Sentences with phrase «point of tension between»

Children's Activities Activities are essential to children and their development, but can be a point of tension between parents if not proactively managed.

Through a powerful and cohesive series of oil paintings, as well as slide projections and light installations, his landscapes exist in the point of tension between abstraction and figuration, between apparition and emptiness.

It interrogates the notion of hyphenated identity, in particular «Russian - Jewish,» and presents the «Russian Avant - garde» as situated at a point of tension between universality and ethnic particularity.

The Labour party at least officially was opposed to Brexit in the referendum campaign but their actual campaign sent rather mixed messages and this has certainly been a point of tension between the leadership and parliamentary party.

It seeks to reconstruct the points of tension between Christian vision and community and the patriarchal Greco - Roman society.

Nor did they understand and discuss the points of tension between their own theory of how to teach math and the theory of action that was already in place.

Not exact matches

As economic tensions between Silicon Valley elites and the rest of society increase — affordable housing in California among the flash points — the approach to contract workers may need to change.

Niebuhr, Branch says, touched King «on all his tender points from pacifism and race to sin,» and, though the two men apparently never met, King took from Niebuhr an appreciation of a creative tension between love and justice that would henceforth inform his politics.

Apparently, Barr is so committed to the view that the relationship between biblical theology and the history of religion is exclusively one of «overlap and mutual enrichment» that he can not brook someone's drawing attention to a point of serious tension between them.

On October 20 - 22,1983, at Xavier University in Cincinnati, however, a group of liberation and process theologians came together to discuss points of convergence as well as areas of residual tension between the two approaches.

From a pedagogical point of view, preaching embraces the tension between an understanding of itself as a content that is given and yet as an activity that is learned.

We have seen the apparent tension between God's righteous judgment which points to his rejection of a sinful people and his mercy through which he calls them back to himself.

At every point short of this ideal, there will be some inevitable tension between immediate enjoyment, a proximate future, and the vaster reaches of the future beyond our vivid imagination.

Walker's allusion to skin color points to a historic tradition of tension between black women over the matter of some black men's preference for light - skinned women.

Tensions between the Portuguese international and the ex-Liverpool and Chelsea boss appeared to have reached boiling point when Ronaldo was captured on video reacting angrily during a training session, which came on the back of an awkward moment between the two just a week earlier.

This is the tension of the 2015 Royals, caught between being both unstoppable and entirely stoppable at various points over the last 30 years.

As Carter points out, it highlights the tension between the breasts» function as a symbol of sexuality within western society and the function of the breast as an organic source of nutrients for the infant (Carter, 1996).

Tensions between opposing groups of Democrats in the Senate reached a flash point this week over whose faction would be allowed to present their budget priorities for a floor debate in an exchange that included some racially charged name - calling.

Conversely, points of potential tension and difficulty between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are numerous, making continued joint government potentially fraught and unstable even if the parliamentary arithmetic seems to necessitate it.

Alarmists like to point to the aggressive moves of Putin's Russia, or the mounting naval tensions between China and its neighbours.

Echoing a point many — including some of his fellow Republicans — have made in the days since a Chicago rally was canceled due to tensions between supporters and demonstrators, Mr. de Blasio said Mr. Trump is encouraging violence against people «who have different views or look different.»

Mr. de Blasio has often urged his party to move unabashedly to the left, rather than the center — and he has been asked before about the tension between that point of view and his long - standing support of Ms. Clinton, whom some liberal groups like the WFP view as not progressive enough compared to a candidate like Ms. Warren.

Garner's death brought into focus a central point of Mr. de Blasio's campaign: the increasing tensions between communities of color and the police over stop - and - frisk and instances of alleged brutality, which he vowed to ease.

Tensions between opposing groups of Democrats in the New York State Senate reached a flash point this week — over whose faction would be allowed to present their budget priorities for a floor debate.

The Committee argues that the Government can not have it both ways, and that the Review's position on this point «sits in tension with the fact that elements of the relationship between the two Houses have long been governed effectively by convention and established practice».

The tensions between parental expectations and students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.

It wouldn't be hard to use China as a jumping - off point if you're in organized crime or another nation state looking to cause some saber rattling between China and the U.S.» Much of the U.S.'s current tension with China comes from Google's claims that recent hacker attempts to steal Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.

By showing the point at which linear elasticity gives way to its nonlinear counterpart, the team produced a more complete picture of how the alignment of collagen bridges under tension transmit force between distant cells.

When academics choose to litigate speech disputes with colleges and universities, they end up losing nearly three - quarters of the time — a finding that points to the growing tension between academic freedom and campus speech codes, said Michael LeRoy, a professor of labor and employment relations at Illinois and author of the paper.

And yet it often feels as though Burke's script is doing everything in its power to drain out the tension, the storytelling so determined to equivocate between the various perspectives that it never develops its own point of view.

There is of course the obligatory tension between certain members of the team at one point, Biehn being the by the books leader where as Sheen is his typical rebellious self.

Tensions simmer between withdrawn Duncan and condescending Trent, to the point where Duncan would rather go somewhere, anywhere, than stay in a home where he's consistently being picked on or laughed at by the adults, while his mother is either oblivious or not protective of his sensitive needs.

As water runs out and panic sets in, the men kidnap a lone Native American (Rod Rondeaux) they suspect of spying on them and debate whether to kill him or let him lead them to safety instead; their disagreement brings longstanding tensions within the group — in particular, between Meek and hardy, plain - spoken frontier wife Emily (the wondrous Michelle Williams)-- to breaking point.

Given the picture's enduring popularity, there's really no point in rehashing the plot — OK, for the uninitiated (all two of you): Ripley (series star Sigourney Weaver) heads back into space and leads a team of military grunts against the nasty extra-terrestrials — but there's always room to rehash many of the highlights: Weaver's terrific performance in the central role; the contrast between the heroic Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) and the cowardly Private Hudson (Bill Paxton); the escalating villainy of company man Burke (Paul Reiser); scripter Cameron's ability to keep piling on confrontations and director Cameron's ability to milk them for maximum tension; and, of course, those wonderful alien creations.

The plot builds up, the tensions between the characters slowly reaching the point of no return.

As the tension between Stark and Rogers reaches breaking point, and their colleagues must choose a position, the men take sides out of loyalty or flattery.

Fans have pointed to the clip from Solo: A Star Wars Story, which sees Lando tell Han to «buckle up, baby» before making the jump to lightspeed in the Millennium Falcon, as evidence of sexual tension between the pair.

Finder shuttles between the points of view of Tanner and the senator's chief of staff, with every move by one of the two creating more tension in the other.

Incidentally, Prague is one of the cities where the tension between normal and mechanically augmented humans is quickly reaching the breaking point.

I think I'm going to really DIG that game... On the point of Smash Bros and this on - going tension between «casual players» and «competitive players», I've got nothing.

The flat plane of the field, with its painted boundaries can be seen as a metaphor for the canvas — and in this way the painting becomes self - reflexive and the act of painting itself the true subject of the work, thus demonstrating a clear tension between the image and its reference point.

Crimps Memoirs serve as the departure point for an exhibition that Christopher Müller organized — in close collaboration with Crimp himself — and that unfolds Crimp's perspective on a half century of mutual exchange and tension between artistic and subcultural practices.

In playing on this artistic movement, Rhode - as a post-apartheid artist - wanted to point to socially relevant topics such as morality, humanity and fallibility in the area of tension between Abstraction and Realism.

«Concurrently, the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses particular challenges to local artists... Against this backdrop, Greater New York departs from the show's traditional focus on youth, instead examining points of connection and tension between our desire for the new and nostalgia for that which it displaces.»

Against this backdrop, Greater New York departs from the show's traditional focus on youth, instead examining points of connection and tension between our desire for the new and nostalgia for that which it displaces.

The film, originally commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet, builds upon the relationship between a ballerina with stage fright and her audience — and the tension of these dueling points of view.

Using autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience, his work constructs narratives, scenes, and stories that point to the tensions found between the individual and communities.

Curator Branka Benčić elaborates further: «Artistic positions engage with issues of (re) presentation, structure and construction of the work of art, or the act of «exhibiting» itself, pointing to tensions between the observer and the observed, exploring spatial relationships and interactions between objects.»

As in Commito's work, there is play between the confluence of many different points of view within a confined space, weaving the destabilizing effects of conflict and tension with the respite of harmony and security.

Equally, she is conscious of the tension between artistic and industrial or productive labour, making the point most recently with the installation demo at her 2016 — 17 Kunsthalle Zurich show, where her work was combined with the actual demolition and construction being carried out in the building, which could be watched from a viewing platform that the artist constructed.