But I am an elevator.

A convenience has become a burden.

Suddenly, the eurozone had become a straightjacket.

Some of the protests became violent.

China has become the workshop of the world.

And, under his rule, Turkey has become a regional power.

I always had poor vision but I actually turned blind after that incident.

Some camps turned into staging posts for armed factions.

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

Language, education, religion, and politics were transformed.

In other words, the low type roads have been converted into high type roads.

As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk.

Missile defense has become another bone of contention.

Instead, it has become a national growth strategy issue.

China is now a society rotten to the core.

Third, financial markets and financial firms have become a nexus of conflicts of interest that must be unwound.

Irrationality seems to have taken over.

Compounding the problem of party formation is personal rivalry.

As a result, our financial markets became a pyramid scheme.

The United States had become the world s consumer of last resort.

In the past few decades, Japan has become a sleeping tiger.

To write about factories, she worked the assembly line.

For Nasser, the war's coverage has turned into a battle zone . She says

The war of movement quickly turned into a war of position.

Whole villages and townships are heaps of rubble.

Meanwhile, the US, the world s sole economic hyper power until recently, remains a diminished giant. It stands humbled by its foreign policy blunders and a massive financial crisis.

Farce quickly turned to tragedy in the face of the dictator s rage.

Freedom of expression is becoming a caricature.

But Gaza has become the land that time and the wider international community forgot.

That is how the European Coal and Steel Community was gradually transformed into the EU.

Once the Great Recession began, this process operated in reverse, unwinding the excesses.

It is terrible and scary, Aleppo has become a horror city.

Cameroon turned to foreign aid, cut government spending, and privatised industries.

His mother converted, later in her life, to Christianity.

Such lakes turned into ice bodies of the aufeis type.

The printing process has moved away from the Asian countries to these cities.

They are major national assets that must be invested with attention to yield and risk.

Aid financed reconstruction turned Rotterdam into a commercial hub for Northern Europe.

Post Musharraf Pakistan is a rather fragile democracy.

Hamas, with the help of Iran, has been undergoing a process of Hezbollahization.

After more than three years, Thailand s crisis has become a knotty saga.

But, in reality, Syria has already become an enclave for extremism.

During this time, Zanzibar became the centre for the Arab slave trade.

Later in the century it was turned into a luxury hotel.

The visit went from incipient disaster to huge success overnight.