• However England have lost the opening three one-day fixtures and need an abrupt change of form to make the seven-match series competitive.

    BBC: Injured Graeme Swann to miss England ODIs in Australia

  • Such an abrupt change is hard to explain by demography alone, however.

    ECONOMIST: Is China��s labour market at a turning-point?

  • "She was living with her parents before that, and no-one could have foreseen such an abrupt change in her behaviour, " Mr Farias told Clarin newspaper.

    BBC: Latin America & Caribbean

  • By the start of this one, the intervention of Lord Taylor of Warwick, a black Conservative in the House of Lords, had forced an abrupt change.

    ECONOMIST: Plagued by race

  • The merger appears to have been helped along by an abrupt change of direction in NYSE seat prices as well as the abrupt change in thinking by its participants.

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  • An abrupt change in the opinion of 10-12% of the electorate can in principle have big consequences, says William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

    ECONOMIST: Of polls and presidents

  • This is an abrupt change in French policy.

    ECONOMIST: The Mediterranean Union

  • Nearly all have involved pro-Indonesian militias, which have proliferated since the fall of President Suharto and an abrupt change in official policy towards the former Portuguese colony, which Indonesia invaded in 1975 and annexed in 1976.

    ECONOMIST: East Timor, adrift and violent

  • Because of the very large amounts of capital tied up in homes, buildings, power plants and industrial and transportation equipment, gradually transitioning to a capital stock that emits less carbon dioxide is much less expensive than an abrupt change.

    WSJ: The Experts: Should There Be a Price on Carbon Emissions?

  • "In a letter Senator Mark Begich wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month, he says 'such an abrupt change in the available labor pool just before the start of the salmon season would have immediate negative consequences for the companies, and the fishermen and communities, which depend on their operations, '" KTVA reported.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Another especially important consideration for SUVs, according to Shenhar, is accident avoidance, including the effectiveness of the braking system, how nimbly the vehicle can be steered around obstacles in an abrupt lane-change maneuver, and how secure and forgiving the handling is.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Ariane de Bonvoisin, who pitches herself as an expert at helping people handle abrupt change, is busy these days.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Meteorologist Lord (Julian) Hunt, who chaired the meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, clarified that an abrupt methane release from the current warming was not inevitable, describing that as "an issue for scientific debate".

    BBC: Climate 'tech fixes' urged for Arctic methane

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