Sentences with phrase «posture toward»

Hold a curious and nonjudgmental posture toward each other that enables you to share ideas openly.

CBT techniques can help individuals challenge their patterns and beliefs and replace «errors in thinking such as overgeneralizing, magnifying negatives, minimizing positives and catastrophizing» with «more realistic and effective thoughts, thus decreasing emotional distress and self - defeating behavior» or to take a more open, mindful, and aware posture toward them so as to diminish their impact.

This puts Donald Trump's commitment to withdraw from the treaty in a useful perspective; in fact, his spite may ultimately prove perversely productive, since the evacuation of American leadership on climate seems to have mobilized China, eager to claim the mantle and far more consequential to the future of the planet because of its size and relative poverty, to adopt a much more aggressive posture toward climate.

Adopting a «head in the sand» posture toward unflattering or ego - bruising data is what causes many investors (big and small) to suffer needless losses in the market.

Take a listening posture toward all students.

While Moskowitz has continued her combative posture toward de Blasio, other charters worry about upsetting a detente with City Hall.

Mayor Williams has been relatively supportive of them, and Vance has been careful to avoid the openly hostile posture toward charter schools that characterized his predecessor, Ackerman.

Angry Schools Chiefs: The nation's chief state school officials, in a markedly emotional meeting in Washington, voice extreme displeasure with the Reagan administration's posture toward public education.

In an April blog post about the Church's posture toward gays, the cardinal wrote that his parents welcomed anyone into his childhood home, so long as they remembered to «wash your hands.»

After moderating a forum of tenants group leaders at 1199 SEIU's credit union headquarters on 43rd Street, Ms. James urged the audience to take an aggressive posture toward the state legislators — one half of which is controlled by real estate industry - friendly Republicans — to pressure them into fortifying the city's rent regulations when they come up for renewal this year this year.

The most interesting detail in the story, however, involves Weiner's posture toward homophobic swipes at Quinn, one of the nation's most prominent out LGBT elected officials.

Brian Fusco, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association trustee who announced today that he'll challenge union president Pat Lynch in the next election, told Capital on Tuesday that he plans to focus on Lynch's inability to secure a labor contract and other benefits for members, rather than on Lynch's combative posture toward Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The speaker's cooperative posture toward the mayor has drawn fire from some in progressive political circles that formed her original base.

He was forced to twist his policies on the minimum wage and his posture toward Senate Democrats to win the Working Families Party line from Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law professor who has criticized Cuomo as too beholden to wealthy donors.

Mr. Koch, a Democrat, had just a few months ago been so unhappy with Mr. Obama's posture toward Israel that he endorsed the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, over the Democrat, Assemblyman David I. Weprin, in the Sept. 13 special election to replace Anthony D. Weiner in Congress.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan took aim at Cuomo's posture toward the Legislature, saying he's «usurping» the role of lawmakers.

And he offered an explanation for his demur posture toward the governor: «My office defends state agencies so, you know, the governor's staff, the state agencies and our lawyers are interacting every day on dozens of matters.

In the video, which features Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Assemblywoman Addie Russell, Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, and Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, Cuomo is knocked for his posture toward the state's public teachers union.

Cuomo traditionally had taken a laissez - faire posture toward the IDC, backing up its argument that it is a moderating force on the GOP Senate that has helped force votes on gun control and raising the age of criminal responsibility.

The white minister is often thrown into a confused posture toward his maleness.

The question of the proper posture toward it for the other branches to adopt was very much alive, and a politician's position on the question might well determine his electoral fate.

Our posture toward each other should not be a grudging, careful management of old hurts, but rather a genuine yielding of the past for a hope.

According to Claiborne and Haw, «to claim that one's citizenship in heaven is to say that you pledge allegiance not to any of the kingdom of the world but to Jesus and the body of those who take on his suffering, enemy - loving posture toward the world.

Such a posture toward reality reflects the way many moderns understand scriptural events.

Rembrandt's maturation serves as a parable of our own posture toward such biblical accounts.

Though I agree with the bishops that the exemption for religious employers in the White House contraceptive insurance mandate is too narrow, the bishops» posture toward the administration during the election poses a major risk to the Church because it left the impression that there was only one legitimate Catholic choice for president — Mitt Romney.

The preacher who understands this assumes a more humble posture toward his important task.

Were we able through faith in Jesus» revelation to come to a more accepting posture toward our own shameful side, we would likewise be delivered of the compulsion to project it out onto others.

Back in July, he was removed from leadership after the church announced that he «had made unfortunate choices and decisions that have caused much concern,» noting his abuse of alcohol and his «posture toward marriage.»

To be sure, of the two views identified above regarding the church's posture toward Jewish followers of Jesus, it is the second that has determined the church's practice for most of its history — a development that Wyschogrod regrets.

Consequently, its posture toward the past has tended to be that of airy superiority, or, sometimes, open mockery.

Writing for the Atlantic, Alan Jacobs reports some insightful lessons from a study session led by Rabbi Jacob Schachter aimed at formulating a sound religious posture toward the internet.

A few courageous, high profile evangelical pastors will publicly assume a more loving and welcoming posture toward the gay community, drawing the wrath of conservatives but providing a glimmer of hope to gay Christians who long for the chance to worship alongside their brothers and sisters in Christ without fear.

Germany today maintains a quid pro quo policy toward the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah that is similar to its posture toward Black September, according to German journalists and intelligence officers.

You have a subtle, underlying negative posture toward fellowship.

It is an aesthetic vision, one that has largely been obliterated by our ethical posture toward life.

How can I cultivate a listening posture toward others whose perspective and experiences might differ from my own?

Perhaps today's «beer Christianity» is not so much a new trend as it is a return to the posture toward alcohol that characterized much of Christian history?

Choosing a humble posture toward God, one another, and the world around us is part of our obedience to him.

Absent strong public pressure, the Congress may be unable to sustain a critical posture toward the executive branch with its insistent claim that national security requires public trust in secret power.

This theological approach to the culture enabled the Century to assume a more prophetic posture toward American society as a whole.

«The gloves may be coming off»: Shake - up of Trump legal team signals combative posture toward special counsel Robert Costa et al., The Washington Post

(CNN)-- Rep. Michael Grimm, who on Monday voiced support for President Barack Obama's plan to strike Syria, stepped away from his endorsement on Thursday by claiming the president was backtracking on previously held postures toward the use of chemical weapons.

They exhibit all of the common traits of a terrier: yappiness, posturing toward other dogs, fearlessness and poor impulse control.

He is always posturing toward an eventual settlement, and he believes a good working relationship with the other side will help.

Not exact matches

«Policy and education of the workforce goes a long way toward better security posture, especially in this age where advanced threat actors increasingly resort to social engineering tactics in their threat campaign,» Gong says.

The unsavoriness of Bullard's comment is not that he fears a downturn in inflation, and maybe lower growth, but that Bullard seemed to find his DOVISH posture as the U.S. markets were heading toward the August lows.

That policy sought to advance cutting - edge research while remaining faithful to the U.S. government's long - standing posture of neutrality toward research that depends on the use....

That posture opens up the Eucharistic celebration and orientates it toward the Risen Christ who will come again - the Oriens ex alto.

The goal is to show how scripture, tradition, reason, and experience all support a posture of equality toward women, one that favorsmutuality rather than hierarchy, in the home, Church, and society.