Sentences with phrase «rather than a criticism»

Guy Verhofstadt, European Parliament's Brexit coordinator, said that public comments made by EU officials are calls to negotiate rather than criticism.

Besides the fact that I said substantive response rather than criticism, I'll accept the criticism because I am critical of his view.

In the spirit of encouragement rather than criticism, we offer the following questions (and answers!)

Try expressing your needs as «I» statements rather than criticism: «I see you feel like jumping around right now.

These happy moments, Gottman says, show that the couple is «working hard to create a culture of appreciation rather than criticism.»

Though this is really only their seventh - best of nine albums, that's more of a testament to the quality of their output as a band over the last 25 years, rather than a criticism of this work.

Ofsted says that 12 schools will need to make improvements - and three have emerged with praise rather than criticism.

We in Connecticut need to make these jobs more attractive to prospective teachers through increased respect, support and autonomy rather than criticism, disdain and surveillance.»

No matter the subject, Leman encourages parents to keep realistic expectations and to motivate with approval rather than criticism.

Please think of it as a request, rather than a criticism.

This means taking a stance that is nonjudgmental and is focused on solutions rather than criticism.

It is admirable — even when you have to contradict even yourself rather than criticism Judith's perspective.

And it was only ever a clash between two groups of environmentalists — rather than criticism from without — that would finally expose the tendency of «pragmatism» to produce its own crises.

• Motivate yourself with understanding and kindness rather than criticism • Find greater ease and acceptance in the ebbs and flows of life • Handle difficult emotions and stress with greater perspective • Manage empathy fatigue - increasing emotional resilience • Develop unconditional friendliness to yourself • Increased energy, clarity and joy

When she criticizes you, try to take it simply as a comment rather than criticism.

It's such an unsettling, sad time when your mum dies, you were probably hoping for some comfort, support and understanding rather than a criticism of your changed behaviour related to the bereavement.

They interact with the patients recovery, seeing that they indeed have a disorder and need support rather than criticism in order to overcome the obstacles they face.

After all, they're seeking therapy together because they want things to go better, and as they see sessions being about self - reflection and longings, rather than criticism and blame, they begin to break maladaptive patterns.

A relationship filled with encouragement and affirmation rather than criticism and complaint inspires confidence.

Fourth, parents can change their parenting practices by giving special attention to positive behavior to encouragement and praise for positive behavior rather than criticism for negative behavior.

Not exact matches

She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.

«Most employees would rather get direct criticism from their manager than face a seemingly pleasant, but backstabbing boss,» Taylor said.

Hence, bitFlyer is wise to upgrade its identity verification now, when the FSA is still in early stages of criticism, rather than waiting for something detrimental to happen that might risk the exchange having to shut down.

Jewish department - store owners unquestionably influence newspaper policy in cities where they are numerous like New York but the influence is rather negative (against criticism of Jews) than positive (for particular Jews or particular Jewish programs).

In particular, it seems to be addressing one criticism that has dogged it for years: that it offers humanitarian aid rather than economic development.

The #MeToo movement has not caught on in Japan, where speaking out often draws criticism rather than sympathy, even from other women.

For one thing, it's heartening to see the Republicans stand fast for a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the press.

Rather than a fair criticism of what you perceive to be the overzealousness of some of the people involved in advocating for the cause of AIDS, it is a bitter and unwarranted attack against what you refer to as the «AIDS Lobby.»

Must academics always practice autoimmune criticisms of their faith and country rather than raising their voice in protest of the obvious violence against us?

Criticism finds acceptance in a culture that measures success by small errors rather than by large - scale successes.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

When we apply this position to Diem's original criticism of Käsemann, that the latter presented Jesus as only teaching general truths rather than the kerygma, it becomes clear that Diem has overlooked the crucial point: Käsemann went beyond the view that Jesus taught God's fatherhood and man's freedom, to the assertion that «God has drawn near man in grace and requirement,» and Jesus «brought and lived the freedom of the children of God».

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

We have here an updated version of Kant's criticism of the Leibnizian monad in the «Amphiboly» in the Critique of Pure Reason: the spatially situated existent is indeed made up of relations rather than being a substance containing its «inhering» attributes internally as predicates which are part of its concept; only the relations are no longer those of the synthetically connected manifold, but the relational connections between the particulars of modern functional or mathematical logic, expanded to include within itself the spatial and temporal relations which Kant could only account for by means of the synthetic a priori.

Helmut Thielicke has taken this criticism seriously in his Theological Ethics, speaking of the various structures of our common life, such as the state, law, economics, etc., as «orders of history» rather than as «orders of creation,» and presenting them in an infralapsarian way as «orders of the divine patience, given because of our «hardness of heart» (Matthew 19:8).»

Rather than repeat my criticisms and proposals for university reform, I will focus on how the greening of theology would in itself contribute to university reform.

Because women live lives that are considered public property, to be legislated and debated and discussed, rather than merely lived, there's not a woman in the United States who is not facing criticism for her choices.»

These days, in most people's understanding, it carries the fullest possible weight of criticism and condemnation of a person, rather than of an act.

Matthew Yglesias has gotten some criticism for celebrating Clinton for being «more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas,» and for being the kind of person who «believes in asking what she can get away with rather than what would look best.»

I am not greatly disturbed, though, by Neville's criticism that Hartshorne takes «the ontological structure of the world... for granted» rather than makes it intelligible.»

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

It has been the case time and time again in your comments that you can do no better than criticize what you perceive as the «tone» of my criticisms of your religion of your murderous god, rather than the content.

This comment, therefore, should be viewed as an addition to, rather than as a criticism of, Birch's paper.

But our most basic criticism must be directed toward ourselves and our leaders, rather than toward the economists to whom we have turned for guidance.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

And we often conclude that to criticize something is to hate it rather than suspect that the criticism is borne out of an intense passion for the thing.

I would urge to hold back on such criticism, but seeing as he chose not to actively seek change, dropped the pursuit of celibacy, and considered joining an arguably heretical denomination - seemingly because it accommodated his lifestyle rather than due to genuine theological convictions - I must agree with you.

One of the standard criticisms of virtue ethics is that it is weak when dealing with issues in applied ethics, in contrast to deontology or utilitarianism, and this because virtue theorists focus on good or bad agents rather than right or wrong acts.

Why not accept their criticism rather than always trying to make yourself palatable?

Form criticism and the extensive biblical studies of the twentieth century have demonstrated that the Gospels are books of witness to the good news of Christ rather than exact and infallible historical accounts.