Sentences with phrase «catalyst for discussion»

Even when legal tech is not the right answer, it's the catalyst for discussion about change and improvement.

What they can be is a catalyst for discussion that resets the parameters of what is, and what is not, considered normal.

Wollheim used the term as a nuanced catalyst for discussion, but Minimalism's detractors found the reductionist term all too apt; the art critic and AbEx champion Clement Greenberg said, scathingly, that he hoped this new sculpture would learn «how to rise above Good Design.»

«Jokes are a catalyst for discussion,» Sutawijaya observes, because they help people deal with deeper issues.

Our goal is for students to take up the challenge of wrestling with ideas among themselves; the teacher serves as an initial catalyst for discussion.

According to Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, essential questions do not lead to a single answer but instead serve as a catalyst for discussion, require higher - order thinking skills such as inference and evaluation, and spark more questions (that lead to even more inquiry).

And how he is determined not to let his worthy film be defined by that case, lest it detract from his mission to use Turner's story as a catalyst for discussion on the turbulence between blacks and whites that has roiled major cities across the country this year.

Questions are the best catalyst for discussion and debate.

Your presentations will become a catalyst for discussion that leads to evaluating things from every angle.

Through talks, symposia, performances and other events, Herron's public programming offers encounters with world - renowned artists while serving as a catalyst for discussions about timely issues related to contemporary art and culture.

The CBA Legal Futures Initiative is pleased that our report has been a catalyst for discussions about the future of our profession taking place across the country.

Not exact matches

This 500 - page book's unifying theme, using Enlightened Power as a catalyst for public discussion and awareness, received more than 20 million media impressions (including NPR Marketplace, MSNBC, businessknowhow.com) and the Mavens & Moguls team propelled it to # 2 on Amazon's Leadership List through viral and guerrilla marketing techniques.

Drug laws have also fostered drug - related murders and an estimated 40 percent of all property crime in the U.S. Ethan A. Nadelmann, whose article «Drug Prohibition in the United States» in the September 1, 1989, issue of Science has been a major catalyst for public discussion of legalization, argues that «the greatest beneficiaries of the drug laws are organized and unorganized drug traffickers.

It is my hope, and that of the Dairy UK (NI) Board, which includes the Ulster Farmers» Union, that the report will act as a prompt to discussion, and a catalyst for action as our industry faces a challenging decade.»

«By putting out these ideas and showing that there is room for significant compromise, I hope that this proposal can serve as a catalyst for more productive discussions.

The presentation uses dramatic readings of ancient Greek plays as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the challenges faced by service members, veterans and their families.

Without a guiding philosophy, however, the picture's richer echoes are just rare moments of spark that, unexamined, manage to be unpleasantly provocative instead of catalysts for thoughtful discussion.

What ideas do you have for using those differences as catalysts to stimulate discussion and professional planning?

This instrument can be used as a catalyst for open discussions among library media specialist and their administration.

«That really was a catalyst for re-initiating the discussion,» says Baehr, «and that's how the merger was introduced to the community: We can do more together than we could independently.»

The presentation will consist of a public talk and exhibition of prototypes that will serve as catalyst for community discussion leading to one or more site - specific interventions.

In conjunction with Echo of the Unknown, Blaffer will collaborate with more than a dozen UH colleges and Houston institutions on the Blaffer Art Museum Innovation Series, an ambitious slate of lectures, gallery talks and panel discussions, enhancing the exhibition's role as a catalyst for cross-disciplinary learning.

Taking Michael H. Miller's post of images from the 1978 New Museum exhibition Bad Painting as a catalyst, Sharon Butler asks if the label should be revisited in a contemporary context with «some specific examples, because the changing nature of what we consider bad painting is a fascinating subject for a good discussion.

Over the course of a year, Bradford serves as a catalyst for community engagement projects and ongoing discussions, including connecting Bradford with Lindblom Math and Science Academy, as well as teenagers in Chicago Public Library's YOUMedia program.

What began as a dialogue regarding the undeniable aesthetic connections between John Wesley and the tradition of the Japanese erotic prints, morphed into the concept for an exhibition that would include a wide range of modern and contemporary artists as catalysts and / or touchstones for the very comparisons and contradictions that were under initial discussion.

In the new series, Pundyk seeks to create a role for painting as an integral part of performance or as catalyst for engagement and debate that goes beyond a discussion of the art works.

The primary site of the investigation is a working shrimp boat on Galveston Bay which serves as a catalyst for labor, discussion and artistic production.

Our Marianist values of leadership and service to humanity call upon us to act on these principles and serve as a catalyst for civil discussion and positive change that benefits our planet.»

Those horrific events have become a catalyst for important discussions about how to prepare for the worst case scenario.

It will provide a catalyst for open discussions around the role of men, the challenges facing men to take responsibility for themselves their families and their communities.

Couples have often commented that they find that the work they do outside of counseling to be catalyst for further discussion at home and during our sessions.