Sentences with phrase «societal changes before»

For more than two decades, Springboard's Millman has contended that we needed vast societal changes before we'd have masses of women building fast - growing companies, cracking the very top ranks of entrepreneurship.

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While some of these trends were already happening before the imposition of the carbon tax and are not unique to B.C., the policy is widely supported and appears to be working in concert with other societal changes.

Bignall believes that «societal change will drift us towards eliminating the whole concept of war before that sort of concept happens.»

The six decades during which she has straddled the roles both of head of state and of Supreme Governor of the Church of England have witnessed such societal change that it is almost as if her detractors are waiting patiently for her to leave the stage, before redeveloping the constitution over which the Queen presides.

Hopefully before too long someone will tell the whole story, make sense of it, and see it as a continuum in culture exploration that has spanned decades of artistic and societal change.

In his testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in July 2009, OSTP Director John Holdren took note of the National Research Council recommendation to restructure the (USGCRP) around «`... the end - to - end climate change problem, from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope with the impending societal problems of climate change.

Because of the substantial risks to society and nature posed by abrupt changes, this report recommends the development of an Abrupt Change Early Warning System that would allow for the prediction and possible mitigation of such changes before their societal impacts are severe.

I reproduce the speech here in its entirety, and it touches on a number of interesting issues, including the challenges of constitutional reform, changing societal values, patriation, the tensions in federalism, and the need for a constitutional Bill of Rights, a full 15 years before the Charter was enacted.