Sentences with phrase «rather than the status quo»

Rather than the status quo, the ATECH Foundation would like to use Winding Tree's platform, built on ethereum's public blockchain, to connect tourists directly with travel suppliers, in an effort to eliminate all the middlemen.

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Companies should look for «culture adds» rather than «culture fits» that perpetuate the status quo.

Rather than conforming to the status quo, make a conscious decision to abandon overdone and clichéd material.

«Rather than presenting people with tradeoffs, we should focus on making new products that are better than the status quo in every way,» says Kyle Vogt.

Rather than a threat, then, the rise of more intelligent machines represents an opportunity to disrupt the economic status quo through automation.

I was just thinking over the last couple of days that one's integrity speaks for itself and I would much rather be able to hold my head high knowing that I fought for what was right than to have given in to the status quo that harms.

We are moving toward the close of the 20th century with a religious community largely adjusted to the status quo — taillight behind other community agencies rather than a head light leading men to higher levels of justice...

In seeking to enable parish based ministries (rather than do ministry in the parish's behalf), we may end up managing and not leading, enablers of an uncreative status quo.

Semety, I think what David is saying is that we more apt to «fall in step» with the status quo rather than «stepping out».

Who would have imagined, fifty years ago, that much of American liberalism, rather than making the moral and political case for deposing a genocidal maniac, would find itself in de facto alliance with the status - quo forces in world politics?

Until recently, the dominant Catholic Church did little to condemn the greed of the ruling class; it opted for the peace and order of the status quo rather than for the justice and turmoil of social change.

I just wish we had a manager who wanted to strengthen the team rather than one who just wants to defend the status quo and make excuses.

Beal isn't exactly a closer and he wasn't laying well, Kieff wasn't playing well either, coach has to read to game flow better than that, rather than just relying on the status quo.

It illustrates that people are hungry for an alternative to the status quo where content is increasingly brought through computers rather than teachers, academic learning is being pushed down to younger and younger children, and the focus in the classroom is «teaching to the test.»

Implementation of the International Code into national level legislation provides opportunity to move towards comprehensive breastfeeding legislation that is pro-active in removing all obstacles; and holds social and economic actors accountable rather than the reactive status quo.

Voters are tired of corrupt politicians who'd rather line their own pockets than work for the tax payers and we're confident that the South Shore will reject Chris McGrath and the corrupt status quo on Tuesday.»

Politics should be about reform — making opportunity more equal rather than accepting a status quo that suits the establishment.

So, usually, the outcomes of local government elections are judged relative to the status quo, rather than in absolute terms.

Once the LD's «settled» for what the Tories were prepared to offer in the referendum, rather than a truly proportional system, ther eis little point splitting the vote: that only plays into the hands of those in favour of the status quo.

«If the Independence Party would rather choose a designee based on who has the deepest pockets or who is willing to sell out their principles to preserve the status quo rather than which candidate will bring real independence to Albany, then so be it.»

If anyone is not satisfied, they should write to the courts as an independent arbiter for an interpretation of «maintaining status quo»: rather than spread misinformation in the court of public opinion,»

The court has maintained that Status Quo be maintained (This includes BUA's current ownership of our mines in Edo State) but the management of Dangote Group Dangote, as has been their strategy in the past to other companies in competition with them, is still seeking to out - muscle competition through backdoor means rather than let the court decide.

A report by the education committee argued that the status quo creates pressures to «drive down quality», leading exam boards to compete on syllabus «accessibility» rather than syllabus strength.

Rather than being a «vigorous defender of the status quo», as Lawton states, the Salt Institute is very...

The idea that the fusion of technology and media may have revolutionary outcomes — primed this time round by politicians rather than proletarians — will alarm those who prefer the status quo: there have been calls for the new media titans to be regulated.

Given that despite the unprecedented joint statement by 11 national science academies, calls for the global treaty have been roundly ignored by the status quo, is it not time that climate scientists start discussing this requisite solution publicly, rather than just behind the politicians» closed doors?

Worse still, an inappropriate accountability partner might have conflicts with your success, secretly hoping that you maintain the status quo rather than achieving your full potential.

In other words, a «common sense» rooted in evidence rather than in the status quo.

It's always felt somewhat backwards to be, so I loved to be apart of Mary Kay and Tracy Reese's journey to really challenge the status quo and make a show for the many rather than the few.

But most action films do have something of a right wing perspective (especially the super hero genre) in that they are about re-inforcing rather than challenging the status quo.

She is always willing to embrace accountability for measured improvement rather than getting stuck in any status quo.»

Do you foster the importance of standing out rather than fitting in or just satisfying the status quo?

Done poorly, it could set the movement back ten years by propping up models that perpetuate and sustain the status quo rather than reimagining it, which would have significant negative ramifications.

These flexibilities can not be found in the statutory text, and in the absence of regulations, states may default back to the status quo and take the less risky path by hewing closely to the statute, rather than pushing for more creative solutions that work better in their local contexts.

Community Voice is committed to moving education forward rather than maintaining the status quo policies of the last ten years.

But rather than use substantial salary increases to drive groundbreaking reform, the de Blasio administration tinkered around the edges, by and large preserving the status quo.

Rather than reverting to a broken status quo, local families, school leaders, elected officials and community members came together to revitalize New Orleans» schools.

Frontier and Rickabaugh use an extended analogy of a traffic safety director trying (ineffectively) various reforms to improve road safety statistics to demonstrate how many reform efforts only maintain the status quo or bring transactional change (in which incentives drive change), rather than the transformational change many schools need.

And so, things like vouchers, which risk upsetting the funding of public education and otherwise look to upset the status quo of public schools, are perceived as threats to public education rather than as efforts by religions to get money.

Rather than whining about the loss of the status quo, I thought it would be interesting to help invent a new status quo and learn some things along the way.»

I think the problem that makes many authors frustrated is that the publishers don't nurture all creative types, and they have been so selective that they've put themselves in the position of people now having options rather than just accepting the status quo of an industry that failed to nurture their talent and passion.

«The Xperia Tab is intended to restore Sony's core values in the minds of consumers rather than change the tablet market status quo.

There's no single act as fundamental to Superman's whole deal as the destruction of Krypton, and to pin that on a single villain rather than some type of scientific mishap is a major status quo change.

Their industry relies on the status - quo and a demand for books that mirror what's selling today or yesterday, rather than writing something truly unique and in your own voice.

What about us pet parents, rescuers and animal advocates — could we be playing a role in condoning the status quo by being part of the problem rather than the solution?

*** «What does make it a failure is if they were unable to capitalise on the changes to the point where simply meeting the status - quo would have been a better game... and quite frankly from the review it doesn't sound like that» *** *** «I «am no fan of the series nor do I really care about the games, but I do care when a reviewer (especially from a site with influence) out - rightly pushes an agenda rather than seeing the game for what it is.»

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

«This painless integration into the cultural status quo is, moreover, the implicit objective of leading M.F.A. programs,» she claims, «which rather than developing «old fashioned» manual skills, teach budding artists how to thrive within this system.

Born in Osaka in 1935, Tetsumi Kudo was essential to the development of «anti-art» avant - garde art in Tokyo in the late 50s and early 60s that used store bought objects and found material in order to shock and revolt the status quo and to make art that would be defined by experience rather than medium, author, or commercial value.

Rather than canning feces as Manzoni did in 1961, his interpretation involves capturing smiles which metaphorically «refers to the «canned» cliché of the happy African American minstrel character whose expression is meant to reassure the dominant class / audience that all is well with the status quo.»