Sentence examples for precipitous shift from inspiring English sources

Researchers found Americans saw marijuana as less risky, and that the most precipitous shift in attitude happened around 2007.

He attributed the precipitous shift in part to the recession, adding that "the growing number of older non-Hispanic whites, which will accelerate rapidly as the baby boom ages, guarantees that non-Hispanic white natural decrease will be a significant part of the nation's demographic future".

The researchers discovered that, as community members had suspected, there had been a significant and precipitous shift in the sex ratio.

Similar precipitous shifts in community structure have been observed in other cases of nonnative predator removal.

The deleterious consequences of invasive species, from extinctions of natives (Simberloff 2008) and precipitous shifts in community structure to ecosystem 'meltdown' (Simberloff and Von Holle 1999; O'Dowd et al. 2003), are now widely appreciated.

The government struggled through paralyzing snowstorms, riots in Tibet, an earthquake in Sichuan and the abrupt shift from soaring growth to precipitous downturn and a 65% slide in stock prices.

It's far to the south, in Lower (slower) Delaware, the overwhelmingly rural region that, through its precipitous growth, has recently shifted Delaware's population center further from its Wilmington roots.

Precipitous technological advances and resulting cultural shifts have challenged traditional university pedagogy – defined by in-class transfer of information from instructor to student and disciplinary distinctiveness.

Their erotic charge has to do with the precipitous sense that the scene is about to shift.

Tagged had originally planned to go public itself before the shift to mobile led to a precipitous drop-off of its desktop properties.

To maintain the status quo from an era pre-internet-shopping, pre-retailing shift-work patterns and pre the precipitous decline in Church attendance makes ever less sense.