Sentences with phrase «not hearing the criticisms»

It's a heartbreak listening to the stories of ex-members and knowing that those still loyal cannot / will not hear any criticism of the leadership or their system.
Indeed, «breast is best» for both mom and baby, but that doesn't mean you won't hear criticism from misinformed loved ones and strangers about your decision to breastfeed.
Cuomo also deflected blame for any corruption, saying it was SUNY that was ultimately responsible for the contract process, and that, until recently, he hadn't heard any criticisms — although several newspapers had detailed potential conflicts of interest and questionable timelines of campaign contributions to the governor and the awarding of key contracts.
But, since a lot of people had staked their careers on these theories, they had an interest in not hearing the criticisms of their theories.

Not exact matches

The truth is that criticism is useful, but not everything you hear is going to be criticism.
Many who have passed through Bridgewater criticize this arrangement, saying that workers haven't always felt heard when they voice their criticism.
The criticism I hear most from readers, however, is that we don't explain how hard entrepreneurship is.
Having today's announcement to point to could give him more protection against criticism during the hearings, though Congress will surely want to know why these safeguards weren't in place already.
In fact, one of the more constructive criticisms I've heard from the complementarian camp is that, in the book, I did not make clear enough distinctions between how various complementarian organizations differ in their positions on biblical womanhood.
It is a criticism not uncommonly heard of the many entrepreneurs of the religious world broadly described as «evangelical Protestant.»
The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of God in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one way to hear the Word of God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our functions to concrete self - criticism.
You can relate in exhaustive detail and provide voluminous evidence that the vast majority of the 1.5 billion believers of Islam were not responsible for nor in approval of the 9/11 terrorism, and at the end of your plea for common sense, they will, with a glazed look, just repeat their criticisms of Islam as though they never heard a word.
to not even be willing to hear the self - criticisms that such minds have form * within * your own framework is purposefully putting your head in the sand.
It just takes time for the criticism to sink in (or in some case even be heard most people aren't focused on the race.)
I often hear criticism about ministers who haven't pushed to envelope or shown wisdom by challenging the system — as was certainly the case during Jim Crow.
Criticism or the prophetic No should always be in the context of the total gospel so that men will not be afraid to hear it or defend themselves against it.
Freedom of speech is protected not because we are all supposed to only say nice things about one another so we aren't forced to be violent, speech is protected precisely because people are often unwilling to hear criticism of things which they hold dear.
She didn't like hearing criticism, so she put her hands over her ears and starting talking real loud.
It's not above criticism, and as people continue to realize that you can bet you are going to hear a lot more questioning and a lot more criticism.
Again I have to ask how solid is a religious «truth» if the best argument you can make is to threaten the lives of those who criticize it, or to destroy their criticism so that it can not be heard, or seen?
Because this is the sole ideal that has the solidity once owned by Catholicism and the flexibility that this was never able to have, the only one that can always face the future and does not claim to determine it in any particular and contingent form, the only one that can resist criticism and represent for human society the point around which, in its frequent upheavals, in its continual oscillations, equilibrium is perpetually restored, so that when the question is heard whether liberty will enjoy what is known as the future, the answer must be that it has something better still: it has eternity.29
And it's not just the blokes doing the questioning: some of the most strident criticism I've heard of the Australian Women in Wine Awards (AWIA) has come from some of the country's top female winemakers.
Now I know that Flamini is not the best player in the Arsenal squad but he is one of the most committed and I imagine he would be fuming to hear this criticism.
And we hear too much about character, so this surely shouldn't be a problem, but Arsene said he feels bad that criticism comes from the fans after the Everton game.
The France international appears to be trying to save face, although you would not expect to hear any criticism from Arsenal fans for not putting his hands up (excuse the pun) and admitting to the hand - ball at the time, which most certainly would have meant the game would have finished 0 - 0.
We have all heard the old football adage about a manager pinning up in the dressing room some criticism of his players in order to sting them into extra effort to prove the doubters wrong, but I am not sure if Arsene Wenger has ever tried this little psychological trick on the Gunners.
The criticism we read / hear of Bould and a lot of the criticism of individual defenders is misplaced and probably mostly coming from fans, who really doesn't understand organization of a team.
I'm just hearing hearsay and opinions I am trying to be more structured in my criticism of Wenger but saying tactically what currently isn't working.
Criticisms fair if you analyse someone's game and point out the good and the bad I don't mind hearing people say this player needs to improve on certain aspects of the game but all he does is slam everyone.
Sam is aware of the criticisms that have come his way; indeed, while attending various pigeon conventions he has often heard them voiced by fliers who wouldn't know him by sight if they tripped over him either.
He says he hears the criticism, but doesn't listen to it.
I've also heard some criticism and not sure what to think.
You've probably heard plenty of criticism of cosleeping — it's hard not to.
At first I simply ignored them, but I hear this criticism so often that I am beginning to doubt my own inner voice that tells me she is not ready.
I heard criticism about the co-sleeping, about the fact we didn't have babysitters early on, but I knew attachment parenting would pay off in the end.
When you hear people talk about David Willetts, especially his critics, a curious thing often happens: you often find the criticisms levied at him are things that ought not to be criticisms at all.
Certainly we do not hear the term «Blue Labour» bandied about so much these days, and Ed Miliband has suffered sharp criticism from Maurice Glasman, in recent years.
Wolfson, who served as a spokesman for Bloomberg and is a current employee of the Bloomberg Foundation, will only say, «Mike Bloomberg was the best mayor in the city's history, so anytime you hear criticism, especially if it's not accurate, it's frustrating.»
«I haven't heard issues that people can't find access,» Cuomo told reporters in Buffalo yesterday when asked about the criticism.
Second, Ipsos MORI's poll confirms that one of the criticisms of Labour that has often been heard since the referendum, viz. that voters do not know what Labour stands for any more, still has considerable force.
Accusations concerning his conduct during this period surfaced during the last papal transition in 2005, and some, like Hugh O'Shaughnessy writing in the Guardian in 2011, have singled him out for criticism, decrying that «what one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentine hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes».
Two parade attendees told Downtown Express that they did not hear any heckles or criticism directed at Silver.
Haters of truth and sentimentalists will call for Oshekomes head, byt will foolishly turn blind eyes to the fact that he have outlaid a child who depends on the father or relative being the invigilator to pass exams will always fail the exam on the day his father or relation is not in the exams hall, that is the case of the EFCC and the FGN, they relied on the judiciary to help them rubbish their opposition or faces they do not like, and have always lost cases because their candidates in the judiciary were not assigned their cases and that is the same head of EFCC Magu that the president keep nominating for confirmation, even when reports indicted him, this recent looses have to confirm to doubting Thomas that Magu is just the best because he can do the dirty work for the APC and Buhari, not because he is the best in corruption fight, I wish there is a listening and discerning government in place back there in Nigeria, they would have known that there is a vacuum as far as EFCC is concerned and use the time to shop for a head that will deliver, it also confirms the fact that the «So called fight against corruption» Is a BIG lie and propaganda, just a wipe to flog opposition into their line, shame on the clapping members and the O yes members who will never hear any criticisms concerning Buhari or anything he does good or bad, bitter or sweet dem go swallow like that shaaaaa.
The nonpartisan commission charged with drawing new City Council districts has isolated itself from criticism by not completing a comprehensive first draft, critics of the process contended at the final public hearing in Queens last week.?
Saying that «I haven't heard the former mayor's comments on what the context of the statements were,» the governor offered no criticism of Giuliani and only mild support for Obama.
At Tuesday's state Senate hearing on the water contamination in Hoosick Falls, the federal EPA came in for criticism from some state officials who blamed the agency for failing to lead, and from some lawmakers who said they were disappointed the EPA did not send a representative to the hearing.
Anyone who thought Sen. Greg Ball would ignore Sen. Kevin Parker's criticism for his terrorism preparedness hearings, they don't know Greg Ball.
In March, after growing criticism that the Goldwater rule was essentially a gag order that prevented the public from hearing from experts, the APA not only reaffirmed the rule but extended it.
The serpent handler is to the person who can not stand looking at photos of snakes as the person who hears criticism with curiosity is to the one who perceives everything as an attack.
This is often easier said than done: after all, it's not always easy to hear criticism without immediately going on the defensive.
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