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Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.
George Gaylord Simpson /
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'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.
Robert Ben Garant / Screenwriter
Cops
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Originally
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Sketch
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
Eric Allin Cornell / Physicist
Teenage
Teenage Years
Youth
Youth Culture
Decade
Period
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We need a transitional Brexit deal that provides maximum certainty and stability. Labour will deliver it.
Keir Starmer / Barrister
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Labour
Maximum
Stability
Brexit
Deliver
Provides
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All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.
Neri Oxman / Designer
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Dynamic
Mixed
Mythical
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I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
James Balog / Photographer
Farmland
Jersey
New Jersey
Cultivated
Suburban
Surrounded
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People need to understand what a party is about. And you can't define a party by an issue which will go, which is transitional.
Ed Davey /
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People Will Understand
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There is very, very little chance of bespoke transitional arrangements being negotiated at the same time as the rest of Article 50.
Keir Starmer / Barrister
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Article
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The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
Margaret Heffernan / Writer
Bears
Belonging
Cell Phone
Cells
Comfort
Phones
Teddy
Toddler
Adult
Bear
Become
Cell
Phone
Object
Replacing
Sense
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As a dancer, you learn the importance of transitional moments. If you figure out what you can do next, that's how you don't get stuck.
Omarion / Singer-Songwriter
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QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.
Om Malik /
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Useful
Augmented
Augmented Reality
Codes
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Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.
Elvis Mitchell / Film Critic
Crucible
Racism
Revolutionary
Berry
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John Mccarthy /
Capitalism
Feudalism
Regard
Socialism
Stage
Backward
Brief
Countries
Historically
Necessary
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I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
Madeleine Albright / Former United States Secretary Of State
Jobs
College
Generations
Strange
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Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.
Lauren Mayberry /
Debut
Time Your Never
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We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.
John Anderson / Musician
Arrangements
Decent
Apply
Will Go Us
Principle
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Miley is one of my best friends, and she helps with some of that transitional stuff - trying to escape your childhood. She's super open-minded, and I'm working on becoming more like that.
Cody Simpson / Singer
Escape
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When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money.
David Ige /
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
Katey Sagal / Actress
Ends
Littles
Rooms
Life Change Time
Symbolized
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January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
Dana Rohrabacher / U.s. Representative
Democratic
Democratic Society
East
Historic
January
Middle East
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Next Step
Toward
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I'll be seen as eccentric, like Vic Reeves or Spike Milligan, which would be amazing. But I suppose I'm in this weird transitional period between having some success doing weird stuff and not being eccentric yet. I'm in limbo.
Noel Fielding / Comedian
Eccentric
Limbo
Spike
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The transitional period is tough. You can find yourself too old to play high school roles but too young to play the leading man. You have to be quite smart about how you present yourself. Your public image reflects your range.
Will Poulter / Actor
Public Image
Range
Leading Man
Reflects
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I always want to have time to experiment, and have transitional things, and have these weird non-songs, but usually the stuff I'm working on comes down to this weird deadline, where it just never happens, and it's kind of a bummer.
Aaron Dessner / Songwriter
Bummer
Deadline
Time Always Weird
Time Happens Always
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It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.
Sean Booth /
Curves
Involving
Lines
Shapes
Creates
Dictate
Piece
Third
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Failure
Balance
Driving
Entrepreneur
Inner Voice
Persistent
Staying
Successful
Voice
Waiting
Bump
Disguised
Entrepreneurs
Inner
Success Is
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By remaining inside a customs union and the single market in a transitional phase we would be certain that goods and services could continue to flow between the E.U. and the U.K. without tariffs, customs checks or additional red tape.
Keir Starmer / Barrister
Checks
Customs
Flow
Goods
Red Tape
Tape
Additional
Phase
Remaining
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Labour has repeatedly emphasised that in order to avoid a cliff edge for our economy there will need to be a time-limited transitional period between our exit from the E.U. and the new lasting relationship we build with our European partners.
Keir Starmer / Barrister
Exit
Lasting
Partners
Cliff
Edge
Repeatedly
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Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
George Gaylord Simpson /
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Species
Above
Appear
Nearly
Continuous
Genera
Gradual
Led
Suddenly
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I was honored to be part of the movement in the mid-2000s, and it was definitely a transitional period of women's wrestling because, you know, Lita and Trish were putting on incredible matches and main eventing even before I came up and debuted.
Mickie James / Professional Wrestler
Honored
Matches
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And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.
Michael N. Castle / Former Governor Of Delaware
Delaware
Fitting
Honor
Motto
Past
Reputation
Spread
Stories
University
Delaware State
Period
Insure
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There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.
Andrew Nikiforuk / Journalist
Arabia
Economy
Financial
Financial Resources
Oil
Regard
Saudi Arabia
Anything Else
Companies
Continent
Drain
Perspectives
Resource
Sands
Saudi
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Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Jane Ridley /
Adolescence
Battle
Twenties
Life Work Today
Emerged
Generational
Psychologists
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Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.
John Anderson / Musician
Adjustment
Assistance
Burden
Decent
Looks
Outcomes
Way
Work Look Way
Processes
Proper
Satisfactory
Sharing
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And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
Love Sex Me
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Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Imagination
Capacity
Consequence
Daydreaming
Discouraged
Actively
Among
Personally
Poorer
Remain
Sadly
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
Xavier Dolan / Actor
Costumes
Shopping
Lately
Mommy
Strata
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I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Song
White
Years
Male
Endlessly
Neil
Spoken
Sung
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The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.
Andrew O'hagan / Novelist
Aim
Middle Class
Waiting
Version
Habits
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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.
Wole Soyinka / Writer
Administration
Dictator
Disengagement
Military
Nigeria
Sadistic
Years
Date
Gen
Headed
Precisely
Promised
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Underwent
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Structurally, as is evident, the role of the 'Islamic Terror' is to fill the gap left by the disintegration of Stalinism. That is why Saddam's quasi-Stalinist Baathist regime was the perfect transitional object for the U.S. in the immediate years after the Cold War ended. Saddam was no more a Muslim than Stalin was a Christian.
Mark Fisher /
Cold War
Disintegration
Evident
Islamic
Saddam
Terror
Fill
Gap
Immediate
Muslim
Object
Regime
Stalin
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