Sentences with phrase «with challenges to the status quo»

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.

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People who aren't afraid to be different naturally stretch boundaries and challenge the status quo, and they often come up with the best ideas.

Whether in the halls of Congress or the halls of a small business in middle - America, identifying the right leaders — those with character and moral excellence running through their veins — should be a top priority to swiftly challenge the pervasive status quo.

The first order of priority to make the workplace a safe place for all is to identify and place the right leaders — those with character and moral excellence running through their veins — in positions to swiftly challenge the pervasive status quo.

It is up to leaders to create a work environment that faces challenges head - on by building a strong culture from the very beginning with great talent who will push the status quo.

Unfortunately, if the status quo endures, the future is likely to hold more of the same — with the possibility of even more severe challenges to maintaining price and economic stability.

Both Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy - Glans appeared to be willing to challenge the status quo thinking in Alberta's conservative establishment, with Ms. Jansen even questioning the holy grail of Alberta's past economic prosperity.

The survey conducted and given to sales professionals, found most successful sales professionals succeed by challenging customers with insights intended to change the status quo.

With previous awards such as «One of Canada's Best Places To Work» and «Canada's Fastest Growing Businesses», The Next Trend Designs Inc. is well known for continually challenging the status quo and nurturing a culture of winning.

But I try to bear patiently and lovingly with them in appreciation for the courage of their stalwart challenge to a status quo which rendered choice... an option for few women.

It is good to challenge the status quo when it does not line up with scripture (like confronting the desire for violence and vengeance especially among «conservative» Christians), but we should not in our zeal push the pendulum too far the other way and undermine our view of God's sovereignty, power, and holiness.

I think it is good to explore ideas (even if but briefly) that challenge the status quo just to check ourselves and make sure that we are truly in line with what God has told us.

We can maintain our status quo and be okay with the fact that people are getting hurt, or we can challenge ourselves to act differently.

I convince myself that the people with whom I disagree hold their convictions because they haven't really thought them through or because they're afraid to challenge the status quo.

We see the ability to challenge that status quo with SocietyOne».

I agree with everything you've said here, Ruthie, and especially «I do not think the fact that the food is offered universally for free means that one does not have the right to challenge the status quo.

In this context, Khodorkovsky's unprecedented success in business, combined with his support for independent media and outspoken criticism of Putin, was not only powerful political posturing but also an unprecedented challenge to the power status quo.

The US House mid-term races are «Sturm und Drang» [Storm and Stress]; exercises in preserving the status quo; equivalent to a political ice bucket challenge when the candidates pour the water on their heads and challenge their opponents to do likewise; and exercises in highlighting what is wrong with our politics....

Long presented her with the award and praised her for «challenging the status quo of New York City politics by adhering to her conservative values throughout last year's mayor race.»

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand up to entrenched special interests, but if we're going to improve schools we have to be willing to challenge the status quo with bold reform.

We think that it's a small enough number that it won't be too challenging to the people who like things remaining with the status quo, but it'll be a large enough number that'll make a significant impact in the lives of 75 families.»

INEC had suspended the recall process against Melaye after it was served with an order granted by Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja which directed the commission to maintain the status quo pending the determination of the suit that Melaye filed to challenge his recall process.

The new President enjoys the spotlight and has challenged the status quo with new approaches and, unfortunately, deceptions and deliberate falsehoods to hide his intentions and to mislead the public.

Kering is partnering with startups, universities, and an advisory group of 15 forward - thinking millennials from around the world to track down what she calls «disruptive innovations» — the forward - thinking ideas that will challenge the status quo.

Governments, in cahoots with BigPharma, because they too don't know any better, conspire to keep populations largely ignorant about real health to a point where they actively suppress information that may challenge the status quo.

About Site - We want to encourage Christians to be salt and light in the full panoply of life, living out the norms of the kingdom in ways that do good to people around us while challenging the cultural status quo with the norms of the kingdom and the prospect of a new heaven and a new earth.

My clients who take my challenge to step outside their comfort zone and run with it, uncomfortable as it is, ALWAYS do much better at dating than people who decide to stick to their status quo.

Dating in the gay and lesbian community has always come with its set of challenges, but with Bespoke, these challenges don't have to be accepted as the status quo.

About Blog We want to encourage Christians to be salt and light in the full panoply of life, living out the norms of the kingdom in ways that do good to people around us while challenging the cultural status quo with the norms of the kingdom and the prospect of a new heaven and a new earth.

«Zookeeper's Wife» director Niki Caro and star Jessica Chastain are challenging the status quo, Margot Robbie has been tapped for a revisionist Robin Hood tale, and Gwendoline Christie is working on a return to sci - fi with «Darkest Minds.»

A brief interlude with Zach Woods make me grin and showed that Feig was maybe even willing to challenge his status quo with a little gore but it's a promise that stands unfulfilled.

Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.

As with many notions that challenge the educational status quo, this one can be traced to Paul Hill, the protean researcher at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).

He or she is willing to challenge the status quo with open - minded, deep questioning.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.

For example, Ms. Lewis credits Mr. Johnson with allowing her to challenge the status quo when, as the head of the science department at Rockville Centre's South Side High School, she led an effort to explore how to improve outcomes for low - income and minority students.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand up to entrenched special interests, but if we're going to improve schools we have to be willing to challenge the status quo with bold reform.

A meta - analysis conducted by Marzano, Waters, and McNulty (2005) found that several promotion - focused behaviors among school leadership are linked to higher levels of student achievement, including (1) serving as a change agent (challenging the status quo and leading efforts that have uncertain outcomes); (2) demonstrating flexibility (being comfortable with major changes and dissent); and (3) being an optimizer (encouraging innovation by portraying a positive attitude about teachers» ability to achieve what may seem to be beyond their grasp).

This is just my third year, so it's been great to have someone to bounce off ideas with who's not in our district who challenges the status quo, which I needed.

This isn't to say that these officials don't care about these children, but that they are disinterested in taking on the tough work needed to overhaul districts and schools in order provide kids with the schools they deserve — which includes challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids held by far too many adults working in American public education in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quite ante.

After all, we will never catch back up with the rest of the world if we don't challenge the status quo and allow competition to constantly force us all to take our game to the next level!

Facing challenges to improve teaching and learning in the current context of high - stakes testing and accountability and as they contend with discrimination, inequities and injustices in the status quo, effective school leaders approach their work through a social justice lens.

Obama and his education officials say they are collaborating with unions even as they challenge them to rethink the status quo.

The session will combine research findings with practical tools from a school leader who challenged the status quo and expanded the boundaries of a special education program design to meet the needs of all learners.

We work with organizations that seek to challenge the status quo and grow their impact for the greater good.

«Kia has always been willing to challenge the status quo, and with next year marking our 20th anniversary in the U.S., we are making our boldest statement yet and redefining what the Kia brand stands for with the launch of the K900,» said Michael Sprague, executive vice president, marketing & communications, KMA.

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And finally, while some characters actively turn a corrupt system to their advantage, most simply go along with the status quo, and none make any attempt to challenge it.

I truly believe it is time to challenge the status quo and do away with overly grand idle animations, and make sure the movements of a character standing still are every bit as subtle as the ones you employ or him during the rest of the game.