Sentences with phrase «not much conflict»

We spent a lot of leisure time together (e.g., family ski trips), a new puppy and kitten joined our family, we renovated and made my house «ours,» there was not much conflict within our family itself, and the Consultant and I regularly scheduled activities with each other's children to show care and investment, such as getting pedicures together or throwing the football around.

Not much conflict in the game, but still really fun.

Not much of a plot, not much conflict resolution, and not much in message, Laurel Canyon is a soap opera with a twist, a turn, and then the credits roll.

When you're standing up for those principles in a principled manner, there's probably not much conflict with your scientific role.

Seeing as boxing is the only sport I follow there's not much conflict!

There really isn't much conflict and the movie is just not funny enough to be memorable.

Not exact matches

THE CONFLICT: Perhaps jealous it wasn't the one to come up with a garment as pleasing to both women and men as Lululemon yoga pants, Calvin Klein, the fashion label that pretty much invented sexy, recently released its Performance line of yoga pants aping the patented waistband of Lulu's Astro yogawear.

A snowmageddon such as the storm experienced by much of the United States this week isn't just a logistical nightmare for those trying to travel — it can create conflicts between workers and managers at small businesses.

But in reality, I always prefer to solve things without conflict and I would even say one of my flaws is that I drag out conflict too long and not in the interest of my organization and my people, because I hate it so much.»

Apparently, «after much deliberation and conflicting feelings,» Bale came to the decision that «he was not right for the part and decided to withdraw,» the outlet reports.

Israel has been the flashpoint of much of the world's conflict for the past few decades and it's not inconceivable that it'll be the last place on Earth where fighting continues.

We don't let conflicts fester, and we communicate as much as possible face - to - face and via phone.

«Most of us are much more empathetic if we're not in conflict with someone.

Ironically, I didn't write much about investing until after I left my job in 2012 because I didn't want to risk blowing myself up at work if there was some sort of conflict of interest.

Not only that, much of the information is conflicting and contradictory.

(TheMIX)-- As a reverse fairy tale for the CEO set, the reality television program Undercover Boss is fascinating, not so much in the witness - to - a-train - wreck mode of the rest of the genre, but because it is so revealing of our conflicted relationship with «the boss.»

An advisor that tries to act in your best interest, but doesn't have the skill or diligence to do so can cause just as much harm as a conflicted advisor.

An advisor who tries to act in a client's best interest, but doesn't have the skill or diligence to do so, can cause just as much harm as a conflicted advisor.

President Bush and Secretary Baker are trying to bring the parties to the conflict together, and this aim is frequently not served very well by too much clarity.

Hopefully science can figure that out but I am not going to hold my breath... it is hard to know who to believe with so much conflicting bias research.

The problem may not yet be a live one because nearly every American follows a religion whose moral beliefs don't really conflict that much.

I know you are pretty much supporting my comment, and I don't mean to be rude, but I think Baden's exclusion of the Islamic approach is much more egregious than his non-mention of the Christian approach — seeing as half of the conflict he is discussing is driven mainly by Islamic people and Islamically - oriented ideology.

The people who could have reinforced my faith condemned me for daring to exercise it in the face of questions and conflicting evidence: not just encouraging me, but demanding me to believe that much harder in what I could not see.

And to make matters much worse, it's not just a matter of two sets of conflicting beliefs, it's a matter of hundreds or thousands of sets of conflicting beliefs when you consider all the world's religions, all of which have devoted adherents just like you.

If we can not think past the conflicting goals of different groups to the world in which their diverse interests can be reconciled, too much energy will be spent on bickering among those who should be allies in a common struggle.

Ubaidulla did not gain much following because he was torn between opposing forces and tried to reconcile too many conflicting doctrines.

it tests believers and destroys disbelievers... How much of that happens through wars and conflicts... How much of that through Natural Disasters... Aren't we seeing that all?

Reports conflict, but when the Arabs invaded in the 7th century Copts either helped or at least did not much hinder the invaders.

These are real questions, and when she utters the postmodern cliché, «Conflict is only generated by the familiar commitment to One; Creativity is generated by the Many,» I suspect that she doesn't really believe it: her own work tells her that univocal obsessives are much more likely to be creative than cocktail party flibbertigibbets who constantly espouse multiple positions.

Israel and the Middle East and issues involving conflict resolution generate some but not as much inspiration for Jewish - Americans seeking volunteer opportunities.

There is no conflict here... Conservative Christians want just as much as you to help the poor and needy and yes we do not want to be forced by the government to do so.

If all religion never existed, I believe human conflict would not have been much different.

In light of this fourfold division, it appears that the current disputes about Darwin and design are at bottom not so much conflicts between science and religion as disagreements about whether there is room for only one level — not a plurality of levels — on which to understand the story of life.

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

They avoided neurotic conflict by a certain emotional self - restriction: they did not want to talk or think too much but felt more comfortable in action, in sports or work.

A good story is touching, funny, marked by conflict (but not too much conflict) and satisfying in its resolution.

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

Much of the conflict in the Church has to do with Christians not wanting to upset others, or to lose membership, as so they kowtow to the prevelant social forces.

In the Christian Science Monitor, David Newsom has commented that «conflict in the decades ahead is likely to center not so much on disputes among states as on efforts within states to find a balance between national cohesion and an honorable recognition of the separate characteristics of groups within the society.»

To try to hurry the process is not so much disrespect toward the deceased as the creation of new inner conflicts in the living.

But I often think of how much clearer and consistent and how much more conscience - free a Christian could be without some of the conflicted ideals just in the NT.

Obviously there is also much evidence to support the evolutionary process which need not conflict with a Christian belief.

I guess I don't consider those comments with as much disdain, and they are disdainful, because they don't conflict with my thoughts on such a primal level as does the above mentioned nonsense.

Micah Mattix analyzes the first line of The Wasteland: Eliot's «April is the cruellest month» is not so much about his conflicted response to spring (rooted in some forgotten childhood trauma) or about creating a linguistic puzzle to help us develop our skills of attention but about....

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

Looking at the conflict I became troubled wondering why God would allow the palestines to suffer so much (and the Israelites have also suffered) but i could not believe in a God that takes sides when it came to his people, his own creation.

This for Nathanson is a psychological task that at first seemed «overwhelming» and ultimately required «every iota» of knowledge she had gained through her study and practice of psychology — particularly the art of not sacrificing too much for her children: «Central to the mothering instinct within me is a predisposition to recognize and meet the needs of my children, voluntarily sacrificing my own at times when there is a conflict.»

But this concept of «negative liberty» doesn't tell us much about how we resolve the inevitable conflicts between wills without raw coercion, or even why we should do so.

That, however, is the nature of much of the Christian literature written for ordinary people like the conflicted Corinthians and not particularly for professors.

Conflict may be increasingly channeled in non-violent directions for example, and in any case in not as much of a fixed datum as Niebuhr appears to believe.27