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Versace has given way to Chinese-style gowns, and her books have grown thinner as she runs out of things to say.

The gloom has given way to a fresh sense of opportunity and a renewed frenzy of deal making.

At this point, however, the acute crisis has given way to a much more insidious threat.

Sitting rooms are now statement rooms; small , perfunctory kitchens have given way to bright living areas hardly used for cooking .

It looks as though the financial crisis has now given way to the economic crisis that it caused.

Lau directs Tam to one of the clinic's four X-ray rooms, where traditional film X-rays have given way to digital radiography.

Public intellectuals such as Kenneth Galbraith argued that the age of the entrepreneur had given way to the age of the giant corporation.

In just two weeks, the elation of inauguration day has given way to a classic form of partisan hardball.

Over the last decade, Gorbachev's initial support for Putin has given way to increasingly outspoken criticism.

Now that spring has given way to summer, the White House has embarked on yet another campaign to hasten the voters' understanding.

This was true of all industries but especially retailing, in which stores the size of football fields have given way to even larger ones.

The heart-stirring language of revolution has given way to brisk business talks.

His American Century has given way to a Global Century, his all too heroic VIPs have been replaced all too often by CEOs.

Prices and demand growth has given way to the crazy prices of the slackening of a vicious circle.

People change their life style day by day, that urges much new to take place to be given way to the old one.

The big shift is in Poland, where go-it-alone policies have given way to enthusiasm for working with the neighbours.

For instance, in offices since the '90s, thick keyboards with stiff keys have given way to thinner, softer-touch versions.

Canals have given way to express ways, overpasses and flyovers , overflowing with pollution-causing cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles.

The flipper turn signals had finally given way to more conventional lights, but there was still no gas gauge.

Common in basketball's early years, it is now all but extinct, having given way to the harder-to-block jump shot.

Has the work ethic of the post-war Wirtschaftswunder given way to a culture of greed and corruption?

Terminals have given way to desktop workstations with graphical user interfaces and multimedia capabilities.

Among journalists and intellectuals, a brief interval of exhilaration had given way to depression and fear.

Below the object the violent movement in the cane had given way to a mere slight rustling.

Due to the efforts made by the two sides, conflicts have given way to cooperation.

Some of their decisions have stood the test of time; others have given way to new developments.

On the Thai island of Koh Samui, rustic charm has given way to sprawling hotels, live-music venues, French bakeries and beach discos.

Maoist notions of puritan equality have given way to eager contestants and booming television audiences.

Fears about unemployment have given way to concerns about labour shortages and spiralling wage demands.

In Spain (see article) and Ireland, where price gains rivalled Britain's, heady housing-market booms have given way to bust.

Conspicuous consumption has given way to conspicuous conservation.

Afrikaners knew they had to adapt, but now they feel the price is too high. Their guilt has given way to anger.

in the past few years , he says , a sandy bottom has given way to green gunk and his visitors refuse to swim in it anymore.

But in the global knowledge economy, such 'core' funding has often given way to more business-like relationships.

Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers have given way to baristas, waiters and floggers of tourist tat.

Long-term maxillomandibular immobilisation has given way to internal fixation and direct osteosynthesis.

Civilizations and cities have given way to small enclaves of huddled, desperate survivors.

The China of the cultural revolution has given way to the China of the shopping mall and the factory.

A misunderstanding of evolutionary theory has given way to the idea that humans came from modern-day primates.

Initial hilarity in the capitals of the countries so attacked has long given way to despair.

Moreover, wars between nations have increasingly given way to wars within nations.

All along China's frontiers, the hostile silence and suspicion of the past have given way to harmony and prosperity.

For decades, American manufacturing has given way to services (see chart).

Black and white television has given way to colour television in popularity.

Cages have given way to pillow-top beds, in some cases human-sized, and pet food is a very fancy feast.

The clean, clinical lines of cold war bipolarity have given way to something a lot messier.

But in recent years pragmatism has given way to more rigid loyalties.

But since 1949, these wars have increasingly given way to civil conflicts and few of the rules in the Conventions apply to them.

Cold war certainties have given way to an international climate that is mixed up, unpredictable, contrary, and quite corrupt.

IN GREECE ouzo and olives have given way to debt and downgrades.

Steam engines have given way to electric engines.

Hand stitching has given way to thermal bonding.

The barren land has given way to green vegetation.

Unbridled optimism has given way to fears over widening cracks in the Chinese economic miracle.

Now pessimism has given way to confidence.

The euphoria of victory in 1945 had long since given way to sullen resentment.

Talk of victory has given way to talk about how to limit a disaster.

By now optimism had given way to doubt.

Glass has given way to high-tech materials.

Last year's shocks have given way to a greater sense of stability in financial markets.

Grand words have given way to puny deeds.

In China, ancient human sacrifice has given way to modern tomb-tending ceremonies, but the dead still make demands.

And where they have given way to republicans, new dynasties, such as Syria's today and Libya's probably tomorrow, still hold sway.

In China, ancient human sacrifice has given way to tomb-tending ceremonies, but the dead still make demands.

So, why havethe old ways of business given way to the new?

The Tehran spring of ten years ago has now given way to a bleak political winter.

"The antique flash and trash of an older southern California have given way to a sleeker age of cultural hip" (Newsweek)

Media speculation about LeBron James' future has given way to the cold reality inside NBA war rooms

Wars over ideology have given way to wars over religious, ethnic, and tribal identity;

and my pride has given way to misery