Sentences with phrase «blunt approach»

Our own internal research of over 400 graduates found that screening students based on academic performance alone was too blunt an approach to recruitment.

A direct, blunt approach with the dogs in the field or a training session may cow a gentle retriever that requires a gentle touch.

Documentary winner TJ Martin, of the film Undefeated, took a rather more blunt approach, letting slip the phrase «fucking amazing» — though it was unclear whether Melissa Leo, last year's deliverer of the F - bomb and back this year as presenter, was responsible for the ultimate American television no - no via a sort of expletive - prone osmosis.

This blunt approach surprised Luther.

Richard Warren, the group's head of policy, said in an email of the proposed tariffs: «This would be a unilateral and extremely blunt approach to what is a complex global problem of overcapacity in the steel sector.»

Self - proclaimed «most trusted educator in America» Dr. Steve Perry took a blunter approach on social media, calling the NAACP platform «anti-Black»:

Not exact matches

Suddenly turning into Wolverine might make you look at a more blunt and aggressive approach.

Founded in 1942 as Burns and Dutton Concrete and Construction Company Ltd., the firm now describes itself on its website in a way that is as blunt as it is charming: It promises a «think straight, talk straight, do - it - right - once approach with no surprises.»

«They have taken a blunt instrument approach, which is the right thing to do from a public relations standpoint,» he said.

This time, he's been just a little blunt about whether Arsenal's approach to blooding young players is superior to Chelsea's.

As much as some people dislike Dr. Amy's tone, her blunt, unapologetic approach does seem to bring people by — even if it is just to gawk at how ebil we are, express hate, or try to «educate» us with a round of Homebirth Bingo.

David Cameron is earning a reputation for his blunt, straight - talking approach to foreign affairs.

David Cameron is quickly earning a reputation for his blunt, straight - talking approach to foreign affairs.

With Lib Dem and Conservative coalition partners already issuing blunt correctives to each other over the 50p tax rate, the report could cause more tension in the coalition as both parties approach their annual conference.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications already available to treat opioid addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid addictions.

But effective, cooperative management approaches can blunt the projected impacts on both fish stocks and on the billions of people who depend on them — and in some cases even improve the health of...

It's no coincidence that the designs for the new astronaut - toting vehicle have eschewed the rakish, Tomorrowland look of the shuttle in favor of the workaday blunt - gumdrop - on - top - of - a-paper-towel-tube approach of NASA's 1960s heyday.

As opposed to blunt regulatory solutions that decrease access to opioids in an indiscriminant way, education is a more finely tuned approach that can empower clinicians to make appropriate, well - informed treatment decisions for every patient at each clinical encounter.

By casting doubt on the science, the need for behavior change is blunted — an approach the tobacco industry successfully employed throughout the 1980s and»90s to delay efforts to warn the public of smoking's dangers.

«Our approach relies on the self - organization of the triangularly shaped blunt vertices of the tetrahedra (so called «footprints») on isotropic spherical particles.

Fats blunt the insulin response just as proteins do, and that is exactly why all the SUCCESSFUL weight loss diets out there choose a paleo approach that combines CARBS with PROTEIN foods to minimize the insulin response.

The plan you're looking at moving to is almost spot on with Medhi's Stronglifts 5 × 5... maybe take a look at that and get an idea of the level of training you want to do — Medhi is quite blunt in his approach to everything, but the principles behind what he walks and talks are sound and he advocates proper form and the ability to lift a weight over trying to lift with your ego, at least.

And if I'm being perfectly blunt, although we're now living in a society that makes it more acceptable for fathers to take a hands on approach, 98 % of the parents you'll come across will be mothers.

And if you are looking for a more slow - moving, long - term relationship, it helps to be aware that blunt desire is not the most successful approach.

Big Mouth could be delightfully crude and hilariously blunt about the ids of its teenage protagonists, but it worked because of its equal - opportunity approach.

Heathcliff, Cathy & co are as blunt towards each other as characters of their fledgling age probably would be (this is a world where virtually no one makes it past the age of 25, seemingly), and Arnold's approach of casting relative newcomers pays, for the most part, great dividends, even if it makes the film a little rough around the edges in places.

This realpolitik the film approaches with cheery dark humor, as Lincoln's surrogates, including Secretary of State William Seward (thoughtful, calculating David Strathairn) and Democratic operative W.N. Bilboe (blunt, funny James Spader), labor to pressure the necessary votes to fall into place.

This true story fell into the hands of exploitation director Greg McLean, and he chooses a numbingly middling approach; the movie is too blunt to be sympathetic, but also too careful to be thrilling.

In a televised interview with Diane Sawyer, Eckhardt claimed Gillooly approached him, initially wanting to «take [Kerrigan] out,» but Eckhardt ultimately suggested an appropriate alternative to killing her would be striking her «landing leg» (used for sticking on - ice maneuvers) with a blunt object.

That intriguing title never lives up to its grand potential, as Refn approaches his theme of choice with stale desire and suddenly blunt teeth.

Eighteen - year - old Tyriq Jones was fairly blunt about the mess he had gotten himself into before transferring to the Hampton, Virginia, online school where I approached him one chilly day this spring.

But overly blunt — or carefree — approaches to regulation run the risk of making many of the same mistakes that policymakers made for almost two decades in their attempts to oversee charter schools.

Even seemingly sophisticated proponents of compensation reform have too often advocated variations on the blunt Pavlovian approach of paying more for higher student test scores while neglecting the broader design of the profession.

«The color coding approach oversimplifies the underlying data and uses a blunt instrument as the foundation for identifying schools,» Manwaring wrote.

At the same time, it would improve on the blunt - instrument approach of the U.S. Department of Education, which has pushed the use of test scores so hard that some states and districts make those scores count for half or more of evaluations.

Landecker described the new approach as an effort that would blunt some of the criticism even as the major thrust of the effort remains adding charter schools to satisfy the growing public demand for them and reducing the long lists of students on waiting lists to get in.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

However, the PROSPER Act's approach to accountability ignores important lessons from state performance - based funding systems, many of which have been shown to funnel limited state dollars to well - resourced institutions that enroll the most affluent and academically prepared students while failing to support institutions that serve a more representative community.2 Rather than applying an immediate penalty through the blunt instrument of an artificial threshold, an effective accountability system would reward colleges that enroll and graduate Pell - eligible students while providing underperforming and underfunded institutions the time, resources, and support they need to improve.

Stein opened his talk with the blunt assertion that when it came to e-books, the Americans «blew it» — forgoing the opportunity to put in the best, forward thinking systems and opting instead for a conservative approach.

Freese's approach is even - handed, blunt in her descriptions of coal as a blessing and a curse.

The Humane Society of Silicon Valley recently tried a new approach to help one of its shelter dogs get adopted: blunt honesty.

The architect of this phenomenal achievement is Peter Marsh, a classic New Englander with a blunt, tell - it - like - it - is approach to life.

«Liz had a «no nonsense» approach about her, was blunt, and «told it like it was.»

The map designers have taken a blunt force approach with the maps and just applied some more vertical sections to accommodate the new changes and that leaves us disappointed.

For all their premeditation, Rothko's approach to the Seagram paintings is often revealed in blunt and even slapdash touches and swipes of his house - painter's brush.

Greenberg had the best eye, and was known for a blunt, binary approach that divided the world into good art, bad art and nothing in between.

His new paintings, which shockingly departed from his previous refinement, were figurative and strange — nightmarishly cartoonish in image, blunt in approach, and often charged with social consciousness.

His approach is reckless at a time when Ontario needs surgical, not blunt force, solutions.

Sure, one can use a blunt object approach and say look, the measured T is higher in the city than its burbs, so there is a UHI effect.

The US approach is a blunt scheme into taxing emission which while providing a insentive to cut down emission is far less an incentive for making an actual profit on top of reducing taxation.