So rather than reinvent the wheel,

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We may have to reinvent an ancient art form.

And let's face it, designers, we need to reinvent ourselves.

And that was at the time that we sought to redesign, reinvent the airport.

India shall also not subscribe to or reinvent the doctrines of the cold war.

So the question is, how do you reinvent something that has been around for five millennia?

YR That's really the goal, because if you put in steering, then you reinvent the airplane.

We're starting to reinvent community ourselves, and we've done it all without a flipping strategy document.

So rather than reinvent the wheel, I began studying other professions to see if anybody had.

That coordination will build on local best practices and obviate the need to reinvent the wheel.

We're still inventing, and this is what technology is allowing us to do it's continually to reinvent ourselves.

But the United Nations must reinvent itself to meet the needs of today's geopolitics and unique global challenges.

It is important that the action plan not reinvent the wheel but rather build on the achievements already made.

I want to reinvent the delivery system, and the use of cardboard around the world, so they become ecological footprints.

We need to reinvent ourselves, get off the beaten track, and find new ways to attain our objectives as soon as possible.

Successful practices are usually documented by example, resulting in only limited transfer of knowledge and ideas between countries and a tendency to reinvent the wheel .

But Phil and I decided to reinvent Project V.O.I.C.E. this time changing the mission to using spoken word poetry as a way to entertain, educate and inspire.

We are moved by the idea of virtual worlds because, like space, they allow us to reinvent ourselves and they contain anything and everything, and probably anything could happen there.

As the supreme commander of an army at war, Hollande can now try to reinvent himself. But, successive presidents since Jacques Chirac have failed to reconcile the French with politics.

Above all, Iran deludes itself that it can develop an advanced nuclear program by itself. In fact, continued isolationism would force Iran to reinvent nuclear technologies already invented by others, no doubt with poor results.

If we are going to reinvent the automobile today, rather than 100 years ago, knowing what we know about the issues associated with our product and about the technologies that exist today, what would we do?

We owe it to workers victimized by this recession to reinvent finance so that it works to enrich the real economy, instead of enriching only the financiers. This means changing the incentives and rules that govern the financial sector.

But creationists, whether biblical fundamentalists or believers in intelligent design, do pose a threat to scientific thinking. Indeed, creationism s insidious genius lies in its ability to reinvent evolution in its own image as a dogmatic belief system and thus the antithesis of science.

How Indian voters judge his attempt to reinvent himself as a latter day Patel could have a major impact on the country s future. But one thing is certain they will render their verdict long before his enormous avatar is placed on its pedestal.

But not only that I said and there was no objection to that that I was going to use the previous Chairman's proposal, because we are not trying to reinvent the wheel, as a basis for whatever compromise I had in mind.

But Bush, following the terrorist attacks of 2001, turned his back on conservatism. He sought to radically reinvent the Middle East, not only by overthrowing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein s regime in Iraq, but also through his strident calls for democratization.

The US has responded to the decline of its global strength in an impressive manner, with the election of its first African American president, Barack Obama. Amidst one of the gravest crises in its history, America has proven to itself and the world its ability to reinvent itself.

No good deed goes unpunished by making the PC, IBM practically destroyed itself as a company. Its innovation gave rise to a huge number of new and dynamic companies, forcing IBM to reinvent itself completely in order to compete with them just one example of the socially transformative effects of the PC.

And 1298 Ambulances decided that it was going to reinvent a completely broken industry, building an ambulance service in Bombay that would use the technology of Google Earth, a sliding scale pricing system so that all people could have access, and a severe and public decision not to engage in any form of corruption.

It is that we need to reinvent it for a new century in which the forces of economic globalization are much more powerful than before. Just as Smith s minimal capitalism was transformed into Keynes mixed economy, we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart.

It is that we need to reinvent it for a new century in which the forces of economic globalization are much more powerful than before. Just as Smith s minimal capitalism was transformed into Keynes mixed economy, we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart.

But one division that looms on the horizon could reinvent the right left distinction for the twenty first century precautionary versus proactionary attitudes toward risk as principles of policymaking. In social psychological terms, precautionary policymakers set their regulatory focus on the prevention of worst outcomes, whereas proactionary policymakers seek the promotion of the best available opportunities.

Government programs to supply these needs are plagued with corruption (by some estimates 50 70 of all welfare spending in India is stolen) and unable to provide quality services. Moreover, large companies have been unable to serve these populations needs, because to do so would require them to reinvent their existing business models around new product, distribution, and pricing paradigms.

Any reformed peace process is doomed if it is guided by a road map within which, on the core issues, the parties have diametrically opposed views. But there is no need to reinvent the wheel, because the solution to the Arab Israeli conflict is embodied in the main peace plans that are already on the table the Clinton peace parameters, and the all Arab peace initiative.

The present state of the world seems to be ahead of human thinking. We need to reinvent, for human beings of the coming millennium, a global village mentality. There is nothing pejorative in this term. Only in this way can the disasters that bloodied the first half of the century and the continuing tensions that have left their mark on its second half be avoided in future.

In Egypt, the economic challenges are so dire, and traditions of consensual governance so shallow, that it may be impossible for any party to rule democratically in the foreseeable future, let alone the Muslim Brotherhood, which would have to reinvent itself completely. And non Islamists are even less likely to trust the hardline Salafist Nour Party the Islamist party that participated in Morsi s ouster to uphold democratic principles.

The bottom line, as the youngsters gathered in Melbourne fully understood, is that the UN provides fabulous value for what the world spends on it, and that if it ever ceased to exist, we would have to reinvent it. The downsides are real, but we need to remember the immortal words of Dag Hammarskjold, the UN s second secretary general The UN was created not to bring us to heaven, but to save us from hell.