The change was not quite so dramatic as it sounds because in fact common norms continued to be invoked by municipal courts and were only gradually changed by legislation, and then largely in marginal situations.

The Second Coming will be a natural culmination of the process of world evangelization, rather than a revolutionary event that brings sudden and dramatic change.

The change coincided with a week of dramatic storylines known as " Siege Week ", being shown on five consecutive nights following Britain's Got Talent.

The first dramatic rise in atmospheric oxygen on Earth, to about a tenth of its present-day value, occurred approximately 2. 5 billion years ago, and that level did not change significantly until the Cambrian era approximately 600 million years ago.

As a dramatic plot device, Clark often has to quickly improvise in order to find a way to change unnoticed.

The weather starts to change in a dramatic way leading to a planetary winter and a few space travellers sail out to wander in the cosmic ocean in search of answers about their place in the universe.

Some hydro-power will be collected near the Dead Sea from the dramatic change in elevation on the downhill side of the project.

Amanullah's ten years of reign initiated a period of dramatic change in Afghanistan in both foreign and domestic politics.

A change to the DNA in a gene can change a protein's amino acids, changing its shape and function: this can have a dramatic effect in the cell and on the organism as a whole.

Proponents of this view sometimes point to examples of life's actions in the past that have resulted in dramatic change rather than stable equilibrium, such as the conversion of the Earth's atmosphere from a reducing environment to an oxygen-rich one.

Proponents of this view sometimes point to examples of life's actions in the past that have resulted in dramatic change rather than stable equilibrium, such as the conversion of the Earth's atmosphere from a reducing environment to an oxygen-rich one.

These densely populated working-class boroughs underwent a dramatic demographic change as a result as thousands of people perished in the flames.

" Between seasons 8 and 12 ( under former show runner / executive producer Neal Baer ), the show has had characters change or even die as sort of a dramatic plot twist.

Hence a measurement of any dramatic change to the H → γγ cross section predicted by the Standard Model is crucial in probing the physics beyond it.

Sociologists attribute this dramatic change to " ethnic shifting " or " ethnic shopping "; they believe that it reflects a willingness of people to question their birth identities and adopt new ethnicities which they find more compatible.

* New world order ( politics ), any period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power

Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, was a synthesiser-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division.

It was a product of the desire of Hamburg's patrician classes to defend their political privileges in the face of dramatic social change and attendant demands for political reform.

The Paleozoic was a time of dramatic geological, climatic, and evolutionary change.

Since then, with improved environmental standards, light-coloured peppered moths have again become common, and the dramatic change in the peppered moth's population has remained a subject of much interest and study.

The rivalry of the great powers in the region might have remained subdued had it not been for the dramatic change in government in Moscow brought about by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

It appears likely that Sappho's poetry was largely lost through action of the same indiscriminate forces of cultural change that have left us such paltry remains of all nine canonical Greek lyric poets, of whom only Pindar ( whose works alone survive in a manuscript tradition ) and Bacchylides ( our knowledge of whom we owe to a single dramatic papyrus find ) have fared much better.

In 1985 a dramatic change began.

In addition, the years of the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a dramatic change in society's view of illegitimacy and in the legal rights of those born outside of wedlock.

With a dramatic increase in efforts since the 20th century, and a strong push since the Lausanne I: The International Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland in 1974, evangelical groups have focused efforts on sending missionaries to every ethnic group in the world.

In the last half of the 20th century Corona saw dramatic ethnic successions.

The fall of Communism and the increase in the number of democratic states were accompanied by a sudden and dramatic decline in total warfare, interstate wars, ethnic wars, revolutionary wars, and the number of refugees and displaced persons.

The German exodus from Central and Eastern Europe describes the dramatic reduction of ethnic German populations in lands to the east of present-day Germany and Austria.

The growth of ethnic pride movements led to more success by dramatists from racial minorities, such as black playwrights Douglas Turner Ward, Adrienne Kennedy, Ed Bullins, Charles Fuller, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe and August Wilson, who created a dramatic history of United States with his cycle of plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, one for each decade of the 20th century.

The years between 1968 and 1970 made up the most dramatic period of ethnic transition in Boston.

The stabilization of the ethnic makeup of Grady coincided with dramatic changes in the administrative leadership of the school.

Growth of the faith has been most dramatic among ethnic minority peoples ( Montagnards ) such as the Mnong, E De, Jarai, and Bahnar.

The Dance and theatre of Laos ( nattakam Lao, Lao: ນາດຕະກ ັ ມລາວ ) is the primary dramatic art form of Laos ' majority ethnic group, the Lao people.

The composition is jammed by clashing colors, which is unlike what we've seen in the balanced, natural, and dramatic colors of the High Renaissance.

The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.

The composition of Dido and Aeneas gave Purcell his first chance to write a sustained musical setting of a dramatic text.

* " Pavane, the Girl with the Flaxen Hair ," a dramatic script written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, inspired in part by Ravel's composition, for the old-time radio series Quiet Please.

Several scenes in the film directly recall Ford's film, most notably Ali's entrance at the well and the composition of many of the desert scenes and the dramatic exit from Wadi Rum.

In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Rococo art of the 18th century.

In the process his music went through several changes of style ; the most dramatic and far-reaching of these was associated with the composition of his second opera King Priam.

Its dramatic composition is typical of Guercino's early works, which are often tumultuous.

Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage.

He attached himself to the poetic circle of the Pléiade and proceeded to apply the principles of the reformers to dramatic composition.

The metre is not restricted to heroic couplets, but dramatic form of composition is not allowed.

That dramatic composition still entertained the scanty leisure of Tirso's old age is shown by the fact that the fragmentary autograph copy of Las Quinas de Portugal is dated March 8, 1638 ; but his active career as a dramatist ended two years earlier.

* In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly " contrived and written in a month " — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known.

The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his work as one of the chief predecessors of Shakespeare in English dramatic composition, as well as his writings on Robin Hood.

Munday was a very voluminous author in verse and prose, original and translated, and is certainly to be reckoned among the predecessors of Shakespeare in dramatic composition.

He is also known during this time to have experimented with ‘ wide-screen ’ composition, magnifying visual elements in the image for a dramatic, exaggerated effect ( ex.

Monteverdi's Book Eight, of the same year, contains some of the most famous madrigals of the entire epoch, including the enormous Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a dramatic composition much like a secular oratorio.

In the restless dynamism of his composition, his dramatic use of light, and his emphatic perspective effects, Tintoretto seems a baroque artist ahead of his time.

Although this resulted in a dramatic change in the national composition of Komárno, the majority remained Hungarian.

Jooss and Fritz ( or Frederick ) Cohen shared the belief that choreography and musical composition should evolve together to give expression of the dramatic idea in unified style and form.

Raymond Williams compares Peer Gynt with August Strindberg's early drama Lucky Peter's Journey ( 1882 ) and argues that both explore a new kind of dramatic action that was beyond the capacities of the theatre of the day ; both created " a sequence of images in language and visual composition " that " became technically possible only in film.

The dramatic composition of Géricault, with its strong contrasts of tone and unconventional gestures, stimulated Delacroix to trust his own creative impulses on a large work.

" Soon, though, the writers began to craft serials, and Bolland's distinct abilities with subtle facial expressions, dramatic lighting and the dynamic composition of page layout made him the perfect choice to draw the on-going sagas, starting with " The Lunar Olympics.

Consistently with the austere and simple manner he thought the chief excellence of dramatic composition, he excluded from his scene all coups de theatre, all philosophical reflexions, and that highly ornamented versification so assiduously cultivated by his predecessors.