Sentences with phrase «changing entrenched»

Changing entrenched attitudes and behaviors is often an arduous endeavor.

But usage - based insurance offers promise as a solution that doesn't depend on changing entrenched government policy to get people to drive less.

Turning that need into opportunity is a matter of adjusting your focus and, often, changing some entrenched attitudes about middle school PTOs.

The Wallace Foundation (Kutash et al., 2010) emphasizes that professional learning «must be aimed at breaking established routines and norms, changing entrenched expectations, providing new instructional approaches, and creating and enforcing a school culture of high expectations for all students.»

And changing entrenched programmes such as Social Security is likely to face huge resistance from those who wish to maintain «traditional» values.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

But historically protests are less successful at changing entrenched opinions.

In 2005 Scott and a few other concerned citizens decided a more permanent way to change the entrenched status quo political system in the town was to form their own minor political party and win.

It's going to need that to change entrenched attitudes.»

Simmons believes a climate of inclusiveness for women and minorities, where differences are acknowledged and valued, can only occur once firms change the entrenched paradigm on delivery and individual contributions.

With understanding and awareness comes the freedom and capacity to make conscious choices and change entrenched patterns that are no longer working for you.»

It helps couples, families, and individuals change entrenched ways of relating and become better «differentiated» (more resilient and adaptable).

Not exact matches

«As the economic tides change, the Bay Area, with its entrenched tech workforce, is the perfect place to take the pulse of worker expectations and how they are shifting over time,» Woo CEO Liran Kotzer told the Business Times.

This will further entrench the on - demand economy in society, as large companies change the ways in which they conduct business, looking to on - demand providers for services that traditionally took place in - house.

Foot - dragging and empty promises from governments that claim to take climate change seriously are deeply entrenched habits across Canada.

My beliefs weren't so entrenched that I was not able to change my mind.

I think the dynamic at work here is that many Christians have the maturity level to recognize that most of these issues are based on deep seeded presuppositions, and that no amount of argumentation will changed the minds of those entrenched in their unbelief.

I think the dynamic at work here is that many non-believers have the maturity level to recognize that most of these issues are based on deep seeded presuppositions, and that no amount of argumentation will changed the minds of those entrenched in their belief.

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Under increasing intellectual attack, diminishing influence in most public policy areas, but solidly entrenched in educational establishment where there is slight prospect for change in near future.

Laity should be given permission to lead and minister; they shouldn't have to butt against parish bureaucracy and entrenched, change - resistant thinking.

Unfortunately, your comment is not likely going to change the mind of those individuals entrenched in religion.

This will only further entrench the «us vs. them» mentality and break down any potential the sort of meaningful, constructive dialog that actually leads to change.

Inevitably, the massive work of preparing for the council fell mainly to officials of the Roman Curia, who were uniformly entrenched traditionalists and designed a council that would produce none of the changes the pope hoped to see.

Empirically it has been demonstrated that changes in deeply entrenched attitudes and behavior, as are implied in religious conversion and growth, need the cathexis of the personal presence of one who is significant to the person concerned.

This extended time frame demonstrates just how complex it is to significantly change sourcing strategies because the impact encompasses real estate, assets, processes and P&L s that are firmly entrenched across the extended enterprise.

The reason for the change of heart, says Halloran, is partly because there are so many inspiring female winemakers in the valley who deserve promoting (and who she wants to hang out with), and partly because she's fed - up with the deeply entrenched boy's club mentality that persists in the industry.

Despite the disappointing results of the past decade it appears fans of Arsenal FC, including myself, are powerless when it comes to being able to force through desperately needed changes because of Arsene Wenger's entrenched position within the Arsenal FC hierarchy.

SNA may be too entrenched now to want to modify their position, and they've got different counsel, and it takes a lot to change positions once they're approved by the board.

But no matter how deeply entrenched your son's unsatisfactory behavior has become, his attitude and overall behavior can benefit and change from time spent at a therapeutic boarding school.

The idea that the state runs things terribly and private firms run things efficiently is so deeply entrenched in all three mainstream parties that we won't see a change anytime soon.

It was because she challenged so many entrenched ways of thinking from the perspective of the right, rather than thinking that change was the prerogative and entitlement of the left.

In local authorities elsewhere, where Labour has been in power for 25 years or more, the LibDems have (very properly IMO) challenged this as entrenched power and called for change.

Both Attlee and Thatcher realised that entrenching political change depends on converting your opponents.

Things like California's Proposition 13, which capped property tax rates statewide, can become so entrenched and intertwined with other policy decisions that it's difficult to change the property tax rate without overhauling the entire tax system.

These basic rights form the backbone of our democracy and we must ensure that they are secured and entrenched so that consecutive governments can not easily change them.

True reform in the United States will be found when the ballot access laws are changed to open the ballots to all parties, and gerrymandering is outlawed so entrenched politicians can be voted out of office.

Two big themes coming out of Tuesday's address are economic populism and a «new willingness to fight» entrenched conservative interests, said Adam Green of the Washington - based Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

The entrenched views of local parties, councillors, and council officials are often a barrier to even minor change; so change on this scale is always likely to meet opposition.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

Governor Aregbesola who described NLC as a veritable instrument to entrench good governance said the time has come for Nigerian workers to rally round the present administration in achieving positive change.

The «2/3 vote» does look like the kind of thing you'd see in an entrenched law (see, for example, amendments to the US Constitution), but in this case the 2/3 requirement has nothing to do with changing laws — it's to do with the House of Commons triggering a procedure under the law.

Yet there is no other globally recognized way of changing a bad system or entrenching a good one besides going through the ballot box.

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, announced he will retire after two terms, shocking colleagues, scrambling next year's election map, and causing a seismic change in the chamber's entrenched committee structure.

silver will have to be carried away in a stretcher.as long as he has an entrenched base of cranky old goats nothing will change.

«[T] hose who want to register their disappointment with Mr. Cuomo's record on changing the culture of Albany may well decide that the best way to do that is to vote for Ms. Teachout -LRB-...) that impulse could send a powerful message to the governor and the many other entrenched incumbents in Albany that a shake - up is overdue.»

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker will retire from the Senate after two terms, scrambling next year's election map and causing a seismic change in the Senate's entrenched committee structure.

In the end, nothing changed, as Spitzer was steamrolled by his own hubris, to the delight of Albany's entrenched powers - that - be — before vanishing into his personal septic tank of a sex scandal.

«By keeping with political tradition, this decision represents a lost opportunity to change business as usual and challenge the entrenched interests that dominate special elections.»

It added, «Public scrutiny is a prerequisite for changing harmful, entrenched practices.