Sentences with phrase «entrenched positions»

It helps explain why we often unnecessarily repeat mistakes and defend entrenched positions.

But if this knowledge is to be acted on, politicians and the public on both sides will need to abandon entrenched positions.

And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors.

The General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev. Dr. Opuni - Frimpong, is cautioning against parties taking entrenched positions in the ongoing debate on proposals for a new voters» register.

We all have different views, but I would ask people not to go into entrenched positions on this and to look at the evidence.»

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.

He cautioned against the tendency of the agencies and institution taking entrenched positions on initiatives and policies aimed making the ports more efficient.

Keith, your conclusion to the Yale article is «But precisely because of the way Easter Island's history has been interpreted and invested with powerful symbolic meaning, we may see this debate over scholarly evidence harden into entrenched positions, as has happened with aspects of the climate debate.

Pro-lifers are now seizing on the rare opportunity to dislodge entrenched positions in the abortion war, and push through new regulations and laws aimed at restricting access to abortion.

As a result, the U.K. has entrenched its position as Europe's biggest car market after Germany and ahead of France.

The two national officers are reported to have gone contrary to party rules, by taking entrenched positions against the suspension of the party's National Chairman Paul...

«There are people in very entrenched positions who will never be shifted, nor should they be.

He added: «This is actually an extraordinary opportunity to get things done where, perhaps where things are more formal, and people are in more entrenched positions, that's more difficult.»

The publisher had earlier entrenched its position in the academic book market by procuring the law book publisher, Hart, in September in an all cash deal worth # 6.4 million.

The lesson of World War I was that huge artillery barrages on entrenched positions achieve little.

Traders are doubling down on BTC while industry businesses and figures adopt increasingly entrenched positions for or against the hard fork.

Litigation often adds to the problems by creating entrenched positions, damaging or severing relationships, and imposing ineffective, unresponsive solutions.

As recognized by Musk, in perhaps the most important point in Tesla's statement: «Maybe [patents] were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors.»

If one or both partners chooses to discontinue the Collaborative Process, or refuses to budge from entrenched positions, at that point, all team professionals are obligated contractually to withdraw completely from the case and from supporting any other divorce proceeding for either partner.

The chancellor says this is necessary for the UK to move forward but how can it make economic sense to put the drivers of the UK economy at risk due to an ideological and entrenched position on deficit reduction.

Entrenched positions in pure, falsifiable science are difficult enough to overcome, but here we have something much more fundamental at work.

You're more likely to find agencies reheating the tired motifs of past ads — menacing foreign players, toothless goons being intimidating and hockey's entrenched position in the Canadian psyche — than agencies reimagining those themes.

All they would do is entrench the positions of the big players — the legacy media outlets in the case of ancillary copyright, and funnily enough Google in the case of the user - generated content proposals.

The firm has an entrenched position globally within the largest multinational firms, providing an end - to - end portfolio that helps enterprises» plan, build, manage, and maintain IT infrastructure, platforms, applications, and services.

Instead of neatly pushing readers to entrenched positions, scripture has a way of provoking new ways of thinking and unexpected insights.

Our own age, heir to these entrenched positions, has felt compelled to make a choice between science and religion, presuming that aligning ourselves with one entails rejecting the other.

Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina said the panel says it has developed «firm, fixed opinions» and «entrenched positions,» rendering it unable to return a verdict after 12 days of deliberations.

In light of signs that the military council will attempt to entrench its position in the new constitution, the article ends with the following thoughts:

It has no councillors in the seat and it struggled to compete with Labour's entrenched position.

Alternatively, entrenched positions could become more entrenched, and the status quo continues, though Trump has signaled that he really just wants to move forward and save as much face as he can.

I hope the chancellor can see the damage his entrenched position is having on the economy.

This was a lively, sometimes ill - tempered verbal contest with the two politicians remaining in entrenched positions.

He did so by moving us all on so that the entrenched positions with which many people entered the new party soon gave way to real discussion and new resolution.

There's a lot of eggs in the basket and a lot of entrenched positions.

Unfortunately, with a lot of these issues, you end up with entrenched positions, which advances nothing.

Perhaps most sinister of all is what MacInnes, and other status quo - ists, consider the cornerstone of their battle to maintain their entrenched positions of authority: poverty is destiny.

For instance, when losing an aggressive push, the player may choose to pull their troops back behind defensive structures, build the cannons, and defend, essentially putting a clock on the opponent where they are either forced to attack the entrenched position or suffer a loss.

Back to Baghdad takes players further into Kuwait as they try to neutralize scud missile installations, prevent the use of chemical weapons, free prisoners of war, and oust Hussein's Republican Guard from their entrenched position within Kuwait City.

Second, the entrenched position of these «warmists» as exhibited, for example, at RealClimate, has really left them in a defensive position.

Unfortunately, I fail to see that we are getting anywhere except deeper and deeper into your entrenched position — a stance that refuses to deal with new information.

What we see is two groups with entrenched positions: the mainstream scientists at CRU and other institutions and an assorted range of sceptics who have varying degrees of concern about the current received wisdom.

But both of these entrenched positions, stoked by an increasingly polarized political environment, are mostly unhelpful when it comes to significantly reducing the harm the next natural disasters will bring.

Intentionally or not, readers were misled, and the good name of the New Statesman has been used all over the internet by climate contrarians seeking to support their entrenched positions.