Sentences with phrase «are turned against»

Parental alienation is frequently achieved through subconscious acts — and either way, children who are turned against one parent suffer an increased risk of developing mental health and addiction problems later in life.

Despite the fact that prohibition - measures seem to defend women's rights and protect other people from being proselytised by them (women that follow the Islamic dress code), in reality they are turned against them.

Unfortunately, the system gets hacked, and the satellites are turned against humanity, creating weather events far more extreme than anything Mother Nature can concoct.

«I never complain about critics, especially when they are turned against me.

Mobile phone proliferation, cloud services and social networking have coalesced into the perfect pressure situation, where people are now more aware than ever that they are generating a good deal of data that can be turned against them.

Or will innovation be turned against us in some 1984 - style nightmare?

It doesn't look like Germans are turning against the idea of hosting people fleeing from conflicts, but the issue is suddenly becoming a political priority.

Cynthia Tice found that to be the case when she and her co-founder launched Lily's Sweets in 2011, when public sentiment was turning against foods high in sugar (thanks in part to books such as Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health).

I tried hard to stop bleeding but all trades were turning against me, one after another.

August 4 2017, The Real News Network «Trump is Turning Against the White Working Class that Elected Him,» The Real News Network, August 4, 2017.

But if you train followers to overreact by pouncing on passing phrases, eventually this dubious skill will be turned against leaders.

Conservative xians are squirming and telling «unfair» because the US electorate Is turning against the imposition of their religious beliefs through laws affecting people who do not share those beliefs.

It is therefore akin to envy, but it is an envy which is turned against oneself, or, more exactly, envy which is worst of all against oneself.

He has all power, both to create and to destroy, and that destructive power could also be turned against Israel itself.

At first this was not fanaticism but a loyalty and pride in their own things, but as it became exaggerated in the hands of the ignorant it was turned against themselves.

As one Catholic official puts it, «The rhetoric and arguments aimed at marginalizing the Religious Right might one day be turned against us.»

But that advantage has been turned against it, and has contributed to its disrepute.

Sacrifice is turned against sacrifice.

It's a shame the science that God has created has been turned against him.

thy are turning against Arsenal.

That's sad after all the years of respect fan's have given him No wonder the fans are turning against him If you care about the shareholders and don't care about the fans you may save your job but lose respect

he is one of the luckiest managers alive, bbut now things are turning against him.

Everyone was turning against Bellerin as well, until he said something.

With it being very easy for fans to be turned against a regime when results are going badly now really is the best time for Martinez to get his team prepared well and get a positive result, otherwise next week's game against man City could be very unpleasant indeed.

Baby will end up being turned against the babywearer's body which can compromise baby's breathing ability.

So, clearly, McDonald's saw the handwriting on the wall and knew that the tide of public opinion was turning against a uniformly unhealthy Happy Meal.

I just can't see how this is Dems «shooting themselves in the foot» — you need to show me a significant number of voters who were turned against him because of this illustration for me to believe that.

Even the Internet, our postmodern and secular tool of choice, has been turned against us and placed in the active and resolute defence of God.

Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism advisor to the White House and current ABC News consultant, said, «Since ISIS has used propaganda and its «winner» image to lure new adherents, when its propaganda figure is killed that makes it look more like a loser, more like the tide may be turning against it.»

Those who want to fight new technology on the beaches will soon find that the tide is turning against them.

Britain's posture is turned against the direction of the world.

«The points of agreement we have were around the fact that the tide is turning against an austerity approach, that there needs to be a different way forward found,» Miliband said after the meeting.

A good idea at face value, but as like with any weapon of social media warfare, it can be turned against you.

«I think that the same power, the organizing power and money you saw that helped propel Bill de Blasio to City Hall can be turned against him.»

The corporate puppeteers are turning us against each other and laughing.

She was passionate, a human being, and she didn't have that underlying sense of fear that things will be turned against them, whereas Nicky was dead in the eyes.»

It's not just Iain Duncan Smith who is opposing George Osborne - the tide of public opinion seems to be turning against government austerity.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

While there have been notable exceptions, and though the most lopsided midterm losses like those in 1994 and 2010 have favored Republicans, the climate appears to be turning against the party of Trump.

Now that the game is turning against him (Tinubu), he has to manoeuvre.

Labour leader Ed Miliband says the «mood is turning against Tories» and the country can not afford another five years of austerity.

The Deputy Prime Minister had an obvious reason to make it: his Party's seen by many voters as a captive of the Conservatives, and has consequently plummeted in the polls - which, furthermore, are turning against AV, the Liberal Democrat's main potential gain from coalition.

The copper stills of Georgia, which are now heavy columbiads [large - bore cannon] of destruction aimed against our own people, would, if manufactured into cannon, make many a battery of six pounders, to be turned against the enemy.

That knowledge and the cloaking proteins themselves might now be turned against the toxin - the deadliest known to humankind - to deliver vaccines or drugs that could prevent or treat the disease.

Another one - third had other antibodies (known as antinuclear antibodies) that indicate the immune system is turning against the body.

Jaffee points out that the tide was turned against that disease only after researchers figured out how to use a «cocktail» of medications to keep people with HIV from contracting AIDS.

The notion that cancer and immunity are closely connected and that a person's immune defenses can be turned against cancer is at least a century old.

The tone of Ready Player One isn't what you would call particularly «deep» or even «introspective» about mankind's place in the universe, its reliance on technology, or how technological breakthroughs can be turned against us (it's not really trying to be, so that's not exactly a criticism).

Another new detail is the fact that Raiden is able to parry enemy attacks, even when his back is turned against them.

But the tide is turning against him, and the final scenes have a melancholy quality and the bitter taste of betrayal.