In New York, Mr. Adams's deputy, Martin McGuinness, said, "They will make their own decision, but if the I.R.A. respond positively, which I hope they will, there will be a responsibility on all of us who support the peace process in Ireland" to respond to the new and transformed situation.
Then there was the "biggest problem" — the Israeli occupation, never relaxed despite a transformed security situation; in fact intensified through settlement expansion, demolitions, evictions and military incursions even into areas nominally under Palestinian control.
My father, the art historian Peter Selz, wrote in Art Of Engagement that artists play an important role in changing social and political issues and that to transform situations, "We must change not only our industrial practices, but the way we view the world".
They exhibited leadership attributes that included: being visionary; effective in communicating; networking; being change agents; exhibiting courage and taking risks; being creative; working collaboratively, exercising political astuteness by lobbying; and transforming situations [ 10- 12].
For some people, however, their sense of reality becomes the only sense of reality and they believe that they can manipulate or magically transform situations to turn out the way they want them to be.
Forster, at work on "Howards End" during these years, considered a transformed version of the situation: his attractive, parentless Schlegel sisters and their ailing brother Tibby impetuously take up poor but aspiring Leonard Bast after a performance of Beethoven's C-Minor Symphony. C-Minor Symphony
I've since become much more aware of the color of light, the angle of light: how a shaft of light, or a particular tone of light, can utterly transform a situation and hence the resultant photograph.
On the morning of Sunday, May 1st, White House officials cancelled scheduled visits, ordered sandwich platters from Costco, and transformed the Situation Room into a war room.
It is not necessarily the case that a pan-Parliamentary agenda would have completely transformed the situation.
It transforms a situation into a moment.
And there would be times when the "credible threat of force" might be required to transform a situation or avert a crisis.
