Despite what is traditionally conceived of as progress, for example, economic growth, material productivity, etc, countries are now tracking other indicators of social progress and the level of their responses to local and global challenges, for example, poverty, violence, corruption and sustainability.
In religions and cultures that conceive of time as linear, progressing from a beginning toward an end time, when the whole cosmos will be renewed or changed, people understand their status (i.e., origin, identity, and destiny) in relationship to particular events in history that have a significance similar to those expressed in the myths of people who view time as cyclical.
Its inability to conceive of a succession has crippled women's progress not just within the women's movement but in every venue of American public life".
Of relevance to the current study, depictions that utilize vertical space with more recent developments placed at the top imply progress or improvement and lead individuals to conceive of evolution as a teleological (purpose-driven) process (Tversky 2011).
Treading this historic trajectory of development and progress illuminates the path on which we can conceive of myriad benefits to digitization, such as Echlin's claim that technology possesses the potential to "further democratize communication" and "connect us internationally".
Being able to move systems in that way is a very difficult and painstaking progress, but it will never happen until you conceive of it, and then you start to try to make it happen..
"I frankly can't conceive of anything that would be a better substitute for having two major global economies having a forum where we can make progress on the most important economic issues," Mr. Paulson said.
Hard to conceive of that".
I could not conceive of the scale.
