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 months he became a political gadfly with an incessant barrage of satirical poems ridiculing Woodruff, the `` Casca '' letters belittling Woodruff, and long analytical articles vilifying Woodruff.

Over the next several years Metastasio gave Salieri informal instruction in prosody and the declamation of Italian poetry, and Gluck became an informal advisor, friend and confidante.

Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.

Over time, Barnard became known as a brilliant surgeon with many contributions to the treatment of cardiac diseases, such as the Tetralogy of Fallot and Ebstein's anomaly.

Over time, tuition for limited-matriculated students became an important source of system revenues.

Over the years, the Brazilian F94 line has been improved with several cosmetic changes and became more and more different from the German and Argentine models.

Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned " Over the Wall We Go " became a 1967 single for Oscar ; another Bowie composition, " Silly Boy Blue ", was released by Billy Fury the following year.

Over the course of the Middle and New Kingdoms, the notion that the akh could also travel in the world of the living, and to some degree magically affect events there, became increasingly prevalent.

Over the centuries, Europe continued to have two distinct types of fiddles: one, relatively square-shaped, held in the arms, became known as the lira da braccio ( arm viol ) family and evolved into the violin ; the other, with sloping shoulders and held between the knees, was the lira da gamba ( leg viol ) group.

Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.

Over the next four years, Gilbert and Sullivan did not have occasion to work together again, but each man became more eminent in his field.

Over the course of the 1950s, as television began to pervade the popular culture, game shows quickly became a fixture.

Over time it became clear these privileges would be open to abuse and when in 1620 the Huguenots proclaimed a constitution for the ' Republic of the Reformed Churches of France ', the Prime Minister Cardinal Richelieu ( 1585 – 1642 ) invoked the entire powers of the state.

Over time the group became more protective of itself, did not allow many new members, moved further from its religious foundation to a more business-oriented and pragmatic approach, and the custom of celibacy eventually drained it of its membership.

Over time, millions, and today billions, of transistors could be placed on one chip, and to make a good design became a task to be planned thoroughly.

Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him a Civil War hero to many Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the postwar New South.

Over the next 25 years, Dr Cade Sr became medical superintendent at several Victorian mental hospitals, namely Sunbury, Beechworth and Mont Park.

Over time, English juries became less self-informing and relied more on the trial itself for information on the case.

Over time, Moon graduated from cherry bombs to M-80 fireworks to sticks of dynamite, which became his explosive of choice.

Already in the same year the Cubo-Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun with Malevich's stage-set became a great success.

Over time, the term became generic and is now an example of a genericized trademark.

Over time, " Nationals " faded as a nickname, and " Senators " became dominant.

Over the intervening 70 years, the problem of measurement became an active research area and itself spawned some new formulations of quantum mechanics.