It's like in a movie where you do something abrupt with one production element to disguise a transition into another.
While the plunge was more abrupt with Patriot, comparable coal credits have also seen sharp declines amid historically low natural gas prices and a regulatory environment that is pushing a coal-to-gas transition.
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But all of that came to an abrupt end with the Japanese invasion in 1937.
Mrs Wilkinson said the carer could be "abrupt" with other members of staff but was hardworking.
In 2007, her season was brought to an abrupt halt with a badly twisted right knee in slalom training at the Are world championships.
The letters to his mother about life in the Royal Navy came to an abrupt halt with a telegram of his death on the HMS Royal Oak, torpedoed in Scapa Flow by the German submarine U-47 in October 1939.
Her instinct tells her to prepare, her hand making renewed, abrupt contact with the knife, even though two of the youths appear indifferent to her and are religiously chewing qaat and arguing, bansheelike, about yesterday's match between Arsenal and Manchester United, and agreeing that the referee made a balls-up of the game by unfairly red-carding the Gunners' captain.
In July, Netflix shocked their industry-low-cost-leader video customer base with an abrupt out-of-nowhere 60% price increase.
In sum, Netflix strike one in July was shocking customers with a 60% price increase and investors with an abrupt end to subscriber growth momentum.
It is important to mention that individuals that already have the flu who then become more ill during the duration of the illness, (difficulty breathing, or shortness of breath) need to seek medical attention immediately in an emergency department, as the risk of secondary pneumonia rises with an abrupt deterioration of your condition.
The final scene was disconcertingly businesslike, and the blissful closing theme in the violins, rendered without much of a crescendo and with an oddly abrupt fade at the end, came across as trivial.
The technology world is abuzz today with news of the abrupt departure of a key executive at Microsoft.
The other thing is all the macro figures are subsiding and we started this year with China doing an abrupt halt in the lending lasting the days of January.
That is no argument for human carelessness, environmentalists insist: species can adapt to almost anything over millions of years, but man's activities, such as scraping the ocean floor with nets, cause unbearably abrupt changes to ecosystems which are as delicate, complex and fragile as any Brazilian forest.
Yet it is a lot easier to cope with slow, inexorable change than the abrupt kind, especially if you get to watch other countries change first.
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Britain is calling for urgent action to prevent a Greece-style financial crisis in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, where recent political turmoil, a suspension of foreign aid, and an abrupt currency devaluation have conspired to leave the new government with a gaping hole in its budget.
While Pandit told a number of outlets that the decision to step down was his, the abrupt nature of his resignation led to speculation that dissatisfaction with his compensation, or board gripes with his handling of the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture, was at the heart of the matter.
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Creditors have been more patient with democratic governments than with other regimes, probably because the risk of abrupt changes of policy (like the repudiation of Tsarist debts by Russia in 1917) are reduced.
The Film Council this week was arguing with the Treasury for at least a transition, not abrupt change.
With the growing recognition that major natural events can have abrupt global impacts, this project is a timely opportunity to assess the sensitivity of modern society to extreme natural threats.
And I don't think anyone can say with confidence that we're safe from a large scale abrupt change in the North Atlantic.
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They drove to Firoza, to a private clinic there, run by a mere pharmacist, who nevertheless kept a huge clientele because of his abrupt and sure manner and his success at healing all the prevalent diseases with the same few medicines.
The abrupt attack on the welfare system triggered by the comedian's incident met with loud protest from welfare experts and people writing to newspapers and in the blogosphere.
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Too often, he thinks, his predecessors courted popularity with loose monetary and fiscal policies, only to be forced into abrupt reversals when inflation shot up and financial markets expressed disapproval.
Obama's solemn reflections at the memorial required an abrupt shift in tone by the president, whose morning in Dallas was filled with smiles, music and pageantry as he and the other four living presidents celebrated one of their own.
In an abrupt move, Rachida Dati, a former justice minister who fell out of favour with Mr Sarkozy, was deprived of the chauffeur-driven car she had hung on to despite leaving her job to become a member of the European Parliament.
In fact, in a session with reporters in Guatemala, Mr. Bush tried to bring things to an abrupt close.
"She was living with her parents before that, and no-one could have foreseen such an abrupt change in her behaviour, " Mr Farias told Clarin newspaper.
Those who can handle abrupt temperature changes can try the four room Nun Path, a variation of hot to cold with variations of humidity, a revival of a Roman regeneration treatment. (although only the most stalwart should attempt the Frigidarium.) And treatments span the globe, from hammam rituals to Thai and Ayurvedic.
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