The arrival of the Huguenots in Geneva in the 17th century introduced artistic techniques that found their greatest expression in exquisitely decorated timepieces, commissioned as gifts for the world's rulers: Still, watchmaking has remained an overwhelmingly technical pursuit.
As the sociologist Daniel Bell put it, "What the right as a whole fears is the erosion of its own social position, the collapse of its power, the increasing incomprehensibility of a world — now overwhelmingly technical and complex — that has changed so drastically within a lifetime".
Analysing 2,300 articles published in prominent journals in 2003 and 2004, Parker and two colleagues found business-school researchers overwhelmingly concentrating on narrow technical questions rather than the larger social and political issues - the environment, war, workers' rights, the distribution of wealth - which business has signally failed to provide answers to.
Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers overwhelmingly rejected the company's contract offer and approved a strike authorization.
Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers overwhelmingly rejected the company's recent contract offer and passed a strike authorization, the union said.
At the WTO, these technical NGOs (staffed overwhelmingly with lawyers) have concentrated on training and providing information on the arcana of trade law to delegates from poor countries.Enemies or allies?If the power of NGOs has increased in a globalised world, who has lost out?A popular view is that national governments have.
Whatever our theoretical approaches might be – whether we are empiricists or post-modern theorists – our technical phrases will consist overwhelmingly of nouns and noun phrases.
Several major tech companies including Apple, Twitter and Slack released diversity statistics last year that showed what many had long suspected: Their workforces are overwhelmingly white and male, particularly in technical jobs.
The Boeing Company's engineers and technical workers in Washington State have overwhelmingly approved new three-year contracts that give the company some stability during a time of turmoil in commercial aviation.
They framed their DAH programs overwhelmingly in bilateral terms, focused around infrastructure and technical assistance, and not well connected to global health initiatives [ 10].
For now, the emphasis in Chinese labs is weighted overwhelmingly toward the "D" side -- meaning training for technical employees and managers.
