Sentences with phrase «at cross purposes with»

Offering something like transaction management «would be consistent with these services,» says Gordon, but thus far, he's held off, concerned about «being at cross purposes with our brokers.»

Be sensitive to the needs and concerns of the older lawyers and ensure that the current compensation system does not work at cross purposes with the firm's ability to achieve these immediate and long - term objectives.

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

Helping children with homework can be counterproductive if parents are working at cross purposes with the classroom teacher.

TCTA asserted that allowing school districts to unilaterally decide to exempt themselves from teacher certification requirements was at cross purposes with the state's obvious desire to raise standards in teacher preparation.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The Christian Christ with his cross calls us to sacrifice not just for those things which serve our ends, but in the service of God's purpose, which runs far beyond and at times counter to those ends.

Due to the ease at which the domesticated species in particular cross pollinate with each other and the active development and hybridisation of new varieties often for marketing purposes, there is now a baffling range of varieties available making classification and increasingly difficult task.

Having been at tetchy, irritable cross purposes early in the series, now they were back in harness as intuitive covert operative and her shrewd and politically savvy handler, with Mandy Patinkin's Saul (pictured below) growing steadily more unforgiving and black - hearted.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

Do you think parents rate their relationship with their child's teacher as «great» because they are at cross purposes?

First, let's be clear that the promotion of China's auto industry in the way that the US has works at direct cross purposes with any climate policies that China adopts.

But since climatologists seem to believe in in treemometers with teleconnections, take correlation as automatic proof of causation and do not understand the concept of actual experiments, I can see that we are at cross purposes.

Helping to resolve some of these debates gives Shull a particular sense of purpose in his work at CIGI, particularly with the possibility that some governments could wind up creating virtual border crossings to prevent espionage online.