Sentences with phrase «higher than conflict»

Not exact matches

«Given there has been no let - up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013,» UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.

But just because conflict is inevitable when colleagues of diverse backgrounds and temperaments are thrown together in a high stress work environment, doesn't mean disputes can't be dealt with constructively and in a way that reinforces rather than erodes morale at your company.

Amazon, categorized as a consumer discretionary name rather than a technology stock, weighed on its sector, which also includes Netflix and which is grappling with the potential for trade conflict and investors» growing impatience with high U.S. stock valuations.

The conflicts of interest boil down to: It is in the financial industry's interest to steer investors into high - fee active funds rather than low - fee passive funds.

Many firms have organized themselves on the basis of capturing «conflicted payments rather than the delivery of high - quality financial advice,» the memo states.

Employees now have much more access to be productive than ever before, from any with high - speed Internet, and at what times of the day they work best; these shifts will ultimately will allow employees to reduce conflict between their professional and personal work lives.

Sorry, but when you hold your own book in higher regard than the book that defines Christianity, that's a pretty big conflict of interest.

By the end of the four - year conflict, the first in which aviation played a major role, the RAF had 27,000 officers and 260,000 other personnel operating more than 22,000 aircraft, but had seen high casualty rates.

For example, by 30 percentage points (67.3 percent to 37 percent) native - born citizens are more likely to believe that the U.S. Constitution should be a higher legal authority than international law if there is a conflict between the two.

Some scientific conflict may relate to time beginning at the Big Bang rather than observable time dependent on higher life forms.

Davis et al (2006) found fathers working non-standard shifts knowing significantly less about their teens» daily activities than fathers with daytime shifts; and fathers» non-standard shift working, when combined with high parental conflict, correlated with less father - teen intimacy.

In addition, when children witness high levels of long - term conflict between their parents, the exposure to that stress is often far worse for the kids than adjusting to life post-divorce.

Wolfinger writes, «It is certainly good news that people are less likely to stay in high conflict marriages than they used to.»

Traditional fathers (those who think their wives should do more caregiving and they actually do) and egalitarian fathers (those who think caregiving should be divided equally and indeed do this) show markedly higher levels of life satisfaction than conflicted fathers who are caught in a state of dissonance.

High conflict is usually temporary, so it is best not to decrease the child's access to the other parent; it is more harmful for a child to lose a relationship with a parent than it is for them to be exposed to conflict for a short period of time.

Parental disagreements cause stress and suffering in a child; children often emerge in good shape from low - conflict break - ups, and they do better than those in an intact family with high conflict.

The criminal narco - conflict in Mexico, for example, is the source of higher death rates than most wars, and violence in the favelas of Brazil can reach battlefield level.

He said no fewer than five million people living in the Lake Chad Basin countries had been displaced by the depletion of the lake due to climate change, noting that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, a former island sea, had resulted in increased social conflicts, high rates of migration and cross border movements.

In the four weeks following the beginning of the Gaza conflict on 27 December the CST said it had more than 250 incidents reported to it, the highest rate it has ever seen.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

It has been argued that, following a series of high - profile political scandals over the Code (David Blunkett resigned for a second time over a conflict of interest; and Tessa Jowell's husband was implicated — separately — in a furore over his financial dealings), that it should be administered by a more impartial figure than the Prime Minister.

Women who reported higher levels of marital conflict were more likely in subsequent years to give birth to girls, rather than boys.

«We find that civil wars were much more likely to happen in warmer - than - average years, with one degree Celsius warmer temperatures in a given year associated with a 50 percent higher likelihood of conflict in that year,» Burke says.

After participating in the Decision Counseling Program ©, patients had a higher level of knowledge about their treatment options, reported feeling less conflicted about the treatment decision, and had more favorable perceptions of active surveillance than they did at the outset of the study.

Dominant females benefited from their status and spent longer time bathing, but they were also involved in more aggressive conflicts, resulting in higher energy expenditure than subordinate females.

With encouragement from the State Department of Education, they implemented the program in volunteer middle schools, as they were seeing higher rates of student conflict than high schools.

No one knows better how to push your buttons than your ex, and in high - conflict situations, that's what will happen.

However, due to conflicting reports little is known about the first English - language work from Oldboy director Chan - wook, other than its high profile cast.

According to the American Psychological Association, students with a more positive and connected relationship with their teachers will attain higher levels of achievement than those students with more conflict in their relationships.

But the rate at which these types of conflicts are popping up is increasing, higher education researchers and administrators say, because governing boards, particularly at public universities, are different than they used to be.

Intelligent lightweight design — major contribution to efficiency When it comes to its bodyshell, the 2012 CLS63 AMG is nothing less than an engineer - ing work of art — intelligent lightweight design plays a major role in overcoming the classic conflict between low weight and high stiffness.

Compromise as a conflict management strategy is useful when the cost of conflict is higher than the cost of losing ground.

The method is genius: Thoughtfully plot and craft a long - form tale that embraces waves of conflict and cliffhangers, separate it into à la carte episodes at low price points (reducing perceived risk and barrier of entry for consumers), then package them into omnibuses (sold at higher price points that deliver much higher per - sale royalties than the à la carte approach).

As if the original Command & Conquer's over the top sci - fi action wasn't ridiculous enough, Westwood followed it up with a crazy reimagining of Soviet - American «relations» as high - tech conflict rather than chilly espionage.

I was a little annoyed that it felt like they just lost the last third of the script, as there was very little conflict resolution, and I was left with more questions than answers by the time credits were rolling, but I'm still very eager to see how they can raise the bar on their next title when this one is set so high.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

High conflict emotions are especially contagious, and can lead to alienation more than any other statements.

High conflict parents may do more harm to their children than they realize, including a court order to have the children placed in care.

The threshold test of perceived conflict in legal matters is much higher than say helping competing companies implement an enterprise software system.

A well - known equitable distribution and custody litigator in complex, high - conflict divorce cases, Todd M. Begg has practiced family law for more than two decades.

Certain conclusions from the data suggest that the files reviewed were of significantly less overall complexity than might be expected if the files of high - conflict parties were oversampled...

1) we agree to disagree:) 2) supremacy of EU law for the EU system is the equivalent of the hard core of constitutional values that some national Courts defend against EU (and ECHR)- it is not a matter of «legitimacy» or «patriotism» but of using a «lower rank» instrument (accession treaty) to interfere with a treaty rule: the identical issue is for States who have a «rigid» constitution (alike the Treaty binds the CIEU): the accession treaty to ECHR or EU has a «lower rank» than the Constitution itself, so that the national Constitutional Court can not accept it can derogate to a higher ranking rule - usually they will find a way to reconcile the «construction» of the two set of rules, but if they are requested of an opinion on the point of principle, they will always say that in the very end, if all other paths have been explored to avoid the conflict, eventually it is the Constitution and neither ECHR nor EUwhich prevails.

And although your agent or broker is awesome, the fact remains that the commission for selling a permanent policy is much higher (think 10 times higher) than it is for a term policy, which invariably leads to a conflict of interest.

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This behavior is called «high - conflict» because it increases the conflict, rather than reducing or resolving it.

It might be less if there are no minor children, and it could be much, much more if there are complex financial issues or a higher - than - usual amount of conflict between the spouses.

Couples with high conflict in their relationship will probably need more sessions to complete an agreement than would low - conflict couples.

In fact, among families high on conflict, divorced families, and «normal» families, the married and in conflict families showed more child adjustment problems than the divorced families.

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Were unhappy spouses who later divorced or separated more likely to be victims of high conflict or violent marriages than those who stayed married?