Sentences with phrase «blunt when»

He's also learned to be more blunt when assessing clients» needs.

Advertising professionals pride themselves on having impenetrable emotional armor when it comes to being criticized, because business people tend to be blunt when assessing someone else's work, especially when it will impact them and their company directly.

Surprisingly, Riccitiello was extremely blunt when discussing the subject.

HUD has published a new Shopping For Your Home guide for consumers and it could not be more blunt when it comes to private - sector adjustable - rate mortgages.

Some ppl say I am crazy bc I'm very blunt when it comes to my opinion but hey... at sum point in life somebody has to be honest rite....

I'm very openminded like to have fun silly at time very blunt when I speak.

I'm a bit blunt when saying things, but people like how I say whatever is on my mind.

He was blunt when talking about what would happen if more money doesn't come through: There will be a smaller coast.

The governor was more blunt when asked about former state Supreme Court Justice John Michalek, who admitted to taking bribes from Pigeon.

Club president Enrique Cerezo was more blunt when asked about the Frenchman by reporters this week:

Felipe Massa was much more blunt when asked about what it was like to overtake: «What overtaking?»

As for the reflux and settling issue, I've done a piece that should hopefully give you comfort regarding simply being there even if it doesn't help settle in the moment: http://evolutionaryparenting.com/my-baby-cries-too/ You can read in detail, but the stress response associated with pain or psychological stress which we assume to be present when crying is actually blunted when a child is being held and comforted, even if the crying doesn't stop.

Studies in rodents and in human fetal beta cells have showed that the responses of very young beta cells to increases in blood glucose are blunted when compared to their more - mature counterparts.

This invites a fascinating thought exercise for educators: Is the «normative threat» of difference blunted when we focus on the things that unite us?

Not exact matches

This was when Sean Parker, serial entrepreneur — co-founder of Napster, founding president of Facebook fb, blunt - talking oracle of Internet disruption, and occasional subject of tabloid scuttlebutt — recognized his legacy.

The reason is blunt: Many can't afford or don't have access to the sanitary products they need when they menstruate.

Young already had a history of acting as a watchdog for crew safety and firing off blunt memorandums when the Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff in January 1986, killing all seven aboard.

«But if you ask us, a weaker Canadian dollar and low rates remain critical ingredients when it comes to driving future growth — perhaps even more so considering the incoming president's vows to bolster American competitiveness and blunt access to the key US market.»

As a young entrepreneur myself, I have experienced too many times when female colleagues failed to dish it to me straight when I consulted them about my business ideas or when they kept blunt feedback hidden behind a smile.

The always - blunt tech CEO made history when SpaceX relaunched a used rocket in March 2017.

There was simply no excuse for this, and the adjudicator was blunt: «Harmonious labour - management relations, which are one of the objects of the PSLRA, are not possible when one of the parties has no hesitation in ignoring provisions of the PSLRA designed to achieve labour relations peace.»

This obligation tends to be under - appreciated in the midst of financial asset bubbles when recency bias blunts the desire to sacrifice the potential for further gains in exchange for protection against losses.

Best of all, she suggests that people of faith do themselves and others a disservice when they use the bible selectively to bolster their arguments for specific political views and lifestyle prescriptions, using it «as a blunt weapon», as she puts it.

It's for those seeking a blunt force object for a time of need (who needs guns when you have a copy of the Titan on hand).

When I push the senior priest to tell me what Pell was then, if not a pioneer on child abuse, he is blunt: «To be honest, I don't think anything of him.

When sung in a warm, candlelit church at Advent, it can be easy to blunt these words, to imagine them as symbolic, non-specific, comforting.

When I first read Herbert years ago, I found his poems to «preach» too much for my liking; Country Parson, however, gives me new appreciation for the blunt morals of his verses.

Being blunt with others is not honesty: treating the truth with respect, and changing when one is wrong, is actual honesty.

One very blunt lesbian writer / activist speaks for many when she notes:

Even when one states atheism in less blunt and offensive terms, can any purposeless, mindless, physiochemical mechanism, accidentally coming from nowhere and headed nowhither, explain anything like beautiful family life, superb music, or the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians?

When we are young and immature our intuitive instrument is blunt.

Should someone explain that the fear of God, in the sense of that felt in this world of time, should belong to childhood and therefore disappear with the years as does childhood itself, or should be like a happy state of mind that can not be maintained, but only remembered; should someone explain that penitence comes like the weakness of old age, with the wasting away of strength, when the senses are blunted, when sleep no longer strengthens but weakens; then this would be Impiety and folly.

To put the point in the blunt terms employed by Justice Harold Blackmun toward the end of his career on the bench, when he announced that he would henceforth vote (as Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had previously done) to overturn all death sentences, when I sit on a Court that reviews and affirms capital convictions, I am part of «the machinery of death.»

We're horrified by injustice, and we immediately turn to the state for solutions, even when the law isn't likely to succeed because it's too blunt — or even if it could, but at disproportionate cost.

Let me chase a rabbit when it comes to basing your belief or unbelief on people: Not believing in God because of hypocrites or weird Christians is, to be blunt, a stupid reason to become an atheist.

* And there's just no possible way to misinterpret these really blunt, straightforward, non-parabled verses, the only way one can rationally reach the conclusion that they know when the apocalypse will happen (if such a thing can be reached rationally) is by ignoring not just one small, confusing verse, but by ignoring multiple blunt ones.

And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant.For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.While the FBI makes is clear that some of the «murder by rifle» numbers could be adjusted up slightly, when you take into account murders with non-categorized types of guns, it does not change the fact that their annual reports consistently show more lives are taken each year with these blunt objects than are taken with Feinstein's dreaded rifle.Another interesting fact: According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.

When these little guys came out they looked... ugly (blunt, I know).

When someone in China, usually an elderly person, tells you to do something or makes a blunt comment like, «You're house is too big for two people» or «you don't need to buy that» or» wear pants!»

The broccoli is done when you can easily slice the stalks with a blunt knife and the heads are just starting to colour.

If the attack is blunt (like the Lions teeth), than your opponents hold strong in defence better and attack when the time is right.

So my hope through this is that it blunts any resentment that could potentially creep up in the future when such interests come into conflict.

I'd rather have a sharp effective instrument that can be incisive when it counts than a blunt instrument that can't hit a barn door!

Crowder said of Phelps, «I shook his hand and he was blowing people off because he was drunk too, and I see him hit the blunt later on when Jeezy passed it.

I don't get star struck or impressed by many people but when I saw Young Jeezy hand Michael Phelps a blunt that was impressive to me.»

Mertesacker is making a habit of coming out post-match and saying the blunt statements fans want to hear when the team loses, but his leadership in the heat of the battle is nowhere to be seen.

When Arsenal are up against a side uninterested in compromising in the structure of their defensive game plan, a more blunt solution is required.

It didn't look likely, however, when the club managed to blunt the usually prolific Javier Hernández.

When he arrived in the January transfer window, it seemed that the blunt Saints attack had acquired an edge.

My point is Slimani is already 27 so maybe is set in his ways.If he has to adjust to a new league and maybe play a different way to what he is used to it may just blunt his attacking threat much like when we signed Rickie Lambert.He looked a good player at Southampton, came to us, had to adjust and disappeard.Rushie, Fowler natural finishers, the closest i have seen are Sturridge and Origi we should persevere with them rather than keep chucking money at players who might or might not make us better.