Sentences with phrase «polar opposites when»

Mediation and litigation are polar opposites when it comes to power — who has the power, and how it is exercised to make decisions.

Pomskies come from polar opposites when it comes to activity levels.

But I think his attempt to reconcile the two oftentimes gets confused and we see them as polar opposites when in fact there's really not an actual tension between the two.

Not exact matches

The two presidential candidates may seem like polar opposites, but it's not always so easy to tell their views apart when it comes to business issues.

This is not a small margin of error, but a nearly polar opposite view illustrating the company's perception and the customer's reality when interacting with that company.

Gunton considers the logic of the dipolar concept «actually precludes the taking of initiative by God,» since if God is «passive to what happens in the universe» in «one pole of his being,» therefore he must be active in the other pole — for, Gunton apparently assumes, since activity and passivity are polar opposites, so they must correspond to the abstract / concrete poles of the divine reality when applied to God.

In fact, they're much more likely to see their parents as polar opposites even when they don't fight.

Also, when confronted with a doctrine that is logically extreme in the sense of having a polar opposite or, in the terms of propositional logic, a contrary extreme, compare the merits of each extreme not primarily with those of the opposite one, but with a moderate view sharing something of both extremes, a higher synthesis.

While spirituality may seem the polar opposite of the feelings of naughtiness that drive sexual desire, it can add serious icing to the cake when sex is viewed as a celebration of mom and dad's love and commitment.

The two are polar opposites and yet when she was writing an exam one day in college, she felt a sharp and shooting pain down her leg that came out of nowhere.

Do you remember the «Bizarro» episode of Seinfeld, when Jerry meets his alter ego, a guy whose life is in every way the polar opposite of Jerry's own?

And, as Capital points out, the city today is basically the polar opposite of when Koch took office, its viability challenged by too much money rather than too little.

COBA isn't the only union to back Mr. Liu, but what raises eyebrows was Mr. Seabrook's first choice in the mayor's race: NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, a polar opposite of Mr. Liu's when it comes to policing issues.

Wild card: McCain and Palin sat on opposite sides of the ice floe when it came to deciding whether the polar bear should be listed as an endangered species earlier this year.

When you relax with your legs up the wall, you are practicing the polar opposite of activity, which is receptivity.

It makes me wonder what the common factors of the optimal human diet are when people are zealous advocates of what appear to be polar opposite approaches.

I find that wearing the clothing that makes me most happy and dressing up when I go out (or have people over, and on my better days when I'm home just with the pets and hubby) truly helps lift my spirits and act as a visual polar opposite to how my health leaves me feeling 24/7 inside.

How interesting that almost everyone who's left a comment, has confessed to experiencing a lack of confidence when in the eyes of the world, they appear the polar opposite!!

Interestingly, the polar opposites thing seems to work best when there is one over-the-top item or sartorial genre involved.

When you think about juxtaposition within outfits, you tend to think of polar opposites: Leather with lace, cashmere with distressed denim, etc..

Penelope Cruz is a tremendous screen presence when acting in Spanish - the polar opposite of her performances in English.

Says Fox: «Can two estranged sisters, polar opposites, live together when one agrees to carry the other's baby?»

It's the polar opposite of that sentimental and clichéd pap and could induce nightmares to those of a more sensitive nature when it comes to how relationships are depicted on screen.

The antithetical existences of these polar opposites end up colliding when Nobby reconnects with his brother just in time to screw up an important mission.

When these two polar opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.

Ironically, the polar opposite is the reality: when California's economic woes required laying off teachers over the last few years, teachers were pink - slipped according to seniority only, and because those who have been in the system for fewer years are lesser - paid, i.e. the newer, younger teachers, many more of them had to be laid off to save the required amount.

RTI is built on a polar opposite approach: When a student struggles, we assume that we are not teaching him or her correctly; as a result, we turn our attention to finding better ways to meet the student's specific learning needs.

When the novel opens, Cyndi Rae and Didi are described as polar opposites who bond over the loss of their fathers.

Well, that may be true for his line of work, but the polar opposite holds true when it comes to dealing with your web team — clarity is the Holy Grail.

It's almost funny: the company that's accused of copying Apple to a T takes a polar opposite approach when it comes to build materials.

«None of the above,» helps provide that, so that when you have two lousy polar opposite candidates, they will be forced toward the center, or be eliminated by «None of the above.»

And the artist is at his very best when one painting holds such polar opposites in a tense dynamic together, somehow alert to visual complexity and perfectly poised.

SW: The reason why the Empathics use ritual and science is because we think of them as polar opposites, when actually science, religion and spirituality were deeply tied and developed together as forms, during the Enlightenment and in philosophy traditions, for example.

Artists Kevin Wixted and Ro Lohin share life harmoniously as husband and wife but when it comes to art making, the pair are at almost aesthetic polar opposites.

When I suggest we have a polar opposite situation here, enviro - activists appearing to be doing all the racketeering to keep their cause alive in the face of withering science - based criticism, this sort of thing is what I'm talking about — Newsweek «s Sharon Begley practically yelling about the need to stop skeptic climate scientists in their tracks, and less than three years later, Dr Schneider telling policy analysts and media experts at a major symposium exactly how such critics can be marginalized.

My personal takeaway from the Steyn case is the polar opposite; Michael Mann does understand the difference, and knows when the smearing has crossed a line such that it deserves courtroom attention.

The two words are often used interchangeably, which is problematic; because, when taken literally, Denniss points out that they're actually polar opposites.

Now when I look at the lists above, I see polar opposites.

When it comes to portability, these machines are polar opposites in both good and bad ways.

We also asked why Facebook users should trust Zuckerberg's claim, also made in the CNN interview, that it's now «open to being regulated» — when its historical playbook is packed with examples of the polar opposite behavior, including ongoing attempts to circumvent existing EU privacy rules.

What happens when these two polar opposites come together?

What happens when the therapist gets triggered by a client's polar opposite — or even offensive — public views?