Sentences with phrase «at cross purposes»

Process theology, in spite of its claims to the contrary, is not very compatible with liberation theology and in fact often works at cross purposes to it.

This is why you are confused and at cross purposes with everyone, you do nt even understand the most basic of definitions.

So just to ensure we are not talking at cross purposes - if I find ANY stations in the global record cooling for more than say the last ten years you will be surprised?

What character traits that are valued in our culture (for instance, the qualities that make a good executive) work at cross purposes to being poor in spirit?

Many of the discussions that I see taking place around this topic are filled with people talking at cross purposes.

I produce paperbacks for 99 % of my books, the only exception being the collection of first chapters of my novels, a perma - free sampler which would be at cross purposes as a more expensive print version.

The problem is that often green groups and other activists who sue under these acts act at cross purposes with each other — a common problem with environmental issues anyway.

A politics of wage subsidies for low - skill workers plus expanded low - skill immigration is inherently at cross purposes with itself — and that contradiction has crippled reformist conservatism.

Becoming part of a church community gives you a group of people to hang out with who don't have a vested interest at cross purposes to your own, such as career, inheritance, love of some third party.

Each and every member of the Ward family is fighting, frequently at cross purposes, for what they believe in.

Zwick is an intelligent director, and clearly had ambitions for this film - ambitions at cross purposes with what Hollywood calls «entertainment values.»

Not only do both of these faces let slip a lie or two as they wail, they're working very much at cross purposes.

Many of the ghosts are more mischievous than evil, but the ghost dog isn't even that; he just wants someone to play with, and his boisterous good nature is infectious, if at cross purpose with Luigi's goals.

The parties seemed to talk particularly at cross purposes when it came to search incident to arrest.

Three life - long friends - Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Caleb Troyer - work sometimes together and other times at crossed purposes to solve mysteries involving the often inscrutable Amish sects of the region.

We must be at cross purposes here Gavin because a much more well mixed ocean would be disastrous for surface layer temperatures and the impact on the Troposphere.

The film's visceral pleasures often work at cross purposes with the cerebral message of the manifestos, though.

Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton, notes how the Fed and fiscal policy are working, seemingly, at cross purposes.

Procter & Gamble Co. has been vigorously rooting out fraud and unverified data from its digital buys while also doing more influencer marketing, but those two things may be at cross purposes.

But by continuing to raise, and thereby adding some strength to the dollar, they're kinda working at cross purposes, at least as far as regaining some control over price growth.

At a minimum, you don't want to be working at cross purposes with those tools, and sometimes when those imbalances are economy - wide you're going to want to lean with monetary policy.

Second, in seeking to cultivate the favor of the rich and powerful these believers end up working at cross purposes with God.

The Reader is meant to be at cross purposes with the prevailing postconciliar accommodationist paradigm.

«There is evil when things are at cross purposes» (RM 97).

An accident of history has put us all at cross purposes.

«There is evil when things are at cross purposes» (EM 97).

Morale will suffer if groups work at cross purposes.

They establish that they are talking at cross purposes (again) and that he wants to know about the BofE.

They keep working at cross purposes.

Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes.

However, the appellate court described the cross-appeal filed by Obaseki it as being at cross purpose, premature and preemptive on the final matter.

It's a damning indictment of Gov. Cuomo's wage - raising agenda, which is working at cross purposes with his «New York Open for Business» campaign.

Stecklein also notes that you should be working closely with your medical school's business office when you apply for research grants so that you and your institution are not working at cross purposes.

But getting a swarm of microbes to work together can be as hard as herding cats; cells in a given population tend to work at cross purposes.

The film's visceral pleasures often work at cross purposes with the cerebral message of the manifestos.

While this carnage is defensible in theory, and while the filmmakers have taken pains not to linger on the horrific brutality Logan and his terrible claws inflict, the gruesome situations presented, including more than one beheading, work at cross purposes with the film's more serious intent and reminds us that a scot - free escape from the strictures of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not in the cards.

This one reminded me more of the third and fourth seasons of that appealing sitcom, the shows where Cory and his older brother Eric, after years of being at cross purposes, are finally able to tolerate and respect one another in their shared adventures.

As a result, he added, governors have been willing to take controversial positions, often finding themselves at cross purposes with professional educators.

Do you know who wants you to think teachers and parents are at cross purposes?