Sentences with phrase «through widespread changes»

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Impatient as I am to see radical changes made, I have also come to realize that changes are sustainable only if they are made through processes of widespread participation.

Longley sketches the history of the question of artificial contraception through the 1960s and the widespread expectation that there would be a change in the Church's teaching concerning the immorality of its use.

Even if not a single individual changes his or her behavior over time, it still is possible for widespread social change to occur through this generational turnover.

More recently, the Welfare Reform Act, which received Royal Assent in March 2012, attracted widespread criticism during its troubled passage through Parliament, with the changes relating to disability benefits being particularly controversial.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

As the same volume of water now has to pass through a narrower channel, high tides rise higher, causing deeper and more widespread floods (Global and Planetary Change, doi.org/s8h).

The European ebook market has made headlines recently for some of the myriad changes being made to bookselling practices — particularly in book price matching and VAT — that will hopefully make digital reading a more widespread practice, and with greater access to digital content through partnerships such as this one greater demand for ebook accessibility will follow.

Eventually, the anti-smoking campaign began to gain the upper hand through methods including widespread advertisements and a little help from government agencies like the F.D.A. Today, though smoking is still present, the stigma has changed; this is what the carbon and climate change movement needs.

The competition's goal is to draw widespread attention to the issue of climate change through highly visible online and offline actions.

Third, that the adoption of blockchain in securities settlement will require a co-ordinated and widespread change in operational processes, and will not be achievable through piecemeal efforts.

There is also widespread concern that the linking of delivery of services to behavioural change through SRAs would be discriminatory.