WEF has been inspired by the journey taken by business to mainstream the use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in packaging, which has driven recycling rates.
This made it clear that although the UK Twitter scene appears to be breaking through to the mainstream, the use of things like hashtags is probably not.
But despite how mainstream the use of Internet-based applications and services has become, many of them -- such as web-based email -- still do not enjoy the same legal protections that our postal mail does.
In line with the PRSAP, the program will mainstream the use of innovative communication and participatory strategies in life skills to include HIV and AIDS and reproductive health issues in the school curriculum, and intensify sex education at primary and high school levels to discourage teenage pregnancies.
These differences bear no resemblance to those that divide Muslim fundamentalists from the Islamic mainstream, and the use of the term can therefore be misleading.
In large part, this is a credit to the organic farming movement, as many of the ideas and techniques it pioneered have now worked their way into the mainstream, reducing the use of chemicals even among farmers who aren't completely organic.
They found that "As yet there is no clear scientific evidence published in the mainstream literature supporting the use of eye exercises" to improve visual acuity, and concluded that "their use therefore remains controversial".
The Guardian Sian Rowe commented that M.I.A.'s deliberate "shrinking away from a mainstream audience" by the use of difficult, unsearchable symbols was part of a growing new underground scene perhaps trying to create a "generation gap", where only "the youngest and the most enthusiastic" would seek out such band names by reading the right online sources.
alt-right: noun An ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterised by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content.
Contenders for the title had included the noun "alt-right", shortened from the fuller form "alternative right" and defined as "an ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterised by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content".
