Yet the resonance of themes, challenges, and pivotal transformations across contexts as different as Burkina Faso and North America, and across institutional settings from research networks to universities both within and between countries, suggests that we may have more in common than we realize.
My main point is to underscore for the graduates that even though we are living in the midst of an absolutely pivotal demographic transformation time, we still cling -- and your university still perpetuates -- norms, conventions, laws and regulations built for a different century.
Even as the legal profession stands at a pivotal point of transformation, the status of women in the law presents its own complexities.
Both became mainstays of Family Dog, a multi-media collective pivotal in the transformation of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury dintoict into a psychedelic wonderland, remembered chiefly for the "happenings" that began with A Tribute to Dr Strange - named after a comic-strip character - at the Avalon Ballroom.
"This legislation really hits a pivotal principle of transformation that the task force focused on, which is that only the children who are a danger to the community would end up in secure confinement," said Michael A. Corriero, a former judge and a member of the task force.
Invading cytotrophoblasts are pivotal in the transformation of the maternal uterine circulation.
Elevated expression of TWIST in breast tumor samples from patients correlates strongly with high-grade invasive carcinoma and with chromosome instability to promote an EMT-like transition that is pivotal for the transformation into an aggressive breast cancer phenotype [ 23], consistent with its role in driving mouse mammary carcinoma cell metastasis [ 24].
Vreeland's Vogue occupied the pivotal place in this transformation.
And it memorializes a pivotal moment of cultural transformation.
MIT Sloan School of Management's Initiative for Health Systems Innovation (HSI) aspires to play a pivotal role in this transformation.
