If his authority holds, he could be on his way to metamorphosing from a militant firebrand into a sober statesman capable of bridging Iraq's divisions.
In its latest incarnation, it is metamorphosing (over many years) from an earnings-related pension to a flat-rate one.Faced with this tangled mess, the impulse is to urge root-and-branch simplification.
On NPR and the BBC, a crushing defeat for American liberalism is metamorphosing into a damn close-run thing.Warnings about Republican fragility are also coming from less predictable quarters.
The payment agent is a trusted local figure who has to be at least semi-literate, and is rewarded with 0.5% of the value of each transaction.The scheme is now metamorphosing into an online bank.
In Piscator's production of Sturm über Gottland ("Storm over Gothland"; 1927), which is set in the 14th century, a filmed prologue showed the major actors moving toward the camera, metamorphosing in the process from historically costumed characters to representations of modern historical figures; the protagonist, for example, turned into Lenin.
By metamorphosing into an active opponent of the Arab dictators, Erdogan reinforced the appeal of the "Turkish model".
In contrast, painted frogs lay 500 to 1,000 eggs in water, and their development is rapid, with tadpoles metamorphosing in three to eight weeks.
The young are released as ciliated larvae known collectively as veligers, which swim for several days before permanently attaching themselves to a site and metamorphosing.
Gradually, in the 1860s, the shape of the crinoline changed, metamorphosing into that of the rear bustle, which was fashionable in the 1870s and '80s.
In some mollusks (such as gastropods and bivalves), the trochophore develops into a second stage, the veliger, before metamorphosing to adult form.
Vikander is excellent as this devoted and fiery wife whose husband is disappearing in front of her, metamorphosing into a new personality.
