1.   As the climate gradually became cooler and more moist, humans again moved in, usually following river valleys.

2.   The climate becomes more benign as we move nearer to the Black Sea.

3.   The climate is gradually becoming drier and warmer.

4.   The basic vulnerability of the peasantry was revealed when the economic climate became chillier, and for many families this period of prosperity was to prove short-lived.

5.   And several people familiar with talks said that the climate had become increasingly confused as attorneys general expressed differing viewpoints and varying interest groups vie for control.

6.   But when a climate becomes drier, more of those compounds are exposed to oxygen, Schindler said, which releases the acid, leading to pulses of acidity.

7.   He said the political climate would become so eccentric as to make the film accurate.

8.   The business climate has become treacherously unstable, and many leaders like Ms. Lu are party operatives with little experience or understanding of business.

9.   The business climate has become treacherously unstable, and many leaders are party operatives with little experience or understanding of business.

10.   The company said it will continue the suspension of a planned sale of American depositary receipts until its finances improve and the regulatory climate becomes clearer.