Transition Sentence Examples

When did this transition happen?

You were forced into a transition without being prepared for it.

The transition from home to college life is often difficult for young people.

The Dipnoi show a distinct transition between fishes and amphibia.

This transition did not, however, take place without protest.

The third may be characterized as a period of transition; it marks the adoption in earnest of a guerrilla policy on the part of the enemy, and an uncertain casting about on the part of the British for a definite system with which to grapple with an unforeseen development.

In the restoration of 1866 some early mural painting was discovered, and a transition Norman clerestory was discovered, remaining above the later nave.

The chief poets of the transition are Fazil Bey, Wasif, notable for his not altogether unhappy attempt to write verses in the spoken language of the capital, `Izzet Molla, Pertev Pasha, `Akif Pasha, and the poetesses Fitnet and Leyla.

In the confusion of the period of transition, when the title to possession was usually the power to hold, designations which had once possessed a definite meaning were preserved with no defined association.

The cathedral, an imposing building in the Romanesque Transition style (1207-1242), has a Gothic choir at each end, and contains some interesting medieval sculptures.

Passing now to the invention of common or decimal logarithms, that is, to the transition from the logarithms originally invented by Napier to logarithms to the base io, the first allusion to a change of system occurs in the "Admonitio " on the last page of the Descriptio (1614), the concluding paragraph of which is " Verum si huius inventi usum eruditis gratum fore intellexero, dabo fortasse brevi (Deo aspirante) rationem ac methodum aut hunc canonem emendandi, aut emendatiorem de novo condendi, ut ita plurium Logistarum diligentia,limatior tandem et accuratior, quam unius opera fieri potuit, in lucem prodeat.

He was generally, by a curious error, regarded as the first emperor of Rome,' and representing as he did in the popular mind the glory of Rome, by an easy transition he became a pillar of the Church.

The transition from the strongly folded structure of the Alleghany ridges and valleys to the nearly horizontal structure of the Appala; chian plateau is promptly made; and with the change of structure comes an appropriate change of form.

Indisputably Charles was cruel, ungenerous and vindictive; yet he seems, at all hazards, strenuously to have endeavoured to do his duty during a period of political and religious transition, and, despite his violence and brutality, possessed many of the qualities of a wise and courageous statesman.

Porphyry marks the transition to a new phase of Neoplatonism, in which it becomes completely subservient to polytheism, and seeks before everything else to protect the Greek and Christianity.

It is celebrated because of the difficulties overcome on the precipitous eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre, the beauties of the mountain scenery through which it passes, and the rapid transition from the hot, humid coastal plain to the cool, arid plateau, 7924 ft.

In 1816 the Democrats won both state and national elections; and out of the transition from Federalist to Democratic control, which was effected under the leadership of William Plumer (1759-1850), a prominent politician in New Hampshire for half a century, a United States senator from 1802 to 1807 and governor of the state in1812-1813and 1816-1819, arose the famous Dartmouth College Case.

In his own view the turning points seem to have been - (1) the transition from Fichte's method to the more objective conception of nature - the advance, in other words, to Naturphilosophie; (2) the definite formulation of that which implicitly, as Schelling claims, was involved in the idea of Naturphilosophie, viz.

Thus transition was made possible from an agnatic society based on blood ties to one based on contiguity.

These great changes in the relation of land and water, and in topography, led to correspondingly great changes in life, and the combination marks the transition from the Mesozoic to the Cainozoic era.

This epoch of great deformation and warping marks the transition from the Tertiary to the Quaternary.

Along the transition belt between plains and prairies the climate is peculiarly trying as to rainfall; one series of five or ten years may have sufficient rainfall to enable the farmers to gather good crops; but the next series following may be so dry that the crops fail year after year.

Fauna.Differences of temperature have produced in North America seven transcontinental life-zones or areas characterized by relative uniformity of both fauna and flora; they are the Arctic, Hudsonian and Canadian, which are divisions of the Boreal Region; the Transition, Upper Austral and Lower Austral, which are divisions of the Austral Region, and the Tropical.

The Arctic, Hudsonian and Canadian enter the United States from the north and the Tropical from the south; but the greater part of the United States is occupied by the Transition, Upper Austral and Lower Austral, and each of these is divided into eastern and western subzones by differences in the amount of moisture.

The Transition zone, in which the extreme southern limit of several boreal species overlaps the extreme northern.

The Arid Transition life-zone comprises the western part of the Dakotas, north-eastern Montana, and irregular areas in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas, covering for the most part the eastern base of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains and the higher parts of the Great Basin and the plateaus.

The Pacific Coast Transition life-zone comprises the region between the Cascade and Coast ranges in Washington and Oregon, parts of northern California, and most of the California coast region from Cape Mendocino to Santa Barbara.

In the Alleghanian Transition zone the chestnut, walnut, oaks and hickories of the South are interspersed among the beech, birch, hemlock and sugar maple of the North.

The Pacific coast Transition zone is noted for its forests of giant conifers, principally Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, Pacific cedar and Western hemlock, Here, too, mosses and ferns grow in profusion, and the sadal (Gaultheria shailon), thimble berry (Rubus nootkamus), salmon berry (Rubus spectabilis) and devils club, (Fatsia horr-ida) are characteristic shrubs.

This deep metaphysical divergence was the prime cause of the transition from Platonism to Aristotelianism.

Here, too, he examined the hypothesis of Eudoxus that things are caused by mixture of forms, a hypothesis which formed a kind of transition to - his own later views, but failed to satisfy him on account of its diffi - culties.

Because, then, it is very like, but more rudimentary and more Platonic, we conclude that the Eudemian is an earlier draft of the Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle when he was still in process of transition from Plato's ethics to his own.

Agriculture in Georgia was in a state of transition at the beginning of the 10th century.

Porto Alegre, like many Brazilian cities, is in a transition stage, and handsome new structures of French and Italian styles rise from among the low, heavy and plain old buildings of Portuguese origin.

The present building was begun by Archbishop Roger (1154-81), and to this Transition period belong the transepts and portions of the choir.

The transition from the true relic to the hallowed object was especially common.

Green's Prolegomena to Ethics can see how awkward is the Hegelian transition from " one spiritual principle" to different men's individual freedom of choice between good and evil.

He facilitated this awkward transition by adding to Kant's a priori forms of space and time an " a priori form of alternative causality," or, as he also called it, " an intuition of causality involved in the elementary exercise of perception," which is the key to his whole philosophy.

On the whole it seems not unlikely that at the beginning of the Christian era the Teutonic peoples of the continent were in a state of transition from cognatic to agnatic organization.

While the hold of the popes on the States of the Church was constantly weakening, their power over the domestic policies of foreign governments was increasing; and the transition from autocracy to parliamentary rule accelerated this process, at least in non-Catholic territories.

The Tibetan race, which probably belongs to the Turko-Mongol stock, is divided between the nomadic tentdwelling Tibetans of the lake region and transition zone between it and the river region, and the settled sedentary population of the valleys.

Farther east the Takpa of Tawang in the eastern Assam Himalayas appears to form a transition between the central and the Sifan group of dialects on the Chinese frontier, which includes the Minyak, Sungpan, Lifan and Tochu dialects.

The old cult of sacred stones and trees by an easy transition became cross-worship, but a cross was not sacred until the Christ had been, by priestly prayer and invocation, transferred into it.

The transition to the latinized form Bertha and later to Perth (the Gaelic name being Pearl) appears obvious.

The church of St Mary, founded in 1111, retains the south door of the original building in the Transition style, but the greater portion of the structure is Perpendicular, of the time of Henry VIII.

The matter is complicated by the apogamous transition from gametophyte to sporophyte in the absence of the ascogonium; also by the fact that there are normally two fusions in the life-history as mentioned earlier.

There is thus in all the Basidiales an alternation of generations, obscured, however, by the apogamous transition from the gametophyte to sporophyte.

For in the latter case we possess, according to Hume, no standard of equivalence other than that supplied by immediate observation, and consequently transition from one premise to another by way of reasoning must be, in geometrical matters, a purely verbal process.

Real cognition, as Hume points out, implies transition from the present impression or feeling to something connected with it.

The ease and rapidity of the mental transition is the sole ground for the supposed necessity of the causal connexion between portions of experience.

We mistake the sub j ective transition resting upon custom or past experience for an objective connexion independent of special feelings.

A second law for these mutual transformations is that when they take place without loss of homogeneity, for example, in the liquid state, the definite transition point disappears and the change is gradual.

Recently Hermann Walther Nernst has been able to deduce the transitionpoint in the case of sulphur from the specific heat and the heat developed in the transition only.

Few areas of large extent in any part of the world are absolutely devoid of vegetation, and the transition from typical desert conditions is often very gradual and ill-defined.

But the exact period of transition is not clearly marked.

Away from the banks of the rivers, between the Euphrates and the Tigris and between the latter and the Persian mountains, are tribes of wandering Arabs, some of whom possess great herds of horses, sheep, goats, asses and camels, while in and by the marshes other tribes, in the transition stage from the nomadic to the settled life, own great herds of buffaloes.

Palaeoljthjc Transition Period (Solutr) More highly developed forms are found when the mammoth has succeeded the elephant.

The next division of Scandinavia shows a transition stage.

The social, religious and educational reforms of Maria Theresa also mark her reign as the true epoch of transition from medieval to modern conditions in Austria.

Between these two groups stand a number of other Meccan suras, which in every respect mark the transition from the first period to the third.

Paelignian and this group of inscriptions generally form a most important link in the chain of the Italic dialects, as without them the transition from Oscan to Umbrian would be completely lost.

The XIIth Dynasty is the central point of the Middile Kingdom, to which the decline of the Memphite and the rise of the Heracleopolite dynasty mark the transition, while the growth of Thebes under the XIth Dynasty is its true starting-point.

It was the crisis, in northern Europe, of the transition between the middle ages and our own.

He looked on the age in which he lived as a period of transition, to be followed either by an " eclipse of faith " or by a " revival of Christianity in a wider aspect," a " catholic, comprehensive, all-embracing Christianity " that " might yet overcome the world.

There are in some places vestiges of this primitive state of society still remaining; the transition to a limited or to a despotic monarchy may be traced by means of the ancient legends in some islands, and in others it is a matter of recent history.

In some of the islands this transition process has hardly yet developed into an absolute monarchy.

Climatic conditions in Ecuador are very largely contingent on altitude, and the transition from one climate to another is a matter of only a few hours' journey.

In 1889 he edited the Fabian Essays, to which he contributed "The Economic Basis of Socialism" and "The Transition to Social Democracy."

In three places, indeed, he has attempted to exhibit the transition to his own system from other levels of thought; but in none with much success.

The whole system of Telesio shows lacunae in argument, and ignorance of essential facts, but at the same time it is a forerunner of all subsequent empiricism, scientific and philosophical, and marks clearly the period of transition from authority and reason to experiment and individual responsibility.

Rhetorical sophistry, as taught by Gorgias with special reference to the requirements of the law courts, led by an easy transition to political sophistry.

Upon them rest the unfossiliferous strata known to Indian geologists as the Transition and Vindhyan series.

The Transition rocks are often violently folded and are frequently converted into schists.

The Transition rocks are of great but unknown age.

But long before the earliest Vindhyan rocks were laid down the Transition rocks had been altered and contorted.

The Vindhyan series is generally sharply marked off from older rocks; but in the Godavari valley there is no well-defined line between them and the Transition rocks.

The months of November and December form a transition period between the monsoon and the cold season.

The " Procyon " or calcium stars form a transition between Type I.

The flat axes are distinguished by the side stops and in some cases the transition from palstave to socketed axe can be seen.

He marks, indeed, a stage of transition from the older Platonizing philosophy to the later and more rigid scholasticism.

The legal theory as to these conditions was somewhat complex, because it had to take account of certain practical considerations and of a rather abrupt transition from a previous state of things based on different premises.

The sophists furthered the transition from dialectic to logic in two ways.

Bare or indeterminate being, for instance, the first of the determinations of Hegel's logic, as the being of that which is not anything determinate, of Kant's thing-in-itself, for example, positively understood, implicated at once the notion of not-being, which negates it, and is one with it, yet with a difference, so that we have the transition to determinate being, the transition being baptized as becoming.

The transition from judgment is not brought about by our subjective action.

In the zoology and botany of California as of the rest of the Pacific Coast, the distinctions between the upper austral and humid transition zones are largely obliterated; and as one passes southward into the arid lands, life forms of both these zones intermingle with those of the arid transition.

The humid transition belt is the habitat of California's magnificent forests.

Nut pine, juniper and true sage-brush (Artemisia tridentata) characterize the upper Sonoran, - although the latter grows equally in the transition zone.

The transition of the principal stock-raising industry from large herds of cattle to small, and the utilization of the ranges for sheep grazing almost exclusively covered a period of over twenty years preceding 1910, during which time many conflicts occurred between range cattle-owners and sheep flockmasters over the use of the grazing grounds.

These four elements show a great resemblance to one another in their general chemical behaviour, and in that of their compounds, whilst their physical properties show a gradual transition.

From this last, the transition to the doctrine of Heraclitus is easy.

Until the fourth decade of the 19th century all stratified rocks older than the Carboniferous had been grouped by geologists into a huge and indefinite "Transition Series."

Murchison naturally made the most of the fossils collected, and was soon able to show that the transition series could be recognized by them, just as younger formations had fossils peculiar to themselves; as he zealously worked on he followed the fossiliferous rocks further afield and continually lower in the series.

They regularly held office for a year; only in the transition period between the republic and the empire was their tenure of office sometimes limited to a few months.

In the small space of seven chapters he pursues all these lines and tries also to connect them together, at the same time preparing and sketching the great transition of the Gospel from Judaism to the Greek world.

Romer 1 this is exactly the variation which a poet would introduce to relieve the primitive ballad-like sameness of question and answer; and moreover it forms the transition to the lines about the Dioscuri by which the scene is so touchingly brought to a close.

On the one hand it denotes the transition from that period of history which we call the middle ages to that which we call modern.

On the other hand it implies those changes in the intellectual and moral attitude of the Western nations by which the transition was characterized.

It was therefore a period and a process of transition, fusion, preparation, tentative endeavour.

The Renaissance, if we try to regard it as a period, was essentially the transition from one historical stage to another.

The transition from the medieval to the modern order was now secured if not accomplished, and a Rubicon had been crossed from which no retrogression to the past was possible.

The Renaissance can, after all, be regarded only as a period of transition in which much of the good of the past was sacrificed while some of the evil was retained, and neither the bad nor the.

What is called Jacobean architecture marks indeed an Arts, interesting stage in the transition from the Gothic style.

The boreal embraces the highest mountain altitudes; the transition belts it on both sides of the continental divide; the upper Sonoran takes in about the eastern half of the plains region east of the mountains, and is represented further by two small valley penetrations from Utah.

So long as the religious motive remained dominant, "blue laws" were a prominent feature of the administration, but by a slow transition the economic motive became the dominant one, and, as a consequence of this transition and of the corporate form of government, European institutions were transformed into American institutions and new political ideas were generated more rapidly in New England than in either the Middle or the Southern colonies.

Again, origins attract the litterateur; he revels in describing the transition from the pre-religious to the religious era.

The transition has usually been effected ages before the higher religions come into view; but it has left innumerable traces in language and custom.

They are just at the point of transition from the ranks of spirits to the higher classes of the gods.

The transition may be effected in various ways.

The architecture is mixed, and the abbey is a beautiful example of the Norman and Transition styles.

The king retained, however, for a time several members of the ministry, but it was difficult to find a premier who would be able, during the transition from one system to another, to command sufficient authority to control the parties.

Of a rhyming family of Hjarne, it is enough to mention one member, Urban Hjarne (1641-1724), who introduced the new form of classical tragedy from France, in a species of transition from the masques of Stjernhjelm to the later regular rhymed dramas.

To some degree the flora of central Chile is of a transition character between the northern and southern zones.

Some democratic changes were made in the constitution, notably a law forbidding the re-election of a president, and the gradual and peaceful transition to a Liberal policy was a proof of the progress which the nation had made in political training.

The transition, moreover, to settled life and agriculture belongs to the Aryan period; and to it may be traced the peculiar sancitity of the cow in India and Persia.

The changes that occurred in magisterial functions are scarcely less remarkable than the transition from the parish constable to the organized police.

Bernardim Ribeiro, Christovam Falcao, Gil Vicente, and SA de Miranda, who represent the transition between the Spanish school of the i 5th and the Italian school of the 16th century, the members of which are called Os Quinhentistas.

The history of the modern drama begins with religious plays, followed at a later period by moralities, and thence, by an easy transition, by the farce.

This transition from the presentment of traditional types to the modern play can be traced in the works of Gil Vicente, the father of the Portuguese theatre.

Suppose that the transition from o to s is made in two equal steps, the thickness of the intermediate layer of density la being large compared to the range of the molecular forces, but small in comparison with the radius of curvature.

At each step the difference of capillary pressure is only one-quarter of that due to the sudden transition from o to a-, and thus altogether half the effect is lost by the interposition of the layer.

The BorealCanadian, Transition and Upper Sonoran embrace the highlands.

There are firs and spruces on the mountains, characteristic of the Boreal zone; pines characteristic of the Transition zone; pinon juniper, greasewood and the universally conspicuous sage-brush, characteristic of the Upper Sonoran zone.

The chief building in the town is the church of St Quirinus, a remarkably fine example of the transition from the Round to the Pointed style; and there are six other Roman Catholic churches, two Protestant churches and a gymnasium, which contains a collection of Roman antiquities.

The Franciscan church, with an elegant tower built in 1866, is an interesting example of the transition style of the 13th century, with later baroque additions.

Two distinct types of forest are recognized, with the usual transition zone between them.

On the other hand, if a gas be sufficiently cooled and compressed, it liquefies; this transition is treated theoretically in the article Condensation Of Gases, and experimentally in the article Liquid Gases.

The universe is in motion in every particle of every part; rock and metal merely a transition stage between crystallization and dissolution.

The contrasted districts are separated by an intermediate area, which softens the transition between them, and may be described separately.

In less highly integrated organisms, such as "cold-blooded" vertebrates, the point of death is less conspicuous, and when we carry our observations further down the scale of animal life, there ceases to be any salient phase in the slow transition from life to death.

The distribution of density is similar to that attending a desert mirage, but the transition is not so abrupt.

The community thereby suffers, but the land and fixed capital remain, and when the high government expenditure ceases individuals at once have the benefit, subject to possible disturbance at the moment of transition, when many persons employed by the state return to private employment.

By a natural transition the homage, at first paid to divine beings alone, came to be paid to monarchs.

From Alecsandri there is a natural transition to his great rival, who was also his superior in depth of thought and in mastery of form and language, the great poet of pessimism, Mihail E Eminescu (q.v.).

In recent times a kind of stagnation seems to have overtaken Rumania, and although attempts have been made to place the intellectual life of the nation on a sounder basis, the work of transition from the past to the present has hitherto absorbed more energy than appears necessary.

The transition is easy to Apollo as a warlike god; in fact, the earlier legends represent him as engaged in strife with Python, Tityus, the Cyclopes and the Aloidae.

On such grounds was justified the transition of a baptism which began as a spontaneous act of self-consecration into an opus operatum.

By his recognition of an apparent plurality supplementary to the real unity, he effected the transition from the " monism " or " henism " of the first physical succession to the " pluralism " of the second.

In reality there is a transition from a cardinal to an ordinal system, but to an ordinal system which does not agree with the original ordinal system from which the cardinal system was derived.

The transition is similar to that which arises in the case of geometrical measurement (§ 26), and it is an essential feature of all reasoning with regard to continuous quantity, such as we have to deal with in real life.

Between the latter two there is only the most gradual transition.

During the 15th century the transition, which marks the change from medieval to modern history, affects also the character of historical sources and historical writing.

Those of each jaw are placed in continuous series without intervals between them; and, although the anterior teeth are simple and single-rooted, and the posterior teeth complex and with several roots, the transition between the two kinds is gradual.

His principal work, Philologia sacra (1623), marks the transition from the earlier views on questions of biblical criticism to those of the school of Spener.

Upon these follow special methods of induction applicable to quantity, viz., the method of curves, the method of means, the method of least squares and the method of residues, and special methods depending on resemblance (to which the transition is made through the law of continuity), viz.

The nave (the West church), divided from the aisles by a double row of massive round pillars, is a transition between Romanesque and Gothic, with pointed windows.

On both sides of the great transition from being a Jewish to being a Gentile faith, Christianity, according to recent study, mani Enthus fested itself as " enthusiastic."

In social change he distinguishes between the transition and the perfection or achievement.

With regard to the transition he advocated the progressive abolition of the right of aubaine, by reducing interest, rent, &c. For the goal he professed only to give the general principles; he had no ready-made scheme, no utopia.

Regarding the social tendency as originally itself an instinct developed out of parental or filial affection, he seems to suggest that natural selection, which was the chief cause of its development in the earlier stages, may very probably influence the transition from purely tribal and social morality into morality in its later and more complex forms. But he admits that natural selection is not necessarily the only cause, and he refrains from identifying the fully developed morality of civilized nations with the " social instinct."

And more particularly the existence of the moral consciousness implies " the transition from mere want to consciousness of wanted object, from impulse to satisfy the want to effort for the realization of the wanted objects, implies the presence of the want to a subject which distinguishes itself from it."

In self-consciousness God is present as the basis of the unity of our nature in every transition from an act of knowledge to an act of will, and vice versa.

The transition period which follows the loosening of a people's faith in its old religion and before the authority of the new is universally accepted is always a time of confusion and relaxation of morals.

White arsenic exists in two crystalline forms (octahedral and prismatic) and one amorphous form; the octahedral form is produced by the rapid cooling of arsenic vapour, or by cooling a warm saturated solution in water, or by crystallization from hydrochloric acid, and also by the gradual transition of the amorphous variety, this last phenomenon being attended by the evolution of heat.

At the junction between the Trias and Lias are series of beds termed Rhaetics, which seem to mark a transition from one to the other.

But in all this it has been assumed that we are spectators of the objective semblance; it remains to make good this assumption, or, in other words, to show the possibility of knowledge; this is the problem of what Herbart terms Eidolology, and forms the transition from metaphysic to psychology.

In order to avoid the question of the measurements of the intensity in different media, it is convenient to suppose that the refracted stream emerges into a medium similar to the first by a transition so gradual that no light is lost by reflection.

But the result of taking these into account is far from being in accordance with the facts, and experiments of Lord Rayleigh and Paul Drude make it probable that we ought to assume that the transition from one medium to another, though taking place in a distance amounting to about one fiftieth of a wave-length, is gradual instead of abrupt.

The effect of such a transition-layer can easily be calculated, at least approximately; but it is of little use to take account of it except in the case of a theory of reflection that gives Fresnel's formulae as the result of an abrupt transition.

The fact that a poem of the 13th century (the Alexandro), and certain redactions of the oldest Spanish code, the Fuero Juzgo, have a Leonese origin has been made too much of, and has led to a tendency to localize excessively certain features common to the whole western zone where the transition takes place from Castilian to Gahician-Portuguese.

But a chartered company can never be anything but a transition stage of colonization; sooner or later the state must take the lead.

The change to this newer type of vegetation was no doubt less sudden than it appears as read from palaeobotanical records, but the transition period between the Palaeozoic type of vegetation and that which flourished in the Lower Mesozoic era, and continued to the close of the Wealden age, was probably characterized by rapid or almost sudden changes.

At a later stage - in postWealden days - it was the appearance of Angiosperms, probably in northern latitudes, that formed the chief motive power in accelerating the transition in the fades of plant-life from that which marked what we have called the Mesozoic floras, to the vegetation of the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.

It forms a perfectly gradual transition to the still newer Miocene period, the newer species slowly appearing and increasing in number.

Other evidences of the transition in agricultural life are that in Tolland and Windham counties the value of farm buildings exceeded that of farm land, that in Middlesex and Fairfield counties the acreage as well as the value of the farms declined, that native farm labour and ownership were being replaced by foreign labour and ownership; while dependent land tenure is insignificant, 87% of the farms being worked by their owners.

Representation in the lower house of the general assembly, by the constitution of 1818, was based on the townships, each township having two representatives, except townships created after 1818, which had only one each; this method constituted a serious evil when, in the transition from agriculture to manufacturing as the leading industry, the population became concentrated to a considerable degree in a few large cities, and the relative importance of the various townships was greatly changed.

The transition from the Cartesian movement to this second stage of modern thought had doubtless been natural and indeed necessary.

The laminated structure of shales, though partly due to successive very thin sheets of deposit, is certainly dependent also on the vertical pressure exerted by masses of superincumbent rock; it indicates a transition to the fissile character of clay slates.

This instrument shows a transition to the stereoscope, inasmuch as the scale or means of measurement is not directly observed, but to each eye a plane representation is offered, just as in the stereoscope; the space to be measured, on the other hand, is portrayed in exactly the same way as in the double telescope.

From Hyracotherium, which is closely related to the Eocene representatives of the ancestral stocks of the other three branches of the Perissodactyla, the transition is easy to Phenacodus, the representative of the common ancestor of all the Ungulata.

He made the transition from horse to wagon in one smooth movement.

Sofi watched him, her own transition from human to Oracle causing fresh pain.

Jule would remember the last Black God's transition, but Czerno had been the Black God since long before Damian's birth.

While he recalled little else of his time before the Schism, Jule couldn't help the nagging feeling he was missing something important about the transition between an old and new god.

Instead of helping his brother the White God navigate the transition, he walked the hills of Ireland alone, unable to remember why he'd decided to put only one station of Guardians in Ireland.

Another memory emerged, one that reminded him that long ago, he'd been assigned to ease Damian's transition to the White God, which was how he met Cassandra, a human, in the mortal realm.

An Original was released at the transition of a Black or White God in the mortal world to ensure the immortals didn't try to take over during the vulnerable period when a new God learned his powers.

If what you say is true, and I am an Original Being, I would've been released to ensure Damian's transition to the White God went over smoothly.

I don't remember much of anything, D, but from what I've gathered, I was an Original Being tasked to help you navigate the transition to Godhood.

The hope is that the Original Being will oversee the transition and make sure none of the immortal entities interfere.

It was the final stage of your transition into a demon.

I'm assuming the transition happened recently.

She didn't factor Gabriel's transition into Death into the equation.

Easy to use folding bedrail is perfect for children making the transition from cot to bed.

Japan should complete its transition to embedded biometrics in early 2006.

Rob was the guitarist with 1970s glam rockers Mud before making the transition to backroom boffin behind a large number of pop/dance hits.

The Internet bubble is finished, but the transition to informationalized capitalism continues.

To establish the viability of 18 as a ligand we reacted it with a range of transition metal carbonyl compounds with mixed results.

However, organocatalysis often has notable advantages over conventional transition metal catalysis often has notable advantages over conventional transition metal catalysis.

The new director of the Melville Lab, Wilhelm Huck, has made a gentle transition from supramolecular chemistry to nanochemistry in recent years.

We investigate aspects of the coordination chemistry of the transition metals.

The use of inverse phase gas chromatography to study the glass transition temperature of a powder surface.

A transition dipole moment function is included in the calculation.

The transition in interaural phase defining the Huggins pitch creates the discontinuity in the tracks around 600 Hz.

The transition matrices of periodic Markov chains have eigenvalues on the unit circle.

We are approaching the endgame of a long period of transition that began with the ceasefire of the early 1990s.

In the microcanonical ensemble the presence of a first-order phase transition is indicated by two maxima in the Landau entropy separated by a well.

There is a transition to less extreme conditions in the outer estuary.

Onto this week now and Darren Hayes has made the transition from band frontman to solo star with a degree of ease.

The Bank used the meetings to celebrate the fact that the transition to a functioning market economy has largely been achieved in Central Europe.

It was almost inevitable in the transition from feudalism to democracy that this intermediate ground should be traversed; and the peculiar Italian phrases, primo popolo, secondo popolo, terzo pa polo, and so forth, indicate successive changes, whereby the oligarchy passed from one stage to another in its progress toward absorption in democracy or tyranny.

Heraclitus conceives of the incessant process of flux in which all things are involved as consisting of two sides or moments - generation and decay - which are regarded as a confluence of opposite streams. In thus making transition or change, viewed as the identity of existence and non-existence, the leading idea of his system, Heraclitus anticipated in some measure Hegel's peculiar doctrine of evolution as a dialectic process.'

And as the hypothesis of " specific centres," thus formulated, was heterodox from the theological point of view, and unintelligible under its scientific aspect, it may be passed over without further notice, as a phase of transition from the creational to the evolutional hypothesis.

The main events in this transition appear to have been (I) disappearance of the central xylem of the protostele and replacement by pith, leading to the survival of a number of (mesarch) collateral bundles (see below) at the periphery of the stele; (2) passage from mesarchy to endarchy of these bundles correlated with a great increase in secondary thickening of the stele.

With the transition from water to land came the progressive development of the sporophyte which is the characteristic feature of the morphology of the Bryophyta and of all plants above them in the scale of life (see Bower, Origin of a Land-Flora).

The former of these two islands belongs to the Indian Region, the latter to the Australian, and between them there is absolutely no true transition - that is, no species are common to both which cannot be easily accounted for by the various accidents and migrations that in the course of time must have tended to mingle the productions of islands so close to one another.

Accordingly, when he denies the reality of Being, and declares Becoming, or eternal flux and change, to be the sole actuality, Heraclitus must be understood to enunciate not only the unreality of the abstract notion of being, except as the correlative of that of not-being, but also the physical doctrine that all phenomena are in a state of continuous transition from non-existence to existence, and vice versa, without either distinguishing these propositions or qualifying them by any reference to the relation of thought to experience.

The transition from the evolutionist criterion of survival - which in itself it is difficult to regard as anything but non-moral - to the criterion of happiness is effected by means of the psychological argument that pleasure promotes function and that living beings must, upon pain of extinction, sooner or later take pleasure in actions which are conducive to their survival.

In the progress of science and enlightenment it has no positive significance, except as a necessary transition which the race had to make in order to get rid of nature-religion, and that undervaluing of the spiritual life which formed an insuperable obstacle to the advance of human knowledge.

These were the inauguration of the rex sacrorum and the flamens, and that abjuration of hereditary worship (detestatio sacrorum) which was made by a man who passed from his clan (gens) either by an act of adrogation (see Roman Law and Adoption) or by transition from the patrician to the plebeian order.

In the Western Arid Transition zone the flora consists largely of the true sage brush (A rtemisia trident ata), but some tracts are covereci with forests of yellow or bull pine (Pinus ponderosa).

Ravaisson (see Ravaisson-Mollien), by his Rapport (prepared for the Exhibition of 1867) on philosophy in France, gave a fresh impulse to the transition from spiritual realism to idealism, by developing the Aristotelian g okecn s of matter and the Leibnitzian appetition of monads into " l'amour " as the very being of things.

St Peter's, indeed, is a monument of the history of art, not merely within these 120 years from the zenith of the Renaissance till the transition into Baroque - from Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, to Maderna and Berninibut down to the 19th century, in which Canova and Thorvaldsen erected there the last great papal monuments.

The precise mechanism of the process of setting of Portland cement is not known with certainty, but it is probably analogous to that of the setting of plaster of Paris, consisting in the dissolution of the compounds produced by hydration while they are in a more soluble form, their transition to a less soluble form, the consequent supersaturation of the solution, and the deposition of the surplus of the dissolved substance in crystals which interlock and form a coherent mass.

In Michelet's words, "le nouveau Messie est le roi"; and the monarchy alone seemed capable of guiding the state through the social and political anarchy which threatened all nations in their transition from medieval to modern organization.

Our knowledge of the extinct Filicales cannot be readily summarized, since it is in a transition state, owing to the recent evidence which has shown that many of the fern-like plants of the Palaeozoic period belonged to a group of seed-bearing plants derived from a filicineous ancestry.

The Lyginodendreae type of structure, however, appears to have formed the transition not only to the Cycadales, but also to the extinct family Cordaiteae, the characteristic Palaeozoic Gymnosperms (see p. 107).

While my days at Radcliffe were still in the future, they were encircled with a halo of romance, which they have lost; but in the transition from romantic to actual I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment.

Jay Z has made the seamless transition from hip hop and rap mogul to fashion without losing any of his credibility.

National launch of the Job Transition Service, which provides tailored help for communities facing large-scale redundancies.

Whether it is a temporary element, reflective of a society in transition, remains to be seen.

Instead of beginning the transition to a new regime, they reinforced existing boundaries.

This dataset was analyzed for the presence of opacity effects (resonant scattering) taking place in the star 's transition region.

E.g. if gas solubility goes down near the glass transition temperature then p !

The substratum of the soil is partially transition rock, and greywacke in all its various formations is prevalent.

See FAQ 's for further information on all our optional extras including transition lenses and sunglass tints.

Beryllium, unfortunately, is a toxic material, and increasing the Be fraction in the recipe actually depressed the superconductivity transition temperature.

Comparison of the transition states for folding of two Ig-like proteins from different superfamilies.

I then hope to create a fantastic, seamless transition taking the audience from the tempest at sea to Prospero on his island.

Respiratory related evoked potentials during the transition from alpha to theta EEG activity in Stage 1 NREM sleep.

Transition metal ions are often at the ' heart ' of many biological catalysts.

The conditioning temperature should not exceed the glass transition temperature of the resin system.

There will be a two year transition period where both schemes will run concurrently.

Finally, we discuss the impact of this approach on the signal of the transition matrix element between two- and four-quark states.

Leave arena at working trot Transition to extended trot.

See Margery Perham 's weasel words in Sir James Robertson 's ' Transition in Africa ', an apology for treachery and treason.

Some babies know when they need to sleep but may have a hard time making the transition by themselves.

Transitioning from staying at home to working again is an adjustment period for you and for your child, but the center's staff should be able to help you make this transition.

Remember that although it is difficult to leave her with somebody else in the first days, this transition process will not go on forever.

It's nice to be able to transition into darkness at bedtime, going from a lit room to a dimly lit one, and then to darkness.

Transition is the time in which you focus all of your attention on delivering your baby and coping with the contractions.

Placing your gentle baby into the arms of another caregiver while you spend the day at work is a difficult transition for all involved.

Because potty training can be a stressful time for parents and toddlers, many parents choose to help their children make the transition from diapers to training pants a gradual one.

Give your baby time to reach the milestone transition from bottle to cup.

Before your baby arrives, plan ahead and have all the newborn essentials you'll need to make the transition to parenthood go a little bit easier as both you and your baby adjust to life together.

A swaddling wrap can help your baby transition from the security of the womb into the often noisy and confusing world outside.

Toddler beds have gained favor among many parents over the last decade, chiefly because they ease a toddler's transition from a crib to a full-size bed.

If you plan to transition the room from a baby nursery to a toddler room, consider convertible cribs to make the change easier on your budget.

Discuss the choice of milk with your pediatrician in order to determine what type of milk to give your baby, and when to transition away from whole milk.

TastyBaby offers a wide selection of types of baby foods, from cereals to full meals, in several different consistencies so that your baby can transition into solid foods.

For those who have never worked with cloth diapers, all-in-one versions can be a nice transition.

For this reason, many parents choose to start with disposables and transition into cloth as their child dirties fewer diapers per day and stays one size for longer periods of time.

Choosing a toddler bed to follow the crib is a great way to ease the transition from crib to bed for your child.

After you purchase the new bed, you will need to transition your toddler into his new bed.

There are a few key designers that have successfully navigated the transition from ordinary lingerie into the nursing category.

Prepare the fish's tank before purchasing so the transition will be smooth and less stressful for your new friends.

As the shopping days transition from busy around Thanksgiving to extremely busy in the days approaching Christmas, give yourself more time to get to stores, find what you need and checkout.

Are you thinking about making the transition from a PC to an Apple computer and are having a tough time finding reputable online and offline dealers?

Since the digital transition, you can be assured that any TV you purchase will accept the digital signal and have the ability to display hi-definition.

If you do, transition your pet to the new food slowly by mixing gradually increasing amounts of Wellness with your usual brand.

It sounds as though Scout is going to transition sooner than BeBe.

What BeBe needs the most from you right now is to accept her where she is currently at in the transition, and just provide loving support.

I also suggest talking with your vet about your new kitty to make this a smooth and easy transition for the whole family.

There are a few things you can do to help both cats through the transition while they're working things out on their own.

There are several steps you can take to help ease this transition a bit.

More than likely, Phebe will adjust eventually, but if you can help ease this transition, it will be less traumatic for both cats and for you and your husband.

This may sound trivial, but if your cat isn't used to living with a dog, this is a major household change, and you need to make the transition as easy as possible.

You can make a smooth transition with a little planning and work.

If you have a shy cat that tends to be reclusive, you will need to do more preparation to ease the transition of sharing life with a new baby.

This way you will have a smoother transition when you bring home your new bundle of joy.

One way to increase the chances that your cat will use the flushable litter is to transition slowly to it.

Just be sure not to flush the cat litter during the transition process while there is still some clay litter mixed in.

There are a variety of cat products that can make the transition from outdoors to indoors more bearable for your pet.

To make the transition easier, consider having an isolated area where the kitten can be contained for the first week or two.

One thing that can ease the transition when relocating a cat to your home is to bring something along that is familiar and smells like the place she just left.

There is a way around this issue, although it can involve a long stretch of a transition period.

If your cat stops using the litter box during the course of the transition, you may need to add the new litter more slowly over a longer period of time.

When you first use the litter, you should transition your cat slowly.

Even though the litter will be cleaner, plan on keeping the litter box in the same location through the transition period.

The transition may take three to four weeks, depending upon your cat.

One of the best ways to ease the transition of bringing a new cat into your home is to familiarize each cat with the other's scent beforehand.

The transition between comprehension and fluency is gradual.

Each reading experience a child has makes the transition smoother.

Struggling readers can benefit from selecting subjects that interest them paired with guided reading activities that can help transition from determining meaning to comprehension and eventually to fluency.

College is an interesting transition time within a person's life.

If you fall into this category, your first step should be to transition into making daily purchases using a debit card or cash.

In the transition, Washington Mutual customers (which also include previous Providian customers) received information on how to make payments on their accounts.

Seeing a counselor can be a great way to seek support and guidance through this difficult time of transition.

Divorce advice for men can help you through this difficult time of transition.

While you may show the world that you are unaffected by this major life transition, you know deep down inside that it's hurting you.

Even the party who wanted the divorce in the first place often has trouble with the transition.

By finding the appropriate mental and emotional support for kids of divorce, parents ensure a smoother transition and less residual trauma.

Fluid hinge mechanisms in our recliners, loungers and sofas make the transition from sitting to sleeping effortless.

To assist in this transition, Duke Power offered a free light bulb program.

Color combinations should be complementary and, when choosing different colors for different rooms, make sure the transition between the rooms is easy on the eyes.

Sending your kids off to college or boarding school with a few personal touches can be a great way of easing the transition.

Expend it as a way to transition from daytime to evening.

Smoke your eye makeup for a quick transition from day to nighttime glamour.

Following the lead of Duff's own transition into adulthood, both her cosmetics line and the woman herself have successfully crossed over from being a focus of the tween set into being respected and revered in adulthood.

Whether your costume calls for a transition to overt glamour, extreme hideousness, edgy darkness or exceptional beauty, makeup can help you achieve a realistic look.

The 1970's was a time of transition and the 70's fashion and makeup of the decade really reflects that.

While most will argue that the 1960's was more tumultuous, it is true that the 1970's was more a transition, or a bridge to our current times.

If you've been reluctant to make the transition to paying your bills online, you aren't alone.

Because these programs are so expensive, many people do not make the transition over from traditional cut and paste methods.

The ski is lifted from the ground in the transition.

Here's some advice on how to navigate the transition, whether you're a student or a parent.

The middle school transition can be exciting, scary, fun and traumatic for both parents and children.

The transition from teens to young adults can be difficult for you and your parents.

Making the transition from a teen under your parents' roof to a young adult living on your own or in a college dorm can be very exciting and scary.

It's best not to make too many decisions all at once to smooth the transition, both for you and your parents.

College is designed to ease the transition from the schooling of your younger days to your new, independent life.

Once you feel comfortable with your transition into independence you can take the leap of getting your own apartment, getting that first real job out of college, even thinking about getting married and starting your own family.

Learning relaxation strategies will ensure a better transition into the responsibilities of the adult world.

On that same note, your middle school supply list will also transition away from the supply list of grade school.

Ack- the best-friend-into-boyfriend transition is always tricky.

When you get out of foster care, there are support services to help you transition, and if you haven't seen your mom in 5 years, it might be time to get reacquainted with her.

Additionally, establishing good study habits and grades now, will make the transition to high school easier (when your grades and academic record are reviewed by colleges).

Puberty is the term used to describe the period of rapid growth and sexual development that completes a child's transition to adulthood.

This is because puberty causes your body to produce different hormones that transition your body into adulthood along with the ability to build muscle mass.

Others will transition to staying home while going to a local college and working.