Sentences with phrase «maintains the status quo while»

And this is at the heart of what makes innovation work in organizations, why industries die, and how painful it is to try to maintain the status quo while also participating in a revolution.

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While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

In his famous book, Predictable Success, Les McKeown advises business leaders to relentlessly challenge the status quo while maintaining a formal, regular process for informed decision - making.

It's hard to believe the status quo will remain: While Uber maintains that it's merely a technology company connecting passengers with drivers, the reality is that it controls the rates the drivers charge, maintains performance standards, and can fire drivers if its standards aren't met.

While half of all small business owners feel the economy will maintain the status quo in the next six months; a third feel the economy will be in better shape.

Daily Fantasy Sports contests have been played legally by New Yorkers for the past seven years and we believe this status quo should be maintained while the litigation plays out.»

So called FFP aims to maintain the status quo and do nothing about massive debts while blocking real investment.

The court directed that the parties to maintain status quo pending the hearing of the senator's motion seeking an interlocutory injunction to hear the recall process, while September 29 has been fixed for the hearing of the said motion.

«While the referendum will not be on the ballot, the issue is alive this November because voters can choose between legislative candidates who support improving efficiency and those who want to maintain the status quo.»

«We can not simply maintain the status quo due to the increasing mental health, special education, and ELL [English Language Learner] needs while the fiscal conditions and employment prospects of our communities continue to worsen.»

At the Republican Party election night bash at the Holiday Inn, while his county counterparts celebrated holding on to their legislative majority and District Attorney Holley Carnright's massive re-election win, Sinagra had to console himself with a status quo — maintaining two seats on the Common Council — while lamenting what might have been.

«Both dirty and clean firms are active in lobbying, suggesting that while dirty firms lobby to maintain the status quo clean firms view environmental regulation as an opportunity to gain firm - level advantages,» Magali Delmas, Jinghui Lim and Nicholas Nairn - Birch, researchers at UCLA, said in their report.

«I feel somewhat hopeful that things may gradually continue to improve, but many indicators seem to suggest that we'll be lucky to just maintain the status quo for a while.»

Congress seems headed toward maintaining the status quo into the 2016 fiscal year, which starts in October, while Republicans and the Obama administration argue over whether to lift spending caps for the entire government.

despite how sweet their love is, but they still remain discriminated within a district of their own, which grants them aesthetic salvation - the magnitude of dreams, while everything out there maintains its status quo: she still stays within the asylum, those relatives who mistreat the grandpa are still carring their selfishly content lives outside without a strike of condemination.

While maintaining the Social Security status quo might seem at the very least unobtrusive, it neglects an opportunity to extend coverage to the over 1 million teachers and 6.5 million government workers whose jobs go uncovered.

While it is true that local and state governments are responsible for the looming disaster, the influential teachers unions have much to say about these policies and are leading the charge to maintain the unsustainable status quo.

This new strategy allows BlackBerry the best of both worlds, offering a slew of apps to its devoted fan base while still maintaining the status quo with the physical keyboard.

Unfortunately, many cities try to create No Kill Shelters, while still maintaining their status quo approach of punitive animal control.

The Koch brothers and their allies want to maintain the status quo, while Steyer and others seeking a political path to a post-carbon economy have an epic challenge in trying to prod Americans out of a fossil - fueled comfort zone that took a century to form.

But this misses the point: While neutrality on revenue may sound fair or maybe even equitable in some forms, in fact it is neither, because it simply maintains an already highly inequitable and unsustainable status quo of revenue starvation and public disinvestment.

While we are pleased that the coastal waters off the west coast will not see any new offshore oil drilling (for the time being), we view this as simply maintaining the status quo that has been afforded us for the last 30 years.

While the case was being heard it would be normal procedure for an interim injunction to be issued maintaining the status quo.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

In fact, it may be in everyone's best interests for the firm to expand in one direction while maintaining the status quo in another.

While maintaining the status quo of transitional industry as a closed network, unlike public blockchains, DLT explores the possibilities of many financial use cases in payment systems, trade finance, wholesale banking, remittance, and identity management.

In the past, the company has met such scandals with a mixture of outright denials and promises to change, while mostly maintaining the status quo — and its bottom line just kept growing.

What follows is a legislative proposal that creates a simpler statute, and, while it includes joint custody, it emphasizes maintaining the status quo with regard to caretaking while encouraging an assessment of what best addresses the need of the child.