Sentences with phrase «of fractured relationships»

Current longitudinal experimental research on conflict mediation enables us to identify what characteristics of mediation sessions lead to positive outcomes «'' including forgiveness, health benefits, and the restoration of fractured relationships «'' between two people experiencing what can sometimes feel like an intractable conflict.

It's an action packed ride with genuine thrills, but it simultaneously takes care to examine the many layers of fractured relationships between its characters of which there are many.

Elizabeth Jordan, National Director, aboriginal Markets at the Royal Bank of Canada answered that a well - rounded cultural competence curriculum ought to explore the legal aspects of the roots of the fractured relationship between Indigenous people and the Canadian government.

Not exact matches

Not much has changed in the 20 - plus years Sussman has been counseling couples; most fractures still occur when the foundational pillars of a healthy relationship (trust, respect, fidelity) are violated.

A fracture in the relationship between Sumner Redstone, the mercurial 84 - year - old mogul who controls CBS and Viacom, and his daughter has become the latest drama within the House of Redstone, and how it plays out could decide the future control of one of the world's great media fortunes.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

If positive values tend to confirm relationships and negative values to fracture them, then the particular ways in which changes take place in the human scene will depend upon the systems of value which pertain.

God's calling to us is an invitation and an empowering of us to be participants in God's work in the world of overcoming fractured and / or severely strained or sagging relationships and building up healthy relationships of mutuality, respect and caring — that is, of love.

All shared the excruciating pain of human brokenness, the irrevocable fracture in a relationship that had once brought joy and fulfillment.

Hun accepted Brewster's apology and backed off his calls to have AIM kicked out of the country, but the incident highlights the fragile relationship faith - based nonprofits have with the countries in which they operate, and how easily that relationship can be fractured by even minute errors.

God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love, anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.

The fracturing of that very first and most important relationship and the misunderstanding that WE have of our Creator may very impact every subsequent relationship we have with every other soul we encounter.

As a pastor who has walked families through infidelity and its awful fallout far too many times over the past two decades, I've seen the horrible collateral damage of it all; the violation of trust, the fractured relationships, the wounds it inflicts on people and the barriers it erects between them, sometimes irrevocably.

Its world is one of broken marriages, fractured relationships, and the kinds of natural tragedies that beset complicated lives: floods, fires, and death.

«I asked Dr. Hawkins for her forgiveness for the ways I contributed to the fracture of our relationship, and to the fracture of Dr. Hawkins» relationship with the College,» wrote the provost.

After seven years in black and white, the defender made the move to Milan after his relationship with the club fractured over the course of the 2016 - 17 season.

Reports across Spanish media claim the Catalan club are in a state of crisis, with a fractured relationship between manager Luis Enrique and his players underwriting recent sackings in the club's recruitment department and disharmony in the board room.

And not least because of the apparently broken relationship Conte has with the club's hierarchy, a relationship that fractured at the end of last season and was never repaired.

What if a new child demanded so much of me that their older siblings fell by the wayside, and the relationship I had built with them fractured under the strain of their perceived abandonment?

The riots brought about much debate over the tense relationship between immigrant youth and the state, the recurring problems of «fracture sociale,» and a perceived lack of social justice.

As for the belief of some that the GOP elected are fractured, «I enjoy a great relationship... politically I think we're pretty united, the Republican Party.»

City Councilmember Vanessa Gibson suggested that the fractured relationships with NYPD in communities of color has affected the desire of African Americans to join the police force.

Those on the left say he should focus on repairing fractured relationships among Democrats in the state Senate first and foremost so that Democrats can control that chamber (and all of Albany).

It would mark the third consecutive one - year extension for de Blasio, whose fractured relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republicans in the state Senate has prevented him from securing a permanent extension of the system, which was created under former mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The head of the Syracuse public school teachers union and the superintendent of the district will sit down this week in hopes of repairing a fractured relationship.

This fractured relationship is partly to blame for the absence of Buffalo police officers at the FBI National Academy, a premier training program for police.

The collision of these two strategies has hobbled Labour's economic message and fractured the relationship between Labour's leader and shadow chancellor.

By the time the year was out, the relationship was fractured, with Reiss insisting that science often required working with captive dolphins, regardless of their intelligence, and Marino calling that viewpoint morally wrong.

When the researchers performed a separate analysis of those using HRT and those not using HRT, there was no consistent relationship between retinol intake and fracture risk among those using HRT, while multivariate analysis yielded a statistically significant 252 percent increased risk in the highest quintile of vitamin A intake among women not using HRT.9

Although the Lim team found no relationship between dietary intake of preformed retinol and fracture risk, it only used one one - week food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), 13 whereas the 1998 Melhus study used four one - week FFQs, 7 and the Nurses» Health Study used five one - week FFQs.

The objective of this paper was to evaluate the relationship between urinary concentrations of InsP6, bone mass loss and risk fracture in postmenopausal women.

Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self - control, the film investigates modern day alienation, the struggle to connect, and the dividing lines between individual identity, personal relationships, and societal pressures.

Family feuds and fractured relationships abound in Schroeder's portrait, which she lays out lucidly and suspensefully, segueing between the feds» investigation, the conflicting stories and confessions of her primary suspects, and the backstory particulars that shed light on the motivations — and culpability — of all involved.

Michael fends off the romantic interest of a female coworker who doesn't know he's gay and instead dates a handsome chiropractor, while Brian is propositioned by a potentially lucrative client of his firm, and Justin struggles to repair his fractured relationship with his mother, Jennifer (Sherry Miller).

From awkward interactions to fractured relationships, Lynn Shelton is a master at capturing modern day human comedies, frequently focusing on characters in a state of arrested development.

In an end - of - the - world opening in what only appears to be night (it's the first of several brilliant reversals), we see how a fissure develops in Don's marriage to wife Alice (Catherine McCormack), and of how that stress fracture becomes the foundation for the rest of the picture's relationships and politics.

Not much is known about the plot of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby itself, but from what I know it's very much in the vein of Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine where a relationship that at first seemed perfect ends up breaking down, and the director takes us on the journey to discover what led to the tragic fracture.

A much more intriguing follow - up from a female director is We Need to Talk About Kevin, starring the ever - so - divine Tilda Swinton as a woman dealing with the guilt of her son committing a mass murder and recounting how their fractured relationship played a part.

Like that film, this is a story about a character that is fractured and hurt by one relationship and faces the impossible task of fulfilling that void with something that is inevitably unsustainable.

As a struggling dancer dealing with the dissolution of her longtime relationship, a fractured relationship with her former best friend / roommate, and a series of creative endeavors that never seem to pan out, Gerwig's Frances is someone who pinballs through life without much thought.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, subtitled Him and Her, follows a pair of damaged figures (Jessica Chastain's Eleanor and James McAvoy's Conor) as they attempt to repair their fractured relationship, with the movie unfolding in two separate, full - length parts from the perspective of both characters.

His comedy manifesto has always tilted at harvesting truth over triviality and his framing of lifelong relationships splintering and fraternal bonds fracturing creates a heartrending account of the invoice of self - interest as a group of comic friends / collegaues infight to land a gig on an intellectually - bankrupt SNL - type sketch show.

Asghar Farhadi's latest film, selected to open the 71st Cannes Film Festival, is another of the Iranian director's studies in troubled families and fractured relationships.

But as a session with a therapist (Ted Danson) reveals, they've both fallen into patterns of conduct and speech that reflect the fractured state of their relationship.

Pair With: The One I Love — for another dark, fractured love story about a couple struggling to define their relationship, bringing out both the best and worst of each other (available on Netflix).

It's also a movie that has serious daddy issues, featuring parallel father / daughter stories — from Scott's attempt to regain visitation rights with Cassie (the adorable Abby Ryder Fortston), to Hank's fractured relationship with his estranged daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly), who blames him for the mysterious death of her mother — that drive the overall narrative.

His sensitive, tormented recollections of fractured family relationships and tension - filled interactions within their ordinary Craftsman - style house and roaming their suburban neighborhood are evocative of a time, a place and an American cultural ethos.

However, breaking through the logistical hurdle of a fractured charter sector, building strong relationships where none generally exist, and convincing the sectors that it may be in their best interest — as well as their students» — to work together is no small task in Cleveland.

As Clowes zeros in on the claustrophobic nature of their friendship, he depicts the growing fracture in their relationship with such acuity that the pair becomes almost tragic.

Sorell's debut novel may at first appear to be literary suspense, but it's much more the tale of a fractured mother - daughter relationship and its fallout.