In the UK, a major turnabout was achieved with the ironic " It is a Škoda, honest " campaign, which was started in the early 2000s.

Gen. David Petraeus, the senior commander in Iraq, noted that the turnabout was “ striking .” Petraeus also said that USIP “ is a great asset in developing stronger unity of effort between civilian and military elements of government .”

Naming the Russian nation the primus inter pares was a total turnabout from Stalin's declaration 20 years earlier ( heralding the korenizatsiya policy ) that " the first immediate task of our Party is vigorously to combat the survivals of Great-Russian chauvinism.

The Christkind was adopted in Catholic areas during the 19th century, while it began to be, in a rather surprising turnabout, gradually replaced by a more or less secularized version of Saint Nicholas, the Weihnachtsmann ( Father Christmas, Santa Claus ) in Protestant regions.

The turnabout point was marked by the Enlightenment, when individual liberties started gaining importance, to the point that in 1822 sodomy was taken out of the Spanish criminal code and effectively legalised.

It was a complete turnabout, but for some, a very welcome one.

Then, after the death of Toyohiro, Hiroshige made a dramatic turnabout, with the 1831 landscape series Famous Views of the Eastern Capital ( 東都名所 Tōto Meisho ) which was critically acclaimed for its composition and colors.

In a turnabout from this serious drama, they followed with three musical comedies, all based on once-popular stage plays.

Wentworth, owner of the Democrat, had become by the end of the 1850s a member of the new Republican Party — a turnabout that can be said, with some oversimplification, to have resulted from the politics of the years before the American Civil War when feelings about slavery caused shifting alliances and political turmoil throughout the country.

Row Expressway and Howard Avenue, and across Howard Avenue from the Roundhouse Center shopping plaza ( formerly a roundhouse and turnabout / train station until the 1920s ).

Many people, especially those who held on to her commitment, were dismayed by her turnabout, though most were unsurprised since there had been clues months before that she would probably not stand by her earlier decision.

Apparently not the least embarrassed by this turnabout, the Medici later came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

Before the turnabout in Ukraine in 1933, a purge of Veli Ibrahimov and his leadership in the Crimean ASSR in 1929 for " national deviation " led to Russianization of government, education, and the media and to the creation of a special alphabet for Crimean Tatar to replace the Latin alphabet.

In another turnabout for Lugdunum, Galba's policies were immediately unpopular, and in January, 69 AD, the Rhine legions quickly threw their support to Vitellius as emperor.

The annual Spring Dance is a turnabout dance ( a. k. a. Sadie Hawkins dance ) and is also one of the most popular events held each year.

In a parallel turnabout, Jonah becomes one of the most effective of all prophets, turning the entire population of Nineveh ( about 120, 000 people ) to God.

A turnabout to the Blind men and an elephant cited below is the joke about the 4 blind elephants who felt a human.

At ages 3 – 5, children can master illocutionary intent, knowing what you meant to say even though you might not have said it and turnabout, which is turning the conversation over to another person.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

The games were over, this was life.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

Bertha, blue-eyed like Mamma, was from the start her mother's daughter, destined for her mother's role in life.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

" Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.

An extinction event ( also known as: mass extinction, extinction-level event ( ELE ), or biotic crisis ) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth.

In the end, a rapid change had occurred in the thinking and goals of the common people ; the peaceful Finns who had just a few decades previously accepted the class system as the long-lasting, natural order of their life now demanded true citizenship.

A 1949 report noted the lack of " any great slackening in the pace of life at the Institute " to match the return to peacetime, remembering the " academic tranquillity of the prewar years ", though acknowledging the significant contributions of military research to the increased emphasis on graduate education and rapid growth of personnel and facilities.

The Cambrian Period witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared.

A very diverse collection of life forms appeared around 544 Ma, starting in the latest Precambrian with a poorly understood small shelly fauna and ending in the very early Cambrian with a very diverse, and quite modern Burgess fauna, the rapid radiation of forms called the Cambrian explosion of life.

It is the pathway to SCM results, a combination of the processes, methodologies, tools and delivery options to guide companies to their results quickly as the complexity and speed of the supply chain increase due to the effects of global competition, rapid price fluctuations, surging oil prices, short product life cycles, expanded specialization, near -/ far-and off-shoring, and talent scarcity.

As America's Founding Fathers shared a perfect horror at the concept of arbitrary courts of justice, such as those " of Philip in the Netherlands, in which life and property were daily confiscated without a jury, and which occasioned as much misery and a more rapid depopulation of the province ", they incorporated the right to trial by jury into the Bill of Rights, thereby restoring what soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice James Iredell described as that " noble palladium of liberty ", and protecting it from the reach of future legislators.

The plant's small size and rapid life cycle are also advantageous for research.

The rapid senescence of opossums is thought to reflect the fact that they have few defenses against predators ; given that they would have little prospect of living very long regardless, they are not under selective pressure to develop biochemical mechanisms to enable a long life span.

Inspired by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Hermann Hesse, and Eduard Baltzer, Wandervogel attracted thousands of young Germans who rejected the rapid trend toward urbanization and yearned for the pagan, back-to-nature spiritual life of their ancestors.

During such periods of rapid state formation or expansion ( Asante and Dahomey being good examples ), slavery formed an important element of political life which the Europeans exploited: As Queen Sara's plea to the Portuguese courts revealed, the system became " sell to the Europeans or be sold to the Europeans ".

The city has had rapid growth, driven by the north African drought since the beginning of the 1970s: many have moved to the city in search of a better life.

For this reason sweet potato vine is ideal for use in home aquariums, trailing out of the water with it's roots submerged, as it's rapid growth is fueled by toxic ammonia and nitrates, a waste product of aquatic life, which it removes from the water.

The extreme cooling of the global climate around 700 million years ago ( the so called Snowball Earth of the Cryogenian period ) and the rapid evolution of primitive life during the subsequent Ediacaran and Cambrian periods are often thought to have been triggered by the breaking up of Rodinia.

The economic crisis facing Guyana in the early 1980s deepened considerably, accompanied by the rapid deterioration of public services, infrastructure, and overall quality of life.

Some forms of lymphoma are categorized as indolent ( e. g. small lymphocytic lymphoma ), compatible with a long life even without treatment, whereas other forms are aggressive ( e. g. Burkitt's lymphoma ), causing rapid deterioration and death.

Bringing about a fast evolution of technology in daily life, as well as of educational life style, the Information Age has allowed rapid global communications and networking to shape modern society.

The Chengjiang fossils comprise the oldest diverse metazoan assemblage above the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition, and thus the fossil record ’ s best data source for understanding the apparently rapid diversification of life known as the Cambrian Explosion.

Due to the rapid growth of tomato culture and a cooperative arrangement among Ruskin farmers, the town has taken a new lease on life and again is a thriving community.

Despite rapid urbanization of the Bowling Green area in the 1830s, agriculture remained an important part of local life.

The business and residential life of Garner continued to grow steadily throughout the years, with more rapid growth in recent times.

He spoke of the rapid advancement in the education of America's army of children and of the responsibility resting upon the thousands of men and women employed in the work of fitting them to enter upon life ’ s duties.