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So here we were, a nuclear physicist, an internist, soon joined by Carrie Hruska, a biomedical engineer, and two radiologists, and we were trying to take on the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape.
We've entrenched them.
Now, it's very easy to complain, of course, about partisan politics and entrenched bureaucracy, and we love to complain about government.
That's not a very helpful model for arguing, but it's a pretty common and entrenched model for arguing.
As most of you guys know, cities are being asked every day to do more with less, and they're always looking for innovative solutions to entrenched problems.
Our goal is to create a global network of civic hackers who are innovating on the existing system in order to build tools that will solve entrenched problems, that will support local government, and that will empower citizens.
And so you spend your days fighting things off, defending your territory and becoming more entrenched in your fundamental thinking.
But first, let's take a look at how firmly the idea of PMS is entrenched in American culture.
And let me just say, this profits mania that we're on is so deeply entrenched that we don't even realize how we're harming society.
But the point is, this mania is so deeply entrenched that well-intentioned people like myself don't even realize that we're part of it.
They've written books and columns and given passionate speeches, decrying the wealth gap that is leaving more and more people entrenched at the bottom end of the income scale.
The patent bar was deeply entrenched in the status quo, the biotech industry had grown up around this practice, and legislation to ban gene patents had been introduced year after year in Congress, and had gone absolutely nowhere.
Your supporters and investors, who have been with you the whole way, believe that the only chance of sort of taking on the powerful, entrenched interests of taxi industry and so forth, is to have someone who is a fierce, relentless competitor, which you've certainly proved to be.
For many different reasons, but primarily because of the deeply entrenched divide between the global North and the global South.
As a feminist, I know that the sex industry is a site of deeply entrenched social inequality.
We all know that as you get older, you get a little more entrenched in your ways.
Entrenched systems don't change because you ask the people in charge, they change because all of the people who don't have what they want rise up and make that change happen.
And we always ask for a really different sort of behavior, a repatterning away from the reflexive name-calling, so entrenched in our discourse that most of us, on all sides, don't even notice it anymore.
I thought sunscreen and straightening irons would bring about change in this deeply entrenched value system.
These two men were dealing with politics at a very, very high level, and they knew very well that sometimes only humor can break down entrenched positions and rigid ideology.
I'd like to give you an example of how humor can be used to break down rigid thinking and entrenched positions.
So for me, impostor syndrome is a feeling of being well, well out of your depth, yet already entrenched in the situation.
I was trying to get them to say what they probably wanted to say, to break out of their own cocoon of the public self, and the more public they had been, the more entrenched that person, that outer person was.
From Morocco to Lesotho, young people are rising up against entrenched monarchies: in Egypt and Sudan, against brutal dictatorships; in Uganda and Ethiopia, against powerful militarized states with quasi-democratic veneers; in South Africa, where this image was taken, and Burundi, against democratically elected leaders who have done little to improve the conditions for ordinary people.
From the opening set-up, I've never been so entrenched, caught up and finally exhausted like I was when watching this limited budget Independent Australian horror film, about three people in Northern Territory trapped in a mangrove swamp with a very conniving crocodile waiting in the water below them.
This film powerfully demonstrates the struggle of two women in love in a culture so deeply entrenched in ritual and tradition.
Akhras agree to speak with her."why should I?" she says.(since the movie was made the home has been destroyed- apparently the interview didn't result in what she wanted- so bring on the bulldozers)Mrs Levy claimed that she "wanted the movie to be cathartic as well as a symbol of hope, a chance to transcend entrenched hatreds"- instead she uses it as an excuse to harangue Ayats mother, while dangling the house as a carrot.Moreover although the two women live only 4 miles apart, she is so out of touch with the realities of the occupation for her Palestinian neighbors, that she really thinks that Mrs. Akhras can just drop over for a cup of coffee?Please.And she forgoes the one chance she had to meet Mrs. Akhras in person and see what kind of life she lives.(the
The supposed climax managed too, to roll by leaving me firmly entrenched in the back, not as should have been the aim, front edge of my seat.
Perhaps ten years later the 'psychological' western was well entrenched but in 1950 it was rare to throw Ahab into the mix with Cain and Abel, to say nothing of addressing several other issues along the way, and still furnish a conventional western on the surface and full credit to all concerned.
The story of peace-loving farmers and townspeople fighting for land, water, law and order, and the respect and ultimate subjugation of the long entrenched cattle interests and their hired guns had been worked over better in earlier (Shane) and probably later films as well.
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