Sentences with phrase «often hostile»

According to ACT, «Attachment Therapy almost always involves extremely confrontational, often hostile confrontation of a child by a therapist or parent (sometimes both).

[9] They state, «Attachment Therapy almost always involves extremely confrontational, often hostile confrontation of a child by a therapist or parent (sometimes both).

A collaborative case is always faster, costs less and is less stressful than a conventional case where the parties face court congestion, delays and an adversarial, often hostile, relationship.

Former spouses are often hostile to one another, and it is unfortunate when their children are forced to bear the brunt of this bitterness.

The nature of divorce litigation is often hostile and lends itself to a more time - consuming process, whereas other approaches encourage cooperation.

The family environment is often hostile and low in cohesion, and mothers with BPD show low levels of mind - mindedness but high levels of overprotection of older children.

Across the conference, lower screening rates for Indigenous people around the globe were an issue, that was seen as closely related to lack of engagement by mainstream health initiatives with Indigenous communities, ongoing Indigenous mistrust of mainstream health services, and the need for community champions and Indigenous navigators to help guide people through the complex and often hostile health systems.

From my point of view, the ritual of swearing the affidavit is a mildly pleasant experience against the otherwise unfriendly and often hostile environment in the court system, and that seems as good a criteria as any for allocating wealth.

Insurance company hostility The same as with motorcyclists, insurance companies are often hostile with bicyclists too.

Faced with worldwide media interest that was often hostile, the firm's PR team worked closely with Miller and the firm's lawyers to draft statements and carefully manage when to involve journalists and when to push back on coverage.

From the Polish perspective, indigenous coal supplies offer immediate energy security in the face of an often hostile neighbour to the east.

With oilmen like Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, and Forrest Lucas, the founder of Lucas Oil, named as potential candidates to lead the departments of energy and the interior, respectively, in a Trump administration, the mostly likely historical analog for the next few years could be the start of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when he appointed senior officials who were often hostile to the policies of their own agencies.

It is an artist's job to make art, not to negotiate an often hostile media onslaught in which any serious consideration of the work itself can take a back seat.

Since the 1970s, this remote and often hostile terrain has provided Boyd & Evans with a strange and other - worldly environment in which to contemplate the nature of seeing from their dual perspective.

As the catalogue explains, Diebenkorn forged strong allegiances to sources in American art and popular culture before fully responding to Matisse's influence; the teacher who introduced him to Sarah Stein was in fact a disciple of Edward Hopper, and it was the example of Hopper's hard - won, vernacular images that guided Diebenkorn's early engagement with the harsh literalism of the American scene, which was often hostile to modernism.

Not surprisingly, older critics were often hostile toward pop art.

Andromeda equips players with powerful jump jets that allow them to leap and dodge with great speed and force, which makes navigating the often hostile terrain of the Heleus Cluster into a fun little mini-game all its own.

Although the game does feature some opposition from roaming — and often hostile — star systems, it is really focused on the player's experience instead of any set goals or immediate objectives.

This ultimately serves to give the entire game a lighter tone that honestly isn't a great fit and undermines the feeling of desperation that should come with struggling to survive in a foreign and often hostile new galaxy.

By being kept indoors, cats are protected not only from some diseases and from predation by motor vehicles but also from what are often hostile relationships between neighborhood outdoor - access cats (both pets and ferals).

Though unneutered tomcats are often hostile towards each other, there are exceptions where toms which have been reared together may remain companionable when mature — supply of food and females permitting.

They take care of themselves in a world that is often hostile and dangerous for them.

He provided moments of calm and wonder in an often hostile environment.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them.

On two occasions, I have had the opportunity to speak to the annual conference of the Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE), approximately 300 deans, associate deans, and curriculum directors — a tough and often hostile crowd for a reformer.

The most distinctive characteristic of the Indian Residential Schools system was that it tore indigenous children from their families and left them in the care of complete and often hostile strangers — the schools» religious instructors.

Expecting the army to be dolls, doughnuts and USO dances, he instead encounters a tough drill sergeant (Christopher Walken) and a platoon of often hostile recruits...

The soldiers are fish out of water, doing their best in an unfamiliar, and often hostile country, motivated by a sense of patriotism and pursuit of righteous vengeance.

Over time, plants have evolved to adapt to a constantly changing, often hostile, environment.

«Initial battlefield care is provided in austere, often hostile conditions by field medics,» says Brian Holloway, program manager for DARPA's Wound Stasis System program, which was launched in 2010 to find a technological solution to control internal hemorrhaging.

Male voices from the Maasai, who are often hostile to elephants, caused the animals to sniff the air for danger and retreat into a defensive formation.

The mayor said he would continue to lobby the often hostile Republican majority, reportedly now under the leadership of Long Island Republican State Senator John Flanagan, for funds for the city in the waning days of the legislative session.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

That approach led to an often hostile sit - down this weekend between Sampson and members of the Stonewall Democratic Club.

He could not adjust to coming under close, and often hostile, scrutiny from those who had been generally supportive earlier on.

Even then, though, it was clear that these poets were writing for a public - the increasingly limited public of poetry readers and writers - that was at best indifferent to, and often hostile toward, Christianity.

All of which is aggravated by two additional factors: a mainstream media which is largely uninformed about religion, and often hostile to people of faith, and a growing number of self - professed Christians who are abetting the secularization of America.

The editors and several of the contributors are familiar to the readers of this journal, so, perhaps not surprisingly, we warmly recommend this spirited guide to Christian faithfulness in an often hostile culture.

On this issue among others — like funding the government, raising the federal borrowing limit and financing highways — such business groups have found themselves at odds with traditional Republican allies who increasingly reflect a new populist strain of conservatism in the party that is often hostile toward big business.

Not exact matches

Companies often begin by pouncing on these sorts of transgressions «and that immediately creates a hostile atmosphere because people don't want to let go of that.

Success is, in my view not a journey — it's an expedition that is often in unchartered waters and hostile environments.

A number of senior officials in the Trump government, however, argue that WikiLeaks is not a press organization at all, but a «non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,» as CIA director Joe Pompeo referred to it in a recent speech.

Wagner explains that schooling is often actually hostile to innovation:

The agreement has yet to be ratified by the U.S. Congress, and it has often been described, especially by the Chinese press, as the economic component of U.S. President Barack Obama's pivot to Asia and hostile to Chinese membership.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this month that it was «time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia,» and he criticized prior administrations as having been «squeamish» about going after publishers of state secrets.

In contrast, when the market is free from the hostile syndrome we observe here, it's often possible to get some amount of «warning» about potential trouble from gradual deterioration of market action and a tendency for various «divergences» to develop as risk aversion increases.

Says Cavey, «I am fascinated by the fact the no matter how hostile people are towards organized religion, especially the Christian religion, these same people often tend to have a soft spot in their hearts for the historical Jesus.

If you have watched him make a big concession in a debate, or respond sympathetically to a hostile questioner, or provide a generous account of an opposing view in a book or essay, then you know that his kindliness is often the sign that serious intellectual vivisection is about to commence.

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Whether fighting for their clients, or struggling for their own economic survival, they often had to operate in strange or hostile territory.