On Monday in Mutitjulu, an Aboriginal community at the foot of Uluru, a gathered crowd heard from federal and territory politicians as well as outspoken Indigenous leaders who lamented the failure of opportunity to eventuate.
Ms Smith calculates that in Denmark and Sweden the gap between men and women at the upper end of the pay scale has actually increased in recent decades.Supporters of board quotas argue that they are a useful response to the failure of equal opportunities: by putting women into board seats by fiat, you will break up old-boy networks and create old-girl networks.
It is clear that the experience of students in first-year mathematics courses can shift from one of anxiety and failure to opportunity and success by combining mastery learning strategies with the beneficial features of small class sizes for students who are struggling the most.
In all of these cases, economic failure and a lack of opportunities and hope for the poor and young are fuelling political and religious extremism, resentment of the west and, in some cases, outright terrorism.
This renewed interest stems from a paradigm shift regarding the role of buckling instabilities in engineering design from detrimental sources of catastrophic failure to novel opportunities for functionality.
The age of enterprise has become the age of unearned income, the age of the market the age of market failure, the age of opportunity a steel cage of zero-hours contracts, precarity and surveillance.
All of these might be goals worth setting, and they all involve a lot of different behaviors -- and, therefore, a lot of opportunities for failure.
Reducing the achievement gaps along many demographic lines is likely to involve social engineering at some granular level, and the success or failure of interventions represents rich opportunities for network assessment.
This chapter describes concepts of stability and explores some of the major causes and triggers of slope failure and opportunities for further research.
Here, perhaps, is the hidden secret of prosperous, smoothly functioning, highly pacifist, even moralistic Germany -- a sadistic youth subculture born out of a wider failure to provide opportunities for young immigrants.
But then he added: "A lot of times we criticize ourselves and say there is failure and there is a lack of opportunities.
