Sentences with phrase «change culture»

«We decided if we wanted to change this culture, we had to go to a place where we had virtually no competition at the time,» Wong said.
The story highlights a major shift in how academic communities deal with sexual harassment, as they strive to change the culture at the institutional level.
As scientist parents become more visible at conferences, they, too, will help change the culture.
But I hope that by sharing how my children improve my research practice, I can help change the culture of research institutions.
Astorino, in a video, said he selected Moss, who is black, because he was another outsider who would help change the culture of Albany.
The Legislature and Governor have a duty to change the culture in which his criminal behavior was able to exist.
Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua) said in a statement that it is time to change the culture of Albany.
He says the four year extension of the tax cap represents billions of dollars in savings over the years, and he predicts it will change the culture — away from double digit speeding growth increases of earlier decades.
A campaign statement says in part, «We desperately need to change the culture in Washington and I want to wish John well in his next challenge.»
I really do think we need to be talking about how we can change a culture so more women will feel they can come forward,» she said.
The state was on track to increase education and Medicaid spending by 13 percent each this year before the new governor stepped in, and he called on the Legislature to «change the culture» of a state government that has grown used to spending more every year.
«We're doing the CEO search but my point is don't think a CEO is going to change the culture of the Port,» he said.
How many further legal actions, convictions and resignations of state legislators under such scandalous circumstances will it take to change the culture of government?
What we haven't had is the political will to change the culture of abusing ratepayers,» says the former Erie County Executive.
«My campaign has really been centered about quality of life, the issues that are plaguing the city and the fact that we're not getting the services we deserve as taxpayers but it's also been centered around the pay to play at City Hall and that there's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» she said on NY1's «Morning on 1» show Friday morning.
Otherwise, he makes only the vaguest pledges to «reconsider» spending programmes (unspecified, of course) and «change the culture of Whitehall».
«I'm trying to change the culture of corruption in Albany,» Friedrich said during an interview at his campaign headquarters on Union Turnpike in Glen Oaks.
Gipson has been a critic of business as usual in Albany, which has been engulfed in political corruption scandals; Cuomo critics say he has done too little to change the culture of New York politics.
«There's literally a «For Sale» sign at the gates and we need to change this culture,» Malliotakis, a state Assembly member, told NY1 early Friday.
If we get it right, we can change the culture so that our brilliant staff can be empowered to lead the world with new rehabilitation techniques and smarter ways of managing prisoners.
It's a call to change the culture and the mindset.»
A third party, committed to pluralism, but which can never share power, will always fail to change the culture of British politics.
The fleshed - out proposals are designed to change the culture of the council as well as its power structure, according to the reform team.
Jay Worona, general counsel for the New York State School Boards Association, says schools welcome both laws, and hope they help to change a culture that or too long did not react to bullying.
«We stand together to change the culture that demeans and belittles those who find themselves in these situations and to say loudly, no more.»
Ms. Nolan is the only woman in the race and could cull together a bloc of female legislators hungry to change the culture of sexual harassment that has plagued Albany.
Instead he thinks the attorney general has to lead efforts to change the culture of Albany and make fighting corruption his or her top priority.
Brodsky said he thinks focusing on prosecution will not «change the culture of Albany or affect the rate at which these crimes occur.»
Craft says the program seeks to change the culture that, knowingly or not, supports sexual assault.
How pathetic that the knuckle draggers are going after Obama for reneging on his pledge to «work with the presumtive Republican nominee» to change the culture regarding money and politics.
On Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo deliberately singled out the Success Academy in his remarks, saying the goal was to change the culture of the schools, even if that meant bucking the teachers» unions.
And their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbers.
«I know I'll only be one elected official up there, but I want to do what I can to change the culture — a culture that can take women for granted and oftentimes enables and tolerates sexual harassment.»
Pascoe Watson says Cameron has always wanted to change the culture of the country «so that when he steps aside, after 10 years in power, he's made a massive mark».
«Maybe the publicity - friendly strategy is also because Bharara suspects he won't have the facts to send anyone to jail — and that to truly change the culture of state government, punishment is less effective than embarrassment, anyway.»
It was an investigation that was supposed to leave no stone unturned and was designed to change the culture of corruption in Albany, NY.
«It will take someone in your position, with your vision for a stronger, more democratic and transparent New York to lead the effort to truly clean up state government and change the culture in Albany,» the letter states.
In order to change the culture of corruption which puts democracy up for auction, we need wholesale campaign finance reform, built around a system of small dollar matching funds, to hold elected accountable to their constituents.
In a jibe at what critics see as Mr Brown's control freakery, Mr Milburn calls on him to change the culture of Labour Party politics and to follow Barack Obama's lead by adopting an open, engaging politics «that favours dialogue over monologue».
«We need to change the culture in order to encourage tech transfer and commercialization of ideas across the board,» he told lawmakers.
«The real question is, will Cuomo, Silver and (Senate Republican leader Dean) Skelos do anything meaningful to change this culture
We have to change the mindset, we have to change the culture within our communities, and we have to start getting through to our young people and their thought process.
«He believes that to change politics, you have to first change the culture.
He says his job was to change the culture and systems in the paper - to «get it back on track».
I have put forward 290 recommendations to change this culture and make sure patients come first.»
What sorts of approaches do you think need to be taken to change this culture?
«If you want to fundamentally and dramatically change the culture of Albany, then you need to limit the amount of time our elected officials are in office,» Griffo said in a statement.
The NHS and the Government would do far better to concentrate not on the «warped behaviour of the public» as the report says, they would do far better to change the culture of «secrecy and closed ranks» within the medical profession, take the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells debacle as an example.
I'm determined to change the culture in Parliament to make Westminster a better place for everyone who works here.
If we can change the culture of how people communicate and make this an extra outside - the - party thing, political discourse will get better.»
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