Innovations (and hence attempts to bring about transitional change) take off in niches in the context of existing regimes with their specific problems, rules and capabilities.
Take off your coat, take off your belt, take off your jewelry, take out your change, take off your shoes (yuck - who knows what's been on that floor?! They should install Purell dispensers!), take out your laptop, take out your camera, lay everything flat and don't even think about walking through the machine until you're waved through.
He argues that "history teaches us that when the pressure is on, change takes off".
And on that note, Trap at least makes a change, taking off Doyle and introducing... Caleb Folan.
Photographs of it therefore start with an advantage, and much of "Sea Change" takes off from there.
We have our first black president of the United States, but as I discussed here last week on the Huffington Post in "The Real Game Change," taking off on the hit HBO movie, much of the country is discombobulated by it.
They made their changes, taking off the previously injured, like Fritz Lee, or the simply out of touch, like Nalaga.
No fact was too incontrovertible, no judgment too safe, no quotation too anodyne, to be questioned, challenged, changed, taken off the record, manipulated, denied, and finally denounced by the super-disciplined members of the Obama message team on the imperative mission of shaping the campaign narrative in their favor.
For the backers of the Marin proposal, the fight is about how quickly local efforts to address climate change can take off.
After a poor first half, he was quick to make a change and take off the defensive-minded Agustin Viana and bring in Jairo Arrieta to add some more offense and they improved.
"And there were times when I had thirty-eight seconds to take a wig off, take the skullcap off, take the pins out, change the dress, take off the jewelry, put the nightgown on, wet my hair, and the lady didn't have the spray bottle open".
