But things are also changing at a very rapid pace.

Israeli domestic preparations for the withdrawal continue at a rapid pace.

Travel booked online continues to grow at a more rapid pace than offline travel, beyond the purchase of airline tickets and including vacation packages and cruises.

Will the pace of change remain so rapid or even accelerate further? And how should companies respond?

The key to enabling continued convergence even at a fairly rapid pace is good political governance. Developing country governments must implement policies aimed at managing the impending transformation, while maintaining social solidarity and cohesion.

Innovation and invention were clearly the key to ensuring a rapid pace of industrialization in a highly competitive global arena.

Synthetic DNA, the ability to synthesize DNA, has changed at sort of the same pace that DNA sequencing has over the last decade or two, and is getting very rapid and very cheap.

At the same time, the pace of technological progress and globalization necessitates rapid structural changes in both developed and developing countries alike. Such changes can be traumatic, and markets often do not handle them well.

But this has progressed at an exponential pace.

However, rapid developments in technology in this field have raised medical, ethical and legal concerns, given that the supply of organs has not kept pace with demand.

Consideration of those two items is of increasing importance today, first and foremost because of the rapid pace of political, economic and cultural change and scientific advances.

They can watch it at their own time, at their own pace.

They can pause, repeat at their own pace, at their own time.

The things are coming out at a faster pace.

The share of manufacturing in India's GDP was increasing at a rapid pace, and a liberal foreign direct investment (FDI) policy and continuous rationalization and lowering of taxes and duties had made India an attractive destination both for domestic and foreign investors.

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time.

The judiciary is being gradually consolidated, albeit at a slow pace.

I'm amazed at his rapid progress in English.

Despite their declining incomes, households raised their spending in early 2012 at a rapid pace by cutting their saving rate to just 3.7 . Without further declines in the saving rate from this very low level, consumer spending will not continue to grow as robustly.

The rapid pace of urbanization and the growth of informal settlements and slums have created an urgent need for Governments to play a prominent role in designing and implementing sustainable sanitation systems.

Not all exceptional periods create their Bonapartes, and this is probably a good thing, for exceptional leaders may give the illusion that all problems have solutions, which is far from true. The natural course of history in the most optimistic sense is progress at the margin, but the rapid pace of technological change is pushing us to expect equally rapid progress in human affairs.

At the same time, China is undergoing rapid urbanization, with some 200 million people having left the agricultural sector in 2001 2008 to seek urban manufacturing jobs. More recently, however, the pace of migration has slowed substantially, with rural areas retaining 35 of China s total labor force.

One reason is that the expanding development and use of new information technology, notably cell phones and the Internet, shrinks the world and makes competition from abroad more plausible. In fact, new technologies are probably the most important reason why globalization is advancing at a rapid pace.

The dunes here move southward at a pace of around 600 meters a year.

Women usually staff lower levels and are promoted at a slower pace than men.

The overall literacy rate in Pakistan has been improving although at a slow pace.

Progress there has also been achieved at the pace expected of a State party.

By 2015 we would have had at least 250 million new cars even at the pace we're going at right now.

Skills mismatches abound. Moreover, with continuing rapid growth in developing countries, the global economy s structure is far from static, and it seems clear that the pace of market adjustment is lagging that of structural change.

We believe that the exceptional measures taken by the Security Council and by the General Assembly will help to maintain the rapid pace of the ICTY's work and the timely implementation of the completion strategy.

If they continue at this pace, there's absolutely no telling where they might wind up.

It's all hidden in this code, and it's starting to be understood at breakneck pace.

Real GDP growth continued at a modest pace in 2004 in the Pacific island economies.

Non core resources more than doubled, while core resources grew at a much slower pace.

Unfortunately, the IMF s rebalancing efforts are proceeding at a glacial pace. At the World Bank, nothing seems to be happening at all.

Pace yourself.

Vietnam, however, grew at an annual rate of 5.6 per capita between the onset of its economic reforms in 1988 and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the US in 1995, and has continued to grow at a rapid 4.5 pace since then. Vietnam witnessed a dramatic fall in poverty, while in Mexico real wages fell.

Nevertheless, the rapid pace of urbanization has strained the capacity of Governments to provide adequate services to urban dwellers and the number of persons living in slums has been rising, amounting to about 900 million today.

The increasing pace of subsistence farming and reconstruction activities caused by the ongoing mass returns of refugees and internally displaced persons has the potential for large scale and rapid degradation of forests, wildlife habitats and fertile farmland.

It's simply accelerating the pace at which the body heals itself to a clinically relevant timescale.

At the current pace, some regions and countries will miss several of the MDGs by decades.

The US and Japan might be among the last to face the wrath of the bond market vigilantes the dollar is the main global reserve currency, and foreign reserve accumulation mostly US government bills and bonds continues at a rapid pace. Japan is a net creditor and largely finances its debt domestically.

Differences in saving rates matter a lot, and must be a major reason that China s annual economic growth rate is now a full six percentage points higher than in the US. If people are saving half their income, their investments in capital have the potential to propel the economy at a rapid pace.

You say, Mr. President, that you will do it at a slightly slower pace, but I hope that it will only be slightly slower than the pace I have just suggested as being needed.

We haven't yet understood that we're going at a much faster pace than the planet can sustain.