"change" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Evaluating the riots of 1967, Newark educator Nathan Wright, Jr. said, "No typical American city has as yet experienced such a precipitous change from a white to a black majority."
- Still other noncoding stretches may be buffers against precipitous change, serving rather as flak jackets to absorb the impact of viruses and other genetic interlopers that infiltrate an animal's chromosomes.
- The trustees urged Congress to "take early remedial measures to bring future costs and finances into balance" and to "avoid the need for later, potentially precipitous changes" in the program.
- The Conservatives explain that the precipitous change in membership requirements was needed to prevent the Orthodox from packing the synagogue with Lubavitchers and becoming a majority as a result.
- It usually takes a precipitous change in the sunny weather - something, say, the magnitude of El Nino - to shake the relative calm of this sleepy Southern California city.
- We don't see any precipitous change up or down.
- Thomas Gambino and Rosen, McGuire felt, had made some reasonable arguments why garment-center trucking operated as it did and why precipitous change could disrupt a vulnerable industry, buffeted by foreign competition.
- And the tremendous power he amassed from his public standing, political skills and changes in the military's structure were employed largely to brake against precipitous changes in the status quo.
- "Only indirectly, by causing a precipitous change in air pressure at the surface datum."
- Several senators invoked the chamber's traditional role as a brake on precipitous changes, to review deliberately in the face of demands for fast action.
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