Sentences with phrase «aggressive way of»

For example, your ex may have allowed the dishes to pile up in the sink as a passive - aggressive way of telling you to do your part of the chores while your current partner might do the same thing solely out of laziness.

«It's a very passive - aggressive way of making a point, and it doesn't clearly get to the issue.»

We offer an aggressive way of finding candidates to our clients, without regular announcing of free positions.

(There might be a less aggressive way of asking this, but the point remains).

And, just as the Bush crew did, the Obama team likes to paint its policy opponents as people who prefer the status quo, a passive - aggressive way of saying that these folks don't care as much about kids as the education secretary does.

It's a passive - aggressive way of breaking up with someone, where one partner goes completely silent by not returning calls or answering texts, offering a not - so - subtle rejection of their partner.

So with these little bits of conduct, then, you can actually chart a decline in deference to the president over time and the rise of a more vigorous, aggressive way of dealing with public figures.

This new, aggressive way of thinking should help you break out of «stuck» mode and move into a far better place.

GK — Peter Schmeichel — Obviously there a lot of great keepers — Petr Cech, Edwin van der Sar, my old team - mate David Seaman... but I have picked Schmeichel for his presence, his aggressive way of keeping and dominating his area.

In the case of the alcoholic who has not achieved sobriety as yet, the appearance of openness to help may hide an underlying resistance; it may be a passive - aggressive way of defeating the counselor by seeming to agree and comply.

Accusing someone of projection issues sounds to me like a new & shiny & updated christian culture shaming passive aggressive way of calling someone «bitter».

Third, it's often an indirect or passive aggressive way of someone expressing hurt that you didn't listen to them in the first place, frustration that you ignored their counsel, or even anger that you picked a different approach despite their warnings.

Kitzinger shows that women (and surely their male partners too) have been confused by images derived from aggressive ways both of defecating and of reaching an orgasm.

Asked why artist Cecily Brown once called her «a female Larry,» alluding to her former employer Larry Gagosian, who is known for his aggressive ways of driving the business, Bortolami answers, with a smile, that she hopes Brown meant it as a compliment: «It was a different me.

According to this view, if parents use passive - aggressive ways of managing conflict (i.e., covert conflict), the child is more likely to develop internalizing problems, as opposed to externalizing problems.

Not exact matches

Then keep standing slightly behind the row until they get up and leave as a way to block the more aggressive people behind you who might try to squeeze ahead of your row.

The service is a way for Walmart to use it wide fleet of stores to counter Amazon's aggressive expansion of its food delivery service.

«When I questioned pointedly about their culture and my concerns, they doubled down on it,» he said, telling him, «We do have an aggressive culture, we do step on people's toes, and we think that the best way to get performance out of people.»

Have you been given the unenviable task of managing employees who just don't respond to your requests or are passive aggressive in other ways?

And Djab... it's simple, it has a bit of an aggressive, masculine feel to it, maybe in an onomatopoeic way.

But as a psychologist, I am deeply worried about the rapidly escalating levels of anger in our world — what's particularly disturbing is our increasing sense of entitlement to express it in aggressive or hurtful ways.

The best way to reach financial independence is to build a sustainable strategy, instead of an aggressive one.

Other car insurance companies will be focused on the transition and will use the lower number of claims as a way to be aggressive on their pricing.

When growth is most needed, when a country is suffering from excessively high levels of debt, it is hard to find many cases in which the aggressive implementation of reforms led to growth rates fast enough for the debtor to grow its way out of debt.

Their way to talking to people was aggressive, they'd call people names, they had a relatively poor understanding of how bitcoin fundamentally worked.

The aggressive selling by the government of the cash windfall has sparked a debate over whether giving families cash is the best way to create jobs and stimulate an economy that may now be in the grips of a mild recession.

However, due to aggressive link building, inappropriate link building, and downright spam - level tactics, Google has gradually increased the sophistication of its backlink profile analysis and has refined the way it views backlinks as a means of conveying online authority.

«I would be surprised if the move higher is as aggressive as last time as there isn't the same euphoria this time around and many speculators will have been burned on the way down, but it could be more healthy if, of course, it happens.

If the Fed tries to unwind by an aggressive type of action, which is selling the debt to unwind in a quicker way, the long end of the curve will go up higher than the short end in the immediate period, because the market will race ahead of them.

* This trade is nothing more than a wildly aggressive speculation that SLV will break out of the current «coil» (at the far right of Figure 2) in a meaningful way sometime between now and mid January 2019.

Aside for «ongoing aggressive competitive activity,» the company also isn't offering much in the way of excuses.

A week after the Whopper Sacrifice application made waves for its creative (and aggressive) use of Facebook friend removals as a way to spread the application, Facebook has forced it to disable the app's functionality, according to the developer.

The big news is that Mitt was wonderfully prepared, full of specifics, eloquent in a plainspoken way, and struck exactly the right confidently yet calmly aggressive tone.

I'll tell you what: how about you stop acting like those atheists (who do not represent all atheists, by the way), and desist in painting an entire body of belief (or lack thereof) based on the actions of its most militant and aggressive members?

But in a climate of growing suspicion, they have been increasingly aggressive in two ways.

The reality that Complementarianism way too often leads to a cycle of passive - aggressive behavior by the subordinate, with a frustrated leader wondering what the hell is going wrong, complete with a language that has two meanings... well, this is what bothers me deeply about the Comp.

Dorothy Dohen had something to say to the young women who today are often ashamed of their virginity, some of whom take refuge in a form of defensive lesbianism, discovering no legitimate way they can defend themselves against the importuning of aggressive (and also vulnerable) men.

And now, after the chain of continuity going back to the apostles has been broken, how on earth can anyone identify those following the true Way approved by Jesus Christ, with so many aggressive false teachers claiming to be approved by Christ and holding and gaining such incredible fame and power?

Although contemporary feminists may champion women's self - defense, few are anxious for women to engage in aggressive violence or to emulate male war - making as a way of proving women's equality.

I am reading a lot recently about the «third way» teachings of Jesus, which is neither pacifism nor war, but a sort of an aggressive peacemaking.

Smith's response is worth reading, as an early exercise in that question of religious faith and national loyalty that continues to be asked of Catholics, if today usually in indirect but more aggressive ways, like «How could you refuse our version of equality and justice and not provide contraceptives to your employees?»

These people really are harbingers of a better future in a way that aggressive atheists are not.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

The cause, it seems, is sometimes personality conflict, sometimes a too aggressive approach by Opus Dei, and, in a number of cases, resentment by super-progressive priests of a movement that proposes a different, and deeply conservative, way of being Catholic.

All the foregoing forms of despair conceded in a way that the adversary is the stronger, but now sin is aggressive.

In July, Luther wrote a pamphlet defending himself, An Open Letter on the Harsh Pamphlet, spelling out with clarity and aggressive emphasis that there was no way of avoiding one's obligation to obey established civil authority.

«We've been very aggressive in trying to differentiate ourselves by identifying new market trends and finding new ways of doing business,» Sallin contends.

And da googles, always trying to be smarter than the rest of us, corrected me in its passive - aggressive way — ignoring my word completely — and popping up what turned out to be the correct spelling, braciole.

Rossi's boss, Citi's head of investment research, Bruce Rolph, backs his aggressive young analyst all the way.

Floral beers can get aggressive in an old lady - who's - been - wearing - the - same - perfume - for - decades sort of way.