Sentences with phrase «not facing up to»

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot lies, VC Om Malik writes.

«If we don't face up to this challenge we may lose a great deal of the Christian presence in rural areas,» he says.

Up to now ethics has not faced up to this issue.

There are tragic victims, cover - ups, false allegations, demands for money, denials by those who can not face up to what has happened, campaigns by those who see tolerance of paedophilia as a liberal concept and by those who seek to use every anecdote, particularly of clerical abuse, to keep the story going and smear an entire group.

I can't see having my name associated with a place like Alabama, where they really haven't faced up to - problems, or a school like Georgia in a state where Governor Maddox actually seems to be against progress.

Lord Hope's argument that kettling can ne justifiable when its a proportionate measure to contain disorder and prevent injury to people or property is inherently problematic - in a way that his opinion doesn't face up to - if kettling has the effect of provoking disorder and rendering some people - perhaps very vulnerable people - more exposed to the risk of injury because the police are trapping them in a high - risk area.

, 58 % still think Labour haven't faced up to the damage they did to the economy, 47 % still think they would put the country back into debt were they to return to government.

My real concern was that by not having an inclusive leadership election, we would not face up to the harsh realities of why we lost this year and, indeed, why swathes of voters have been deserting us since 1997.

59 % of people agreed that Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of Labour's own supporters), 70 % that «Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».

The Conservatives will want to paint their own narrative of the last Labour government, of reckless spending pushing the country to the verge of bankrupcy, and have had some success in doing so: 60 % think Labour haven't faced up to the damage they did to the economy, 47 % that if Labour returned to government they'd put the country into even more debt.

What Trevor I think misses, and what all the ultras like Rob and Atul can not face up to was that the dislike of the typical New Labour MP which has been out there in the public domain for a while had infected the internal party electorate also.

The agency couldn't face up to telling the nation that the embodiment of our shared dream was screwed up, and we had to start over.

University finance officers regularly work miracles, he said, «but the miracle they haven't faced up to» is finding a way to offer stability of employment to contract staff.

Some can't face up to 60 years of evidence.

«Such efforts should be recognized as the act of desperate people who have simply lost the argument over whether human activities are primarily driving climate change and who can not face up to the truth.»

The ostriches will not get a good deal and there are insurers out there who, in the light of the financial uncertainties facing the world, may decide they do not want the less well organised practices who will not face up to risk management.

Not exact matches

And since you probably couldn't afford to take a comparable salary at first, you also faced a variety of unappetizing choices like dipping into savings, or running up credit card debt, or borrowing money from your friends and family.

Sharing tasks makes you not only more emotionally resilient but also more economically resilient as well, Smith points out: «Flexibility and redundancy add up to greater resilience in the face of economic shocks.»

Clothing manufacturers can face significant tariffs when importing raw materials, and a company wishing to use the Textile Tariff Reference for tariff relief can face a 6 - 8 month waiting time and legal costs of up to $ 75,000... Clothing manufacturing is not the only manufacturing subsector still subject to import tariffs.

Companies that don't comply face potential penalties of up to 4 % of their annual global revenue or $ 20 million, whichever is higher.

I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

Facebook has faced criticism that it did not do enough to prevent false information being republished on its platform during last year's U.S presidential campaign, and in response has set up measures to try to tackle the problem.

But you got ta search within you, you got ta find that inner strength and just pull that s * it out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wan na just fall flat on your face and collapse.»

Last week, Simmons pleaded guilty to charges that he wasn't a CIA agent at all, and he faces up to 40 years in prison.

According to Wolfango Piccoli, from analysis firm Teneo Intelligence, the Five Star leader faces a dilemma: partner up with Lega and risk alienating his own party due to conflicting platforms, or run the risk of holding multiple inconclusive voting rounds and not end up with a speaker in the House.

What challenges have you faced that have taught you to try harder and not give up?

«The difficulty that Mercata faced was that it wasn't able to capture great discounts and, in fact, the search bots like Ask Jeeves turned up better prices than Mercata,» Andrew Bartles, senior e-commerce analyst told CNET at the time.

Without net neutrality, the large cable companies and other ISPs would be free to provide multiple levels of service, and there is a concern that new ventures and up and coming entrepreneurs would be faced with a barrier to entry that they simply couldn't afford to clear.

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

There will still be some hunger, but when you make smarter food selections for your calorie needs, the hunger is reduced to a level that you don't end up face - first in a cake or feeling so deprived you just throw in the towel and tell yourself you can't diet.»

And knowing that one's career hangs in the balance doesn't exactly encourage an astronaut to speak up about any mental health challenges they might be facing.

We'd all prefer not to think about our own failings, blind spots, and possible future errors, but facing up to your limitations is one of the best ways to learn.

So, if a candidate demonstrate a tendency to give up easily when facing uncertainty or obstacles, this might not be the person you are looking for.

As long as we understand the negatives (a false reward, not to mention a bright light shining up at your face all evening that turns you into an insomniac), it's possible that we're underestimating the benefits in this new form of communication.

Given the pressure to speed up, companies face a critical choice, but it's not the obvious one (get fast or get lost).

For instance, couldn't a test that asks people to match pictures of faces with words for emotions end up measuring people's verbal knowledge rather than their level of empathy?

I made that initial career switch because I could not go on, waking up each day with dread, facing another day of having the sense that I needed to be somewhere else.

Reacher agrees to help Chang in her case, thinking it should be pretty simple, but when it ends up dragging him all over the country and face - to - face with some villainous characters, Reacher thinks maybe it's not so cut - and - dry after all.

Even after a few weeks of wearing the Moto 360, I still couldn't figure out how to bring up email notifications or the heart - rate monitor — are you supposed to swipe the watch's face up, down, left or right?

Don't be afraid to take a chance and fall on your face... and then to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go again.

Under a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity, Routh would have faced up to life in a state mental hospital.

The median tax due is just under $ 10,000 and Robertson says anyone who doesn't pay up will face fines and have the bill added to their property taxes next year.

The store's numbers haven't been pretty either: Same - store sales growth last quarter was at its lowest level since 2009, a fact blamed in part on the New York City investigation and on the longer - term concern that it is facing stiff competition in the healthy - eating ethos up and down the grocery food chain — from Kroger (KR) and Walmart (WMT) to Trader Joe's and Sprouts (SFM).

Who hasn't faced the challenge of being asked for a document, looking fruitlessly across several shared drives, and then searching for clues among email and team messaging streams — only to be caught up in a fresh breaking issue that makes us lose track of whatever we were looking for in the first place?

Confirmation bias occurs when you're faced with something that you don't want to be true, so part of your brain actually shuts down and comes up with all of the reasons this can't be true.

Once you've completed your behind - the - scenes evaluation and have turned up some promising candidates, you'll need to know the dos and don'ts of interviewing someone face to face.

But I was living in South Korea, where many of my habits needed to be revised — how I rolled up my jeans, not getting leftovers from a restaurant, saying thank you if someone complimented me on being pale or having a small face.

I didn't know a soul in either place, and that's exactly why I did it: to face my fear and grow up.

Retirees are facing problems very similar to the average pension fund: In addition to not having enough cash contributions to keep up with the costs of aging, their returns have been hurt by interest rates that have been too low for too long.

Had he come clean, and acknowledged he was trying to save face to cover up for his initial mistake, his reputation wouldn't be so tarnished.