Sentences with phrase «challenged the system on»

In a lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this month, a group of teachers who do not instruct math or English - but nonetheless are being evaluated on those scores - have challenged the system on constitutional grounds of due process and equal protection.

It's too early to say whether the museum, with its private - public partnership, can, even with its emphasis on access, successfully challenge the system on which it depends, or at least respond to critiques like those of Charles Desmarais to represent, better than the Fisher Collection, for example, women artists, artists of colour, and local artists.

Not exact matches

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

This means tapping into your support system to gain perspective on a challenging person.

The reasons are four-fold: structural changes in the American economy have triggered a long term downward trend in entrepreneurial activity; changes in the banking system have made small business credit more difficult to get; a post-recession shift in attitudes has made Americans less interested in striking out on their own; and a shift in government policies has made entrepreneurship more challenging to undertake.

Blachman says the site is working on adapting languages and currencies and fixing kinks on delivery systems to make sure inventory ships quickly and cheaply to customers around the world — «a difficult challenge,» he says.

And the NTSB has listed distracted driving — everything from cell phones to in - dash systems and other hands - free devices — on its 2014 «Most Wanted» list, which identifies the year's biggest transportation challenges.

Fortune spoke with 25 - year pharmaceutical vet Ramona Sequeira, president of Takeda's U.S. business unit since 2015, on the challenges of adapting an international pharma company to the U.S. healthcare and reimbursement system and the firm's America - centric business plans.

Yet, as I saw when I toured the factory of Amazon's North Reading, Mass. - based robot maker Kiva Systems, which it acquired in 2012, delivering on that premise is extremely challenging.

While these teams, along with larger companies such as Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are working on solving the technical issues of the hyperloop, other challenges exist ahead for the transportations system.

He led Torstar through the most challenging period in its history, then signed on to place the greater Toronto transit system on a solid footing as president of Metrolinx.

The biggest challenge, however, is getting developers to write apps for the new operating system that will run on BlackBerry 10.

Jeff Hurrle, VP and general manager for Sport Systems (No. 319), an Almonte, Ont. - based company that builds and installs sports equipment like bleachers and nets, knew he needed expert help to evaluate whether the brand's content was engaging enough, particularly because they target the B2B market, a notoriously challenging audience to engage on social media.

There's no time for deep analysis about whether a customer should be offered a discount at a certain time; the challenge is to employ new predictive technologies to push Reliance's systems beyond the point where they're «still relying on rules that had to be written by programmers,» to address specific situations.

The main challenges in developing this application was the integration with multiple systems, some of which were legacy systems; and the update frequency of the application, as products and promotions had to be created on the go, prices change on a continuous basis and new products are added every hour.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.

The April 2014 Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) assesses the challenging transitions that the global financial system is currently undergoing on the path to greater stability.

Description: The April 2014 Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) assesses the challenging transitions that the global financial system is currently undergoing on the path to greater stability.

As the franchise industry continues to face the challenges brought on by the great recession and tight credit markets those franchisors that achieve continued growth reflect sound franchise systems including these ten franchise opportunities.

I am proud that he was a Harvard undergraduate during my time on the faculty at Harvard and I think that the Bank of England is fortunate to have someone with his degree of experience in public policy and also experience as a participant directly in financial markets, at the helm at what will be a challenging time for the city of London and England and the global financial system.

It's challenging to make direct comparisons between extreme rainfall events since their weather systems (e.g., hurricanes, thunderstorms) behave differently, so scientists draw on several benchmarks depending on the situation.

MaRS Discovery District is pleased to announce the appointment of Joeri van den Steenhoven as director of the MaRS Solutions Lab, a new initiative designed to work on systems - level innovation challenges and opportunities.

Government response to the Eighteenth Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs Science and Technology, entitled: Challenge Ahead: Integrating robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing technologies into Canada's healthcare systems

But on the downside, Samsung faced challenges with its System LSI and Foundry businesses, as weak seasonality impacted the growth of those product lines.

But the optimism around supposedly objective algorithms has been challenged in recent years by evidence that some automated systems amplify bias because they're trained on data reflecting historical inequities.

This plan and system helps me keep things moving when life decides to dump extra challenges on me.

BitPay founder and CEO Stephen Pair, who was one of the earliest entrepreneurs to tackle a product that employs the bitcoin system, gave Hype his take on the future of bitcoin and cryptocurrency, how the debit card actually works, and how this growing Atlanta company is taking on the challenges.

While Canada's heavy oil producers are faced with the challenge of increasing rail volumes in the absence of a new export pipeline, they're also dealing with issues on an operational system into the U.S.

According to Entrepreneur, after evaluating approximately 10,000 U.S. based firms, the team of editors and researchers behind the E360 Performance Index collected more than 250 pieces of data from the finalists, focusing on growth drivers and challenges, goal setting, resource allocations, and reward systems.

The prophets, including Jesus, challenged the temple and its worship services, the sacrificial system to gain forgiveness, the priestly hierarchy to mediate God's grace, the separation of people based on nationality, gender, and wealth, and basically, everything that religion requires to hold itself together.

A global system based on national sovereignty allows states to challenge each other and achieve balances of power through coalitions.

The old paradigm of the world system built on nation - states to suit white peoples is inadequate to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

I'd challenge Mr. Latif's viewpoints and suggest that NY Muslims become a peaceful and faithful people by worshipping on their holidays irrespective of what the public school system says.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

As late arrivals on the historical scene, those systems enjoy the challenging and difficult advantage of building new social orders, rather than operating old ones.

This has a chilling effect on other journalists who consciously or unconsciously learn that it is acceptable to criticize this or that policy but it is never acceptable to challenge the system that gives rise to that policy.

Albert Winn's concluding remarks in his review of The Theology of Emil Brunner almost 25 years ago are still apropos: «Though Brunner's system may never become regnant, the great truths for which he has fought throughout a long lifetime will live on to challenge his successors and to be used by them in the theological constructions of the future.»

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Alice Rossi in her thoughtful article «A Biosocial Perspective on Parenting» (Daedalus, Spring 1977) presents a brilliant challenge to the prevailing sociological dualism that tends to discount physiological factors in social systems and relationships.

I read a lot of stuff on other religions and spirituality, but my own belief system is very complex and personal, challenging and ever - developing.

This sociological phenomenon contributes to our discord; it calls for new modes of linking and overlapping partial systems if we are to dialogue and collaborate effectively on today's (and tomorrow's) challenging issues.

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On the agenda, turning this into a movement, creating online Vegucated Challenges, launching a community website, providing more resources and turn - key solutions to make it easy for anyone to host a screening, and creating a worldwide vegan buddy system.

Consumer demand for fresh and local products will continue to challenge a distribution system based on consolidation, centralization, and long shelf life.

The Council for Partnerships on Rice Research in Asia (CORRA) was established in 1996 with the vision to enhance the effectiveness of the various partnership mechanisms between IRRI and its partners to meet the challenges of the global rice research system.

BARS will assist CSIRO to deliver on its commitment to increase food production in cropping and livestock systems, improve drought tolerance and disease resistance, and improve nutritional values to meet the challenges of the future.

Our System Integrator Programme is designed to educate and produce qualified partners who are able to help solve production challenges by advising on and delivering the best solution with the lowest amount of risk.

OAL's System Integrator program is designed to educate and produce qualified partners who can help solve production challenges by advising on and delivering the best solution with the lowest amount of risk.

The cons are the lectins and carbohydrate / protein combination that can be challenging on the digestive system.