Sentences with phrase «status quo required»

The status quo required that the Nation continue providing water, gas and electricity to the remaining three residents of BBC.

One of MuleSoft's core values is fearlessness because we believe that challenging the status quo requires courage.

Not exact matches

They weren't even being requested or required by current customers, who were basically happy with the status quo.

First, if the current status quo were to continue until then, struggling Mobilicity won't be able to bid and Wind will have a cake walk to cheap spectrum, assuming that its new investors would pony up the minimum fees required.

To alter those trend lines requires leaders willing to depart from the status quo, he says.

The similarities between all supernatural heroes of television lie in the narrowing of their personalities in line with the efficient fulfilling of the required task and their general reaffirmation of the status quo.

religions or cults present them an easy solution that does not require them to change the status - quo because it offers rewards after death.

Any change to the status quo (i.e., removing a material from the National List) requires a 2/3 majority vote of the full NOSB.

They have a proven ability (even if no longer good enough for the high rollers), require little effort to find (in fact they may even come looking for you) and are unquestionably an upgrade on the status quo, although with a few notable exceptions that bar isn't set particularly high.

Of course, the transformation from one system (private ownership of land and resources) to another (no such ownership) requires coercion, but so did the transfer from pre-colonisation (no ownership) to the status quo (ownership).

The status quo doesn't require making a difficult decision, casting a controversial vote or upsetting a special interest.

Hamstrung by the requirements of a super-majority (thanks to its sixth member, the Fishers Island Justice) and lacking the survival instincts required of having specific constituencies to satisfy, no wonder the Town Board often defaults to... the status quo.

When a petition is uncontentious and does not challenge the status quo, it is easy to find the required signatories, as the recent petition on puppies and kittens demonstrates.

«There's still this entrenched status quo in the Assembly,» she said, but a few of her transparency proposals got passed this session — requiring video of committee meetings to be broadcast live and for committee votes to be posted online.

No party went into the last election defending the status quo, and if Lords reform is ever to see the light of day it will require all parties to stay committed.

Every muscle group requires a sufficient amount of stimulus to occur and force them out of their status quo and directly into a new level of growth.

It is a tough act, one that requires my initial compartmentalization of feelings between their S&M role playing and their otherwise normal relationship, and an inversion of that status quo as the compartmentalization starts to break down in the film's final third.

Accomplishing this method of PD will require more time, but the alternative is the status quo.

Systemic change will not occur by replicating the status - quo, this change requires suffering, risks, mistakes, experimenting, courage, and love; I witnessed and experienced this all in his class.

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

«A truly historic commitment to education,» Obama says, «will require a willingness to break free from the same debates that Washington has been engaged in for decades — Democrat versus Republican; vouchers versus the status quo; more money versus more accountability.»

The third case shows how solidarity requires meaningful action that is in line with a challenge to the status quo and an aspect of sacrifice.

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure — i.e., legally enforced — discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

Even then, implementing the change requires further actions from large bureaucracies that are often invested in the status quo and may be hostile toward the reform.

Instead, Torlakson proposed that California should be «permitted to freeze sanctions and mandatory identification» of failing schools as required under NCLB and thus allow a status quo.

And critics are quick to bemoan such examples as unthinking submission to the status quo — failures that require a problem - solving intervention.

«Success in any business requires a willingness to challenge the status quo, and in the business of saving animal lives, innovation is critical,» said Petco Foundation Executive Director Susanne Kogut.

Consider that combating climate change requires nothing less than a radical restructuring of how the world makes and uses energy, and consider the overwhelming level of public concern it would take to impose such sweeping changes on the vested interests profiting by the status quo (and let's be honest... to impose such changes on a public comfortable with the status quo).

He adds that it might also require the re-tooling of an industry that is happy with the status quo.

which the bill detractors prefer serves to protect the status quo, which includes the messy business of oil and coal recovery and the laziness of auto manufacturers; in addition, sequestration would require REGULATIONS in order for power plants to adopt it.

Already, realising the RTS would require additional cumulative investments compared to the status quo.

Fossil fuels are entrenched in our society and they have the status quo momentum that will require leadership and action to stop.

Preventing catastrophic climate change requires some sacrifices from those who profit from the status quo.

But I get the impression that you're defending the status quo, when what's required is bold and imaginative action.

Thus although the Court of Appeal in Hasan was willing to accept that the «categories of cases in which reasons are required are not closed», it was not willing to depart from the status quo.

On a couple of recent projects, an understanding of the status quo was required, combined with an appreciation of the ways in which the products are used and will, most likely, be so in the future.

The authors suggest that even firms that opt for the status quo will require a review of their talent strategy.

The solution requires that firms move beyond their status quo.

Each recommendation undercuts the status quo and requires rigorous innovation, creativity and courage.

This requires creating more pathways and fellowships to bring young people into local government jobs — and making it clear that these positions are intended to shake up the status quo.

Effective in challenging the status quo and delivering change in situations requiring the ability to rapidly assess evolving markets, adapt and deliver on key performance indicators.

Moving forward required letting go of the status quo, shedding previous beliefs about my own career path, and finding an entirely new support system.

«Although many studies show that people with positive mindsets tend to have more ideas, most leaders find that real innovation and change requires a restlessness and dissatisfaction with the status quo to drive people forward in a purposeful way.

To create a persuasive and compelling description of an accomplishment requires four elements: a depiction of the situation or status quo prior to the arrival or action of the candidate, a characterization of the opportunity that the existent situation presented the candidate, a description of the action (s) taken to remedy or improve the situation, and a delineation of the measurable results produced by virtue of those actions.

Well, although there are statutes that allow judges to bypass the status quo of the 50 - 50, many times judges require a conviction of domestic violence to use the statute to make their decisions.

The increase in absolute terms of the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth population will require significant increases in services and programs simply to keep pace with demand and maintain the status quo, yet alone to achieve a reduction in existing health inequality.

Meanwhile, it's status quo in Canada in regards to the Competition Bureau's inquiry into CREA and its MLS system — an inquiry now over a year old, which required CREA to submit thousands of documents related to how MLS is operated across the country.