21 April 2019

• Amenable: Open and responsive to suggestions; easily persuaded and controlled. 
• Analyzing interviews and documents, we found that, while these firms initially framed  climate change in broad terms, organizational engagement with the concept inevitably resulted in more limited and less threatening ideas and practices that were amenable to prevailing discourses of profit maximization and "business as usual".  (Wright & Nyberg)
• Hand-wringing: The excessive display of concern or distress. 
• Our aim in this editorial is not to join the collective hand-wringing, but rather to offer insights aligned with our editorial's team focus on new ways of seeing. (AMJ)
• Prognosis:The likely course of a medical condition; a forecast of the likely outcome of the situation. 
• Although this book is a diagnoses rather than a prognosis -an analysis rather than a solution-its results have a bearing on our course of action. (Escape from Freedom-Enrich Fromm)  
• Automaton: A person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner without intelligence
• After centuries of struggles, man succeeded in building an undreamed-of wealth of material goods; he built democratic societies in parts of the world, and recently was victorious in defending himself against new totalitarian schemes; yet, as analysis in Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lost it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. (Escape from Freedom-Enrich Fromm)  

19 April 2019

• Recursive: Characterized by recurrence and repetition
•  I have come to fully embrace the recursive and serendipitous nature of writing as a practice.  (Charlotte Cloutier)

17 April 2019

• Slough off: To dispose or get rid of
• If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow. (Peter F. Drucker). 

16 April 2019

• Take something with a grain of salt: To understand that something is likely to be untrue or incorrect. 
• Being based on a small sample qualitative study, this finding has to be taken with a grain of salt. (Kai Hockerts).

15 April 2019

• Squabble: An argument over something that is not important
• In his final years, as his sons squabbled, he pursued another dream, that of reuniting North and South Korea through trade, aid and investment. (Don Kirk). 
• Propound: Put forward (an idea or theory) for the consideration of others. 
• While propounding "the Confucian spirit," Mr. Chung also had faith in his ability to overcome all odds as he charged into new fields. (Don Kirk).
• Teleological: Relating to or involving the explanation of phenomenon in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise. 
• The ideas and human actions related to sustainability derive directly from those purposes, goals or social expectations. For that reason, it can be said that this use reveals a teleological meaning of the concept of sustainability. (Zapata & Munos) 

1 April 2019

• Potentate: a monarch or ruler, especially an autocratic one.
• Sometimes Arab potentates would turn up in Rome – Syria provided a couple of emperors, including Philip the Arab. (Robert Fisk)