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The scenario envisages a future where the drivers of change shaping the scenario continue their past patterns and, thus, no particular *departure* from these trends is assumed.
2007-01-09 17:17:57 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It means they are are not going to change these trends, not going to depart from these trends.
2007-01-09 17:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Departure means that things change from the way they were. If you depart from a path, you leave that path and go off in another direction. If you depart from the norm or from your usual routine, you abandon what you usually do and do something different. So "no particular departure" means that everything continues as usual.
Example: I always go to school and never miss a day. So if I call in sick, that's a departure from my usual routine.
2007-01-10 01:25:54 · answer #2 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This means that the assumed actors in the future, envisioned by the schematic you are reading will continue to act in the future as they have in the past. If you are looking for a solution elsewhere in this problem, you may not form it on any prediction of change by the "drivers of change".
BTW, the author is an awful and unnecessarily wordy writer, if he is your prof., you can tell him I said that!! ;)
2007-01-10 01:39:07 · answer #3 · answered by mountain woman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Departure - An act of living a place, especially at the start of a journey.
E.g : I saw Simon shortly before his departure for Russia.
2007-01-10 01:42:55 · answer #4 · answered by blacktulip_raine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up the word, Congress, or Government, or City Council to explain the meaning .
Or to make a long story short... Not to do anything different than what has or is being done. No change, not to do anything different, just keep doing the same old thing.
John
2007-01-10 01:32:04 · answer #5 · answered by JRC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that the "drivers" will continue to act as they have in the past. The "departing" they won't be doing is some actions or behavior which would be a different path from the ones they have forged in the past behaviorally.
2007-01-10 01:31:46 · answer #6 · answered by ptery 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The author of that sentence is trying to confuse the reader rather than making the point in a simple, clear way.
2007-01-10 02:18:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anniesgran 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that the patterns were not changed in any significant way.
2007-01-10 01:24:07 · answer #8 · answered by jjc92787 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm, let's put a twist on this and say;
That dummy will not stop repeating their mistakes!
LOL
No departure....No return
2007-01-10 01:30:56 · answer #9 · answered by babilv 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fifty lashes with a wet noodle for the person who composed that sentence. :-)
Gr
2007-01-10 01:42:54 · answer #10 · answered by Gregnir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋