This implies that the changes to it are necessarily slow and efforts of change face significant difficulties, unless they are marginal modifications or additions.
When Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani belittled the work of the nation's community organizers, they dissed the often-thankless efforts of change agents working to solve the pressing challenges of America's inner cities.
As a result borrowing [to service] our big public debt becomes more burdensome by the day, threatening to strangle the economy and wipe out any effort of just change and necessary reform".
Another former F.B.I. official said that Mr. Ashcroft's attitude "really undermined a lot of effort to change the culture and change the mind-set" of F.B.I. agents.
Iacobescu acknowledges this contrast, but argues that "it takes time, it takes a lot of effort" to change a place.
Because energy consumption is a deeply ingrained behaviour that ties into work, shopping and family life, it will take quite a lot of effort to change.
"Think of the road itself as a settlement," he said, "part of the conscious effort to change the character of the area, giving it an Israeli stamp.
The company accused Microsoft of an unfair effort to change the terms of their business relationship after Windows NT gained a foothold in the market and Microsoft lost its incentive to foster the use of Unix.
But Gadget Camp, a workshop for girls in this suburb west of Chicago, is part of an effort to change that.
If Dimon is to restore his reputation, he has to make that effort to change true of him as well as of his bank.
