Sentences with phrase «questioned whether the changes»

fishon: i've said this before, but i'll say it again... i seriously question whether change is incremental... that we slowly over time adjust ourselves and perform any real change or transformation.

Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell, also a Republican, questioned whether the change would benefit the East End.

Osinbajo also reacted to comments by Nigerians who have been questioning whether the change they voted for was a mere campaign slogan to attract votes.

In evolutionary biology it has long been questioned whether the changes that take place in the genome when various species adapt to new environments are primarily due to mutations within protein - forming sequences or whether so - called regulatory mutations play a greater role.

This iteration of Neptunia VII doesn't have many bells and whistles, and I question whether the changes to the gameplay thanks to the VR segments will be enough incentive for people to give it a try.

While it would be understandable to question whether these changes were being made to satisfy the Electronic Software Ratings Board (ESRB), for instance, to preserve a «Teen» rating, there isn't much evidence to suggest that is the case.

Here, we also assess aspects of irreversibility in the context of abrupt change, multiple steady states and hysteresis, i.e., the question whether a change (abrupt or not) would be reversible if the forcing was reversed or removed (e.g., Boucher et al., 2012).

During the financial crisis and its immediate aftermath, many legal pundits — as well as GC's and law firm managing partners — questioned whether the changes they witnessed were temporary or permanent.

However, given the spate of recent priority and loss transfer appeals, skeptical minds might question whether the change perhaps came about by design.

But Heft and other family lawyers question whether the change will include a new test or simply reflect the terms of the Divorce Act, in which «child of the marriage» is defined to include a child who is «the age of majority or over... but unable, by reason of illness, disability or other cause, to withdraw from their charge or to obtain the necessaries of life.»

Not exact matches

«I question whether anyone can envision and realize social and behavioral change the way that Jobs did.

The answers to these questions inform the full - picture diagnosis of the situation and whether change is necessary.

The question now is whether the largest video - game developers in Canada, such as Ubisoft, EA and Activision, are reacting quickly enough to this sea change in the industry.

Still there are questions about whether these changes, and others made over the past year, can actually help the service gain users.

The real question is whether we have the guts, the resolve and the strength to implement the necessary changes before we doom another generation of kids to lifetime under - employment, second - class citizenship or worse.

The unannounced change comes at a time pundits are questioning whether outflows have the potential to cripple China's currency and economy.

While the lure of start - ups is probably here to stay for Gen Y (and the reputation of corporate American is probably permanently tarnished), it's more of an open question whether Gen Y isn't slowly simmering towards rebellion, or at least a desire to change the status quo of their Boomer parents.

I think that's an interesting question: whether people have changed the way they want to watch content and what content they want to watch.

Sophie not only asked questions of job candidates, but it also studied their faces for changes in expressions that could indicate whether they may be fibbing.

Developments like the D - Wave Two and Quantum Valley Investments have changed the question from whether Canada will have a hand in the next computing revolution, to just how big its contribution can be.

The question now is how long it will take for meaningful change to happen, and whether that change will actually be useful to those who need time to look after themselves or their loved ones.

«The question will be whether some distributors of computer programs will ultimately decide to geofence Canada and preclude the download of products in Canada because they haven't made the investments that would be necessary to change the interfaces.

Experts are questioning whether Facebook is fundamentally changing its relationship with users or just tinkering around the edges of its deep need for user data to sell ads.

The big question is whether the use of such databases and the algorithms that sift through them change the outcome of elections.

By the end of the day, analysts said they were fielding questions from investors about whether United needed a management change.

«I think the reality is Facebook had questions as to whether they felt there was a need for them to make the changes that we were recommending,» said the spokesman.

Futurist, change management specialist and «X: The Experience When Business Meets Design» author Brian Solis sits down with The Young Turks» Cenk Uygur to talk about the past, present and future and how more and faster change is coming, and the only question is whether you're going to be a part of that change or a victim of it.

A key initial question is naturally whether the change in commodity prices is temporary or permanent.

But the question is whether that dynamic is changing, with the departure of more internationalist voices within the administration like Mr. Kudlow's predecessor, Gary Cohn, and the former secretary of state Rex Tillerson.

A key question is whether these changes have been principally the result of supply reductions or increases in demand.

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

The fundamental question for the 2015 election is whether Canadians want to continue on a path to even smaller government or to change direction and halt the deterioration in government programs and services.

Second is the question of how markets will behave under stress - that is, whether they will be able to function in an orderly fashion in response shocks or broad changes in market sentiment.

Whether that constant pressure might change how Congress works is, of course, another question entirely.

Wells has changed its sales practices, and called tens of millions of customers to check on whether they truly opened the accounts in question.

Even if the Fed can change the fed funds rate in that situation, we must question whether it can predictably affect economic activity.

District Director Of Florida EPA Questioned Whether Building A Pipeline Would Change The Health Of St. Johns River, Claiming The Creek Already Acts As A Pipeline.

The response to this question may indicate whether the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recent accounting changes for pensions will have an impact on a company's view of their pension.

Long - term yields and the sterling have been climbing recently, moving in the opposite direction the BoE had hoped and raising questions about whether investors believe the bank will change its mind and hike rates sooner than it promised.

The question many are now asking is whether that will change if tax cuts are enacted?

But after the release of qualified interim accounts on Tuesday, the question that must be asked now is whether the current shareholders of Lynas will end up owning the company or whether the price of refinancing its heavily geared balance sheet will mean a change in control.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

«Whether the church is ever going to change its policies, that's a question for (LDS Church President) Thomas Monson.

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

The question is to find out whether those means and methods are rightly used to bring about social change in our context today.

It is the normal expression of change, everywhere in the world - whether it is always progress, or improvement, is of course another question.

The question is not whether there will be changes but whether these changes are responsible developments in response to new challenges.

The question, however, is whether despite the growth of conservative churches both in Europe and North America and in other parts of the world, and the likelihood that they will remain strong, they offer the key to the future in a world that is changing very quickly.

This is the question whether what happened at the first Easter was an objective event in the external world or whether it was simply a change of mind, radical and dramatic but not necessarily sudden, on the part of the disciples.

A crucial question for the Roman Catholic community today, for example, is whether or not it can respond creatively to the challenge of individual voices as diverse as those of Hans Küng and Daniel Berrigan, and adapt its communal life to the demands for change that they place upon it.