Sentences with phrase «broad lack of understanding»

This, along with its volatility and a broad lack of understanding of the underlying technology, has caused traditional investors to shy away from this new asset class.

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The passage of Bill C - 377, part of the Harper government's broader attack on labour rights, speaks to the Conservatives» fundamental lack of understanding of the role of organized labour in ensuring shared prosperity and a thriving middle class.

It wasn't something I felt like revolting against — I understood how the broader academic system meant that it wasn't necessarily possible for me to get a permanent position — but I felt a lot of frustration and a deep lack of recognition.

A lack of faculty from other countries, especially those that are predominantly Muslim, along with students» lack of relationships with peers from those countries will prevent American students from developing broader understandings of the world, with important and worrisome consequences for our global world.

So when critics or advocates of the «charter movement» emerge, the broad brush betrays either a lack of understanding or deliberate red herring - ism, and in either case it stagnates us in a meaningless debate about something that does not exist.

One of the reasons the public has a hard time making science - based decisions, to my mind, is the lack of broad understanding that scientific research is not the process of revealing crystalline truths, but rather a journey toward understanding, with lots of bumps, false turns and rarely a final end point.

When non-fossil fuel companies understand the broad economic risk posed by the lack of climate action, they will become genuine and strong advocates demanding climate action — in their own self - interest.

Yet, despite advances in our understanding of productivity at the scales of leaves and stands, no consensus exists about the nature of productivity at the scale of the individual tree4, 5,6,7, in part because we lack a broad empirical assessment of whether rates of absolute tree mass growth (and thus carbon accumulation) decrease, remain constant, or increase as trees increase in size and age.

Champion managers realize that many of their B performers may be so focused on their individual responsibilities that they lack a broader understanding of their firm's strategic objectives.

[11a] They tend to be vested in protecting themselves, their paychecks, and their «behinds» as the first priority (contrary to the traditional definition of a «professional»)[11b], and they often appear to lack even a rudimentary understanding of why they are present, posturing as having a broad authority and expertise they do not have, coupled with fuzzy ideas about what they are supposed to be doing and their «role».