Sentences with phrase «many backbiting»

The CCOHS publishes guidelines on workplace bullying, and Chappel says the most common signs of a bullied workforce are an office riven with gossip, innuendoes and backbiting, and high levels of absenteeism and turnover.

Some of Trump's allies say it would be a «lethal» mistake for the president to oust Kelly, who many feel is a stabilizing force within the White House and helped quell some of the backbiting that plagued the administration for much of its first year.

In the letter to the editor, Icahn reiterated that his White House departure stemmed from his distaste for partisan backbiting.

If Bitcoin were a company, you'd expect the CEO to sort out his or her underlings» petty backbiting.

And other officials in this leaky, backbiting White House have been happy to tell the Times — and plenty of other reporters — exactly which people those are.

The overall exchanges have been interesting to read to me, because with the clear exception of Julie — who was outright wronged and is due the apologies she seeks — it reads like a lot of typical in - house backbiting, now that things have come to light.

thank you moonshyne for your positive thoughts & comments, a welcome relief to all the backbiting nastiness that goes on with this blog

Those places were arenas of friendship, spiced by the backbiting that has been characteristic of small communities down the ages.

Backbiting and stabbing is so normalized that people expect it now.

If what unites us is our pretending to agree, even though we don't agree, then we have nothing more than pretend peace and unity, with undercurrents of tension and backbiting».

Even in churches, hell is present with the backbiting, slander, and jealous quarrels that so often go on.

Also, what of the Muslim prohibition against «backbiting»?

The sin of slander, in this case called backbiting, was described in the handbook as a work of the Devil.

A true muslim's nature is to be quiet and humble and avoid involving themselves in gossip or «backbiting»... meaning negative talk about ANYONE... which maybe explains the perceived silence by mainstream muslims.

Fr Luther preached at the gathering and gave his brethren a forceful harangue about that prime sin of the cloister, backbiting and slander.

But at the same time, it also forbids gossip, backbiting, coveting (wanting what someone else has), jealousy, adultery and promiscuity.

To this characteristic bit of big - school backbiting.

Behind Chicago's stormy facade lies an even more turbulent interior, featuring recriminations, backbiting and name - calling by the major figures of the team that has the worst record in the NBA

But government means politics, and politics means bickering, backbiting, hidden agendas and an ever - changing cast of characters.

I am surprised that Wenger still wants to manage Arsenal with so many backbiting disrespectful idiots giving him «nasty jabs» while he is doing the job to the best of his ability.

Girls use backbiting, ostracizing, rumor spreading, name - calling and manipulation to inflict serious psychological harm on their targets.

Mean girls often belong to cliques that use backbiting, ostracizing, rumor spreading, name - calling and even manipulation to inflict serious psychological harm.

«Many girls struggle with self - esteem, self - image, level of confidence, social media, peer relationships with boys, backbiting, jealousy and a whole host of other issues that all seem to centralize around boys and fitting in.

The NDC is the only umbrella everybody, irrespective of where you are coming from and who you are can join without encountering any backlashes, backbiting and suspension when you are seen as a force to reckon with.

The hours may well be shorter in the Commons these days, but the appetite for plotting, backbiting and skulduggery remain as strong as ever.

I predict Cameron's career is in trouble because of the backbiting that has already started.

As to why the Houses of Parliament are such a hotbed of intrigue and backbiting, one veteran insider says the reason is clear: «Proximity — we're all together.

Instead, many of you blew it with a display of bickering and backbiting that left me exasperated and I am someone who defends you people.

Republicans «should demand that candidates knock off the cheap shots at public events, campaign staff backbiting and general high school rumor mongering.

Asked whether unified Democratic governance in the state capital would be a net benefit, Cuomo answered in the negative, recalling the period between 2008 and 2010 when his party held the Assembly, State Senate and governor's mansion — a period characterized by infighting, backbiting, chaos and corruption scandals.

If you imagine that any of these matters is foremost on councilmembers» minds, you haven't been paying attention to the low level of backbiting and petty squabbling that defines our (almost) one - party unicameral legislative body.

«They [the SSP] should respect the right of other socialists to organise in the way they want and not indulge in backbiting and backstabbing.»

The Fetish Priest claimed in the said song that Kwaku Manu is jealous of Lilwin's success and further accused him of backbiting.

He urged them to do away with any backbiting and remain united to form a stronger team and work for victory adding: «Though we are sure of victory, we can not be complacent.»

Udeogaranya, in a statement he personally signed noted that Nigeria is full of «divisions, hatred, backbiting, hopelessness» under the Buhari's administration.

It was the Cameroons who started the sniping and backbiting.

A little backbiting by the officials and their aides, who occupy power suites at opposite ends of the State Capitol's second floor, might be chalked up to the kind of rivalry that is an unseemly but unsurprising fact of life atop the state's political food chain.

The backbiting started after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made a politically boneheaded but obvious statement that Republicans have a chance to take over the House this year — in elections where many outside experts anticipate a Democratic bloodbath.

When I took my Thai woman to alien to my affiliated guys friends, they all backbiting at my lifestyle.

As you grow older, you're going to yearn for a peaceful home, not one full of drama and backbiting.

Conspiracy and backbiting are the only constant themes, and the overwhelming sense of claustrophobia and the unremitting nastiness of many of contestants make the show nearly unwatchable.

Still, Blue Is The Warmest Color's drama - queen back story was omnipresent enough that by the time it finally opened in the U.S. this week, I went in half - expecting it to somehow resemble the saga its creators have been enacting before the press, with bitchy, backbiting characters and graphic sex scenes leered over by a voyeuristic camera.

Champagne and red wine and name - calling and backbiting and multiple bombshells and a conspicuous Chekhov - worthy gun move toward pleasing farcical complication.

The road to the Oscars is paved with a dozen other awards ceremonies, all them celebrating the best in film and television and all them loaded with politics and vendettas and personal backbiting.

There should be more collaboration instead of the backbiting.

The background will be familiar to any girl who ever went to camp, as will the story's emotional content: the hurtful backbiting, the jealousy, the fear of being ostracized, the rage at being duped, and the complete preoccupation of a first crush.

Willis energetically interprets the backbiting that dominates this modern screwball comedy in which the secret male lover of a professional basketball star finds himself on the outside after his lover marries a basketball groupie.

The internet is a cruel place, and there is all manner of anonymous backbiting that goes on.

I think the trouble started when their paintings became worth real money and had uptown galleries and then the evils of jealousy and backbiting entered the picture.

Some in the often - backbiting art world undoubtedly resent his success, particularly since he has managed to draw some artists and estates from other galleries.