The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.

The shift in sentiment from excessive optimism early in the year to the present mood of caution has probably been a good thing, in that it has prevented the accumulation of the burdensome inventories that have characterized many previous swings in the business cycle.

Although no drugs act exclusively on the hypothalamus or a part of it, there is sufficient specificity to distinguish drugs which shift the hypothalamic balance to the sympathetic side from those which produce a parasympathetic dominance.

This explains the beneficial effect of electroshock therapy in certain depressions and a shift in the reaction from hypo- to normal reactivity of the sympathetic system as shown by the Mecholyl test.

It was assumed that the shift in autonomic hypothalamic balance occurring spontaneously in neuropsychiatric patients from the application of certain therapeutic procedures follows the pattern known from the sleep-wakefulness cycle.

These changes represent, in effect, a shift from ( 1 ) an administrative compilation of data obtained through procedures designed primarily to serve political and economic objectives to ( 2 ) a systematic sampling census of the whole African population.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

During the 1970s and 1990s, there was an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions that had largely informed the discipline.

By the 1970s the shift was underway from the earlier economic history to cultural history and the history of mentalities.

The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards ; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.

The shift in Aalto's design approach from classicism to modernism is epitomised by the Viipuri Library ( 1927 – 35 ), which went through a transformation from an originally classical competition entry proposal to the completed high-modernist building.

With the shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, art likewise changed its focus, as much in its content as in its mode of expression.

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

This finished the doctrinal shift from oxygen-based acids to hydrogen-based acids, started by Davy.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

However, although this approach — the " shift ... from the quasi-historical or legendary materials ... to the folktale line of inquiry ," was seen as a step in the right direction, " The Bear's Son " tale was seen as too universal.

In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a " spiral nebula " ( spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies ), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth.

This is partly attributed to a shift away from private motoring due to growing road congestion and increasing petrol prices, but also to the fact that travelling in general ( for all modes ) has increased with affluency.

They marked a shift from a largely apophatic ( negative ) philosophical trend within Buddhism to a decidedly more cataphatic ( positive ) modus.

The Urban Land Institute ( ULI ) awarded the Battery Park City Master Plan its 2010 Heritage Award, for having " facilitated the private development of 9. 3 million square feet of commercial space, 7. 2 million square feet of residential space, and nearly 36 acres of open space in lower Manhattan, becoming a model for successful large-scale planning efforts and marking a positive shift away from the urban renewal mindset of the time.

The First Intifada ( 1987 – 93 ) provoked a shift in Palestinian politics towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which proved a severe handicap for the largely diaspora-based DFLP.

Similar panchromatic film stocks were manufactured by Agfa and Pathé, the shift to panchromatic stocks had largely been completed by 1928, and Kodak discontinued orthochromatic stock in 1930.

This change reflected the shift of the Bolivian economy away from the largely exhausted silver mines of Potosí to the exploitation of tin near Oruro, and resulting shifts in the distribution of economic and political power among various national elites.

Heath's planned economic policy changes ( including a significant shift from direct to indirect taxation ) remained largely unimplemented: the Selsdon policy document was more or less abandoned as unemployment increased considerably by 1972.

This stems largely from the “ junk-food hypothesis ” representing a shift in their diet from fatty herring and capelin to leaner fare like pollock and flounder, thereby limiting their ability to consume and store fat. Other hypotheses include increased predation by orcas, indirect effects of prey species composition shifts due to changes in climate, effects of disease or contaminants, shooting by fishermen, and others.

This shift was supported not by any scripture, but largely by the popular religion of the Enlightenment, deism.

While it was intended as a shift away from the racial inequities of America's past often associated with the historical views of the " Black race ", it largely became a simple replacement for the terms Black, Colored, Negro and the like, referring to any individual of dark skin color regardless of geographical descent.

Without a westward shift in the boundary the new empire's frontier with France would have been largely divided between the states of Baden and Bavaria, whose governments were less than enthusiastic with the prospect of having a vengeful France on their doorstep.

This shift is largely because ASIC devices are capable of integrating such large blocks of system functionality and " system-on-a-chip " requires far more than just logic blocks.

Given the importance of the seasonal gift-giving to the U. S. economy, one driven largely by consumer spending, and with the music industry making at least 40 percent of its annual revenue in the fourth quarter culminating at Christmas, demands for increased revenues motivates the shift.

The change from Urashimako to Urashima Tarō reflects a shift in Japanese naming customs ; while the suffix-ko (" child ") was originally used in both male and female names, in medieval times it was largely restricted to female names, and replaced by-tarō (" great youth ") in male names.

With Abrams the evolution of meaning continued, and a lack of reference to Ruskin ’ s original sense of either pathos or fallacy indicates a shift away from the original meaning is largely complete.

In the 1960s and 1970s, building upon liberal theory and procedural justice, much of the discourse of medical ethics went through a dramatic shift and largely reconfigured itself into bioethics.

Retired people and holiday accommodation largely supplanted the fishermen and farmers, with a corresponding political shift to the right in elections.

Many people welcomed Doe's takeover as a shift favoring the majority of the population that had largely been excluded from participation in government since the establishment of the country.

After World War II, the need for technicians spiked due to a major economic shift within Georgia from being a largely agricultural state to one that is more industry heavy.

Due largely to their poor showing in the 2009 elections, the party has seen a conflict between its conservative and liberal wings over which direction their political ideology should shift in the future.

The album's sound-consisting largely of ballads and straight-forward rock songs-marked a notable shift in style from the group's previous recordings.

This declined to 18 in 2001, a demographic shift largely attributable to an increase in under-18 readers, " because people were coming out at younger ages.

This shift to cello largely ended his career as a performer and marked a period of increased interest in composition and pedagogy.

As a rule, the " cells " of Earth's atmosphere shift polewards in warmer climates ( e. g. interglacials compared to glacials ), but remain largely constant even due to continental drift ; they are, fundamentally, a property of the Earth's size, rotation rate, heating and atmospheric depth, all of which change little.

In terms of virology, the marine ecosystem has been largely unstudied, but due to its extraordinary volume, high viral density ( 100 million viruses per mL in coastal waters, 3 million per mL in the deep sea ) and high cell lysing rate ( as high as 20 % on average ), marine viruses ' antigenic shift and genetic recombination rates must be quite high.