Sentences with phrase «conversation about the assumptions»

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That's why we need a conversation about it — and the underlying assumptions it is built on — as well as its pastoral outcomes.

This speaks volumes about some of the underlying assumptions regarding men, women, sex, and power that are at work in this whole conversation... especially considering the fact that men have written humorous accounts using the words «penis» and «testicles» for the same market.

It occurred to me yesterday (as I was skillfully avoiding an encounter with a certain someone at the grocery store) that the most frustrating thing about being seen as an «outsider» is knowing that when people talk to you about faith, they approach the conversation with the assumption that you have nothing to contribute to it.

I am well aware that all of us make assumptions about people we talk to everyday, it's pretty much impossible to carry out a conversation otherwise.

It may seem to be a challenge to get the conversation past the idea of babywearing being a fad or fashion statement, but I encourage you to use this assumption as an icebreaker, so to speak, about the benefits of not only babywearing but also attachment - based parenting.

During a conversation this month in his office at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, Fine rattled off more dismal stats, like the many failed clinical trials of experimental drugs for glioblastoma; like the paltry increase in life expectancy for people with glioblastoma from 12 months in 1990 to 15 today; like the stupid (in hindsight) assumptions about how glioblastomas grow and how to study them in mice.

It is very easy to make assumptions and quietly hold expectations over your date or partner's behaviour, but beware that if you decide to bypass a conversation about agreements, then you will very quickly run into some problems.

Much of the public conversation about school quality rests on a reasonable assumption, namely that we can reliably assess school quality by the measures currently in use.

In a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.»

But after learning more about its mechanics and MOBA - like systems I thought I owed it to myself to try and participate in the conversation instead of relying on my own assumptions to determine my opinion of the game.

One trustee who was not on the panel, Kevin Slavin, said in an internet posting that the trustees had «mostly productive» conversation about the alternative plan at a meeting earlier this month, but «not everyone supports the assumptions» within it.

And if there is a clear conversation in advance about what the assumptions and expectations are, what the scope of work based upon those assumptions entails, what work might fall outside of the original scope and what circumstances might create that work, there should be no issue when the «unforeseen» actually does arise and no problem securing an additional fee.

Amid all the industry conversation about how smart speakers will affect the way people listen to music, the assumption has been that the music in question will be made by humans.