During the post industrial stage the family as an economic unit changed.The family transformed from being a unit of production to being a unit of consumption.

And it's transformed from being an ugly, unsafe, undesirable address, to becoming a beautiful, attractive, dignified sort of good address.

Seed is also transformed in this way from being a renewable regenerative resource into a non renewable resource and commodity.

When this happens, seed is transformed from being a common good into being the intellectual property of companies such as Monsanto, for which the corporation can claim limitless profits through royalty payments.

As free market thinking has taken hold and similar reforms have proliferated, the social welfare state is being transformed into a social welfare society.

Usually, it involves digital data being transformed into physical letter items at distributed print centres located as close as possible to the final delivery addresses.

Since then, Indonesia has transformed the government system from being highly centralized to a more decentralized one, allowing for more autonomy at local government level.

Education will be similarly transformed.

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Satanail was thus transformed into Satan.

I become the medium through which the music is being channeled, and in the process, when all is right, the music is transformed and so am I.

When this happens, seed is transformed from being a common good into being the intellectual property of companies such as Monsanto, for which the corporation can claim limitless profits through royalty payments. For farmers, this means deeper debt.

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India s social sector has also been transformed.

Over a long generation, England was transformed.

Language, education, religion, and politics were transformed.

Education has increasingly been transformed into a commodity system, in which the customers (formerly students) are kept happy with personalized curricula while being prepared for the job market (rather than being prepared to be responsible human beings and citizens).

That membership drive, however, has already transformed Turkey.

It transformed my children's behaviors, personalities, and academics.

Sami had his body transformed with gender reassignment surgery.

The Venezuelan term malandro has transformed in recent decades.

It has since been transformed into the Gaudí Museum.

That must be transformed into a substantial net inflow.

The country has been transformed profoundly in the recent decades.

First, Baghdad had been transformed into a Shiite dominated city.

Indeed, investment bankers transformed stock markets into a surreal circus.

Therefore, words and promises must be transformed into concrete actions.

Most Greeks are aware that the country needs to be radically transformed.

Sovereignty was shared and transformed in areas like trade and the environment.

Americans attitudes toward climate change have been transformed under the Obama administration.

The Gender Equality Department will be transformed into an Equal Opportunities Sector.

The integrated programme in Uganda had undoubtedly transformed the lives of many.

Lending, too, is being transformed by technology. Crowdsourced funding and peer to peer lending schemes give borrowers the opportunity to circumvent many of the hurdles of traditional banking including, in some cases, collateral requirements and credit ratings.

And as more of us move into cities, more of that natural world is being transformed into extraordinary landscapes like the one behind me it's soybean fields in Mato Grosso in Brazil in order to feed us.

Existing arrangements to establish business linkages between African and Asian entrepreneurs are being transformed into an electronic platform that empowers companies participating in the Africa Asia Business Forum to identify partners in either region via the Internet.

The Mission's proposed strategy has been sent to all UNOCI staff for comments, and is being transformed into a series of actions designed to enhance UNOCI capacity to prevent and address allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse.

If the current pattern is sustained, the global economy will be permanently transformed.

If Syria changed sides, the situation in the region would be fundamentally transformed.

In this transformed commercial context, work like Russ Meyer's gained a new legitimacy.

Nearly all of the energy input into the reaction is transformed into light.

And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

The Organization of African Unity was transformed into the African Union in 2002.

I went back and I transformed my entire company into a one buttock company.

Fast forward 50 years, and Bell and Watson's technology has completely transformed global communications.

Chávez transformed Venezuela according to a program that he called twenty first century socialism.