Sentences with phrase «as a hostile act»

ADM unsuccessfully tried to buy GrainCorp for $ 3 billion in 2013 after initially raiding the company's register in a move previous managing director Alison Watkins viewed as a hostile act.

We can be sure that such licensing will be seen as a hostile act.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

Not exact matches

For example, when one account executive at Synergy was perceived as acting a little too hostile toward her support staff, Gordon sat down with her and her graph.

And it must act consistently and holistically with its support and the elimination of economically hostile policies and laws, such as restrictive labor laws, ever - changing tax policies and an almost exclusive emphasis on funding the government for one more month instead of growing the economy.

The complaint describes the «conspiracy» as «an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,» adding that WikiLeaks «disseminated the information at times when it would best suit the Trump campaign.»

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so fortAs Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so fortas theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so fortas do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

And if so, how does her hostile views towards Christianity, doing acts of charity, caring for the least of these and individualism intersect with your understanding as a follower of Jesus?

-- Afghanistan as of 10/23/2013, 2,151 US troops killed, 1,782 from hostile fire, 369 from non-hostile activities, Over 40,000 Afghan civilians killed due to the dark - age, koranic - driven Taliban acts of horror

She didn't act as if hostile powers would somehow defeat the Holy Spirit, and she never allowed an ungodly culture to shake her: «Truth does not depend on the people around us, or the place we are in.»

As a matter of fact, the term «populism» is commonly (assuming more or less sensible and reasonable people) used for a way of unreasonable, partly violent, acting, ignorant thinking (not necessarily uneducated) and hostile feeling.

But, as the Council acts by unanimity, I can say that its position will be determined by whichever member state is both most hostile to Scotland's proposals and prepared to threaten a veto.

In 2011 and 2012, the Committee to Save New York spent $ 17 million promoting the governor's agenda, acting as a counterweight and disincentive to hostile spending from labor groups.

This was regarded as a deeply hostile act and fed suspicions that Hammond is looking to become chancellor in a post - Cameron government or even to make a play for the Tory leadership.

My union — the Public and Commercial Services Union — has been clear from the outset: we opposed the Immigration Act 2014, and many of our members were appalled at the «hostile environment» created by then home secretary Theresa May as she sought to make political capital out of the sensitive issue of immigration.

He added: «If the measure announced in the British official communication is enacted, it will be interpreted by Ecuador as an unacceptable, unfriendly and hostile act and as an attempt against our sovereignty.

But Democrats damaged some lawmakers and candidates by labeling the G.O.P. as hostile to women, claims that are rooted in Republican opposition to the controversial abortion provision of Cuomo's Women's Equality Act.

A Labour government would dismantle Theresa May's hostile environment policy and remove requirements on landlords, banks and employers to act as defacto immigration enforcement officers, the shadow home secretary will say.

Both sources described the trip as a «private humanitarian mission» to free Gomes, a 31 year - old Boston resident who was sentenced in April to eight years at a hard labor camp for illegally crossing North Korea's border with China and for an unspecified «hostile act.»

UPDATE 3: The governor urged reporters not to view the fact that three legislators abstained from today's vote as a «hostile» act, suggesting that they all would vote at the «appropriate time» — in other words, when they vote on the budget.

That second nature is expressed in the unreported «10,000 acts of kindness,» as the late Stephen Jay Gould memorably styled the number of typically benevolent interactions among people for every hostile act.

For children who tend to perceive their peers» intentions as hostile and also who tend experience intense emotions, Chen says they may be more likely to act out, to «fight back» or attack their friends, or withdraw from interactions with friends.

Based on their answers, researchers rated whether the children interpreted ambiguous acts as hostile or non-hostile and whether they would escalate a conflict into aggression.

By combining ideas from neuroscience, psychophysiology, psychology, and counterterrorism, Martin concluded that the physiological signs of a future hostile actor would increase with the severity of the impending act and as the moment of the crime approaches.

introduced legislation that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers — all proven hostile to Mexican wolf recovery — the right to dictate the terms of the species» recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Species Act.

While the film's reach exceeds its grasp when it comes to deconstructing the western genre and the real life history that it reflects, Hostiles nevertheless makes for a respectable mood piece, as well as an acting showcase for its main leads.

Aaron Taylor - Johnson plays US Army sergeant Allen Isaac, whose role is to act as spotter for trigger - man Staff Sgt Shane Matthews (John Cena, pictured below) as they keep watch for hostile activity at the site of the killing of a group of building contractors.

She also has Scott Cooper's Hostiles opposite Christian Bale in production as well as Brad Anderson's High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm.

As one friend stated, you almost become a fan of the apes by the third act, if only to see just how they go about their hostile takeover.

Another heated rivalry exists between Luigi and Waluigi, with the two sharing bad chemistry in all the games they appear in together, and acting hostile and rude towards each other, such as Luigi making a gesture at Waluigi to anger him in Mario Tennis, the two scowling at each other in the Mario Party 3 group picture, and Waluigi's vandalism of Luigi's picture in the opening movie of Mario Power Tennis.

As U.S. states roll out the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act under an administration hostile to public education, these states must support the development of excellent, nurturing teachers who provide a rich learning experience.

Another heated rivalry exists between Luigi and Waluigi, with the two sharing bad chemistry in all the games they appear in together, and acting hostile and rude towards each other, such as Luigi making a gesture at Waluigi to anger him in Mario Tennis, the two scowling at each other in the Mario Party 3 group picture, and Waluigi's vandalism of Luigi's picture in the opening movie of Mario Power Tennis.

As for the stand - in for mass relays, instead there's ancient Remnant technology from a mysterious, advanced race that can cleanse a planet's atmosphere, acting as a new tool and source of technological intrigue that works well within the fiction of arriving in a hostile new galaxAs for the stand - in for mass relays, instead there's ancient Remnant technology from a mysterious, advanced race that can cleanse a planet's atmosphere, acting as a new tool and source of technological intrigue that works well within the fiction of arriving in a hostile new galaxas a new tool and source of technological intrigue that works well within the fiction of arriving in a hostile new galaxy.

Steyn should call Steve McIntyre as a hostile witness — McIntyre, I think, doesn't, or at least won't state, that he believes Mann has acted fraudulently.

In that decision — which has been criticized by some as hostile to free speech rights and humanitarian efforts — the justices found that a Patriot Act provision that prohibits providing «material support» to designated foreign terrorist organizations could be applied to conflict - resolution advice and legal services provided by human rights organizations to groups such as Turkey's Kurdistan Workers» Party and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The Equality Act of 2010 defines it as: «unwanted conduct of a sexual nature which has the purpose or effect of violating someone's dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.»

Quoting Paul: «As with hostile work environment sexual harassment claims, individual pay decisions by themselves do not have the obvious discriminatory intent that discrete acts such as terminations or failures to promote do.&raquAs with hostile work environment sexual harassment claims, individual pay decisions by themselves do not have the obvious discriminatory intent that discrete acts such as terminations or failures to promote do.&raquas terminations or failures to promote do.»

I jump off Paul's wagon when he says pay discrimination decisions are more like hostile environment claims than they are like a discrete act such as a termination or demotion.

The act defines psychological harassment as «any vexatious behaviour in the form of repeated and hostile or unwanted conduct, verbal comments, actions or gestures, that affects an employee's dignity or psychological integrity and that results in a harmful work environment for the employee.»

«Those who try to paint Alito as hostile to women's interests for this are either distorting his record or misunderstanding the law,» blogs UW professor Ann Althouse, who on Monday blogged this rave review of Alito's opinion on whether Congress has the power under the 14th Amendment to enact the Family Medical Leave Act (Chittister v. Department of community and Economic Development).

The decision of the EAT under Underhill J in YMCA Training v Stewart [2006] UKEAT 332/06, [2006] All ER (D) 69 (Dec) can be seen as continuing the non-technical, «low hurdle» and (frankly) hostile judicial approach to the statutory procedures in the Employment Act 2002, and also as giving first consideration to the relationship between the statutory disciplinary procedure and an employer's own (more comprehensive) procedures.

As the Heath court noted, a hostile work environment claim is one based on death by a thousand cuts, not by one discrete act.

Professional divorce mediators also act as a role model for positive co-parenting when they reframe hostile and otherwise quarrelsome statements by restating them with neutral or positive words, so as to decrease or avoid defensive reactions.