Sentence examples for precipitous changes from inspiring English sources

Several senators invoked the chamber's traditional role as a brake on precipitous changes, to review deliberately in the face of demands for fast action.

That is somewhat more complicated in this case, because precipitous changes in the middle of a war could mean a loss of continuity and institutional knowledge.

Shakespeare is with us, too, and the warblers, and my mother, whose voice I can hear as I identify corydalis, a delicate yellow flowering plant that springs from the rocks, or as I worry, as she would, that precipitous changes in the weather will thwart the blooms.

There's no apparent thematic link to Bach – even the sense of Birtwistle's work as a set of variations is hard to discern; if the music's precipitous changes of mood and manner have any historical antecedents they would seem to be in Beethoven's late piano sonatas and final set of Bagatelles Hodgess emphasised that connection at the end of his recital by playing one of the Op 126 set as an encore).

He said: "My greatest fear is just that; that the Welsh government, that Welsh local government and the third sector will have to pick up the pieces, the casualties if you like, of these precipitous changes that are a complete re-moulding of the welfare state in terms of housing benefits".

Mice were observed daily for precipitous changes in health and tumor development.

The ancient proverb about the straw that broke the camel's back is meant as a lesson about the nature of precipitous change.

As justification, the administration made overheated claims that a precipitous change in wartime would have adverse effects on morale, good order, discipline and unit cohesion.

In this context the designations "revolutionary" and "reform" are often employed in a somewhat different sense than that described above, with the implication that a revolutionary movement advocates rapid, precipitous change while a reform movement works for slow, evolutionary change.

A precipitous change in the Syrian power equation might only benefit Al Qaeda.

Make the manufacturers liable; hold them accountable where they are guilty of wrongdoing in the same way every other American industry is treated; make it cost them money, and you will see a precipitous change in gun violence.