Sentences with word «gradualist»

The standard of «affirmative consent» (the much - mocked gradualist approach of Antioch College), and renewed inquiries into how alcohol erases agency (and how a prospective partner can gauge inebriation), are not wrong, but they're a long way from being fully right.

This is just as the First Minister, the ultimate long - game gradualist, would wish it.

I think this is a prudent, cautious, gradualist move.»

And maybe I am irredeemably Fabian and gradualist by nature.

Davidson was a reforming, sensible member of the soft left in the parliamentary party, but managed to combine membership of the Tribune group with that of the more gradualist Fabian Society.

According to the opposing view, less frequent sampling of the bacterial population would have shown evolutionary growth more consonant with the traditional, gradualist conception.

Our usual gradualist extrapolations of the present state of affairs are more like dimmer switches.

«We are out of time for gradualist policy.

Robertson's gradualist approach implies it could take the rest of the decade to implement any extra further powers and also suggests the SNP will attempt to postpone a second independence referendum.

In June, he laid out both a defense of the Fed's gradualist path and a critique of those, including some of his competitors for the Fed's top job, who argued that the central bank had increased the risk of high inflation and other problems.

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Swiss government adopted a gradualist approach toward transitioning the country to renewable energy by 2050.

We expect that it will validate this gradualist approach in our Fed forecast.

He'd best prepare for a frightful year: Germany will likely continue its gradualist approach to combating the sovereign debt crisis — even if it means taking the rest of the continent to the brink and beyond.

Also, we do not see the rising likelihood of a March hike as a meaningful shift in the Fed's gradualist approach to tightening.

The Hippocratic Nature of the Child likewise held a gradualist view of the development of the fetus.

The absence of sudden qualitative leaps of matter from one kind to another (as depicted by geology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, embryology and other sciences) reinforces the gradualist hypothesis.

Although a gradualist in his determinations on fetal development, he criticizes the Hippocratic opinion, which denied that the fetus moves on its own and attributed the apparent motion to a swaying of the uterus.

Tradition is a guidepost, and it presses us to assume a gradualist attitude toward innovation.

He was not convinced that Darwin's innovative mechanism had been confirmed empirically; he felt that Darwin's gradualist approach was a mistake; and he revolted against the implications of evolution for ethics.

The CRC may adopt the gradualist pattern of the RCA, or it may be forced to follow the more authentically Reformed tradition of viewing the three offices as a unity that can not be broken.

Later, Salmond said the agreement marked a «significant step in Scotland's Home Rule journey», an interesting turn of phrase which summed up his gradualist approach to constitutional change.

The gradualist approach must be the only way, and it gets difficult to hold on tyo ideals sometimes.

Induction into ISIL can be immediate and random but in many cases, it is gradualist.

A gradualist Thatcherite?

Salmond has always been a gradualist.

If there had been a Labour government, it would have been much more suited to the gradualist argument.

I would say that everyone is a gradualist reformer on subjects they understand.

Yet there are alternative explanations, both cosmic and terrestrial, which MacLeod and others in the «gradualist» school believe...

The gradualist approach we recommend will maximize the resilience of the program and let NASA concentrate on solving the truly hard problems, such as radiation shielding.

In other words, the fossil record, to the gradualists, is simply incomplete.

If the process of speciation does take place, it could take a while — if the gradualists are correct.

For the part of the gradualists — who generally claim among their ranks Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory — the fossil record is simply incomplete.

In the gradualists» eyes, these transition members simply haven't been culled from the layers of silt and rock in the Earth yet.

In this provocative post, a university online learning insider throws cold water on the idea that there is still an opportunity for universities to get into the online game through a gradualist approach.

Ordinarily, because of the «gradualist» culture that has built up inside the Fed, I am reluctant to argue for loosenings other than 25 basis points.

Our many years of managing money convince us that this «gradualist approach» is unlikely to happen.

All metaphors break down somewhere, and the gradualist scenarios seem particularly likely to fail.

The principle thus went hand - in - glove with a prevailing «gradualist» approach to all things geological.

Their gradualist conclusion is echoed in broader research on jobs and technology.