Sentence examples for acting to change from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, that's the easy part: the harder part is hearing what those biases are and acting to change your organisation's culture so it doesn't reflect them.

Steven Munchenberg of the Australian Bankers Association said the current pressure on the banks should be seen in the context of the banks acting to change their conduct and culture.

And several other provisions of the anti-terrorism law, the Internet law and the penal code continue to stifle free speech and freedom of press, with neither the government nor the main opposition acting to change them, Mr. Baydar said.

Alternatively, a value where Ka/Ks > 1 indicates that selection has accelerated evolution by acting to change the protein, which is termed "positive selection".

I'm blaming the rest of us for not speaking out or acting to change our violent, gun-saturated society.

In the political world, the goal is to consciously mislead those shut out of political and economic power, to make them distrust their ability to challenge those who hold that power, and demobilize them from acting to change an oppressive system.

They appear to include canonical translation initiation factors such as eIF2, eIF3 and eIF4F (Pestova et al, 1996) and also other trans-acting factors, and may act to change the secondary structure of the IRES to facilitate ribosomal binding (Mitchell et al, 2003; Pickering et al, 2004).

If the rate of substitution or polymorphism is lower than neutral, it is evidence of selective constraint or purifying natural selection acting to prevent change and preserve function in the face of mutational damage.

It is therefore likely that selection is acting to reduce change in these sequences by eliminating mutant alleles carrying non-synonymous substitutions.

The alternative explanation is that the effective population size is larger, but positive selection is acting to make changes sweep through the population faster.

When dN/ dS is less than 1, there is evidence that purifying selection has been a predominant force during evolution, acting to remove changes in amino acid sequence and maintain protein function.