The purpose of most such standards is to nudge the industry status
quo into a slightly better shape environmentally, socially and financially.
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.
The roles of technology and access to information has greatly changed our lives in the past few years, but we can't afford to maintain the status
quo into the future.
Not exact matches
Perfectionists tend to set high (or in many cases, unrealistic) standards and strive to be the best at everything they do, but this desire to be perfect all the time can turn
into a fear of failure, causing perfectionistic individuals to get stuck in the status
quo.
It's not an exit vote per se, but like former U.K. leader David Cameron, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi may find that it mutates
into a plebiscite — in Italy's case on a status
quo dominated by stagnation, chronic unemployment, and an increasingly acute banking crisis.
If we become too comfortable with the advancements we've made, we'll stop challenging the status
quo, which is a driver in taking an innovative idea and turning it
into a reality.
As quid pro
quo for lifting the U.S. government's debt ceiling last year, Republicans in Congress demanded $ 1.2 trillion worth of budget cuts over the next decade to drag Washington back
into solvency.
«Resilience is seizing an opportunity to move
into a state of greater adaptability and preparedness — not just going back to the status
quo.»
It's easy to see how this dissatisfaction with the status
quo, combined with a hunger to do better, can translate
into a greater number of entrepreneurs.
With billions being poured
into the medical field, the status
quo is no longer an option.
This could challenge the status
quo for companies like Comcast (cmcsa), DirecTV (dtv), and Time Warner (twx), while providing an easier route
into the living room for third - party providers like TiVo (tivo) and even Google (goog).
Change is no longer periodic or episodic, that is, something you can accurately anticipate, gradually move to accommodate, and then settle
into a predictable new status
quo around.
Operation Protective Edge has moved
into its third day with an uneasy status -
quo of Israeli air - raids on Gaza and incessant Hamas rocket barrages on Israel.
Apparently, China is trying to walk the line between surging
into the future of digital money without rocking the status -
quo boat too much.
And when we put public money
into companies, we should demand a quid pro
quo, make it an investment, not a bail out.»
But it had been a long time coming at a company that leaned
into its brash reputation, disdained the status
quo, and prized results, performance, and «hashtag winning» — to use another Travis - ism — over most all other matters.
While Labour Day evolved
into a celebration of work, employers and life, May Day was a protest against the status
quo, government, corporations and other institutions that refused to give working people their deserved share of the economic pie.
As with self - driving cars, Uber Freight is another instance of Uber jumping
into a market where it estimates its technology and analytics can usurp the status
quo.
The status
quo fiscal projection, which assumes no new spending programs and no new tax cuts, is now for the federal books to move
into a small surplus in 2019 - 20, and for the federal debt to GDP ratio in 2019 - 20 to be 27 %.
They may eventually be forced
into embracing the technology as a means to retain their status
quo and ability to collect taxes.
So much capital has been thrust at maintaining the status
quo in Egypt that many financial analysts have been lulled
into a pre-Minsky complacency: Stability breeds a false sense of comfort.
It's easier to be offended than to take a good long look at what you're buying
into... it might upset the status
quo and then what?
Who has not been outraged by a debased piety that renders truth
into smugness, purity
into prudishness, justice
into the status
quo and honor
into pride?
In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping
into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status
quo, and that is part of what got him killed.
Marvel's at its best when it holds the status
quo with an open hand, allowing B - characters like Falcon to step up
into the A-list.
This is all important here because at the core of what emerging messsages stood for was no more of the status
quo, no more shoving things
into «private,» no more leader - dominating communities.
My wife and daughter both say I'm doing pretty well, but I have to admit that sometimes I slip
into the status
quo of the prevailing attitudes toward girls and women and how to relate to them as well as how to treat them.
• Gay believers have accepted Christ and they can be classified
into those who are seeking and working to change, and those who have given up change accepted the status
quo.
Revolution buys its way
into the status
quo.
Instead, they moved further
into the flux itself in order to destabilize the tottering status
quo.
(Ephesians 5:22 - 27) This is no small privilege, so don't rush yourself or compromise and rush
into a covenant of sacrifice before you are ready to or just to meet the status
quo.
The culture calls upon its religious institutions to bless the status
quo and upon religion's educational institutions to nurture persons
into acceptance of it.
Large segments of Methodism have moved
into the post-Vatican II era, as the surprising success of the Supplemental Worship Resources series indicates, but these churches are certainly matched by status
quo congregations.
«While I had no particular affection for the IRD,» writes Higgins, «I also had no desire to enter
into a coalition on the basis of quid pro
quo demands.
In fact, I think the core message, that finds its roots firmly in the Old Testament and sprawling
into the New, is the necessity to challenge the status
quo and press
into what's true, no matter the consequences for our relationships.
I suppose when going against the status
quo at the same time the challenge exist for one to do so in truth and love, for the right reasons lest one should slip
into conduct that is no better than the unhealthy authorised norms one is up against?
It's a well used method to manipulate the recalcitrant member right back
into the fold and protect the status
quo.
Who is misled, misinformed, and softly wooed
into simple acceptance of the status
quo,
into accepting the way things are,
into believing that things can never be changed — that the poor will continue to get poorer and the rich richer.
The Catholic Church's nuanced teaching on the condition of souls, whether Catholic or Protestant, can help people be charitable toward those with whom they may disagree, but it was never intended to be a license for religious indifferentism or gentlemanly negotiation of acceptance of some status
quo, e.g., «You try to accept the Pope and we'll work on accepting Jesus
into our hearts as our personal Lord and Savior.»
Jones also sought to change the status
quo by bringing more women
into what is typically a male - dominated industry.
Noting the investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
into supermarkets» powers, he will point out that while the big retailers» alleged actions may not be breaking competition laws, «this does not mean that the status
quo is necessarily delivering the most efficient or optimal outcomes in the market.»
I am pissed - off that other teams even clubs like Spurs see the players that they want and immediately pounce on them like a tramp on chips, but when it comes to Arsenal we make appointments weeks and months
into the future... I ask myself, what can I do as a fan of my beloved Arsenal, and what can we (Arsenal fans all over the world) do as supporters to show our outrage and indignation of the status -
quo at Arsenal when it comes to transfers.
Which means the status
quo is probably the way to go, and we'll just have to accept that Olympic baseball is an odd, quadrennial intrusion
into a summer already overstuffed with baseball, and because there's no way to get the best players in the world to represent their respective countries, there isn't going to be a way to make Olympic baseball a thing, like you can with Olympic basketball.
So that one will not fall
into a regrettable past that is having a bearing on the present of one's life and nothing can be done at that stage to change the regrettable status
quo.
The way I see it, the choice is: either maintain a crap status
quo for fear of regression, or take a step
into the unknown that carries with it some risk, but ultimately will be the better move.
Anyone who has read my blogs knows that I question the value of elite sports at the younger levels and have not 100 % bought
into the current status
quo of high school sports, but pinning the obesity epidemic on schools and travel teams?
Even diving
into a fraction of this list will have you feeling empowered and prepared for conception, pregnancy, postpartum and parenting... It includes resources on improving and even ensuring ensuring healthier pregnancy and birth outcomes than the status
quo, and preventing and healing from birth trauma so prevalent in the modern world!
It's like stepping out of the matrix, or stepping
into an alternate reality — one of freedom from the status
quo, of freedom from anger and fear and the surge of emotion that comes around right before you spank your child.
Implementation of the International Code
into national level legislation provides opportunity to move towards comprehensive breastfeeding legislation that is pro-active in removing all obstacles; and holds social and economic actors accountable rather than the reactive status
quo.
Just as in human medicine, Many status
quo veterinary MUST DO items are now coming
into question, including overvaccination, the growing cons of spaying / neutering dogs too young, the heavy pressure (but little real need) for certain «preventive» drugs.