The invention of metallurgy was the most important, as it quickened the pace of invention, widened the scope of human endeavour, stimulated the advancement of arts and crafts, and awakened courage and the spirit of great adventure.

The legislature grew impatient with the scope and pace of the survey work and slowly cut the budget.

In the years since its original vision was conceived, the college has kept pace with the changing educational landscape by offering a broader scope of courses and programs.

Executive education further developed in the 1980s and 1990s as the increasing pace and scope of global business demanded higher levels of education among employees.

The report argued that since the NIE conceded that Soviet ABM research and development was continuing at a pace similar in size and scope it was before the ABM Treaty in 1972, it was likely that Soviet ABM technology was greater than the NIE concluded it was.

Outside institutions — particularly the IMF — have encouraged Ukraine to quicken the pace and scope of reforms and have threatened to withdraw financial support.

Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.

Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.

Strongheart ( Adios-Direct Gal ), a fair-looking sorrel colt, knows nothing but pace and has been right there in the best miles.

She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.

Cathy J. Hanover ( Tar Heel-Kaola Hanover ), formerly called Karet Hanover, has been rather a problem child, but is getting better all the while and can pace a twice around in about 2:31.

The accelerated pace of metropolitan changes has accentuated the drive to conformity in congregations of the major denominations.

The pace of the talks has slowed with each passing week.

Talking of the rapid population growth ( upwards of 12,000 babies born daily ) with an immigrant entering the United States every 1-1/2 minutes, he said `` our organization has not been keeping pace with this challenge ''.

It has a fast pace, excellent music, expert direction, and not only a good comedian, but an appealing person in his own right, Mr. Berman.

Mr. Papp has directed a performance that has verve and pace, although he has tolerated obvious business to garner easy laughs where elegance and consistency of style would be preferable.

The privatization of industry has been at a slower pace, but has been given renewed emphasis by the current administration.

Although there has been some American direct private investment in Belarus, its development has been relatively slow given the uncertain pace of reform.

Borland stopped open source releases of InterBase and has developed and sold new versions at a fast pace.

" J. Patton of The Bent Cover praised Jeter for " try to emulate Philip K. Dick ", adding, " This book also has all the grittiness and dark edges that the movie showed off so well, along with a very fast pace that will keep you reading into the wee hours of the night.

The semi-presidential system has been described by some as " conflictogenic " and " dictatogenic ", as it ensures frictions, and a reduction of pace in government life, should the President and the Prime Minister be from different sides of the political arena.

In the period since the 1970s database technology has kept pace with the increasing resources becoming available from the computing platform: notably the rapid increase in the capacity and speed ( and reduction in price ) of disk storage, and the increasing capacity of main memory.

Mobile phone technology is constantly advancing and the current operator Gibtelecom has kept pace with developments including the advent of data access via mobile phones.

Generation after generation, this asymmetry has generated an inferiority complex, forever exacerbated by the fact that their innovations progress at a faster pace than we can absorb them.

However, due to the economic crisis Britain has faced over the past year, the development has taken a much slower pace.

Labour Law in the People's Republic of China has become a very hot issue with the soaring numbers of factories and the fast pace of urbanization.

That brevity has also been connected to other unusual features: the fast pace of the first act, which has seemed to be " stripped for action "; the comparative flatness of the characters other than Macbeth ; the oddness of Macbeth himself compared with other Shakespearean tragic heroes.

The pace could now be accelerated, for the inhabitants of the Aegean stood on firm ground.

As the pace of the quadrennial American political festival accelerated, Mr. White took more notes.

Tourism is growing at an accelerated pace and many believe that income from this tourism may soon become the major contributor to the nation's GDP.

The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women and men's fashion, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally complex and changing.

His November article in Das Reich was part of his campaign to have the pace of deportation accelerated.

The liberalisation was only relative: arrests and executions continued, and in 1940, as war approached, the pace of the purges again accelerated.

Beginning modestly in mid-year 1999 and continuing at an accelerated pace through May 2002, the company ( under the direction of Ebbers, Scott Sullivan ( CFO ), David Myers ( Comptroller ) and Buford " Buddy " Yates ( Director of General Accounting )) used fraudulent accounting methods to mask its declining earnings by painting a false picture of financial growth and profitability to prop up the price of WorldCom ’ s stock.

It is here where Tolkien intimates that Gríma may even have given Théoden " subtle poisons " that caused him to become frail and age at an accelerated pace.

As an educator, Gamow recognized and emphasized fundamental principles that were unlikely to become obsolete, even as the pace of science and technology accelerated.

The rate of growth accelerated in the 1990s and continued at a brisk pace into the first decade of the 21st century.

After the Spanish acquisition of the Philippines, the pace of exchange between China and the West accelerated dramatically.

The ingredients for inventing the photomultiplier were coming together during the 1920s as the pace of vacuum tube technologies accelerated.

Housing was a major policy area under Wilson's Labour government, 1964 to 1970, with an accelerated pace of new building, as there was still a great deal of unfit housing needing replacement.

By April 1997, WebTV had only 56, 000 subscribers, but the pace of subscriber growth accelerated after that, achieving 150, 000 subscribers by Autumn 1997, about 325, 000 subscribers by April 1998 and about 800, 000 subscribers by May 1999.

A number of canals were built through the town and later railways, which greatly accelerated the pace of industrialisation.

The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1950s and 1960s.

The N11 has been gradually upgraded from single to dual carriageway standard from the 1950s to the present, with improvements taking place at an accelerated pace in recent years.

The pace of clearing was accelerated in when it was declared a national defense project, and the last tree was felled on, 1941.

The pace accelerated with the outbreak of World War I and continued through the 1920s.

Manufacture of the French 75 by American industry began in the spring of 1918 and quickly built up to an accelerated pace.

The astonished Peters told the Czech that the pace was " too slow ," in an attempt to slip up Zátopek, at which point Zátopek simply accelerated.

After the introduction of area code 234, assignments of new telephone numbers in the area did not continue at an accelerated pace, and new phone numbers for area code 234 were not assigned until 2003.