Sentences with phrase «polarising people»

Far from opening up discussion of the Report, it stifles it, polarising people into being either for or against the Report.

The world's pre-eminent atheist speculates about why he polarises people, what prompts him to take on religion and whether humans are built to be irrational

«Calling them things like «baby killers» does nothing for this issue, and I think it further polarises people,» she said.

Not exact matches

Normally the reaction I get when I tell people I am a huge football fan that travels home and away to watch my team is mixed, football fans have a polarised reputation.

It is these kind of broad - brush, polarising confusions that really are frustrating efforts to practically move towards a system of laws, checks and balances that people can have faith in.

Speaking at the Oxford Union, she said: «I think it's a very polarised world, and people that base their values on polls are mistaken, and people that base their predictions on polls it would seem are also mistaken.

The debate, which featured noisy interventions from large sections of the crowd, sparked a particularly polarised reaction to the Ukip leader, who drew pantomime jeers from some when he predicted that the EU was on the way to going into a union with Turkey «composed of 77 million even poorer people» and described Barack Obama as «the most anti-British US president».

People take polarised positions.

As a result, people are becoming increasingly polarised about what goes in their mouths, and are shouting about it (and at each other) with zeal.

For instance, scaling a brand rooted in a single person's point of view can prove difficult, especially when that point of view is polarising.

And continues to polarise all the great work and thinking and doing going on in our schools, including that by many of the people listed.

The Megane's looks, for example, will polarise enough people to ensure that.

That means it won't be for everyone and just looking at the polarising body design will lock some people into the «like» category or the other one.

«The BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe is designed to stir things up, to polarise — it should move you emotionally,» explains Domagoj Dukec, Vice President Design BMW M and BMW i. «With this car we want to reach people who are looking for something special and who want to stand out from the crowd.

It seems improbable now that a work of contemporary art — particularly one that was, lest we forget, an impression of something which no longer existed — could inspire such a polarised and universally zealous reaction, but as Whiteread explains, «people are always going to have strong opinions about something that hasn't happened before» and, unlike now, art «was not constantly in your face».

I think the polarised view of influence between «cool people» on the one hand and «random acts of traction» on the other masks the real complexity of influence, which is that it's damned hard to define and identify.

No matter what the camera person at the store tells you, you want to make sure you get a linear polarising filter or it won't work properly and will leave large portions of your painting full of glare.

It is interesting that on this blog, which is discussing the outrangeous, and to most peoples» eyes disgusting, behaviour of some of the most supposedly distinguished climate scientists, there is a toxic, effervescent, didactic, polarising and marginally intelligent group who are showing the same qualities of intolerance and mediocre scientific ability.

The problem for the Guardian is that, when you divide and polarise the debate as it does, when the alarmist story you tell turns out to be nonsense, you force people with the sense or intuition to see it as nonsense to the other, opposing camp.

Meanwhile, the unfortunate (for you) implication of forcing people to take sides in a polarised debate by raising the opinions of Bastardi, Hannity, and Inhoffe in a discussion about alarmism, is that you force people to make a choice between self - evidently mad alarmism and a position which is closer to reality.

Lastly, if you look at how people have become polarised with issues, the psychological effect of commitment and consistency, then really a reconciliation is impossible.

Well, if that is true, perhaps the people most responsible for that are those who polarised the debate, and made statements about the science which could not be sustained.