The critic's inky, pulpy native habitat, a sometimes mean and shabby place but a home all the same, is threatened, like so much else, by the blindingly rapid rise of digital media, which has already, in a little more than a decade, decisively transformed the world of print and may yet kill it off entirely.
With its suggestion of the demands of the world stage decisively transforming small-town life, Wyler's film is one of the summits of the liberal cinema.
The institute is one example of how Mr. Naidu has moved decisively to transform Hyderabad from the quiet administrative center of an agricultural state into a computer programming and pharmaceuticals hub that is trying to rival Bangalore, nearly 300 miles to the south.
The army warned that it would act decisively "to prevent Lebanon being transformed again into a place for a settling of regional scores, and to prevent the assassination of the martyr Wissam Hassan being used to assassinate a whole country".Many Lebanese privately agree with the March 14th leaders, who have accused Syria directly, and Hizbullah indirectly, of responsibility for the Beirut bombing.
Since taking the helm as CEO of DuPont in 2009, Kullman tirelessly championed the power of DuPont science and global market knowledge to transform industries, decisively positioning the company for its next generation of growth.
Among the many changes brought about by the government of Mr. Erdogan, a pious Muslim whose rule has transformed Turkey's economy but alienated the secular old guard, has been to decisively establish civilian control over a military that four times in the past 89 years has acted above the law to remove elected governments.
He recalls 25 coaches going from Glasgow's Central Mosque to the huge London march against the Iraq war, and how Salmond's opposition to the invasion decisively pulled him towards the SNP – before dispensing his account of why Scotland has been so radically transformed.
England's bowling strategy is built on control, however: decisively, perhaps by getting too caught up in the sledging battle – what should have been nothing but a peripheral sideshow yet transformed into a main event – they broke ranks.
Through the Young Hegelians, this impersonalist form of idealism was soon transformed into equally impersonalist forms of materialism, culminating in Marxism, which regards the essence of man as his true collectivity; impersonalist determinism, in the form of Communism, decisively determined twentieth-century political totalitarianism.
But let's be realistic: this amorphous thing called public opinion is very unlikely to swing so decisively over the next six months that it transforms the politics of Brexit.
One implication of Meehl's thesis is that a once popular "Ism", not having been decisively refuted, may restore some of its former prominence if it mutates or transforms itself so as to incorporate responses to criticisms.
