Mr. Hamilton's strongest opposition could come from the institutional inertia of the committee itself.

There's a kind of institutional inertia where it's the personnel people who do the recruiting and they want to keep their jobs.

By this he meant the career structures and sheer institutional inertia which kept thousands of the industry's boffins stuck to their nuclear portfolios.

It is not hard to imagine the reasons: institutional inertia, budgetary constraints, differences in audiences, music directors' lack of interest.

What holds things back is a sort of institutional inertia.

Until the explosion of street violence in recent years, there has also been individual and institutional inertia against a change.

The only reason I can imagine for a nun to stay off the pill is a combination of institutional inertia with old-fashioned misogyny.

Too often, institutional inertia has strangled innovative ideas before they mature.

He cited institutional inertia, even after Sept. 11.

What we're fighting here is institutional inertia.