Sentences with phrase «cross purposes»

As a result, he added, governors have been willing to take controversial positions, often finding themselves at cross purposes with professional educators.

This is why you are confused and at cross purposes with everyone, you do nt even understand the most basic of definitions.

Process theology, in spite of its claims to the contrary, is not very compatible with liberation theology and in fact often works at cross purposes to it.

I have to be honest and say I don't fully grasp your point here, so sorry if I get you at cross purposes here.

Rather he is arguing for something that is not at issue, which is a cross argument (as in cross purposes), rather than a counter argument.

I produce paperbacks for 99 % of my books, the only exception being the collection of first chapters of my novels, a perma - free sampler which would be at cross purposes as a more expensive print version.

Having been at tetchy, irritable cross purposes early in the series, now they were back in harness as intuitive covert operative and her shrewd and politically savvy handler, with Mandy Patinkin's Saul (pictured below) growing steadily more unforgiving and black - hearted.

Neon colors are purposely used in the art to emphasize the unnatural - natural cross purposes.

First, let's be clear that the promotion of China's auto industry in the way that the US has works at direct cross purposes with any climate policies that China adopts.

So long as both sides continue to talk at slightly cross purposes, both sides can continue insisting they are correct and their adversary is lying.

Second, in seeking to cultivate the favor of the rich and powerful these believers end up working at cross purposes with God.

They establish that they are talking at cross purposes (again) and that he wants to know about the BofE.

Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton, notes how the Fed and fiscal policy are working, seemingly, at cross purposes.

Procter & Gamble Co. has been vigorously rooting out fraud and unverified data from its digital buys while also doing more influencer marketing, but those two things may be at cross purposes.

But by continuing to raise, and thereby adding some strength to the dollar, they're kinda working at cross purposes, at least as far as regaining some control over price growth.

At a minimum, you don't want to be working at cross purposes with those tools, and sometimes when those imbalances are economy - wide you're going to want to lean with monetary policy.

A politics of wage subsidies for low - skill workers plus expanded low - skill immigration is inherently at cross purposes with itself — and that contradiction has crippled reformist conservatism.

Becoming part of a church community gives you a group of people to hang out with who don't have a vested interest at cross purposes to your own, such as career, inheritance, love of some third party.

The Reader is meant to be at cross purposes with the prevailing postconciliar accommodationist paradigm.

«There is evil when things are at cross purposes» (RM 97).

An accident of history has put us all at cross purposes.

«There is evil when things are at cross purposes» (EM 97).

What character traits that are valued in our culture (for instance, the qualities that make a good executive) work at cross purposes to being poor in spirit?

Morale will suffer if groups work at cross purposes.

They keep working at cross purposes.

Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes.

However, the appellate court described the cross-appeal filed by Obaseki it as being at cross purpose, premature and preemptive on the final matter.

It's a damning indictment of Gov. Cuomo's wage - raising agenda, which is working at cross purposes with his «New York Open for Business» campaign.

Stecklein also notes that you should be working closely with your medical school's business office when you apply for research grants so that you and your institution are not working at cross purposes.

But getting a swarm of microbes to work together can be as hard as herding cats; cells in a given population tend to work at cross purposes.

Each and every member of the Ward family is fighting, frequently at cross purposes, for what they believe in.

The film's visceral pleasures often work at cross purposes with the cerebral message of the manifestos, though.

The film's visceral pleasures often work at cross purposes with the cerebral message of the manifestos.

While this carnage is defensible in theory, and while the filmmakers have taken pains not to linger on the horrific brutality Logan and his terrible claws inflict, the gruesome situations presented, including more than one beheading, work at cross purposes with the film's more serious intent and reminds us that a scot - free escape from the strictures of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not in the cards.

Zwick is an intelligent director, and clearly had ambitions for this film - ambitions at cross purposes with what Hollywood calls «entertainment values.»

This one reminded me more of the third and fourth seasons of that appealing sitcom, the shows where Cory and his older brother Eric, after years of being at cross purposes, are finally able to tolerate and respect one another in their shared adventures.

Do you know who wants you to think teachers and parents are at cross purposes?

Helping children with homework can be counterproductive if parents are working at cross purposes with the classroom teacher.

Do you think parents rate their relationship with their child's teacher as «great» because they are at cross purposes?

At the federal level, Vargas concluded, the first recommendation is the same: do no harm — the federal government should be aware of policies that stand in the way of dual enrollment because they treat high school and college as silos which may force those systems to work at cross purposes.