In a recent report, Antonio Donato Nobre, a veteran climatologist with Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, warned that if just 40 percent of the Amazon region is deforested there could be an abrupt large-scale shift to grasslands, which could substantially alter global weather patterns "and cause a breakdown of the current climate system.
We had made an abrupt move from New York City to rural Connecticut in the wake of 9/11.
After record crops in 2012 and 2013, and an abrupt drop off in consumption, China has found itself with a huge corn stockpile.
The rise in e-sports has been so abrupt, many schools have not determined what to make of it.
My wife, you see, does not say much; she is short and abrupt in her manner; but she means well, for all that.
