Sentences with phrase «prevailing attitude»

There are too many variables at play for any idea to be a sure thing, so you'll need to remain ready for changes, especially when prevailing attitudes start to change.

Powerful new evidence about the benefits of breastfeeding provides a compelling case to alter prevailing attitudes and practices.

MP's reported today what many of us clinical negligence specialists are all too acutely aware of — that NHS Trusts have a «prevailing attitude of defensiveness when things go wrong, and a reluctance to admit mistakes».

I will be honest that I get more than a little peeved by prevailing attitudes about breastfeeding in the US but I just have to hope that most of it is lack of education and that it can someday be remedied.

The company will find the going harder in APAC than in some other markets, where the prevalence and acceptance of electronic payments outstrip prevailing attitudes on other continents: mainly the Americas, but also parts of Europe.

This same prevailing attitude comes out strongly so often when discussing or debating anything with fundamentalists.

This inspiring documentary digs into the deep affinity between the evangelical Christian movement and America's gun culture — and how one top minister and anti-abortion activist undergoes a change of consciousness to challenge prevailing attitudes toward firearms among his fellow Christians.

Why a broader fiduciary standard must come along with a new prevailing attitude as well.

Some veterinarians, especially those in rehabilitation, are becoming aware that the above prevailing attitude is doing a great disservice to the amputees.

At times, there may be good political reasons for fighting on the terrain of the economists, but environmentalism at a deeper level challenges the ethical principles that underlie prevailing attitudes to the natural world.

The PAC cited a «prevailing attitude of defensiveness in the NHS when things go wrong».

From this autobiographical opening, Sullivan turns to what he considers the four prevailing attitudes toward homosexuality.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's 2015 National Opinion Poll offers a window into Canadians» prevailing attitudes on foreign...

This can lead to the same prevailing attitude — come to Chicago, get your degree, establish a scrappy network, then move on to «better» things — «better» being understood as more professional / moneyed.

If that represents the prevailing attitude of the early 90s, then MCI's thinking was really ahead of its time.

And globally, there's a prevailing attitude of «beauty fatigue» — the pushback against artificial, imposed standards of beauty.

The economy is being reshaped by fundamental shifts in technology, demographics and prevailing attitudes.

For decades, the prevailing attitude was that if overseas governments allowed corruption to blossom within their borders, foreigners could be forgiven for following local custom.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

My wife and daughter both say I'm doing pretty well, but I have to admit that sometimes I slip into the status quo of the prevailing attitudes toward girls and women and how to relate to them as well as how to treat them.

'» (90) The prevailing attitude, he shows, is heavily influenced by the Platonic concept of an evil material world and a perfect immaterial soul, as well as a misunderstanding of Scripture in which heaven, (as a kind of final resting place for the soul), is emphasized over the clear biblical picture of a new heaven and new earth for which believers will be physically resurrected.

I find that this tends to be a prevailing attitude towards feminism as well — that it's not fair because it only seeks to benefit women.

Prevailing attitudes toward work are reflected in educational programs and objectives, and educational ideals and practices have an influence on vocational life.

With the prevailing attitude being that anything goes — that one opinion is as good as another — the social contract by which we live may not long endure.

The prevailing attitude in corner offices seems to be «grab all the money you can while you can, and don't worry about little things like ethics, morals or the law.»

After graduating from a Christian college in which this was the prevailing attitude, I nearly lost my faith because I began to fear that being a Christian required checking my brain at the door and ignoring what this world has to teach us.

I think that this is the prevailing attitude among Christians, particularly evangelicals, in America today.

Whatever the subject» from creation to the politics of abortion, from the agreements and disagreements among scientists and theologians to the prevailing attitudes toward war, this conversation was always passionate and frequently brilliant.

This insistence on the experiential is especially important in our self - proclaimed «Age of Information,» the prevailing attitude of which often strikes me as that of an eight - year - old boy who discovers a skin magazine in his older brother's dresser drawer and assumes that he now «knows about women.»

This is the way of accommodation to prevailing attitudes.

There is a prevailing attitude at Epic Wines that leadership in fine wine distribution begins by recognizing products that will be cutting edge tomorrow while paying attention to the needs of customers and their clientele today.

When I was learning to cook vegetables, the prevailing attitude of teenager - ly culinary defiance could be summed up in two words: crisp - tender.

While most are worried about their children being injured (34 % worry often or always), more than four in ten (43 %) only worry sometimes, and one fourth (24 %) either rarely worry (20 %) or never worry (4 %); among this group the prevailing attitudes were that «injuries are just part of the game,» «children can protect themselves,» and «accidents happen.»

«American mothers internalize the prevailing attitude — «I should be able to handle this myself; women have babies every day» — and if they're not up and functioning, they feel like there's something wrong with them.»

If you read historical diaries of women and historical fiction, the prevailing attitude you'll find is that birth is something to be endured, and the goal was to survive with a live baby.

«When I first started the Olympic bid... the prevailing attitude was «Don't try to do this, it's too hard to get stuff done,»» Doctoroff told The Real Deal.

«I'm extremely proud of the prevailing attitude among the assistants in the office,» Kindlon said.

What's the prevailing attitude about science in Egypt?

In my opinion, it's better to fund one novel, exciting paper than 10 pedestrian «dotting i's and crossing t's» papers, but such high - risk research seems to go against the prevailing attitude of grant review panels.

That ability to jury - rig solutions and patiently start over when one solution no longer works suits him well to a career in engineering — within which, as Hakansson says, the prevailing attitude is that «nothing is impossible.

Perhaps the prevailing attitude is not so much ambivalent as anxious, uncertain and fearful, reactions that cause perceptions to veer between two extremes.

Perhaps the prevailing attitude is not so much ambivalent as anxious, uncertain and fearful, reactions that cause perceptions to veer between two -LSB-...]

«While not a clinical trial, this study, in stark contrast to prevailing attitudes that views these drugs as harmful, speaks to the public health potential of psychedelic medicine,» says Assoc. Prof. Zach Walsh, the co-director for UBC Okanagan's Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law.

The prevailing attitude was that Antarctica was a solid block of ice, Priscu says, a continent without life.

Not that this was the prevailing attitude: Many faculty members I knew enjoyed teaching and took their teaching obligations very seriously.