Sentence examples for major transition point from inspiring English sources

IN A recent speech to fellow graduates of Harvard University, Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's deputy prime minister, explained that his country was at a "major transition point".

Independent of the underlying mechanism, this coordinated expansion of gene families marks a major transition point in their evolution.

For example, Hoxa9, Hoxb9 and Hoxd9 appear to be important for alveolar development near midpregnancy, while Hoxd10 appears to be required at the next major transition point, the onset of lactation.

In wheat, a major transition point occurs at about 14 d after pollination, essentially marking the end of endosperm cell division and the start of grain-filling (i.e., deposition of starch and gluten proteins) in those cells [ 31, 40].

This study suggests that, in terms of frontal grey matter changes, a major transition point may occur in the course of affective illness between early attenuated syndromes and later discrete illness stages.

The branch leading to the plant pathogenic Phytophthora genus was identified as a major transition point characterized by increased frequency of duplication events that has likely driven the speciation within this genus.

The study identifies three major transition points associated with changes in broad development strategy and demonstrates how the adaptation of large numbers of actors to these contextual changes had a major impact on the performance of the health system.

Our phylogeny-based approach resulted in an overview of the fundamental evolutionary dynamics underlying major transition points in the evolution of pathogenic oomycetes and how these differences are reflected in the expansion and contraction pattern of distinct functional classes, such as transcription regulation or carbohydrate metabolism.

There was a major transition period.

As I suspected, Lion really does seem as if it's the beginning of a major transition from point & click to flick & swipe.

Adult tissues present as 'imaginal discs' tethered to the larval brain by nervous tissue will grow and develop, taking approximately four days at 25°C to reach the next major developmental transition point, depicted in figure 2. This late-stage pupa was imaged just prior to emergence of the adult fly from the cocoon.