Sentences with phrase «authority figures gave»

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It notes that authority to spend money on both missions will come through supplementary appropriations before Parliament, but given that an election is expected this fall it will likely be a year, or more, before those figures are tabled.

I will never understand why people allow themselves (given that there is a choice) to be told what they can and can not have, or what they must have on / in their homes by some» group» of supposed authority figures who govern their homes.

Swimming lessons or a music class will give him practice being away from you, listening to an authority figure, and socializing with other kids.

By encouraging parents to trust their instincts, Spock also ushered in an era of empowered parenting that gave new moms and dads the confidence to question established authority figures and long - held beliefs in the child - care realm.

The European Union needs a «really big political figure» as its president to give it more authority internationally, Sir John Major has said.

Net funding reductions will reach at least # 110 million this year although that figure is likely to be substantially higher given that many larger authorities have not finalised their cuts programme yet.

To be sure, its about 99 % certain the race wouldn't take place without his blessing, but it is the FIA that has given the go - ahead for the race and they are the authority figure in this case.

Giving some figures to back his claims of prudent financial management in the first year, the President noted that, in the year 2016, the Public Procurement Authority had 622 sole source requests.

This bias shows our tendency to give more weight to the opinions of authority figures, independent of the actual content.

The infamous Milgram experiment, in which subjects believed they were delivering increasingly painful high - voltage shocks to other participants for giving incorrect answers, demonstrated people's willingness to obey an authority figure even when asked to do something reprehensible.

The experience opens with a bombastic, but not - entirely - serious confrontation between a power - hungry Lego figure named Lord Business (Will Ferrell, back in evil - with - a-wink «Megamind» mode) and good wizard Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman, poking fun at every voice - of - authority figure he's ever played) for a force that gives whoever possesses it control of the entire Lego universe.

But scribes Andrew Knight (who mostly works in television but also scripted Russell Crowe's directorial effort The Water Diviner in 2014) and Robert Schenkkan (who has also worked as a television writer since adapting Graham Greene's The Quiet American for Phillip Noyce) give leverage to Doss» interactions with his combative superiors (a rather kitschy but likeable Vince Vaughn fares better than a somnolent Sam Worthington), underlining his developmental difficulties with authority figures thanks to his alcoholic dad.

He effortlessly embodies Ansel as both long - suffering sadsack and trusted authority figure, and he holds his own opposite Winstead («Smashed,» «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World»), giving yet another fragile, commanding performance as a young woman caught between oppressive parents, a well - meaning captor and her own brainwashed persona.

Schools were given the option to phase in the new Highers, with provisional figures released by Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) earlier this year showing almost half (45 %) of pupils will sit the existing and not the new qualification this year.

The Sats data released by the Department for Education in August could not give a reliable figure for attainment in 20 local authorities, because so many schools in those areas had taken part in the boycott.

Given that the Z06, as well as the ZL1 and the C6 ZR1, all push 650 hp, the C7 ZR1 would have to join the seven - handle club with authority to put enough daylight between the lesser — and prior — models to justify its six - figure pricetag.

I try to forget who gave me the idea, which forces me to look at the idea fresh, without the biases that come from trusting an authority figure.

State Sen. Oscar Braynon, D - Miami Gardens, said that teachers would now have to be included in the talk that he and other African - American fathers have to give their kids in addressing how to act around armed authority figures.

Reasons given in studies that address this question included: intimidation by authority figures and white people in general; the closeness of communities leading to fear of reprisals or shame; the relationship of the victim to the victimiser; unfamiliarity with legal processes; and a fear that the victimiser will be sent to prison.

My personal experience in dealing with someone early on in my career, who was an authority figure with an FRI designation, was that said designation gave this individual some, undeserved, additional, credibility — not only was this person's knowledge weak, but their ethics were terrible.