Achieving permanence with accountability

Then we used the continuity equation.

So that's one more element for this continuity.

Through the summers, as they go from one teacher to the next, you have this continuity of data that even at the district level they can see.

Continuity was not important in those days.

The origin of the signal varies, depending on the continuity and medium.

It provided continuity throughout the dark period of the cold war.

There should be some continuity over time in the composition of the Committee.

It's a question of what's the continuity?

(i) Going concern, consistency and accrual are fundamental accounting assumptions.

The funny thing about sustainability, you have to sustain it.

We can offer people the grand continuity of experience and personal investment.

So we have an in built system within our own lives that ensures some kind of continuity.

Here is an example, see how jump cuts disrupt continuity, and disorients the viewer.

In the interests of continuity, all the professional staff hired by the previous administration had been retained.

In many other areas, continuity can be expected to trump change.

But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.

It gives one a feeling of solidarity, almost of continuity with the past, that sort of thing.

For example, Japanese elites tend to favor continuity over change.

Also of vital importance was the need to ensure continuity.

The system allowed continuity, rotation of topics and the movement of some items in and out of the agenda.

You also mentioned the question of the need for greater continuity in the action of the presidency.

France wants the illusion of change, but is continuity what she truly desires?.

More importantly, continuity on the political front is likely to extend to strategy and policy.

It is set in the present day and introduces different main characters, therefore belonging to a different continuity.

If the work of the Sub Commission is to be rationalized, a minimum of continuity is vital.

The Committee would require strong, committed and dynamic leadership in the coming year, and continuity would also be important.

It's an incubator for about a dozen projects, all having to do with continuity over the long term.

Even milestone documents such as the Single European Act and the Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nice, were never envisaged as achieving the kind of permanence (or even semi permanence) that we normally associate with a constitution.

Now, it's interesting, because we've embraced this Darwinian view of a continuity in physical evolution, this physical continuity.

STANFORD Political leadership transitions typically signal either a change in direction or continuity.

Even today Russia shares many continuities of political culture and social structure with its tsarist and Soviet past.

A third term would provide continuity during the first period in office of the newly elected Director General.

(b) To keep in mind the need to ensure universality, a balanced representation, as well as the benefits of continuity and the importance of renewal

Improved continuity and consistency must mark the action of the international community in post conflict situations.

Why favor change, when continuity works so well for you?

For instance, the Bureau elected on the first day could keep several members from the current Bureau so as to ensure continuity.

Continuity will be based on criteria such as organizational interests, fully meeting performance expectations and upholding the standards of conduct.

But we've been much more reticent, much slower at recognizing this continuity in cognition, in emotion, in consciousness in other animals.

OIOS appreciates that UNHCR is acutely aware that the success of an operation depends on having appropriate staffing levels and expertise deployed on a timely basis, as well as ensuring a manageable level of continuity of staff.

In the later stages of the revision process, it became increasingly clear that continuity was an important element for many countries.

Her Government had shown continuity and good will, and had taken specific measures to fulfil Croatia's commitments regarding the return process.

The loss of continuity in political parties, parliamentary procedures, and judicial processes encourages short term calculation and spawns illiberal practices.

Water supply service quality has many dimensions continuity water quality pressure and the degree of responsiveness of service providers to customer complaints.

Members of the Committee shall serve for a period of two years, renewable once, with the renewal period phased so as to provide continuity.