Sean froze, instantly transforming from jolly swagman into chastened schoolboy.
Today, the courtyard has swung back to being a blend of geometry and nature, transforming from a functional protection from weather and foes to a space that's conducive to spending more time outside.
The indie game world has undergone a metamorphosis over the past few years, transforming from an often overlooked niche into as much a staple of the game industry as once-every-year blockbusters like the Call of Duty series.
Based on more than two decades of success in the information and communications industry, and with our own channel expertise, operational capabilities and global partner resources, Huawei Device is transforming from a company that sells millions of devices in single transactions to large businesses, to a "Business-to-People" (B2P) brand that also sells individual devices directly to millions of people.
He was the Oregon Symphony's music director from 1980 until 2003, transforming it from a small, part-time group into a full-time nationally recognized orchestra with 17 recordings.
But from where it is now, growing at that pace would mean China transforming itself from a country driven by exports, manufacturing and investment to one centred around domestic services and consumption.
But, clearly, Ebay has mixed feelings about transforming itself from a classified-ad host into a multimedia brand.
Their goal: transforming Instagram from a photo app for sharing pics of puppies and pizza into a media company that communicates through photos.
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Strategies like transforming schools from top to bottom by bringing in a new principal, and training teachers to use more effective techniques in the classroom.
In every issue, ReadyMade magazine offers readers a plethora of ways to save energy and do right by the planet, through reusing and transforming objects from everyday life.
Most of the online firms are now rapidly transforming themselves from low-cost trade-executors into electronic financial-service companies offering a full range of retail products, from share-trading to insurance.
Recent popular trend articles point out that some men are reacting to the economic downturn by auto-emasculating, transforming themselves from corporate lumberjacks into bizarre caricatures of 1950's housewives, baking, sewing, and homemaking.
The researchers say the toolmakers at Jebel Faya may have reached the Arabian Peninsula at a time when changes in the climate were transforming it from arid desert into a grassland habitat with lakes and rivers.
Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist credited with transforming Fiat from an obscure Italian car maker into a major force in the global automotive industry as well as other industries, was the firm's honorary chairman when he died.
However, the first year of office has seen the Lib Dems mature far faster than expected, transforming themselves from a group of individualists tending towards uncontrollable anarchy to a recognisably coherent and even purposeful parliamentary group.
Because of recent advances, it is becoming possible to imagine a time in the not-too-distant future when new medical treatments will be able to tame the disease, transforming it from a potent killer into something akin to a chronic complaint.
In the case of Apple, the decision as to what to do with its cash is tied up with a broader discussion about whether the company is transforming itself from being a growth stock - a highly innovative firm that reinvests its profits in expansion and new products - into a mature company with a stable business that pays a regular dividend.
With its commitment to social media, MLB is transforming its equity from a sport label to an entertainment brand.
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AIDS, transforming it overnight from a small group with a good idea to a powerful one with a lot of money to spend.
Creating such an exchange would also help accomplish another long-term conservative policy goal: transforming health insurance from a responsibility for employers to a responsibility for individuals.
Over the past five years, sales at Lear Corp, which is based near Detroit, have grown fivefold, transforming the firm from a manufacturer of car seats into a company that produces entire car interiors.
And the long-serving playmaker has been instrumental in transforming the club from a bottom division struggler to a team that is flying high in the Championship and is considered a contender for Premier League promotion.
Dell has been working for five years on transforming the firm from a mass maker of commodity PCs to an enterprise solutions provider (somewhat in the mold of Hewlett-Packard and IBM), and while the full transformation could take another five years, many signs of progress are already visible.
David Marshall, a vice president at the Greensboro Partnership, which was formed in 2005 from the merger of Greensboro Economic Development Alliance, Action Greensboro, and the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, says the Partnership has developed a strategic plan that focuses on transforming Greater Greensboro from a traditional manufacturing-based economy to a knowledge-based economy.
However, transforming the Tory image from selfish and mean to cuddly and green is not enough.
Typeahead search takes advantage of our methodical approach to transforming Forbes.com from a website into a publishing platform.
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Go to Wall Street and tell long, confusing stories about how you are transforming H-P from a low-margin to a high-margin business.
"We're transforming our research skills from reverse engineering to engineering, " says Barbhaiya.
Either these essential lessons are torn from context transforming Christ into favored worldly philosophers, or this man who changed history contradicted himself within the span of several sentences.
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Transforming the pedagogical focus from memorised learning to a teaching-learning model which centres on the educational achievement of the pupils and their families both inside and outside of school.
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