Sentences with phrase «engage in confrontation»

The bachelor did not have a history of fighting, and by walking away his brother was trying to encourage the others to do the same, not to engage in a confrontation.

My limitations — particularly my lack of passion for law and my lack of desire to engage in confrontation — doomed my legal career almost from the moment it started.

The source she draws on, from Southern face jugs to Korean norigae are so diverse, allowing for work that is both humorously and seriously engaged in confrontations with the absurdity of our globalized, hyper - technologized society and the many cultural misunderstandings it nurtures.»

Instead, it is common that both participants have engaged in the confrontation voluntarily.

Don't engage in confrontations that could tire you out or worse, involve yourself in violent outbursts that might lead to a miscarriage.

Not exact matches

Perhaps trade and warfare were equivalent back in the days of gunboat diplomacy (a favoured U.S. strategy in Asia in bygone days), but absent a willingness to engage in armed confrontation, today trade and warfare are fundamentally different.

Abhorring a confrontation, we should be engaged in a search for wisdom and a consensus to help us respond to the crisis of the time.

Though Gellman's partiality in his selection of sources and his consequent lack of interest in engaging the full range of Jewish tradition and its interpreters keep him from leading us deeper into the mystery of Jewish particularity, this concise, sincere book does much to advance our confrontation of its source: divine election.

This means knowing when to leave a potentially volatile situation or choosing to engage your child in a different activity to avoid aggressive confrontations.

In his Question Time performance, David Cameron showed the kind of fluency and ability to engage with an audience that seems to elude him in televised confrontations with other leaderIn his Question Time performance, David Cameron showed the kind of fluency and ability to engage with an audience that seems to elude him in televised confrontations with other leaderin televised confrontations with other leaders.

What then is the evidence suggesting a continued reluctance to engage in full - scale military confrontation?

China, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan, among others, have often engaged in bilateral disagreements with resulting spikes in diplomatic tension and even military confrontation.

While the idea of confrontation will evoke feelings ranging from queasiness to downright physical fear, the public must be engaged in a very immediate sense.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump engaged in a prolonged confrontation with the anchor of the nation's leading Spanish - language network, Univision, during a news conference, first having the well - known news personality removed before allowing him back in.

A source was quoted to have said: «The governor was unhappy that the two could engage in open confrontation, which could ridicule the state», adding that «Shettima summoned the meeting to resolve the crisis, and find ways to avert a recurrence.»

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

«We are not interested in engaging in any direct confrontation with anybody but if Nigeria thinks they can harass these outstanding Igbo sons because they merely stood up to surety our leader, then they are grossly mistaken.

Instead, he and Duvall engage in a series of dramatic father - son confrontations, the final one taking place during the climactic courtroom scene.

And while there are a few compelling sequences here and there - something that's particularly true of the scene in which several characters engage in a dramatic confrontation while carnival music plays in the background - the film is generally crushed under the weight of the overly familiar storyline and unreasonably slow pace.

Yes, Will Smith isn't exactly your typical Asimov protagonist, but this is a flick that intends to have heavy doses of action, necessitating a persona that you'd have to believe is a bit of a loose cannon, and strong enough to engage in some very physical confrontations, and Smith definitely fits that mold.

Adults verbally argue and engage in business confrontations.

First - time feature director Ron Underwood (The Adventures of Pluto Nash, In the Mix) keeps the pace brisk, while the screenwriting team of Wilson and Maddock (Wild Wild West, * batteries not included) serve up an always interesting array of situations and confrontations with which to engage us with some good laughs and good scares, sometimes simultaneously.

In particular, students learn how key features such as the setup, confrontation, and resolution, in addition to characters (such as heroes and villains) can aid the creation of original and engaging playscriptIn particular, students learn how key features such as the setup, confrontation, and resolution, in addition to characters (such as heroes and villains) can aid the creation of original and engaging playscriptin addition to characters (such as heroes and villains) can aid the creation of original and engaging playscripts.

Since cats prefer to avoid confrontation, engaging in an aggressive encounter usually means they feel backed into a corner.

While griefers often engage in direct player confrontation, oftentimes griefing can be done through backhanded channels.

The Friday afternoon program Confrontations, organized in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, allows visual artists, curators and critics to engage with musicians, scholars, writers and theatre professionals to highlight the common ground between their various practices.

From purse - snatchers to drunks looking for a fight and beyond, some people are willing to engage in physical confrontations with completely innocent victims.

Contemporary neuroscience research suggests that effective treatment needs to involve learning to modulate arousal, learning to tolerate feelings and sensations by increasing the capacity for interoception and learning that, after confrontation with physical helplessness, it is essential to engage in taking effective action.

TARA offers educational programs for family members that teach coping skills to decrease frequency and intensity of stressful interactions and angry confrontations, how to motivate loved one's to engage in evidence based treatment for BPD and how you can reinforce that treatment.

Practitioners will learn to identify and model strategies for partners, such as: how to engage in active limit setting, empathic confrontation, and enforcing consequences with the narcissist.

Crying proneness and / or crying frequency have been found to be associated with a number of individual difference factors, including gender, temperament, attachment style, socialization, confrontation with stressful / traumatic life events, being engaged in a romantic relationship, and the transition to parenthood (Vingerhoets et al., 2009).