Conscious that Scotland's economic footing was now far weaker, Sturgeon said she would make no decision on staging a second referendum until next year's Holyrood elections and instead suggested the SNP was now in favour of gradually phasing in full fiscal independence within the UK over the next decade.
Seattle, the first big US city to pass a $15 minimum wage last year, began phasing in higher wages – in a planned decade-long transition – this month.
A "phasing out" of the current programme, announced by the government, could take many years, he added.
Finland, one of the insufferable overachievers of the education world, is now phasing out handwriting classes in favour of keyboard skills.
This resolution effectively calls on the group to set out a timeframe for a transition to becoming a non-carbon energy group, phasing out fossil fuels.
Phasing these out would be the equivalent of saving 100bn tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050, and could cut warming by a further 0.5C.
The EU opposed a key phrase in the draft agreement, which talked about "phasing out" agricultural-export subsidies.
They finally settled for "reductions with a view to phasing out".
That would allow small transactions to be kept completely private, while making life much trickier for all but the pettiest of criminals.Sources: "The cost of cash in the United States", by B Chakravorti & B Mazzotta, September 2013 Costs and benefits to phasing out paper currency", by Kenneth Rogoff.
All the candidate countries were still insisting that the EU's offer on phasing in subsidies to farmers was not generous enough.
Governments should encourage the building of nuclear power plants, phasing out the coal-fired types.
