What is "readjustment"

Usage examples of "readjustment".

These ancient Martians had been a highly cultivated and literary race, but during the vicissitudes of those trying centuries of readjustment to new conditions, not only did their advancement and production cease entirely, but practically all their archives, records, and literature were lost.

He decided to go ashore, but after a week on board the houseboat he felt uneager to leave it and make all the social and mental readjustments necessary, minimal though these would now be.

She used to wonder how the routine rhythms and quotidian readjustments of her new life could hold any interest for PrincePrince, who came home hot and tousled from the hard human action.

PSI Police Director all these years when he assured me readjustment did no permanent damage to these people, that they were reassimilated into society with ease.

There was something retributory in his fast lope, and a harder gleam lay behind that other gleam filling his wide-sighted eyes The rods and cones of his pupils had undergone more than spectroscopic readjustment they now vibrated with hate.

Exhausted he was, nerveless, weak, but this apathy was still invaded from time to time with fierce incursions of a spirit of unrest and revolt, reactions, momentary returns of the blind, undirected energy that at one time had prompted him to a vast desire to acquit himself of some terrible deed of readjustment, just what, he could not say, some terrifying martyrdom, some awe-inspiring immolation, consummate, incisive, conclusive.

We cannot condemn our fellowman for sinning when a slight readjustment of brain cells or a trivial chemical imbalance may reduce us to the same state.

These farmers on the other hand were beginning to be very much interested in a number of economic reforms which would vitally affect their welfare, such as the reduction and readjustment of the burden of taxation, the control of corporations in the interests of the people, the reduction and regulation of the cost of transporation, and an increase in the currency supply.

The clicks of his portable clock were really composed of three smaller clicks, signifying he supposed preparation, movement, and readjustment.

Kneaded to irresponsible pulp, half hypnotized by the perpetual flick and readjustment of the uneasy chudders that veiled their eyes, Kim slid ten thousand miles into slumber - thirty-six hours of it - sleep that soaked like rain after drought.

The readjustment periods were short and the economies quickly re-established a sound basis to resume expansion.

The world around Kahlan crashed back in a riot of sound and motion with the abrupt readjustment to the discontinuation of her intent.

Result, the bottom fell out of All-Steel, and there was a brief period of frantic readjustment, during which All-Steel yanked certain secret patents out into the open and utilized them, playing hell with Ffoulkes, whose Gatun Bond Issue was based on a law of supply and demand which was automatically revised by the new All-Steel patents.

The Profs remarks had colored her perspective, and she had not yet completed her readjustment.