Sentences with phrase «focuses on issues rather»

Effective conflict - resolution communication focuses on issues rather than attacking personalities.

As is often the case in politics, money, anger and apathy were key to the results, some said, while Stavisky highlighted her focus on issues rather than divisive rhetoric.

The government should focus on these issues rather than obsessing about an education policy plucked from the 1950s.

If I find myself in disagreement, I focus on issues rather than airing grievances or complaints in the press or online, or engaging in personal attacks of any kind.

Not exact matches

«I generally think that as far as privacy laws go the security breach disclosure ones are not a bad thing — they're focused, they only kick in when there's actually a problem, and so on,» Singleton says, but they can sometimes focus attention on the errant business rather than on systematic security issues.

By focusing on hairy problems rather than rote tasks, I believe I'm able to face down bigger issues and make more progress.»

It blames most of the positive coverage on the tendency to cover political campaigns like a horse race, rather than focusing on the issues.

But Continental executive Scott Penfound says the plan is to offer «an old - school commerce bank,» meaning one that focuses on making money from selling services rather than issuing credit.

Staffers liked that he wasn't afraid to openly skirt their parent company, always pushing to focus on local issues rather than Tribune Publishing's national strategy.

For instance, much of the department's focus was on recruiting and scaling the company rather than mitigating workplace issues.

Our focus must be on addressing the root cause of this problem in America, rather than wasting time on false and irresponsible claims designed to distract us from the real issues.

First, it is critical for regulators to complete their efforts at implementing a macroprudential approach to enhance resilience within the financial system, which will minimize the likelihood that monetary policy will need to focus on financial stability issues rather than on price stability and full employment.

As I wrote earlier this month, the NDP subtly shifted their messaging over the past few months, focusing on launching new programs and projects that they argue will «make lives better for Albertans,» rather than trying to out - flank the conservatives on economic issues.

These themes reflect a consistent focus on China's «new economy» segments, rather than its traditional industries, many of which are dealing with structural issues and overcapacity.

As a result, Cofound.it, in partnership with Rutar, is now able to provide robust legal advice to blockchain projects so that entrepreneurs can focus on their products and their user communities, rather than on accounting, compliance and other operational issues.

One other issue issue is that video games are normally serious in nature with the primary focus on knowing things rather than amusement.

Because of the air of celebration about the proceedings, which featured upbeat multimedia reports of progress from each of the world divisions and a final mission pageant with delegates in national costume, the session tended to focus on encouraging news rather than to address worrisome issues.

«And to focus more precisely on the issue of «scientific evidence,» the sciences, ordered by their nature and method to an analysis of empirically verifiable objects and states of affairs within the universe, can not even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all.......

He also maintains that on ethical issues Christians have too often made the nation, rather than the church, their chief focus of concern.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

If the republicans focus on the religious issues and cater to the religious right, this conservative will not vote republican, I'd rather vote Democrat.

I would much rather see us continue to focus on the major issues of Reformed thought in an admittedly pluralistic denomination than get into the debates that seem inevitably to arise when evangelicals have established their own «pure» denominations.

The night before one announcement in October 2017 he sent a series of tweets calling for the investigation to focus on the Democrats, and sure enough when indictments were issued (for three people involved in his campaign), much of the media attention was on Trump's claims rather than the indictments.

One of the standard criticisms of virtue ethics is that it is weak when dealing with issues in applied ethics, in contrast to deontology or utilitarianism, and this because virtue theorists focus on good or bad agents rather than right or wrong acts.

They provided programs focused on important issues or features of society rather than distinguished by disciplines.

Crispin suggests that rather than focusing on safety as a guiding principle to govern or advocate for, the focus should be on peace, where there is a focus on addressing social problems and systemic issues that impact homelessness, mass incarceration and mental illness.

In the least, they will more likely tend to focus on narrow issues critical to their view of the world as colored by their evangelical faith, rather than logically solving the problems that need to be solved.

So next time something goes widely out of your control or you feel like you're making no progress, stop and focus on a solution to that single issue rather than letting one issue create a never ending spiral of negativity, because that will only kick you down further, which isn't what you need.

Through nutrition, yoga and meditation, it focuses on treating the individual as a whole rather than a specific issue or disease, so that you can achieve balance and good health, not only in your physical body, but also in your mind and spirit.

But I think a more constructive discussion is one that focuses on the actual issues created by the use of Native American mascots rather than one person's personal sense of disrespect at the use of the term.

Whilst not an obviously world class name, United's issue so far this summer has been focusing on reputation rather than how a player fits into the team — but reports that they are interested in a January move for Everton midfielder James McCarthy would indicate that the trend is set to be bucked.

Unfortunately, the government, broadcasters and decision makers are focussing on cracking down on illegal football streaming rather than solving the issue at hand.

They have issues in defence and midfield that need urgent attention and it is likely that they will focus their funds in those areas in January rather than spend another large sum on a new forward.

So rather than focus on the many issues — sex, marriage, infidelity, drugs and alcohol, unemployment, nonmarital childbirth etc. — the book addresses, I want to explore the idea of community as a force of good (and sometimes bad).

Our view is that as a general principle, promoting your focus on «mothers and fathers» rather than «parents» enables you to make crystal clear to your audience that you value, and are addressing the issue of, men's involvement in parenting.

Rather than focus on getting your teen to admit he's using, or the degree of his use, we're going to focus on what you can do to respond to the issues that result from that substance use.

Rather than focusing on addressing every behavior issue or adhering to a perfect schedule each day, try to hit the important targets and realize that you might have to let some smaller things go each day.

Strong will equals strong need and focusing on those needs defuses rather than escalates behavioral issues.

The film acknowledges that first lady Michelle Obama raised the issue of childhood obesity, but it pretty much declares her «Let's Move» campaign a failure because it focuses on exercise and because she has worked with food companies rather than opposing them.

Rather than editorializing about minuscule amounts of fraud and abuse affecting the food stamp program, the Tribune should focus on the more important issue: Millions of Americans are currently struggling to feed themselves and their families, and would be facing hunger without the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition...

-LSB-...] parents tend to focus on issues like getting a child to eat veggies or learn to read rather than on the small details of a child's speech or language development.

As Reifsnider points out, it is important to take a life cycle approach to this issue, rather than focusing solely on nutrition during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Looking at the list, the reporter questions often focused on the horserace rather than the issues: «Is the drop in violence in Iraq making it a less important campaign issue?»

Surely Lansley should be focusing on his contentious NHS reforms rather than prioritising a marginal issue - based on nonexistent evidence - which will alienate a minority of reasonable consumers.

Fiddling with the fringes of the issue, with fairly miserly funding of R&D and transport, fails to address the fundamental underlying causes: the recent relative atrophy of infrastructure spending and capital investment and a relentless focus since 2010 purely on the number of jobs, rather than quality, skilled, well - paid jobs.

IMHO, the only reason «gay marriage» is going anywhere is that its opponents put forth all sorts of distracting religious issues rather than focusing on freedom of association.

By focusing on issues the general public care about, rather than the slogans they don't, Miliband was able to win the day.

Wife of the vice president, Samira Bawumia, has been asked to redirect her focus and attention on issues of national development, rather than constantly flaunting her beauty on both social media and mainstream media, unproductively.

Agriculture staff are better positioned to focus on the specific needs of family farms and agricultural businesses rather than dealing with other labor - management issues.

To critics, this appears to be a case of the Governor focusing on big - ticket items rather than the less flashy — but ultimately, extremely necessary — issues that plague many commuters.