That afternoon, though, when Mahon's father (Joe Kady) arrives, wounded and enraged, the situation shifts.
Many factors create the condom shortfall: little public discussion of the situation, shifting foreign aid priorities, laws that drive up prices, distribution problems in poor countries and religious opposition.
I won't be very original by saying that the moment the situation shifted from stagnation to change was the first official meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi and president Thein Sein in August 2011.
But with a great deal of difficult work with the parents, support from the grandparents and the family drug and alcohol court, gradually the situation shifted.
But with a great deal of difficult work with the parents, support from the grandparents, and the family drug and alcohol court, gradually the situation shifted.
On the seventh ballot the situation shifted drastically as anti-Blaine delegates began to coalesce around Hayes; by the time the balloting ended, Blaine's votes had risen to 351, but Hayes surpassed him at 384, a majority.
Nkurunziza ultimately won reelection at the end of July and as he was sworn into office for a third term the situation shifted to politically motivated violence, disappearances, and assassinations on both sides.
The physiological clearance of tissue granulocytes is normally silent, but can under certain situations shift to become a pro-inflammatory event.
Actions, situations, shifts in attention, simple physiological changes – any of these can and do create emotional revolutions.
Continuous and repeated exposure to arousal-provoking problem situations shifts the operational mode from an intentional mode to an automated mode.
