Sentences with phrase «increasingly entrenched»

With consumers now increasingly entrenched in either the Apple or Google camp, and with device manufacturers dubious about partnering with Microsoft again, it was obvious that Windows 10 Mobile needed to be different.

Both would have benefited from more scrutiny early on but are now increasingly entrenched.

For most, the choice was relatively easy since even though Eastwood's output of late has been a bit on the uneven side, he has still made more than his share of stone - cold classics and his willingness to experiment at an age when most filmmakers become increasingly entrenched in the tried - and - true, even when those experiments end up going sideways, promised something more interesting than the wooden acting and tepid stabs at «kink» that have distinguished the «Fifty Shades» films so far.

Four - party politics is increasingly entrenched in English politics (as in Scottish and Welsh politics, only they have a different four parties), and that makes it harder for any of them to win outright.

The past two decades of Chinese growth have disproportionately benefited a small elite that has become increasingly entrenched; the next stage must focus on liberal reforms to build social capital more broadly.

Cyberbullying has become increasingly entrenched in global life.

Not exact matches

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Liam Burns, National Union of Students (NUS) president said: «Ministers» claims that their proposals will put power in the hands of students have been shown to be spurious and it is increasingly clear that the course they are pursuing will actually restrict access to university for disadvantaged students, entrench existing social divides, and cost far more than expected.

But he was unable to shift the increasingly popular Burnham (of which more later), and the entrenched Cooper, so he took other action.

Mutations became «entrenched» and increasingly difficult to revert as time went on without having a destabilizing effect on the protein.

The study's findings will help explicate the tensions that arise for countries with entrenched histories of racial conflict, as they navigate post - / neo-colonial relations, re-invent their educational missions in response to new mandates, and carve out their place in an increasingly competitive, globalized marketplace for higher education.

Thus, while polls continue to show that the standards are drawing less public support and views are increasingly divided along partisan lines, the substance of the Common Core are well entrenched in American education.

This, of course, only entrenches socioeconomic disparity as the elite schools become increasingly elite and further removed from concern for «street - level» legal practice.

Led by the Association of Corporate Counsel's «ACC Value Challenge,» corporate America is increasingly demanding that their outside law firms abandon the entrenched, historic, «cost - plus,» «billable hour» economic pricing model in favor of «Alternative Fee Arrangements» («AFAs») and other «value billing» approaches (e.g., non-hourly pricing arrangements such as «fixed fee,» «contingency,» or «hybrid» fee arrangements).

These will accelerate as the locus of regulatory power is increasingly transnational, which is seen as presumptively illegitimate by locally entrenched actors.

And all the while, through the years of protracted legal battles trying to prove «parental alienation» in Court, the child's symptoms become ever more severely entrenched, so that recovering the authentic child becomes increasingly difficult even if there is a positive outcome in Court.