However, when facing changes that are still volatile, their attitude is much dependent on the nature of the changes.
What is most striking from this history is how fitful and accidental were the patterns of immigration, and how volatile the British attitudes, as they first reacted against new waves, and then came to terms with them.
He generally had a good command of the subjects he discussed, these experts said, but his messages featured a kind of smirking bad-boy attitude about volatile combinations and the mayhem that can result, rather than an angry or revolutionary perspective.
"How much longer?" T'Pol, not yet Archer's shipmate, replies haughtily, "Until you've proven you're ready... to look beyond your provincial attitudes and your volatile nature".
WASHINGTON — This year's campaign for president has provided an extended test of attitudes toward race and gender, two powerful and volatile forces in politics.
A volatile mixture of rapid social change, legal reforms, and traditional attitudes has created something approaching a crisis in Chinese marriage.
That attitude will keep the Knicks from having the type of volatile situation they had when Glen Rice bristled about coming off the bench behind Sprewell and Houston two years ago.
Pollsters are used to presidential approval ratings going up and down, but trust in government has been a much less volatile index and one that social scientists consider a more useful barometer of the public's attitude toward government.
Mr. Levine steered clear of Mr. Spector at first, put off by what he later recalled as "a little acerbic attitude," but Mr. Levine's calm, accommodating nature proved to be a perfect match for his volatile partner.
