This means that the width of each stage first decreases until a certain stage (referred to as the waist of the hourglass) and then gradually increases.
On the other hand, this could also mean that in future a minimum basket of health benefits may be defined by all countries on the national level, which could be harmonized on the EU level at a certain stage due to systems' competition as a result of increased cross-border flows.
"If you think about it, every company in the world once they get to a certain stage, they have to have an IT service desk.
This is a normal writing process for them, because they often "encounter a problem at a certain stage, we pass to another project, then we come back to the first script.
Later the term walī came to denote the Muslim mystics who had reached a certain stage of proximity to God, or those who had reached the highest mystical stages.
The bulge in the middle of the range got bigger, making the bell taller, so the middle class is growing even faster.At a certain stage it starts to boom.
Our work has implications for scholars of open innovation because it highlights the importance of considering failures as well successes: focusing exclusively on initiatives that reach a certain stage can lead to partial or erroneous conclusions about why some organizations engage external contributors while others fail.
But at a certain stage, you have to hold back.
In the longer term however, this may easily start to work against you because, at a certain stage, you will have to check things in order to really finish your work.
(Picture book; ages 5 to 10) At a certain stage, children migrate onward to googolplex and infinity, concepts so unfathomable they practically pulsate with magic.
