Sentence examples for lever for change from inspiring English sources

It is hoped that the principle of transparency and reporting will act as a lever for change – if companies know and have to report on their procurement impacts, then many will manage those impacts more responsibly.

Hammad Naqi Khan, from WWF, says that if other brands in Europe and the US follow this initiative they will create a demand for sustainably grown cotton in Pakistan and become a lever for change.

"It's a very powerful lever for change, for them to become a high-performing group, if they understand what each other's styles are and how they interact," she said.

The court remains a major lever for change in some of the worst offending states, highlighting serious systemic problems and putting pressure on individual states to improve national practices.

Now, this extraordinary lever for change – which would improve our understanding of diseases, personalise diagnosis and treatment, bring new rigour to mental health care and provide valuable insights into the efficacy of cancer treatments – will be reduced for the foreseeable future to little more than a dribble of data in a few pilot areas.

Microcredit is staged today as a global movement and part of a globalization process, and is considered as an excellent indicator of economic, social, and cultural opportunities, 'an important lever for change, contributing to local development …' (Gentil and Servet 2002).

Identify key levers for change in your business context.

As Mr. Purdy notes, consumers hold the levers for change, and the industry knows it.

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein welcomed 1,200 new parent coordinators yesterday, saying they were taking on "one of the key levers for change" in an overhauled school system.

The levers for change and the practical results might be similar, but Watson's language is very different, emphasising empowerment rather than control.

"People haven't tended to think hard enough about how change happens, with the result that levers for change are often pressed simultaneously or at the wrong time, or the right levers were pressed, but the transition wasn't sustained," Uren said.