Sentences with phrase «glacial pace of change»

I would say that the glacial pace of change is due to ages old mistrust, ages old human nature and this issue needs to be addressed first and foremost.

While reasons for the Sequoia's lackluster sales are due to a number of things, one of them is the glacial pace of change — it's lack of continuous improvement — especially governing fuel economy, an issue that also plagues the Tundra.

He also grew tired of the glacial pace of change in academia.

For some, this represents a breath of fresh air after the glacial pace of change under Labour.

Not exact matches

While a handful of states have pressured colleges and universities to update their school leadership training programs, many institutions of higher education have moved at a glacial pace to make improvements or have introduced only cosmetic changes.

Without our use of fossil fuels, we should be descending into another glacial maximum — albeit slowly, over tens of thousands of years (the pace of natural global climate change in the Pleistocene).

In probing the fast - changing ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, Gordon Hamilton of the University of Maine exemplified the qualities in the rare breed of scientists, engineers and field staff willing to go to extremes — literally — to help clarify the pace at which seas will rise as warming glacial ice melts.

The pace of change is not glacial.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Coming as I do from a city where the bike lanes are narrow, full of holes and added at a glacial pace to to endless politics, being back in New York with my bike is a revelation, this city changes so quickly.

Given the natural conservatism of the legal market both in the UK and globally, when the leader of one of the UK's largest law firms describes the pace of change in the sector as «glacial» it's a definite sign that a dramatic move is long overdue.

These people can often see the need for change, but despair of the pace of change in many law firms, pointing out that the culture and consensual nature of partnership often make decisions glacial when they need to be made at the speed of the digital world we now live in.