There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

With contemporary English changing with the rapidity that marks this jet age, some of the words and phrases of the new version may themselves soon become archaic.

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence.

The upper half of The Battle of Alexander expands with unreal rapidity into an arcing panorama comprehending vast coiling tracts of globe and sky.

Many cooking methods are used, with steaming and stir frying being the most favoured due to their convenience and rapidity.

Demand for electricity grows with great rapidity as a nation modernises and its economy develops.

The rapidity with which an explosive reaches its peak pressure ( power ) is a measure of its brisance.

" Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century ", he wrote, " than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible ... they did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands ".

Hedge funds employ a wide range of trading strategies but classifying them is difficult due to the rapidity with which they change and evolve.

He wrote for the press with great rapidity, and hardly ever made corrections.

He dispatched cases with unprecedented rapidity.

In this way the two forms alternated and the printing was done with great rapidity.

Through the night of the 22nd to dawn of the 23rd, Mullá Husayn became the first to accept the Báb's claims as the gateway to Truth and the initiator of a new prophetic cycle ; the Báb had replied in a satisfactory way to all of Mullá Husayn's questions and had written in his presence, with extreme rapidity, a long commentary of Surih of Joseph, which has come to be known as the Qayyúmu ' l-Asmá ' and is considered the Báb's first revealed work.

Given the rapidity with which its last population was eliminated, it is likely that aboriginal hunting caused its extinction over the rest of its original range ( aboriginal peoples apparently never inhabited the Commander Islands ).

A decline then follows, usually gradually at first and later with more rapidity.

The dispute between husband and wife was set to dominate Scottish politics for the next three years, complicated even more by a bitter feud between Angus and James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran ; with bewildering rapidity Margaret sided with one and then the other.

Graves was travelling in a Diligence in the Alps when a man who looked like the mate of a ship got in, sat beside him, and soon took from his pocket a note-book across which his hand from time to time passed with the rapidity of lightning.

He worked with great rapidity and long hours, but he used his colours thin and covered the canvas with innumerable coats of paint.

: and obedient with rapidity and punctuality to the orders of my superiors,

At the battle of Leuctra ( 371 BC ) he contributed greatly to the success of Epaminondas's new tactics by the rapidity with which he made the Sacred Band close with the Spartans.

With the rapidity at which the challenges to protected areas are both changing and increasing, there has never been more of a need for well prepared human capacity to manage.

It is a measure of the rapidity with which an explosive develops its maximum pressure.

To illustrate the rapidity with which the whole case was despatched ; and the absolute indifference " whether there was justice done or not ," P. A.

The rapidity of this adoption was likely aided by the Arab religious traditions, which predate Islam, of both domed structures to cover the burial places of ancestors and the use of a round tabernacle tent with a dome-like top made of red leather for housing idols.

< p > It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine – a gun – which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease be greatly diminished .</ p >

But the " Galway pace ," the display he found it necessary to maintain at Templeogue, the stable full of horses, the cards, the friends to entertain, the quarrels to compose and the enormous rapidity with which he had to complete Tom Burke, The O ' Donoghue and Arthur O ' Leary ( 1845 ) made his native land an impossible place for Lever to continue in.

The rapidity with which the crisis happened has prompted Sachs and others to compare it to a classic bank run prompted by a sudden risk shock.

The Duchess of Malfi was performed in a controlled environment, with artificial lighting, and musical interludes between acts, which allowed time, perhaps, for the audience to accept the otherwise strange rapidity with which the Duchess is able to have babies.

But at the same time it is a great advance in rapidity and resource upon anything which had gone before it ; it represents an important step in English dramatic art.

This means that the effectiveness of a lifeguard unit can be measured not by the number or rapidity of rescues, or the skill with which they are executed, but by the absence or reduction of drownings, accidents, and other medical emergencies.

The apprehension with which this daring malefactor was regarded by the authorities is shown by this clandestine hearing of his case in a cold corridor of the Town Hall, and the rapidity with which his trial followed on his committal.

A chemical explosive is a compound or mixture which, upon the application of heat or shock, decomposes or rearranges with extreme rapidity, yielding much gas and heat.

Because of the rapidity with which actions in foil fencing are executed it is common for both fencers to believe their touch has priority.

" Chauvel's leadership ," wrote Henry Gullett, " was distinguished by the rapidity with which he summed up the very obscure Turkish position in the early morning, and by his judgement and characteristic patience in keeping so much of his force in reserve until the fight developed sufficiently to ensure its most profitable employment.

However, flaws in its plan and lack of rapidity were responsible for the failure of the escape.

Beaumarchais explained that France could grant such aid without compromising itself, but urged that " success of the plan depends wholly upon rapidity as well as secrecy: Your Majesty knows better than any one that secrecy is the soul of business, and that in politics a project once disclosed is a project doomed to failure.

Each archer had at least one extra horse – there was an average five horses per man – thus the entire army could move with incredible rapidity.

It was not until well into the 20th century that any army was able to match the rapidity of deployment of Genghis's armies.

Mannheim emphasised that the rapidity of social change in youth was crucial to the formation of generations, and that not every generation would come to see itself as distinct.

After this he set off with such brilliancy and rapidity of execution, that it was difficult for the violins of those days to keep pace with him.

Guercino was remarkable for the extreme rapidity of his executions: he completed no fewer than 106 large altarpieces for churches, and his other paintings amount to about 144.

Sven Åderman is credited with advancing the rapidity of firing and was awarded Halltorps estate by the King of Sweden.

It is to Soult's credit that he was able to reorganise the demoralised French forces with a rapidity that even took Wellington by surprise.

The rapidity of this action is likely attributable to the fact that people within the government were already arguing for Gage's removal, and the battle was just the final straw.

The city developed with great rapidity, and at the outbreak of the Hussite Wars in 1419 was the second most important city in Bohemia, after Prague, having become the favourite residence of several Bohemian kings.

In 1975, the rapidity and extent of Connolly's breakthrough was used to secure him a booking on Britain's premier TV talk show, the BBC's Parkinson.

It is also known as Vajasaneya Yajurveda, because it was evolved in great rapidity by Sun who was in the form of a horse through his manes. The rhythm of recital of these vedas is therefore to the rhythm of the horse canter and distinguishes itself from the other forms of veda recitals.

His defect was in flexibility, variety, rapidity ; the characteristic of his style was method, regularity, precision, elaboration even of the minutest details, founded on a thorough psychological study of the special personality he had to represent.