The anticipated mass civilian casualties and use of explosives to spread terror "represent a qualitative shift in Eritrean tactics", the report's authors said.

Indeed, here it is precisely a particular conception of 'qualitative shifts in cultural relations' which supports the ideological basis of the approach (Hall 1978: 11).

The defeat marked a qualitative shift in Qabbani's work - from erotic love poems to poems with overt political themes of rejectionism and resistance.

The difference is, in full concentration certain factors become strengthened to such a degree that they bring about a qualitative shift in the level of consciousness and the mind no longer functions on the ordinary sensory level.

It was premised on a qualitative shift in the intellectual organization of medical concepts.

The findings, Kabat-Zinn suggested, demonstrated qualitative shifts in brain activity after only two months of meditation that mirror preliminary results seen in expert meditators like monks.

A consequence of path dependency is the existence of multiple basins of attraction in ecosystem development and the potential for threshold behaviour and qualitative shifts in system dynamics under changing environmental influences.

That quantitive explosion produced a qualitative shift.

Scholars have also recognized qualitative shifts in areas of "concentrated poverty."

There the formulae had been fairly straightforward, and the changes introduced had been quantitative ones rather than the major qualitative shifts he was employing here.