laggardness


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To examine the viability of two distinct factors of Originality and Laggardness, we conducted additional maximum likelihood factor analyses of both positive and negative items.
Beyond simple innovativeness: a hierarchical continuum and thinking and feeling processing modes
Canadian laggardness is a mixed blessing in this regard, as there are numerous reform exercises and blueprints around the world from which to draw (both inside and outside of the Westminster family).
Beyond Westminster governance: bringing politics and public service into the networked era
Facility investment is gradually improving on the back of recovering domestic economy, while construction investment continued to reside in laggardness.
The green book: current economic trends
We blame our partners or our children - and they point the finger at us - for laggardness or disharmony in the home.
When blame doesn't help
system of a key source of its extreme laggardness, namely the necessity for ratification by a supermajority of state legislatures or constitutional conventions, Ackerman's proposal nonetheless strives to preserve the basic contours of constitutional dualism.
Constitutionalism in an age of speed
But D'Amato bears blame for the committee's laggardness too.
The real blood sport: the Whitewater scandal machine
As Cadigan makes clear, despite its political laggardness and constitutional incompleteness, Newfoundland shared in the development of law and judicial institutions that was one of the major characteristics of the period 1785 to 1850 in every jurisdiction of British North America.
Hope and deception in Conception Bay: merchant-settler relations in Newfoundland 1785-1855

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