Steve Royston, a businessman based in Bahrain who blogs regularly on Gulf matters, believes that, though caution remains the byword, social media is a force for change.
But ultimately, self-interest itself will be a force for change.
Before Carl Paladino exited the stage Tuesday night, ending what he described as his first and only political campaign, the Buffalo developer vowed to remain a force for change in New York.
It would be wrong to see a youth wave as a monolithic force for change.
In short, single mothers are now a huge demographic and a potential force for change.
The question is how to turn that angst and anger into a positive force for change.
But we can never forget that together, we are a tremendous force for change.
All of us who are looking to invest responsibly and grow clean energy are a powerful force for change.
His music aside, Criolo also is a force for social change in Brazil.
This is a potent force for change, because capital is scarce in India and its firms are unusually dependent on outside money.
Far from being a force for social change, the military enlists far more people from the ranks of the poor because the poor often have no better alternatives.
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She aims to use the experience garnered over the past five years as a "force for change" to give educational opportunities to more girls from poor backgrounds in other countries and help raise the next generation of female leaders and entrepreneurs.
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It will take a board of directors that can overcome internal schisms, its natural aversion to risk and a focus on the next quarter and similar pressures by short-term investors to put its faith in the kind of leader who can be a positive force for change.
"Sinn Fein is now a major political force for change in this state, " he said.
At best Svyazinvest could be a welcome force for structural change in telecoms.
In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.
This small but fast-growing group may in any event be a force for conservatism rather than change.
Certainly unions have their share of pathologies and institutional inertia, but they can be a force for bottom-up change.
After consulting with staff for a few days, our task force had taken note of over a hundred reasonable proposals for change.
This will force a change in strategy for those brave enough to invest in distressed assets.
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But if those changes failed to occur within the defined period, a so-called "trigger" would provide for creating a public option to force change on the insurance companies, the source said.
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Bold and energetic young leaders have made startups a positive and inspiring force for innovation and change.
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Next year's election of a mayor for London could be another force for change.
They warn of what 11 retired generals and admirals wrote about in 2007 - climate change becoming a 'force multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world'.
Earlier this week President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said for the first time the downturn might eventually force a change in the country's budget.
But welfare-to-work practitioners say one factor in its success has been a dramatic change in how welfare recipients are prepped for the work force.
"Chen's force for change came from the bottom up, " says Ingrid Liao, a former assistant to the director of social services during the mayor's term.
Mr Rumsfeld insists the reason for a smaller force is that since the last Gulf war there has been a huge change in the way ground campaigns can be fought, especially with weapons getting smarter and more precise.
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