Sentences with phrase «forces driving changes»

Lawyers recognize profound changes to the legal market, but firms are largely sticking to their old business models — often showing a lack of understanding of the forces driving those changes, according to a study released this week.

Video reports explore the forces driving changes in fertility, the impact of access to family planning and one instance, in Machakos, Kenya, where rapid population growth did not come with social or environmental harms.

While this brief focuses on Act 10's impact on Wisconsin teachers based on the data available, the same forces driving changes in the teaching workforce can also affect the broader public sector.3 Proponents of Act 10 insisted that reducing collective bargaining rights for teachers would improve education by eliminating job protections such as tenure and seniority - based salary increases.

Mehta studies the political forces driving changes in American education policy and the consequences of these changes for practice.

The forces driving changes in global sea level are complex.

Recent shifts in regulations are one of the major forces driving changes in the the asset management industry in China.

While there is a near - consensus on the forces driving change, and how law firms might adapt to the new normal this change will bring, there are few recipes showing how best to implement the ideas, and fewer cases still of them actually being implemented.

But dealing with the forces driving change in law firms today and tomorrow will require leaders with abilities that law firms have not valued in the past.

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In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

In undertaking this task, the Bank needs to understand the forces driving structural change, and we are working hard on this.

The demographics are also changing: more than 400 million millennials have emerged as a driving force in consumer spending, while the country's aging population — expected to double over the next two decades — will generate new product and services demands.

Both the spirit and notion of social acceptability are major driving forces behind the sweeping changes to Quebec's environmental impact assessment and review regime that are set to come into effect this month.

Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new policy paradigms, I believe that recent events will force us to develop new approaches to thinking about economic fluctuations and inflation which will, in turn, drive major changes in thinking about fiscal and monetary policy.

Founded in May 2014, SFS seeks to «create synergies, join forces and to drive innovation, inspiration and change in the world's financial epicenter.»

But economists and professors cast doubt on whether tax policy changes were the driving force behind the move by a retailing giant that for years has stood as a lightning rod for criticism over low worker pay.

The shareholder activism behind things like the say - on - pay movement is the driving force for change within boards, experts say.

Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

S&P Global Platts examines the key forces driving commoditization in the LNG industry, and the actions industry stakeholders are taking to capture opportunities in the changing business landscape.

The driving force of From Enemy to Brother is a desire to correct or change patterns of Catholic thinking that continue to emphasize the universal salvific mediation of Christ and the Church.

b) the very creed (core beliefs) about which you complain was the driving force for those changes which you now celebrate in MLK and Wilberforce.

This driving force has changed our culture and its communication modes more during the last century and a half than in any other period in cultural history.

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

Huddle House, which is re-energizing itself at age 49 with menu optimization, leadership changes, and further initiatives, is refining the brand to remain a relevant driving force in the industry for decades to come.

Promoted since 2016 by the Basque Culinary Center (BCC) and the Basque Government, this prize underlines the strength of gastronomy as a driving force for change.

ONE of the nation's largest producers of Wagyu - infused beef is undergoing a radical restructure, driven by elevated commodity prices, changing market forces, and a belief some Wagyu beef production systems in Australia are unsustainable.

With much of the internet's information being peer - generated and reviewed, the strong sense of community that has been built online may be the main driving force behind the changes.

Tottenham's January signing Lucas Moura, given his first Premier League start as part of Pochettino's changes, later threatened with a powerful drive from distance, while Son Heung - min went closest to breaking the first - half deadlock with a low shot in stoppage time which forced a fine save from Albion keeper Mat Ryan.

Kids are a driving force; they have the power to change parents» food and exercise habits.

FTSE believed its collaborative approach with Nestlé would help force changes, but has actually resulted in driving standards down.

A recent government study into the impact of the changes found that 76 % of those affected have been forced to cut back on food, with thousands more claimants being driven into taking on payday loans.

By embracing a rather partial interpretation of the country's problems, this narrative strongly stresses Italy's virtuous conduct as an accountable member - State and a force able to drive change.

It seems to me that these claims, reducible to «the internet (or this internet tool) is a singular and powerful causal force that will affect change, and that change will be for the better,» are often driven by the posturing of publicity - seeking pundits and people looking for grants or business opportunities (see the first part of this story on the U.S. State Department)-- and the professional pessimists who live to challenge them.

Paterson quickly signed five pieces of legislation on his first day in office: to add the New York State Department of Labor to the New York City Transit Track Safety Task Force; to eliminate a law that discouraged employers from holding blood drives; to change the way in which members are appointed to a state health and research board; to restore eligibility caps to certain senior employment programs; and to grant tax exemptions to several local development corporations in New York State.

The driving force behind the call for increasing legislative pay, which hasn't changed since early 1999, has come from downstate lawmakers whose cost of living is considerably higher than that of their upstate counterparts.

; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

«The focus of my report on the next stage of NHS reform will be how we can enable local clinicians and patients to be the driving force of improvement and change in the NHS,» he added.

Bloomberg.com, the mayor cited the recent storm and the need to combat climate change as the driving force behind his decision to back Obama just days before voters head to the polls.

The driving force behind the change is not a coalition of liberal environmentalists, but rather a conservator leaning and minority party Assemblyman, Republican Jim Tedisco, who represents parts of Schenectady.

New neighbors who speak a different language are the driving force in major language change, Bender says.

While some green efforts in schools set out to change students» behaviors, students conserving electricity by turning off unused lights, for instance, is a positive consequence rather than the driving force of the Green Schools Energy Curriculum.

The new hi - res composite images change that, suggesting instead that prominences could be one of the driving forces for the solar wind, since to create the smoke rings, and other patterns in the corona, they must be creating much larger atmospheric disturbances than previously thought, with a much longer range.

Kirk used these post-Katrina shifts — driven by an outside natural disaster rather than internal forces such as rising poverty or gentrification — to see whether changes in the concentration of people just out of prison affected reincarceration rates.

Fire, however, was a driving force in land cover change.

Temperature - driven changes in the food web mean fish may lack food at this critical time, forcing them to fatten up for longer before reproducing.

Taking factors such as sea surface temperature, greenhouse gases and natural aerosol particles into consideration, the researchers determined that changes in the concentration of black carbon could be the primary driving force behind the observed alterations to the hydrological cycle in the region.

Harvard scientists are shedding new light on what drove those changes, and in a new study show that the dual pressures of increasing body weight and shrinking side toes prompted early horses» middle toes to become dramatically stronger and better able to resist forces.

«Changes in genes» regulation — not in the DNA sequence of genes themselves — were the driving force behind successful metastases in our experiments, and, as far as we know, this is the first genomewide experimental evidence for this phenomenon.»

«This trend is not seen during the industrial period, where Northern Hemisphere temperature changes, driven by humanmade forcings, precede variability in the marine environment.»

«Joining forces with science - driven organizations such as the U.S. Air Force and Gatorade will help us to deliver on a new class of wearable technology — one that provides quantitative information on sweat, with the potential to fundamentally change the way that people manage their hydration, health and performance,» Ghaffari said.