Inertia

Inertia, lack of action.

So inertia versus momentum.

But the inertia of a bureaucratic drug enforcement superstructure (worth approximately 40 billion each in the US and the EU), sustained by a deep seated fear of the threat posed by drugs and cartels, appears to push policy repeatedly towards the familiar option of repressive auto pilot.

Crisis conditions can liberate a gifted leader from the accumulated constraints of vested interests and bureaucratic inertia that normally inhibit action in the American system. Bill Clinton, caught up in the complacent 1990 s, is said to have envied Franklin Roosevelt s crisis conditions of the 1930 s.

Turkey s Failed Bureaucratic Coup

It's called inertia. It's how we screw it up.

It's called the bureaucratic administrative machine.

We talked about inertia and organ donations and checking the box.

So this was the pre bureaucratic age.

So the smaller you make R, the more dramatically the inertia reduces.

We are concerned at the general inertia existing in the entire disarmament machinery.

Well, I'm afraid you're going to suffer a short, condensed history lesson about what I would say are the three passages of history the pre bureaucratic age, the bureaucratic age and what we now live in, which I think is a post bureaucratic age.

The one that's the most important is the inertia or the resistance to motion.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

Let me now talk about another behavioral obstacle to saving having to do with inertia.

We continue to see demonstrably inefficient practices and inertia, and we keep on repeating them.

So it turns out, the inertia, which governs angular motion, scales as a fifth power of R.

Obtaining approvals is a lengthy process that involves substantial documentation and tedious bureaucratic procedures.

We didn't only have the bureaucratic problems associated with that, was also had professional jealousies.

This was the pre bureaucratic age, an age in which everything had to be local.

So we're now living in a post bureaucratic age, where genuine people power is possible.

Existing bureaucratic obstacles have an enormous cost for business, as well as for state revenues.

The schools would produce the people who would then become parts of the bureaucratic administrative machine.

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

That lends legitimacy to this morning's discussion to our adoption of appeals and proposals to break through the inertia in the other forums.

Naked City is a nickname for New York, and Spleen embodies the melancholia and inertia that come from feeling alienated in an urban environment.

So we must ask ourselves what can be done to hold States accountable for non implementation and for the present inertia in the disarmament machinery.

Eliminating bureaucratic red tape, as the Commission has now pledged to do, would be a substantial boon to European researchers.

The World Bank suggests that the bureaucratic requirements to start a business in many countries are excessive and time consuming.

The fighting now affects humanitarian work more frequently and more directly than bureaucratic restrictions ever did, with fatal, tragic consequences.

(c) Measure the mass of the asteroid, the ratio of the moments of inertia and the low order harmonics of the gravity field of the asteroid

Other obstacles to international cooperation, such as bureaucratic constraints and the notion of keeping information secret in investigations, were also discussed.

By easing bureaucratic procedures, entrepreneurs are able to concentrate their efforts on higher value activities such as product development and sales.

In bureaucratic school systems, teachers are often left alone in classrooms with a lot of prescription on what they should be teaching.

Suddenly, all sorts of transport, travel information were possible, and this gave birth to, what I like to call, the bureaucratic age.

But why did the pieces of the puzzle fall into place as they did? Was it bad luck, miscalculation, or bureaucratic error?

Data from these observations make it possible to determine crucial parameters such as the size and albedo of NEOs and provide information on surface characteristics via thermal inertia.

Then, after years of bureaucratic hurdles, it is the National Institute on Drug Abuse that has held the final key to the lock.

This dictates a radical change in mindset a change from bureaucratic turf protection to teamwork, and from narrow departmentalization to interdepartmental (joint) programming.

The judicial procedure for resolving commercial disputes tends to be overly bureaucratic in a number of developing countries in comparison with industrialized countries.

Particular attention was called to bureaucratic difficulties to establish a business property rights and effective enforcement of contracts and protection of creditor rights.

The substantive value added of having UNOPS as an executing agency under the RCF RP is unclear and largely preserved for bureaucratic reasons.

Ultimately, world peace is in the hands of leaders. History honors those who dare to challenge the politics of inertia by opening, through inspired diplomacy, new paths to progress.