Sentences with phrase «not pit them against each other»

By bringing a team of trained professionals together to help couples restructure their relationship in an environment that does not pit them against each other, parents in Collaborative Divorce learn how to communicate so that when they need to both be present at an event for their children, family or friends, they are able to do so.

Not exact matches

«Don't pit people against each other, but if they can motivate each other, then a little competitiveness can be good,» Moceanu says, recalling her personal mantra: Be calm but aggressive.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

Such conflicts may stoke Machiavellian suspicion between VCs and Mainstream SPV investors, and worse, they are likely to pit SPV investors against one another as some investors in the SPV may want to participate in the cram - down, while others may not.

It can not be our intention here to pit one against the other, but rather to draw attention to the fundamental experience expressed, however imperfectly, in religious doctrines.

I know it's not easy to do this, but we must try and resist the temptation to pit one verse against others.

I will not engage in a contest of pitting «experts» opinions against each other as such an exercise is as pointless as biblical proof texting.

«I think that language like «sky daddy» or «imaginary friend Sam» immediately and unnecessarily pits people against each other... I don't want the secular community to risk failing to engage with the faith community».

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on...

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on an aircraft carrier.

In football, they went 6 - 3 in BCS bowls between 2004 - 13 (5 - 2 when not condescendingly pitted against each other) and are 3 - 1 in New Year's Six bowls.

If the scenery isn't enough to convince you to tune into the Pinstripe Bowl, the actual football game pits two pretty evenly matched teams from the middle of the Big Ten and ACC against each other.

The four bowls not hosting one of the semifinal games would host other marquee bowl games pitting highly ranked teams against one another.

Pogba versus De Bruyne may not be the lens through which their first Manchester derby against each other was viewed, but it has the potential to become a clash of personalities and characters to anchor the showdowns to come, more so than the far more obvious yet slightly reductive pitting of Marcus Rashford against Kelechi Iheanacho.

The message should be about supporting women — not pressuring them or pitting them against each other.

Do you work together so you kids can't easily pit you and your spouse against each other?

Not only are these monikers condescending to the opinions and stories of mothers, they pit us against each other, which diverts our attention from making the world a healthier place for our children (and thereby putting people before profits).

Modest proposal to avoid the mess up at the Miss Universe pageant: Don't objectify women & pit them against each other for a fucking princess tiara.

In the email, which urges supporters to add their names to a petition, the de Blasio campaign quotes Malliotakis's response: «We shouldn't be looking in any way to pit communities against each other, what we have to do is send the message that all lives matter.»

«This is not about pitting communities against each other.

The consequence of this is to pit services for men and women against each other in an unseemly scrabble for cash, not to mention salami - slicing those much needed resources for women, robbing Petra to pay Paul.

Obama has not officially endorsed another candidate to replace Paterson, but Cuomo handily beats out Paterson in every poll pitting them against each other in 2010.

We've always just made clear that we shouldn't undermine existing economic development by pitting towns against each other,» he said.

«The idea of trying to pit neighborhoods against each other or suggest certain projects have impacted that, that's not a productive conversation to have,» Walsh said.

The leader of the Assembly Republicans, Brian Kolb, said in a statement that «a grant program that pits upstate regions against each other is not a catalyst for sustained revitalization».

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to pit seven upstate regions against each other in a competition for $ 1.5 billion in economic development funds has prompted some lawmakers and mayors to say the state shouldn't pick winners and losers.

But Powell said he didn't understand why the unions were pitting the schools against each other.

«We can not afford to retreat into short - sighted mindsets that pit communities and peoples against each other, whether it is over...

Until recently, that sort of fiddling with human DNA was only science fiction and allegory, a warning against a new kind of eugenics that could pit the genetic haves and have - nots against each other.

«We're not pitting sciences against each other,» he says.

Younger people are drinking less — or not at all — despite booze getting cheaper, and it's pitting health experts and the alcohol industry against each other

A review of studies that pitted low - carb and low - fat diets against each other for better heart health found that the low - carb approach was more effective for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease after six months and at least as effective (if not more) after 12 months.

Usually the pits are one of the first things to go — they get the most serious wearn'tear everyday, from sweat to deodorant to rubbing up against other fabrics.

The two wore gingham skirts to two separate events, making it hard for us not to pit their style against each other.

If you were to pit Temple Run, Temple Run Brave and Temple Run 2 against each other, Temple Run 2 would definitely come out on top — but the play - it - safe improvements don't really do enough to make Temple Run 2 stand out in a sea of games inspired by the original.

Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan are the parents who talk about her like she's not there and are constantly pitting 6 - year - old Maisie against the other.

The movie becomes a soundstage - bound bout of visual claustrophobia, pitting West's Lord Richard (nope, not dead) and Goggins» Vogel, a murderous American rival, against each other inside the booby - trapped underground cavern.

With all of the things that have been thrown at the characters this season, are you surprised that is hasn't all brought Rachel and Quinn closer together, instead of pitting them against each other?

REALITY CHECK: Time for the «knockout» rounds on NBC's The Voice (8 / 7c), as the coaches pit two of his or her team's singers against each other, but not telling them who they're going up against until just before they go on.

«Collision's probably not the best word,» she said — «a collaboration between these two worlds that people don't usually see put together and would most likely have us pitted against each other.

Naylor is a high priest of this black art: invited onto a TV talk show, he's pitted against a trio of antismoking advocates and a teenage boy with cancer, yet by the end of the show he's won the kid over to his side and isolated the other three panelists, who don't know what hit them.

Speaking in terms of graphics, I don't think it's particularly fair to pit the Switch version against all others.

ICYMI I also pitted Truth and Spotlight against each other (for fun... I don't actually think they're after the same thing at all).

Team Battle mode isn't as exciting, but it does support play for a crowd by pitting teams of up to five players against each other in a series of one - on - one matches.

In the new film, Kirk and Spock can't stand each other but join together when pitted against a world destroying Romulan renegade, Nero (Eric Bana), who resembles a Mad Max character with Mike Tyson facial tattoos.

The interesting thing back then is the media created the narrative — they decided, «Right, we've got the villain, we've got the princess...» and they pitted these two women against each other, which I think in today's lens may not have happened because obviously she was surrounded by a lot of men that were instrumental in what happened, but it became very much the narrative of Tonya and Nancy.

This, the dehumanization of an entire group of people based on a past transgression through forced poverty and pitting them against each other in order to distract them from their real enemy, is not heady stuff, and neither is it difficult to establish a moral center within the material.

It's slated to have not just a single - player campaign, but also a multiplayer component that pits teams of buccaneers against each other as they search for booty.

What's on Refn's mind is fairly obvious, so while he probably means well in saying that we shouldn't pit women against each other based on their looks and put them down for not looking like a 16 - year - old Elle Fanning, it's only worth a shrug of agreement if the filmmaker can't bring anything more to the conversation.

I don't see this as an endorsement of Lena Dunham but as an attempt to make sure Time's Up's message isn't overshadowed by stories lacking nuance pitting two actresses against each other.