"To embrace the concept" means to accept and adopt or support an idea or belief, usually with enthusiasm and open-mindedness.
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Investors, developers, managers and corporate tenants nationwide have fully
embraced the concept of sustainability.
As governments and aid agencies look to improve mental health worldwide, they could do well
by embracing the concept of emotional resilience.
Rather than thinking of it as segregation based on parental status, we should
embrace the concept as a child - friendly zone.
This exercise is an important vehicle in any peer conflict mediation program to help
students embrace the concept of being culturally responsive and culturally sensitive.
If the Irish construction industry is truly to
rapidly embrace the concept of sustainability, leadership from the public sector will be paramount in setting the right example.
While award standards have always been demanding, never before has the resume writing
industry embraced the concept of a standardized criteria for resume judging.
And in the travel business there are of course other companies that sell unknown destination but they don't
fully embrace the concept.
Most organisations that we speak to
embrace the concept of continuous performance management but many question whether they should still be doing performance reviews.
We're heading into an age of unlimited data, and while most of the major carriers have adopted an unlimited plan of some kind, mobile virtual network operators, or carriers that use other carriers» networks, haven't
really embraced the concept just yet.
In contrast climate skeptics like world - renowned physicist Freeman Dyson
also embraced the concepts of Gaia as a «great force for good» uniting people to save natural habitat and endangered species.
If you're dead set on never spending a cent on book marketing, you'll get less value from this than someone
who embraces the concept that you have to spend money to make money.
Instead of waiting until their golden years to retire, some Americans are
now embracing the concept of mini-retirements: periods of work alternated with shorter periods of reflection, travel or activities otherwise curtailed by full - time work.
I've caught some flak from family
for embracing the concept of «child - led» parenting, where we respond to her needs rather than a schedule, but it's worked so well that the comments have really subsided.
Superstorm Sandy led the Army Corps of Engineers to
wholeheartedly embrace the concept of resilience, said Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, the chief of the Army Corps, who is retiring this week.
Despite Chicago's recent decision to drop its systemwide mastery - learning program, officials of the Baltimore City Public Schools have
enthusiastically embraced the concept as «a tool rather than a program.»
«We typically don't see boards
quickly embrace the concept,» says McMullin, who is licensed in Alberta, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and expects to be licensed shortly in Ontario.
He said
Workday embraced the concept of the power of one, which meant having one code, one user model, one interface, and all of the company's customers were in the one place.
If you believe in «order», «reasoning» and «planning» (all scientific traits), then you
probably embrace concepts of existence with a purpose, nature, emotions, and scientific understanding of the universe.
My parents, like many of the people they knew in the late 1970s, were two non-granola hippies who
happily embraced the concepts of convenience and packaged food, «just add water» cooking, and The Happy Meal.
Cali» flour Foods has
embraced this concept ¨ utilizing the entire head of cauliflower in every crust This means stems ¨ leaves ¨ and the flower itself Every nutritious morsel is included ¨ to give the product a unique and delicious taste.
Just as Lamaze dispels the myths and fears of childbirth and empowers a woman to give birth without unnecessary stress, the Bradley Method of
childbirth embraces the concept that childbirth is a natural process and, with proper training and preparation, a woman can have a natural childbirth without the use of pain medications or routine interventions.
A top - level commission headed by the former president of the University at
Buffalo embraced the concept of regionalism, while other proposals centered on combining police services or water systems.
«When it comes to foreign policy,
Wendy embraces the concept of peace through strength and she understands that rogue nations like North Korea and Iran are threats to world peace and can not be trusted.
While the Obama
administration embraces this concept and considers the internet a public utility, there are powerful lobbies and a Republican - dominated Congress that could block or severely modify Net Neutrality.