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, 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 two decades, the focus of the school gradually shifted toward post-secondary programs.

Over the years, the Nile gradually shifted westward, providing the site between the eastern edge of the river and the Mokattam highlands on which the city now stands.

Over the last 100 years some mainstream Christian theologians and Biblical scholars have gradually been developing beliefs which the Christadelphian community has historically held.

Over the years, as the shoals gradually shift, the erosion may be redirected to attack different parts of the shore.

Over the course of the 20th century, the UK gradually implemented tighter regulation of the civilian ownership of firearms through the enactment of the 1968, 1988, 1994 and 1997 Firearms ( Amendment ) Acts < ref >

Over the years, his music gradually changed and started incorporating more and more elements of the galant style, but he never completely adopted the ideals of the nascent Classical era: Telemann's style remained contrapuntally and harmonically complex, and already in 1751 he dismissed much contemporary music as too simplistic.

Over time, the Dutch gradually consolidated control over the great trading ports of the East Indies.

Over the years Tenniel gradually lost sight in his right eye ; he never told his father of the severity of the wound, as he did not wish to upset his father to any greater degree than he had been.

Over time, the territory of Luxembourg has been eroded, whilst its ownership has changed repeatedly, and its political independence has grown gradually.

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.

Over the 19th century, bullet design also evolved, the bullets becoming gradually smaller and lighter.

Over the course of the 19th century that gradually changed: the British and Creoles in the Freetown area increased their involvement in — and their control over — the surrounding territory by engaging in trade, treaty making, and military expeditions.

Over time, their output gradually grew more refined and sophisticated.

Over the next years the navy gradually received a number of new ships, mostly built in the GDR.

Over several centuries the colonists, native Prussians and the immigrants gradually intermingled.

Over several decades the structure and bonding arrangement of diborane was gradually discovered by

Over the next nine years, Saxon coastal holdings are gradually expanded.

Over the following centuries the three terms grotesque, moresque and arabesque were used largely interchangeably in English, French and German for styles of decoration derived at least as much from the European past as the Islamic world, with " grotesque " gradually acquiring its main modern meaning, related more to Gothic gargoyles and caricature than to either Pompeii-style Roman painting or Islamic patterns.

Over the years the penny was gradually debased until by the 16th century it contained about a third the silver content of a proper troy 24 grain pennyweight.

Over the centuries the idea of Terra Australis gradually lost its hold.

Over the next years Walpole continued to share power with Townshend but gradually became the clearly dominant partner in government.

Over the very long term the energy output of the sun has gradually increased, on the order of 5 % per billion ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >) years, and will continue to do so until it reaches the end of its current phase of stellar evolution.

Over time these lakes gradually eroded their soft peat shores and spread ( a process known as waterwolf ).

Over this period, Tenochtitlan gradually became the dominant power in the alliance.