Sentences with phrase «radical step of»

Flinders University and Uni SA took the radical step of being competitive collaborators in an effort to find meaningful field placements for their Social Work students.

That's why we've taken the radical step of putting our renters insurance experts on salary rather than on commission.

«We're talking about a fairly radical step of prohibiting employers from paying part — time casual and seasonal employees a rate lower than full - time employees.

In this context, it is understandable that such employees may wish to try to adjust to the new terms and conditions without affirming the employer's right to make these changes and before taking the radical step of advancing a constructive dismissal claim.

«What's fundamentally more different is that we've taken the pretty radical step of letting the lawyers focus on the legal work and handing over all the operational aspects to Atrium LTS,» Rakow said.

The heat stoked wildfires that continue to burn out of control and have overwhelmed the country's firefighters, while an unparalleled drought withered crops so severely that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin took the radical step of banning all grain exports.

I'm considering the radical step of going mostly to climate scientists for understanding climate in general, and the risks of AGW in particular.

Regarded as the greatest British artist of his generation and represented in museum collections all over the world, Anthony Caro revolutionized sculpture in the 1960s, by taking the radical step of removing the plinth and placing his work directly on the ground not only changed our relationship with the artwork, but the direction of sculpture itself.

I took the radical step of opening the group up to collective decision - making.

After observing important similarities between planarians and their disease - causing cousins, Newmark and former postdoctoral fellow Jim Collins (now a professor at UT Southwestern) took the radical step of applying their knowledge of planarians to studying schistosome biology.

I mean he took this at the time radical step of proposing the existence of a whole new particle.

I got the news about my sister after my husband and I had taken the radical step of moving from a city - centered life to the rural one we had fallen in love with.

Take the case of medical records technology firm Athenahealth, which took the radical step of sharing its complete financial history with all of its roughly 600 employees before going public in 2007.

Not exact matches

This time, Reliable took a more radical step: It opened a part - time in - house medical clinic, complete with pharmacy, a doctor, and a four - person staff of nurses and physician assistants.

But in 2014, Coach CEO Victor Luis announced a series of radical steps aimed at restoring the now 76 - year - old company's luster.

We look for people who want to bring radical change to an industry, give them the freedom to get creative and the backing of our brand, and then we step back and watch them fly.

Those employers and many others are quietly taking what once would have been a radical step: They're dropping marijuana from the drug tests they require of prospective employees.

If Germany does not take radical steps to push its current account surplus into deficit, the brunt of the European adjustment will fall on the deficit countries with a sharp decrease in domestic demand.

Before Tony Hsieh stepped down from his leadership of the Downtown Project — his radical experiment in building a startup city in Downtown Las Vegas — there were already signs of serious trouble.

The aspects of the Pentecostal worldview that Smith notes» especially the radical openness to God and the dynamic presence and activity of the Spirit» were part of our group's worldview, and I will ever be thankful to have taken my first Christian steps within a body that placed the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ above all else.

Heavily influenced by John Piper's Don't Waste Your Life and Shane Claiborne's radical generosity, Johnson stepped out to document a thousand risks all taken in the name of loving Christ and neighbors.

We'd better step up the pace, however, since we don't have a couple of hundred years» leeway this time because of the destructive capabilities of the radicals.

If you are trying to equate all Sufi's with radical Muslims (by the way there are plenty of radical Jews, Christians, Hindus etc) and then taking it a step further by equating all Muslims with radicals.

As we approach the end of another century, some in the academy see radical hermeneutics as the final step in that process of dissolution, while to others it is the promise of a rebirth.

The idea of a congregation not being coerced, pressured, or enticed to follow lock - step into their pastors» «vision» for them, even if they disagree or question it, is a radical one.

An Islamist would have every reason to cheer on these radical atheist groups every step of the way, until some day in the future when they no longer need them.

Washington (CNN)- The charges ranged from promoting «radical feminism» to espousing religious teachings out of step with the Catholic Church.

I suppose this is a step in the right direction, but I think that in general, the idea of «small groups» as a program or ministry of the church (whether it is of first or secondary importance) falls far short of the the radical change that is needed to truly be the church in the world.

Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step.

Of course the radicals who despised Yale's liberal intellectualism saw that sop to their ideology as encouragement to step up the pressure, and conservatives wrote off Brewster as an appeaser not worth defending.

So far it has been debated only in the Lords: but what has so far been said gives no confidence that what has surely to be seen as a major step towards the radical de-Christianisation of English culture will come up against any opposition that has a chance of success.

Harness racing is taking a radical step in an attempt to solve one of its perennial problems: the high incidence of lameness and other afflictions that plague 2 - year - olds.

Whilst the Government has taken some steps to help savers, with the introduction of the Junior ISA and the linking of ISA subscription levels to CPI, they have thus far failed to deliver other sensible reforms to ISA rules and could deliver more radical support for hard - pressed savers during this low bank rate environment.

Nick Clegg replied: «If you care so much about making sure that out of the rubble of this recession, we create a new economy, why won't you and indeed why won't David Cameron, take the radical steps forward that are needed to reform our banking system.

All three of Westminster's mainstream parties are likely to take further steps towards localism in their 2015 election manifestos, but radical promises towards significant devolution of power remain improbable.

His backing for electoral reform - which would mean scrapping the first - past - the - post system on which Westminster MPs are elected in favour of some form of proportional representation (PR)- came as John Denham, the skills secretary, also let it be known that he favours considering a number of «radical steps», including electoral reform.

«Those were the first baby steps, the first demonstrations of how to turn this radical quantum computing concept into a practical device using components that underpin all modern computing,» said Mark Hoffman, UNSW's Dean of Engineering.

But she also suggested that Europe consider more radical steps that could encourage scientists to produce specified outputs in return for money, a potentially controversial move given the unpredictable nature of scientific discovery.

«So manipulating the reaction conditions for this deprotection step, and monitoring closely the resultant chemical functionalities, is critical in tuning the electrical properties of radical polymers,» Boudouris said.

Like a notorious suspect able to stay one step ahead of the law, corrosive oxygen compounds called free radicals are implicated in many diseases but leave little hard evidence of their handiwork.

The CR method is being developed for a number of uses, such as living biobanks, personalized and regenerative medicine, and this study, using donated tissue from a 57 year - old man who underwent a radical prostatectomy, demonstrates the first steps needed towards those goals in prostate cancer.

Melatonin is a potent antioxidant with anti-inflammatory effects in humans: it is a direct free radical scavenger and anti-aging factor made in the pineal gland, originating with the base amino acid tryptophan in four steps, with production of serotonin at the third step.38

To stay a step ahead of modern civilization we need to avoid free radicals as much as possible, eat an antioxidant - rich diet, and make sure our body is sufficient in glutathione.

In addition to the niacin it supplies, brown rice may also help raise blood levels of nitric oxide, a small molecule known to improve blood vessel dilation and to inhibit oxidative (free radical) damage of cholesterol and the adhesion of white cells to the vascular wall (two important steps in the development of atherosclerotic plaques).

Congeners, which are found in especially high amounts in dark colored liquors like brandy, wine, dark tequila, and whiskey are comprised of free radicals and positively charged molecules that can significantly disrupt your acid - alkaline (pH) balance and increase your body's need to step up antioxidant activity to scavenge all those free radicals.

Our juice cleanse is a serious step in the right direction, because it removes the toxins in your body that build up over time, and evacuates all of the free radicals that can lead to poor health.

Superoxide dismutase is vital for the first step in metabolising one of the deadliest free radicals.

Naomie Harris vies for some potential nominations as well, as she steps inside the role of Winnie Madikizela, Nelson's second wife, an extremely frustrated woman who turned to more radical and violent measures of fighting for her fellow oppressed people.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said last week that he plans to demand radical steps — such as firing most of a school's staff or converting it to a charter school — as the price of admission in directing $ 3.5 billion in new school improvement aid to the nation's 5,000 worst - performing schools.

Rather, he's a sort of discombobulated radical who seeks many worthy changes in the American K — 12 enterprise but whose «plan,» for all its dozen steps, isn't likely to result in the overhaul he wants.