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 succeeding decades the number of societies has decreased, as various societies merged to form larger ones, often renaming in the process, and other societies opted for demutualisation followed by-in the great majority of cases-eventual takeover by a listed bank.

Over the years Peirce sought academic employment at various universities without success.

" Over its history, CUNY colleges, particularly CCNY, have been involved in various political movements.

Over the first decade of its existence, the incorporation of elements from various musical genres led to many permutations in its overall style.

Over the years, the understanding of the business cycle has branched into various schools, related to or opposed to Keynesianism.

Over 21 micro breweries from around the Pacific Northwest serve their product at various venues in the historic downtown buildings.

Over the course of time, though, they began behaving in various unskillful ways.

Over the years the styles of French cuisine have been given different names, and have been modified by various master-chefs.

Over the years, there have been five Highlander movies, two television series, an animated series, an animated movie, an animated flash-movie series, ten original novels, seventeen comic book issues, and various licensed merchandise.

Over the years, various authors have suggested that Booth escaped his pursuers and subsequently died many years later under a pseudonym.

Over time, his idea has been implemented in various degrees, and is more commonly known as " community journalism ".

Over the last two thousand years, the various streams of Jews have resulted in small variations in the traditional liturgy customs among different Jewish communities, with each community having a slightly different Nusach ( customary liturgy ).

Over time and as the instrument spread around Europe, it took on many names and various structural characteristics.

Over the years, Cleese and Palin have done many versions of the " Dead Parrot " sketch for various television shows, record albums, and live performances.

Over time, the various spoken varieties diverged greatly from Literary Chinese, which was learned and composed as a special language.

Over the years various theories of conversion and member retention have been proposed that link mind control to NRMs, and particularly those religious movements referred to as " cults " by their critics.

Over the centuries various rulers had tried to unify the German states without success until Bismarck.

Over the next several thousand years, the region would develop into various civilizations like Mehrgarh and the Indus Valley Civilization.

Over the years, hundreds of quasicrystals with various compositions and different symmetries have been discovered.

Over the summer of 2010, Roxy Music headlined at various festivals across the world, including Lovebox at London's Victoria Park, Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland, and Bestival on the Isle of Wight.

Over the years, various authors have suggested that supernatural or anachronistic methods were used, usually asserting that the stones were impossible to move otherwise.

Over time, materials for both the core and torsion box have changed, with wood, various plastic foams, fibreglass, kevlar and carbon fiber all being used in different designs.

Over the next few years, House recorded several studio albums and went on various tours until his death in 1988.

Over the course of time, the Tomb Raider series ' canon has undergone various changes or retcons.