Sentence examples for emphasizing agency from inspiring English sources

We conclude that system dynamics complements the dominant multi-level perspective and the transition management approach by providing a middle ground between emphasizing agency or structure.

In contrast to functionalist and structuralist approaches (which tend to conceptualize culture in a top-down deterministic manner), our cultural-performative perspective emphasizes agency, collective sensemaking and framing struggles.

Agencies with flat funding may still be able to shift some money around to emphasize agency priorities.

Mutualink says its solution emphasizes agency control of media and recording on glass, so privacy would be in the hands of the cops and other officials using them and should be protected.

In this sense, these stories emphasize agency, turning the spotlight on human powers to formulate agential projects (Archer, 2000; Emirbayer and Mische, 1998).

Such an amended agenda should emphasize agency in strengthening health systems in middle and low-income states and highlight the need for sustainable funding of health initiatives in poor countries.

A sign asking for help from FEMA is seen in New York on Nov. 2, 2012, four days after superstorm Sandy smashed into the Northeast U.S. FEMA Public Affairs director William Booher defended the puzzling exclusion in an email to NPR, emphasizing the agency focuses less on causes and more on mitigating their effects.

These models are, in part, a reaction to earlier economic and other models of agency policy-making which emphasized the agency losses attendant to the delegation of decision-making authority to agencies by politicians.

While it is being made "only as a precaution," a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized, an agency virologist said the agency was "fairly worried" about the new virus.

At the close of his book, Mr. Wiencek quotes a sentence from "The Hemingses of Monticello" as an example of the way two decades of scholarship that emphasizes the "agency" of slaves implies, as he puts it, that they "had no master".

Through a contagion of visions and metaphors, on both the intellectual right and the intellectual left, earlier notions of history and society that stressed solidity, collective institutions, and social circumstances gave way to a more individualized human nature that emphasized choice, agency, performance, and desire.