Sentences with phrase «less threatening»

A buddy is less threatening than the broker.

Having your initial meeting over a cup of coffee in Starbucks is much less threatening than meeting in your conference room.

Several countries have had higher ratios with a meltdown, he suggested, adding that in Canada in the last three years that measure has climbed at half the speed than that of the pre-crash era in the United States, making it appear less threatening.

Using as much of the seller's own furnishings as possible and just rearranging and eliminating one or two pieces is a good way both hold down costs and make the process less threatening to sellers, suggests Schwarz.

And to make it even less threatening to those who fee they have a lot of legitimate clients who are not happy with them you had the choice to opt in or not!

Far less threatening environment to the clients than even an office meet - up where reception would guide them to a formal boardroom.

In addition they are perceived as less threatening than face - to - face interactions due to the heightened control over the interaction (e.g., Valkenburg and Peter, 2011).

That is, secure individuals feel trusting and safe to share their more vulnerable and tender sides with their partner during disagreements because they view conflict as less threatening to the relationship and perceive the relationship to be a safe place for exploration.

«It could be perceived as being less threatening, so it might be easier to moan or to move in a certain way to communicate that I'm enjoying the sexual encounter than to say, «Hey, this feels really good, I like that,»» Babin said.

The truth is that when you approach the topic from a place of love, it is less threatening for your spouse.

By Holly Willard Teens benefit from play therapy because it allows them to deal with issues in a less threatening way.

Teens benefit from play therapy because it allows them to deal with issues in a less threatening way.

Couples therapy is also less threatening than offering to «guest star» in an individual therapy session.

These latter suggestions allow them to distance from their feelings, creating a less threatening environment in which to deal with them.

I use many examples and therapeutic stories to help clients view their own situation in a less threatening way.

They can enhance developmentally oriented anticipatory guidance with individualized content that meets families» individual needs.42 Home - visiting programs include a «degree of social support that is difficult to provide in most clinical settings; outreach and liaison between the pediatrician, the family, and the community; involvement with socioeconomic issues that directly affect the well - being of the child and family; reinforcement and follow - up of preventive care, peer helper support, as well as encouragement by the home health visitor who has the advantage of being with the family in its own home, a more accepting, less threatening setting for the family.7

Home - visitation programs include a «degree of social support that is difficult to provide in most clinical settings; outreach and liaison between the pediatrician, the family, and the community; involvement with socioeconomic issues that directly affect the well - being of the child and family; reinforcement and follow - up of preventive care, peer helper support, as well as encouragement, by the home health visitor who has the advantage of being with the family in its own home — a more accepting, less threatening setting for the family.»

This holistic approach also creates a more accepting environment which makes it less threatening to practice self - honesty and hosesty between the couple.

E-mail, however, can be a much less threatening way to communicate your true thoughts and feelings.

When assessing rates we will be looking at three options: people with less threatening cancer pre-conditions, average cancer pre-conditions and serious cancer preconditions.

No doubt, after this experience, the sharks in the courthouse will seem far less threatening to Williams.

Nevertheless, is the recognition of the possibility to challenge the investigations conducted in other Member States less threatening to the aforementioned principles?

The cat - and - mouse game between defendants who want to wear eyeglasses so that they look less threatening, and the prosecutors who don't want them to do so, goes on.

Says it's lawyers and politicians that are attempting to make global warming seem less threatening.

As communicators, we can frame issues in ways that let people see them in a new light that is less threatening to their political predisposition.

«Interpretive denial», which is widespread in the community, reframes the facts so that they mean something different and less threatening.

Though the Climate wars are a bit less threatening than what England faced when Churchill said that.

The idea to start calling it «climate change» came from a Republican strategist, in an effort to make it seem less threatening.

Why, if the experimental condition made the risks of climate change less threatening (by virtue of increasing the possibility of mitigation), did the EGs became more dismissive of the evidence of climate change.?

I can understand the former (HI's see the prospect of climate change as less threatening to their cultural identtification), but as I said above, I don't get the latter.

Those who believe they can manage problems and adversity view life as less threatening and act in ways to change things.

«For instance, elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, near the Tanzanian border in the south, have shown the ability to distinguish between the voices and scents of potentially threatening spear - carrying Maasai warriors with those of less threatening farming tribes,» Saigal writes.

However, the thing you have to understand is that what he gets through peer - review is far less threatening to the mainstream picture of anthropogenic global warming than you'd think from the spin he puts on it in press releases, presentations and the blogosphere.

Here, «Untitled (Brown)» makes manifest — and thus, renders paradoxically less threatening — the anxiety of disconnection experienced in a person's social individuation.

This purportedly advanced abstract art was far less threatening in the early sixties than art with obvious content and subject matter.»

Along with a swarm of less threatening chum, these Boss Salmonids, as their appropriately referred to, come outfitted with all kinds of makeshift weaponry and armor fashioned out of discarded cookware and all manner of long - forgotten garbage.

Things that are cute but low - intensity can be cozy: elaborate costumes and skins may be too laden with status or opulence, but simpler or understated styles can feel less threatening or attention - seeking.

A little less threatening crevices and giant groupers, parrot fish, tuna, jelly fish and turtles that keep divers company along with large schools of smaller fish.

Height is status to a dog, so if you are lower to the ground, you are less threatening.

Trainer Lyssa talks about the importance of asking before touching a dog you don't know and how to be less threatening to the dog.

If for instance, you are fearful of spiders and seek the aid of a psychologist, he will likely never dream of covering your mouth to make you stop screaming when you see a spider on your arm; rather, he would try to make spiders look less threatening and perhaps help you associate spiders with good things.

Keeping the carrier out at home is good trick to make it less threatening to your cat.

Here are some tips on how to wash your dog properly and make the experience less threatening and more fun.

In such a case, it's best to desensitize the puppy by presenting the stimulus in a less threatening manner.

This is less threatening to the dog than when you reach over the top of their head.

To grant success, the trigger known for causing reactivity needs to be presented in such a way as to be less threatening.

TWST: Because you have kind of woven it into your culture, and it feels less threatening to everybody involved?

Letting them take the lead makes you appear less threatening and increases the likelihood of the other person warming up to you.

E Book publishing, once the technicalities are mastered is a lot less threatening.

Rosy learns that once you make new friends, life is a lot less threatening.