Sentences with phrase «as authoritative figures»

Students talked about how important it was to feel loved and cared for by adults in the school, how they needed teachers and staff who could relate to their cultural backgrounds and not just act as authoritative figures for four years.

He's a bit too extreme to take seriously, and I suspect most of my readers don't think of him as an authoritative figure.

Even though the Rhodesian Ridgeback is large and intimidating, the leader must never fail to act as the authoritative figure.

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While complete automation will be challenging, as recruits do need to be examined by authoritative figures within your company, the help with this initial screening process will most likely significantly cut labor costs.

Unfortunately, many of us have already been conditioned to accept these proclamations as fact without even conducting any independent research on our own to (1) determine if the authoritative figure is even an authority on the topic, which in many cases, he or she is not; and (2) determine if what the authoritative figure is stating is actually true or not.

Although trying to figure out who, exactly, those players may be is basically like trying to find a needle in a haystack, the authoritative nature of the report should at least come as a relief to a fanbase that has been clamoring for some kind of transfer news.

I must say that I do not even disagree with the ideas you have, but am appalled and bewildered as to why you would write as though you are some authoritative figure with the «right» answer and that other are wrong and hurting their children.

If I could figure out what to pair with the AT ruffle tweed long jacket, I might be in, as I have a couple speaking engagements this spring and could see it being just the right mix of authoritative and creative.

Plenty of biography films like to fancy themselves as authoritative «never before seen» looks into the private lives of historical figures.

Often dressed in an anachronistic cassock and with a rather astonishing sweep of leonine hair, Gleeson cuts an imposing and authoritative figure, like something from a rough - edged spaghetti western dropped on the dramatic west coast of Ireland.The role provides a fantastic showcase for the actor, as he captures the inner conflict and outward placidity of the character.

Besides Sarris and by all means Corliss himself, the magazine regularly featured first - rate, challenging, authoritative figures such as Robin Wood (whose book Hitchcock's Films had revolutionized British and American thinking about that director's work), Joseph McBride, Molly Haskell, David Thomson (who came along a bit later, and ruled), Raymond Durgnat, Richard Roud, Brendan Gill, and Paul Schrader (whose 1972 «Notes on Film Noir» remains the definitive introduction to and disquisition on that cinematic darkbloom).

As the figure who keeps his squad together, Hedlund, too, commands his scenes with authoritative magnetism.

The paternity of the $ 5.6 billion figure is easily traced to the plaintiffs in the case, whose expertise was treated as authoritative, despite their obvious vested interest in the outcome.

Many interpret Antigone as a figure of moral righteousness and a fearless defender of individual rights in the face of authoritative oppression, speaking truth to power.

Figuration embraces its presumed opposite in what I can only describe as an authoritative and resolute integration of visual forms in «Seated Figure, Abstract».

I substantiated all my claims with authoritative links, such as IEA's most recent freely available figures.

Authoritative sources such as EarthTrack have placed the fossil fuel industry's tax and fiscal subsidies at around $ 25 billion a year, a figure that pales beside the roughly $ 1,000 billion (one trillion dollars) paid annually for coal, oil and natural gas burned in the U.S. Do the math: withdrawing those subsidies would lead to at most a 2 - 3 percent rise in the market prices of fossil fuels — scant incentive to reduce their use and concomitant emissions of CO2.

I regret that I have not been able to obtain authoritative figures on the numbers which are circulating in Canada; but, as I have said, if any hon. member wants to see for himself the threat which they are he has only to go to any newsstand in any otherwise reputable magazine shop in this or in any other city.

Can we not ask our clients as part of our checklist to visit the local RCMP office, where they would place themselves in the presence of an authoritative figure trained to recognize and ask the right questions?