Sentences with phrase «more acceptable way»

This different use of language is not just a reflection of women displaying a softer and more acceptable way of yielding power.

But a wiser course of action is to try to find out what's bothering your preschooler, then teach him to express his difficult emotions in a more acceptable way.

Explaining to a child that yelling and screaming won't get her what she wants, and that asking nicely is a much more acceptable way to act, will teach her over time to communicate in socially acceptable and appropriate ways.

And of course, we have almost the same lunch in a more acceptable way for a middle schooler... minus the egg and the raisins (she doesn't like raisins or eggs in her lunch like the wild child does.)

You can offer him suggestions on how he can get rid of that energy in a more acceptable way than yelling or throwing things.

Knowing that the sacrifice of one's children to the gods was a common practice in Abraham's time, I wonder if the sacrifice was not more Abraham's idea than God's and God's substitution of the lamb was not to give Abraham a more acceptable way of expressing his committment.

We want to protect consumers against breaches of privacy [but] we want access to data to enable us to do things in a more targeted, more refined, more acceptable way.

Tell them when they misbehave and explain how you feel about their behavior; then have them propose other more acceptable ways of behaving.

However, to live with humans your dog may need to learn more acceptable ways of behaving.

Not exact matches

It's essentially a more socially acceptable way of saying, «Okay, I've got it.

One startup has taken the fun and practical features of the Segway and made something way more socially acceptable.

While I won't tell you why you shouldn't pitch your bare - bones concept, I can offer several ways to make your idea more acceptable to potential investors and customers.

Facebook is hoping marketers will seize the opportunity to develop more creative ways to entice and intrigue customers so advertising can become a more acceptable fixture on the social network.

The acronym is a bit more cumbersome, but not only is the phrase more in line with what Jesus actually wanted us to do, it is also more acceptable to the largest part of the body of Christ — those who have come to God by non-Christian paths and are uncomfortable with the idea of equating Jesus the man (the way Jesus looked physically) with God.

My goal is to make readers first laugh, and then think, about the ways in which we invoke the phrase «biblical womanhood,» because I believe both the Bible and womanhood are more complex than a list of rules and acceptable roles.

Or, as is already happening, many more parents may decide that the only way they can get an acceptable education for their children is outside the government school system.

It has learned the art of using its power in ways that are more socially acceptable but no less in operation.

Although Americans are more accustomed to changing to «he» after the first «one,» the British usage is a wholly acceptable way of avoiding «he» in certain sentences.

We feel that this way we are taking will become more usual and acceptable as the years pass.

I lived more than twenty years of the Christian life believing that my performance made me acceptable to God in some way.

«Or — to put it in a way more acceptable to me — I am used to seeing things that «aren't there.

Also, I have WAY too much buttermilk in my freezer that has been causing more anxiety than is socially acceptable (such is the by - product of homemade butter making, I suppose: which I imagine will be heavenly with those waffles!).

I know I'd love and use it because I currently borrow my neighbor's like WAY more often than is socially acceptable.

None of them believes that it is necessary to avoid sugars... they think that taking more insulin is an acceptable way to treat high blood sugar.

Beat a top team and we are lucky, beat a lower team and we should be beating them anyway, lose when playing a too risky brand of football and we are inept, win a tight game playing ugly it is not acceptable nor the Arsenal way, win by 3 goals and it should have been 5, keep playing the same predictable way every game and we should vary it more, vary our pattern of play and we should go back to doing what we used to, win 2 - 0 and keep a clean sheet and we should have been more adventurous to improve goal difference, win 2 - 1 and concede in the last minute and we were naive not to shut up shop, win 12 out of the last 15 games and it should have been 15 wins......... blah, blah.

They don't — if you can make it through the first six weeks or so, you are well on your way to an easier and much more acceptable breastfeeding relationship.

Granted, meatless living has received massive exposure in recent years and has become way more accessible and acceptable since I was a kid.

While laboring in a warm tub has become more acceptable as a way to cope with pain during labor, actual underwater birth is still unconventional and considered risky.

The third way to express anger is control and channel it into more acceptable methods of expression.

We are coming a long way and I hope it becomes even more acceptable!

The easiest way for you to judge if a discipline method has worked on your child is by observing whether your children are carrying out more acceptable than unacceptable behaviour.

Asked about acceptable ways for candidates to raise money, more than three - quarters of Americans say that raising campaign money from contributions made by Washington lobbyists is unacceptable, putting it at the bottom of a list of six ways for raising money.

Gervais and his colleague Ara Norenzayan have found that reminding people about God's presence has the same effect as telling people they are being watched by others: it increases their feelings of self - consciousness and leads them to behave in more socially acceptable ways.

Countering false information in ways that repeat it appears to amplify and spread the misconception, making it familiar and therefore more acceptable, researchers said.

«When we hear a word that does not sound reasonable, we often mishear or repeat it in a way that makes it sound more acceptable.

This makes me feel like it's way more socially acceptable now than I thought in the past!

No offense if «skewer» is your given - name... but «kabob» as a word is just way more fun and somehow acceptable to me!

If you're not feeling the all - white outfit, incorporating more white through accessories and basics is an acceptable take on the trend; the added hint of daring and elegance is a perfect way to stand out from the crowd.

Another thing that's changed is that it's becoming more and more acceptable to date WAY outside your age range.

It's not right to say that getting know in real life is an old - fashioned way or no more acceptable to other people.

Either way, my gut instinct is that the online gender imbalance (to whatever degree it exists), will probably even out as online dating becomes more socially acceptable; i.e., more women of varying ages, attractiveness, intelligence, success, and other factors will begin to view it as a viable first choice, instead of a desperate last resort.

Online dating is becoming a more popular and socially acceptable way of meeting a partner, a Pew study has revealed.

We need to find a way that is more acceptable to display your anger, but right now, I'm too angry with you to discuss this situation calmly.

If the profession wants good teaching to be valued more, it must learn how to evaluate it in ways that are publicly credible and professionally acceptable.»

I'm no fanboy of Apple but if Honeycomb still feels V1.0 RC (as opposed to the branded V3.0, where in reality it's really 1.0 based on (or re - imagined / re-engineered) a fork of the old 2.0 iteration of an OS), that's simply not acceptable, to end users as well as engineers from both companies, especially it's way more expensive (and its cheaper, WIFI only version is still nowhere to be seen).

Meizu MX4 Pro improves upon the MX4 foundation in many ways and its price didn't go up all that much, the MX4 Pro (basic model) costs 2,499 Yuan ($ 406), which is more than acceptable.

But looking back, Civil War paved the way for the rise and fall of Iron Man (the most compelling take on the character since the 1980s), turned the New Avengers into antiheroes (a status far more normal and acceptable for members like Spider - Man, Cage, and Spider Woman), and for Dark Reign — certainly an important storyline in its own right.

One way for an author to see their book in print is to self - publish, but since that became more acceptable some vanity publishers try to pass themselves off as self - publishers.

Traditional publishers not inclined to paying outright for services find other, more socially acceptable ways of racking up positive reviews.

You must find a way to counterbalance the negative information and make your application more acceptable.