Sentences with phrase «break with past practices»

In a break with past practices, the majority of the new small schools accepted students at all levels of academic proficiency and thus were open to those who would likely have attended the closed schools.

We need a break with past practices; we need to be moving to a mindset in which disposing of waste in the atmosphere is simply not seen as acceptable practice.

Khosrowshahi, who took the helm in August after former CEO Travis Kalanick was asked to step down amid a litany of regulatory problems, driver and consumer scandals and court cases, pledged to make a clean break with past practices that have lead to accusations of a toxic work culture.

At the same time, Cuomo has declined to release school aid runs — individual spending targets for school districts, which is a break with past practice.

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Since baptism was a common practice in nearly all religions of that time, and in nearly all cases it represented a break with the past and a new way of living for the future, when someone was baptized the friends and family members would ask what the baptism represented.

So such a result might put the Head of State in a difficult position — would she go with the seat split spat out by the first past the post system, or break with established practice and ask the popular vote winner?