Sentences with phrase «of uncooperative»

The parent raising the child does not have clear authority and can be subjected to the whim of the uncooperative parent.

Efforts to identify this group of children and prevent caries are of great value for the child, the parents, and society, since treatment of uncooperative children is time consuming and costly.

ODD is a condition in which a child displays an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, hostile, and annoying behavior toward people in authority.

Oppositional defiant disorder is characterized by an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that interferes with a young person's functioning.

Family lawyers face our share of uncooperative litigants.

Her description of the uncooperative Bulk Barn chain is so true.

The echocardiogram is non-invasive and does not require anesthesia, although a light sedative may be used, on rare occasion, for some of our uncooperative patients or in puppies and kittens.

Note: While we try to give every dog the best, most relaxing grooming experience possible, in the event of an uncooperative and / or aggressive dog we will do all we can to ease them through our process, though a special handling fee of up to $ 50 may be added, after consulting with the owner.

The Obama administration relied on its regulatory power to advance its agenda across a broad range of policy areas in the face of an uncooperative Congress.

In human social groups, punishment of uncooperative behaviors increases teamwork, but the benefits of cooperation only outweigh the costs of punishment after a long time.

To test why discounting the existence of free will increases the likelihood of uncooperative behavior, Protzko and Schooler recruited 144 people to play an economic contribution game called Public Goods.

Paul Marks reports on the European SAVELEC consortium's system to disable the cars of uncooperative drivers by firing radio pulses...

Try moving to the bathroom or a less distracting quiet place to minimize distractions and attempt to break the negative cycle of uncooperative behavior.

In children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), there is an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that seriously interferes with the youngster's day to day functioning.

From there he moved onto Larrousse where he spent three seasons being fast but crash - happy, and also being a bit of an uncooperative backmarker.

The cliff is a classic game - theory attempt to force a bunch of uncooperative players toward a co-operative outcome using an arbitrary deadline and scary threats.

Not exact matches

And given Germany's unwillingness to take the most basic measures, like boosting government spending or encouraging domestic wage increases, that would help iron out some of the imbalances in the European economy, the situation in Greece will likely only force Italians to wonder why it is tethering itself to such an uncooperative partner.

Market power can be used to measure each country's uncooperative tariff structure which would prevail in pure mercantilist world (i.e. in the absence of multilateral cooperation).

This assumption rests on yet another, still more tenuous one: that uncooperative provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba are unwilling to commit to a national carbon price, not because of their own particular political interests and liabilities, but because they remain unconvinced that the national climate plan will actually succeed.

It's useful to remember that Cruz won the primary last year not because of any substantive policy disagreement or even because of his superior qualifications, but because he pledged that he would be uncooperative, combative, and generally obnoxious once in office.

Finally, one of the two assured me that he loved me despite my uncooperative attitude.

By way of sharpest contrast, the Board encountered a «haughty» and uncooperative manner in some bishops, leading them to the conclusion that «the exercise of authority without accountability is not servant - leadership; it is tyranny.»

Such illegal methods were justified by Singlaub because «with each passing year, Congress has become increasingly unpredictable and uncooperative regarding the President's desire to support the cause of the Freedom Fighters.

In 2004, Marian Bakermans - Kranenburg, a professor of child and family studies at Leiden University, started carrying a video camera into homes of families whose 1 - to -3-year-olds indulged heavily in the oppositional, aggressive, uncooperative, and aggravating behavior that psychologists call «externalizing»: whining, screaming, whacking, throwing tantrums and objects, and willfully refusing reasonable requests.

It started off so well on my work trip, but then a lot of things happened (good and bad) to mess up my sleep schedule and I've felt like I was struggling through some really, really uncooperative mixture of sand and molasses (treacle) since about Wednesday morning.

I love it because it instantly gives even the most uncooperative hair the look of a sophisticated, just - rushed - out - of - the - salon style, and who doesn't need that?

Parenting that recognizes uncooperative behavior as an expression of unmet needs, temperament (e.g., highly sensitive or introverted), or unrealistic expectations of the child's current stage of development.

However, openly uncooperative and hostile behavior becomes a serious concern when it is so frequent and consistent that it stands out when compared with other children of the same age and developmental level and when it affects the child's social, family and academic life.

Hunger makes all of us irritable, uncoordinated, and uncooperative.

Team Green parents — either by choice or by uncooperative ultrasound — won't get to learn the sex of their baby until the birth.

Lots of times my 2yo is so uncooperative, I like just velcro and go but can use the snaps for nighttime when I want to ensure good closure.

For Lori and Mark Burchett, necessity literally was the mother of invention — one that promises to make it vastly easier for parents to administer medicine to uncooperative babies and one that has delivered the Burchetts into the world of entrepreneurship.

Mornings can be especially challenging because children are expected to make transitions much more quickly and we often don't have the luxury of time to be patient with uncooperative behavior.

In 20 years of being a family child care provider and 12 years of conducting parenting workshops I have seen parents struggle with and children suffer from uncooperative CO-parenting.

Mrs Miller is alleged to have been uncooperative with an inquiry into her expenses, while her special adviser has been accused of invoking impending press regulation to suppress newspaper reports surrounding the case.

Mr. Koch will appear at the Capitol on Tuesday to argue for speedy passage of Mr. Cuomo's bill — and to unveil his plans to shame uncooperative lawmakers with recorded telephone calls, which are typically used by surrogates praising candidates before elections, not denouncing them as Mr. Koch intends.

Asked last week about the agency's assertions, de Blasio denied being uncooperative, telling reporters: «A huge amount of material was provided.

Now, many of his proposals will lie in the hands of a restive and potentially uncooperative Legislature.

Mrs. Dabiri - Erewa, who said asset recovery was different from asset returning, decried the uncooperative attitude of the countries where stolen funds are stashed.

There are also challenges in tracing, seizure, forfeiture and return of Nigeria's assets — no thanks to the stringent conditions and other uncooperative attitude of the countries in possession of the stolen funds.

Hoping to apply pressure to uncooperative Republicans in the State Senate, Mayor Bill de Blasio staged a City Hall press conference this afternoon with the city's top business leaders to demand Albany renews his control of the Department of Education.

«We're designing a three - day course that will emphasize two core priorities: first, how to talk to an initially uncooperative person with the goal of avoiding a physical confrontation.

[67] Paladino has proposed the use of repeatedly calling special sessions to pressure uncooperative legislators into passing his legislation, much as governor Paterson did during the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis and the 2010 budget negotiations.

However, their behaviour is a clear sign that six - year - old children as well as chimpanzees are eager to observe how uncooperative members of their community are punished,» adds Nikolaus Steinbeis, the other first author of the study and scientist at both MPI CBS and University College London.

In this study, 56 «uncooperative» children (aged 7 to 9 years) attending a dental clinic at the Royal College of Dentistry, King Saud University in Saudi Arabia were randomly assigned to receive either audiovisual distraction (watching their favourite cartoons using the eyeglass system Merlin i - theatre ™) or no distraction (control group).

FIRSTBORN children are more likely to achieve greatness, but this may come at the cost of a less trusting, uncooperative disposition.

For half the groups playing this game, participants were given the opportunity at the end of each round to «punish» uncooperative group members, by deducting tokens from their stash.

Legal battles over gene patents and uncooperative patent holders threaten the widespread implementation of personalized medicine.

We usually tend to notice the importance of our digestive system only when it's being uncooperative.

The orange got kind of washed out, and the color also suffers from an uncooperative camera.