Over time, as new states were formed from federal territories, these territorial reception statutes became obsolete and were re-enacted as state law.

Over time, the intermarriage of the Kanembu and Bornu peoples created a new people and language, the Kanuri, and founded a new capital, Ngazargamu.

Over time this process has been regulated and insured by central banks.

Over time, the peat grows deeper.

" Over historical time spans there are a number of nearly constant variables that determine climate, including latitude, altitude, proportion of land to water, and proximity to oceans and mountains.

Over time, the group's founding members began leaving.

Over time, these canons were supplemented with decretals of the Bishops of Rome, which were responses to doubts or problems according to the maxim, " Roma locuta est, causa finita est " (" Rome has spoken, case is closed ").

Over time, the general conservative ideology in many countries adopted economic liberal arguments, and the term liberal conservatism was replaced with conservatism.

Over time, the coyotes killed most of the cats, and then continued to eat the cat food placed daily at the colony site by people who were maintaining the cat colony.

" Don't Dream It's Over " was named the seventh best Australian song of all time in 2001.

Over the next few years the kingdom was threatened not only by Saladin and Nur ad-Din, but also by the Hashshashin ; in one episode, the Knights Templar murdered some Hashshashin envoys, leading to further disputes between Amalric and the Templars.

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

Over the past few decades rapid developments in genomic and other molecular research technologies and developments in information technologies have combined to produce a tremendous amount of information related to molecular biology.

Over the next few days all but 200 of the captured prisoners were landed on shore under strict terms of parole, although Bonaparte later ordered them to be formed into an infantry unit and added to his army.

Over the next few years, Yuan proceeded to abolish the national and provincial assemblies, and declared himself emperor in late 1915.

Over the next few months, 800 were arrested and shot without trial.

Over the next few years the situation deteriorated further.

Over the last few years the post has been held by people from outside the university, chosen from industry top levels, in order to strengthen the ties between the university and industrial partners.

Over the next few years Eleanor often traveled with her husband and was sometimes associated with him in the government of the realm, but still had a custodian so that she was not free.

Over the next few days, Montag bonds with Clarisse, who tells him that her interest in intellectual activities has made her an outcast in a society dominated by shallow entertainment, and for that, she has no friends and has to see a psychiatrist.

Over the last few years Georgian economy has been one of the fast in the FSU.

Over the next few decades, divisions of the conglomerate were slowly spun off and competition within the Greenlandic economy somewhat increased.

Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke.

Over the next few years Fox continued to travel around the country as his particular religious beliefs took shape.

Over the next few centuries, some tribes warred, migrated, and merged.

Over the next few years Edward I used the concessions he had gained to systematically undermine both the authority of King John and the independence of Scotland.

Over the past few decades, some scholars have argued for a 7th century BC date.

Over the next few centuries, Islam replaced Christianity as the dominant religion of the region.

Over the next few days the armies of Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, and Syria invaded Israel, and officially and militarily threatened to occupy the whole of the former Mandate territory, thereby starting the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, known in Israel as the War of Independence (, Milhamat HaAtzma ' ut ).

Over the next fourteen years, Gershwin continued to write the lyrics for many film scores and a few Broadway shows.

Over the next few months Saladin easily overran the entire kingdom.

Over the next few months Life of Brian was re-edited and re-screened a number of times for different preview audiences before the final cut was complete, losing a number of entire filmed sequences ( see Lost scenes below ).

" Over the course of the next few years, Lycos acquired nearly two dozen internet brands including Gamesville, WhoWhere, Wired Digital ( eventually sold to Wired ), Quote. com, Angelfire, Matchmaker. com and Raging Bull.

Over the next few years he gradually lost the ability to draw steadily and quickly, although he still managed to produce some drawings with the help of his wife.