Sentences with phrase «conversations about the merits»

He never gets into a conversation about the merits of his claim... he just tosses it on the floor and runs away.

If you are having involved conversations about the merits of good behavior and the dangers of bad with your toddler, he probably will not respond well due to his lack of understanding.

With this in mind, how can we approach conversations about merit without a parallel approach towards themes of diversity and privilege.

Granted, the place was much more suited to jamming than to a one - sided conversation about the merits of anti-lock brakes, but that was our space.

Not exact matches

«I'm hopeful these policies will lead to a new collaborative conversation about Canada's energy infrastructure on its merits and to a significant de-escalation of conflict worldwide about the Alberta oilsands.»

A couple of years ago, British hoteliers Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang, who are Christians, were charged with the criminal offense of using «insulting words» after a Muslim guest complained about their breakfast conversation on the merits of their respective faiths.

He sees that merits and achievements are fantasies and sense deceptions that are at home where one moves about in the crowd and engages others in conversation.

They are not governments - that kind of deal - making comes in December (or rather in the glacial negotiating sessions throughout this year), so I see no problem with them having earnest conversations deep into the night about the relative merits of carbon taxes over cap and trade, or any other issue, that have no substantive outcome other than to generate more research proposals, newspaper column inches and comments in well - meaning blogs.

And if the colors thing set people off, it also provided me an opportunity to this response and stimulate some conversation about something that certainly merits it (the method to the madness thing).

In case that you can not avoid talking about your ex, highly focus on the merit of your conversation other than the emotional side of it.

«Backlash» can simply amount to conversations among critics about the artistic and aesthetic merits of particular films, but the conversation around Three Billboards goes deeper.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

Our far - ranging conversation explores more than I've previously revealed to any interviewer about my writing methods, the merits of self - publishing, the challenges... Continue reading →

-- the three teenage boys carry on a profanity - laced conversation about each box's relative merits, all while other shoppers shuffle around uncomfortably.

Our far - ranging conversation explores more than I've previously revealed to any interviewer about my writing methods, the merits of self - publishing, the challenges authors face in marketing and promotion, as well as some personal revelations.

Bottom line; Have a serious conversation about the flexibility, merits, and safety of a variable rate mortgage with your Mortgage Broker.

It is perhaps a bit more elegiac than analytic, and only starts what should be a long conversation about a great artist who merits recognition as one for the ages.

Hopping a cab to Long Island City, I checked my coat and hat at the Vere Condominium, where cocktails were being served to kick off not - for - profit stalwart SculptureCenter's gala honoring Dan Graham, and was immediately drafted into a conversation with artist Jutta Koether about the relative merits of extant biographies of Francis Bacon (she recommended Daniel Farson's gossipy The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon).

Usually about once a month I am told «your case / claim is garbage for the following reasons...» That conversation usually ends with an offer to settle my client's claims, despite the fact that my case has «no merit.»

Usually about once a month I'm told by a debt collector or opposing counsel «your case is garbage for the following reasons...» That conversation usually ends with a settlement offer, despite the fact that my case «has no merit.»

Some are uncomfortable about an «either - or» conversation pitting merit selection versus judicial redistricting, but also happy to finally be included in the conversation.

A frank frontend conversation about the possible economic impact of a viable fee shifting claim may help knock some settlement sense into the warring parties before fee shifting becomes a driving force that subsumes the merits of a dispute.