In talks at the time, Chinese officials said they were prepared to examine dramatic innovations like charging tuition and imposing some sort of education tax.

Strategic systems that are dramatic innovations will always be the ones that are written about in the literature.

Mr. Ward described the French method as a "dramatic innovation" that could affect the emerald market because of owners' interest in the stones' provenance.

During the 1940's, there were dramatic innovations in jazz.

It is also the product of - and showcase for - dramatic technological innovations that are transforming the ancient art and science of cartography.

This seed money has led to dramatic innovations that increase options for those living with hearing loss, as well as protecting those at risk.

The other dramatic innovation was "spectacle": plays that had little or no text, but which emphasized novel special effects.

Its candid and celebratory treatment of new freedoms for women, including sexual freedom, were dramatic innovations when they appeared.

But the skull, with its beak, represented a dramatic innovation.

With no dramatic innovations to reveal at their own unveiling ceremonies yesterday, the challengers argued that speed was all in the details.