Sentences with word «balkanization»

I preach Nigeria; Fani - Kayode can decide to be an agent of balkanization of the Nigerian project.

Yes, immigration policy is out of control; illegal immigration needs to be sharply stemmed, even if it can not be entirely stopped; and the effective assimilation of immigrants requires major changes in welfare and education policies in order to avoid the welfare dependency syndrome and the cultural balkanization of «multiculturalism.»

The forecasts of widespread innovation brought on by competition and of cultural balkanization by privatization will have to accommodate an empirical reality that is considerably more nuanced than vouchers» most ardent advocates and critics are currently willing to admit.

If we do not seize upon the promise of this moment through what we might call «the mutual conversation, consolation and correction of the brothers and sisters» (to rephrase Luther), we could be in for a period of theological Balkanization or Beirutization - armed camps firing away at each other from their places of epistemological privilege.

Berlusconi's party is bordering balkanization, coming today only third in the polls, after the Democratic Party and the populist Five Star Movement.

As we address ethical issues in emerging fields, ethicists, funders, and policy - makers should resist balkanization.

It is proof of «behavioural sink,» see: an intellectual's object examination of the disruption caused by the extreme balkanization of our current state.

The social balkanization created by government schools renders them both inefficient and thoroughly undemocratic.

But a general balkanization of standards and testing is not allowed, for good reason.

When conservatives criticized bilingual education and extreme multiculturalism for fracturing the nation's social cohesion, the union leader concurred, fought those programs, and argued that private school vouchers would promote even further balkanization.

And they note that, as long as states retain the authority to establish core aca - demic standards for all public schools, they have the opportunity to mitigate curricular balkanization, even in such fractious fields as social studies.

One need only witness the current balkanization of American society to wish for a single option that would suit all children.

There are, for instance, the basic questions applicable to all voucher and voucher - like policies concerning outcomes for students offered vouchers, competition effects, constitutional establishment clause (separate of church and state) issues, philosophical issues about liberty and choice, and societal issues about Balkanization and the role of public schooling in a democracy.

This ETF Balkanization defeats the important goal of achieving a broadly diversified portfolio economically.

It manifests more maddeningly in their weird Virtual Console balkanization where games that originated on a console will only ever be played on a console, despite current handhelds being more than up to the task of playing an SNES game...

These important concerns about clarity and balkanization notwithstanding, the central point is that, in determining the standard of review, the work was not done by the categorical approach, but by factors external to it.

The «balkanization of metropolitan areas» is a threat to community spirit as a whole, McKenzie says.

That balkanization is evident in the City of Vancouver's paltry economic development budget, which sits at about $ 2.7 million.

This balkanization of meaning continues as a professional habit of philosophers, and not only among those who dismiss the self.

One must walk warily here in view of the danger of the balkanization of a continent.

The low ratings are largely overblown, thanks to the new normal of DVR, online viewing and the balkanization of the current cable landscape — not to mention the current business model and success of the WWE Network, which has begun turning a legitimate profit in a very short amount of time.

There is no doubt in our minds that Ghana's duopolistic culture is gradually inching or gravitating towards a balkanization of political gangstarism if this encroachment of vigilante political gangstarism is not extirpated from the ever - sleeping paedomorphic body politic, Nkrumah's precious Ghana.

No wonder, separatists are speaking in a rich range of tongues, under the broad canopy of «restructuring» — secession, balkanization, disintegration, regionalization, greater autonomy for states, etc..

Instead we are likely to see a Balkanization of the rules that govern the global economy.

[Follow - on: Is it possible to find a message so broad that it can transcend the balkanization of our information - space?]

The irony is that this fragmentation — were the UK an Eastern European country we would call it Balkanization — comes after a resounding victory of UKIP in the European elections and a cliffhanger defeat of the Scottish referendum.

Schools, researchers, and policy makers will benefit by lessening the isolation and balkanization, and benefit from stronger ties between one another.

The accompanying risk is balkanization: discordant approaches to civic education as one school emphasizes Athenian values while another stresses those of Sparta.

What we see today is a counterproductive kind of balkanization: parents, teachers, administrators, policy makers, researchers and private funders are either pro-charter or pro-neighborhood schools.

Some have argued, for example, that vouchers lead to balkanization and to the funding of extremist schools.

Availability of titles, pricing (compared to paperback), DRM, and a balkanization of ebook platforms and devices all dampen adoption as well.

I have three different reader apps on my Android tablet because of the balkanization.

Her work, which focuses on topics related to inter-group relationships and balkanization, has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York and Istanbul.

As a classically - trained violinist and Icelandic woman living in New York City in the avant - garde days of the late 1960s, Steina initiated an utterly singular trajectory through art, technology, and video that she has maintained ever since, but her singular body of work has suffered from the Balkanization of the art world.

The balkanization of the law is even more serious than these examples suggest.

This balkanization contributes, in my opinion, to the very unsatisfactory state of Canadian law with respect to the concept of good faith.

Angela describes this development as a «revolution in publishing» that has created «the balkanization of the law», with counsel now tending to cite cases decided in the same subject area rather than to the cases that establish the general principles of contract law.

By the choice of language to describe these developments, it is clear that Angela doesn't approve of them, i.e. «balkanization of the law» and the «dissolution of the common law».

So it's almost like a balkanization of all the different jurisdictions.

Sam Glover: It's one of these things... You said «balkanization,» which is a really apt description.

What Web 3.0 seems to offer is a further development of exactly the tendencies that I have deplored, viz., the balkanization of the law and substitution of cases with the same facts for cases where the same principles might be engaged.

Scott Greenfield sees changing comment policies at BigBlawgs (Above the Law, Balkanization, Concurring Opinions, Volokh, SecularRight), sees a drop in comments at his blog, sees migration to Twitter for some commenters, and wraps it all together in The Lifecycle of Comments.

[Footnote 2/7] To them, the spectre of «Bureaucracy» is more frightening than «Balkanization.»

Given the almost infinite variety of the modern family, the result could be the Balkanization of the workplace as each employee established his or her own personal accommodation tailored to his or her own family situation.

Some people believe in this philosophy because of fear that judicial toleration of any state regulations of local phases of commerce will bring about what they call «Balkanization» of trade in the United States — trade barriers so high between the states that the stream of interstate commerce can not flow over them.

Basing profitability solely on revenues generated for work performed will inevitably result in the balkanization of the firm into the practice area silos most firms are working to eliminate.