Sentences with phrase «perceived by most people»

Credit cards are not perceived by most people to be unsecured personal loans, but in fact, they are.

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When a patient's problems are related to religious or moral conflict, the staff clergyman would be the most likely person for the patient to see because of his authority in this area and because he may be perceived by the patient to be the most appropriate person to deal with these problems.

Processes of economic growth that immiserate ever larger groups of people are usually not perceived as a gross violation of human rights by most Western governments, donor institutions, or as a matter of fact, by many human rights organizations.

Here's a couple of them: (a) «their votes will be directed to those men only who have become the most distinguished by their abilities and virtue, and in whom the people perceive just grounds for confidence» (Fed.

It may well prove to be that the most powerful person in that room is the one who is able to entertain an alternative way to overcome the conflict, a possibility not hitherto perceived by any of the other participants.

Based on discussions with friends who do not follow Jesus, I doubt that most church people really understand how they are perceived by people who do not follow Jesus.

Most people know that the familiar tale is based on books by Lewis Carroll, but few realize that Carroll himself suffered from an unusual neurological condition that alters how the brain perceives the size of objects.

But as experimental studies show, it's possible to disable or blunt culture's heuristic influence: when people's cultural identities are affirmed, they don't experience the threatening affective response, or are less influenced by it, as they consider information that challenges beliefs that pre-dominate in their group; when they can't discern a consistent connection between the cultural identity of advocates and positions on some risk issue, they can't simply adopt the position of the advocate whom they perceive as having values most like theirs.»

As most people know, the U.S. is perceived as quite resistant to international co-operation on many issues and, for example, the U.S. airline industry does not wish to abide by the EU's ETS airspace regulations and is challenging for an exemption.

For example, researchers have determined that people who lived through the rationing of WWII accept the modern science that most fats are bad for them, but perceive butter as good, presumably still imprinted by the reputation of butter as highly nutritious and desirable in those hard times.

Some more recent and thorough research by Professor Hean Tat Keh (et al) shows that customer satisfaction is influenced by a number of factors related to the person providing the service, such as perceived helpfulness, displayed emotion, and even physical attractiveness.However, they found the first of these to be the most important in determining customer satisfaction.

In a study by Abraham, Reddy, and Furr (2000), both adolescents and mental health workers perceived informal relationships between the young people and adults at a psychiatric facility as the most helpful component in a residential treatment setting.

A person who perceives himself to be cool, calm, and collected might protect himself from any underlying emotional stirrings by distancing himself from the need for help, while also devaluing those who see people at their most vulnerable: therapists.