1.   Rather than stopping change, it accelerated change.

2.   Revolutions only succeed in Britain if they pretend to be fondly restoring the past, not accelerating change.

3.   Human activities can cause or accelerate permanent changes in natural systems.

4.   Although the company has accelerated tenant changes in the past three years, J.C. Nichols is constantly reviewing its tenant base.

5.   And perhaps designers can accelerate social change by representing progressive attitudes in built form.

6.   As he said Monday, the world awaits an era of accelerating change in computers, with undreamed-of products in voice recognition, artificial intelligence and Internet commerce.

7.   As its own measure to quell market jitters, the government announced earlier that it would accelerate corporate changes by setting up guidelines for near-failing businesses.

8.   Accelerating the change was the rise of investor capitalism.

9.   He has said he hopes that such a sale would help accelerate change in an insular, antiquated banking system.

10.   In many places, the passage of the federal legislation last August did less to inaugurate a new era than to accelerate changes that had already begun.