Sentences with phrase «alternative to the status quo in»

Coupled with what is being seen in Venezuela, it is clear that cryptocurrencies are becoming an increasingly viable alternative to the status quo in an uncertain world.

Not exact matches

I like to see people live in alternative ways and challenge 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.»

In order to give the electorate a clear choice, any referendum should be the choice between the status quo and a clear alternative.

Their campaign is connecting to the desire for an electoral alternative to the status quo — in order to fight around ecological questions, among many other issues.

As for the suggestion that people will vote for change, regardless of substance, in preference to the status quo, I refer you to the recent referendum on the alternative vote.

In this open challenge to the status quo, he promotes an alternative strategy he calls «natural security»: the idea that we can model our own strategies on the survival techniques of highly successful organisms.

Before the release dates were inevitably rearranged, the plan was to pit Never Say Never Again in direct competition with Octopussy at the multiplex — and yet, for something pitched as an alternative to the status quo, Never Say Never Again is a let - down in almost every respect.

Some assign responsibility for this disconnect to zealous reformers who are more interested in peddling their nostrums than in evaluating them, or to vested interests that aggressively protect the status quo instead of welcoming evidence about alternatives.

Yet, many alternative pieces of health - care legislation — ranging from minor tinkering with the status quo to a plan that would essentially result in socialized medicine — have been introduced.

The organizers rallied outside Pittsburgh Public School Headquarters in support of community schools as an alternative to the status quo of «poor education policies that destabilize our communities,» said parent Pamela Harbin.

While being careful to say that «providing more educational options isn't against public schools,» she repeated hailed alternatives to traditional school systems and bashed people who support them as people who care only about «systems» and not individual students, and are only interested in sustaining the «status quo.»

Offering a viable alternative to the German status quo in this segment is no easy feat, but Infiniti has pulled it off with the Q50.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.

Because it doesn't take that much to disrupt the status quo, and once the status quo is disrupted, you suddenly find powerful businesses and organizations who were once propping up fossil fuels are now increasingly invested in developing alternatives.

Obviously it has centuries of «existing use» as the «status quo» energy source, but — just as with any drug company — as more and more evidence of the potentially harmful effects of its product emerge, it would seem that the responsibility of the governing authorities is to impose the precautionary principle and insist that the producers of the substance «prove» that it is harmless (in relation to alternatives).

I came here to learn more about Judith Currey's insights to climate science, which seemed interesting, but instead I found a politically conservative, scientifically stale community stuck in the status quo and unwilling to consider an alternative future.

The alternatives are the status quo (which no one is advocating) or caving in to an irreversible blunder.