Sentence examples for overdue transition from inspiring English sources

The Kremlin wants to revamp a top-heavy institution by sharply cutting the number of officers and carrying out a long overdue transition from a cumbersome military machine designed for a land war in Europe to a lithe force that would handle regional wars and terrorism.

He kicked off an overdue transition to an Internet consultancy in January and followed that with a $4 million ad campaign in June.

Most subtly, the land wars that we have fought in the Middle East have prevented a long overdue transition to a more naval-oriented force better suited to the Asian theater.

Sen. Murkowski's efforts to eliminate these protections and reject the long-overdue transition away from old-growth logging ignores our voices and our people.

"We are hopeful that, in the wake of today's announcement, all parties can now return to focus on the task at hand, which is bringing an end to the suffering of the Syrian people and beginning a process toward a long overdue political transition," said Jen Psaki, a State Department spokeswoman.

"We are hopeful that in the wake of today's announcement, all parties can now return to focus on the task at hand, which is bringing an end to the suffering of the Syrian people and beginning a process toward a long-overdue political transition," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday.

A well-funded, well-insured public-private partnership on a grand scale could fortify the world's settlements with better building codes and the like, apply efficient technologies to reduce the need for carbon-emitting energy supplies, and jump-start an overdue clean-energy transition.

The moves should reduce HP's divisions from close to 50 down to five--a long-overdue but costly transition, Jones said.

To assist the community with this transition, the overdue date will be extended for all project reports that are currently scheduled to become overdue between January 31 and April 30 , 2013

Some have said such a transition is overdue, given that each of the three temperate intervals that immediately preceded the current one lasted only about 10,000 years.

Some sort of transition was overdue," said author Polly Courtney, who returned to self-publishing last year after publishing three books with HarperCollins, because she was unhappy with the way they aimed her titles squarely at the chick lit market.