Some people regard the path-dependence of our policies as evidence of weak leadership; we have, they charge, allowed our choices to be constrained by history and by vested interests.
As Gould remarks, "Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution -- paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce".
Thus Holt quotes the agnostic Stephen Jay Gould -- no philosophical shrinking violet, he -- as saying, "Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution -- paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce".
We anticipate that participants will place the events of 2011 in the region in a variety of analytical contexts, investigating the ways in which current dynamics of legal and political change are shaped, enabled or constrained by histories of authoritarianism, legal modernization initiatives, and social movements such as organized labor, women's movements, and Islamist movements.
Read more. 1) By imaging the transition between these two continental blocks, we will constrain the history and timing of relative motion between them.
Constraining the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) is important for improving our understanding of ice sheet dynamics and landscape evolution processes.
On the contrary, our biology does not fix the range of possible moral systems, which is constrained only by history and culture.
But they are constrained by the history of candidates who have squandered their credibility by starting off on the attack, and this concern has been evident in the Lazio camp in the last few days.
Overall, the strong tendency of each of the tools to assign more severe impact scores to ncSNVs found in evolutionarily conserved positions means that current approaches are highly biased toward selecting conserved sites at the expense of causal variants less constrained by evolutionary history (Fig. 5b).
"What it means is any generational change and the implementation of reforms will be guided by the 'historicos' — or perhaps better put, constrained by the history of the Cuban revolution and the memories and goals of its founders," said Christopher Sabatini, a Cuba scholar who edits Americas Quarterly.
Bottom-up systems, such as evolution, are unplanned, quirky, and are constrained by their history.
