Sentences with phrase «rather than a family member»

«Sometimes it's easier for a parent to talk to a professional rather than a family member,» says Cohen.

Kids seem to be more relaxed around the family pet, rather than a family member.

She said many owners merely treated their pets as a toy rather than a family member.

 The ordinance will «criminalize» dogs just because they are unaltered and create a climate where dogs are viewed as enemies rather than family members requiring proper care, management, and affection.

BSL is a very costly negative for a community and state and will create a climate where dogs are viewed as enemies rather than family members requiring proper care, management and love.  Go here for ways to improve relations in the community with dogs and also how to address the reasons dogs bite and keep communities safe.Â

Breed discrimination is a very costly negative for a community and state and will create a climate where dogs are viewed as enemies rather than family members requiring proper care, management and love.

BSL is a very costly negative for a community and state and will create a climate where dogs are viewed as enemies rather than family members requiring proper care, management and love.

Emphasis upon the unconscious: as expressed in dreams, recurrent relationship difficulties, avoidant behaviours, and deeply - held anxieties — rather than family members talking directly.

Not exact matches

In plainer terms, the researchers are arguing for a preventive approach that's based on changes in internal biology rather than the behavioral and physical symptoms which plague Alzheimer's patients and are visible to the non-clinical world, including friends and family members.

Further, proposed new rules on the sale of business assets, will make it more attractive to sell those assets to an unrelated third party rather than to family members.

As a suggestion, it is better to ask recommendations from family members, relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues rather than from the real estate agents.

Some individuals may want to delegate these legal responsibilities to an outside entity, such as a fee - based trust company, rather than maintain them or pass them along to a family member.

And he did so based on the belief that this is the New Testament vision: a family «built around the quality of relationships shared by the members of God's kingdom rather than blood ties.»

At the same time, marriages and families have become essentially emotional and egalitarian relationships rather than institutional and hierarchical ones, Thus, when marriage and family fail to satisfy, when they do not make all members feel «happy» and «fulfilled,» then these arrangements begin to dissolve, or at least to be regarded as needing repair.

I have family who would rather right off family members due to a political stand regarding moral social issues than to think for just a moment that the Christian God I believe in is similar to the Jesus depicted in the New Testament.

I've heard this (from a family member in reference to my family) to justify their actions / words: «Well, I'd rather offend someone into heaven than flatter them into hell»... really?

We should be looking for ways to make our economy more family - friendly rather than getting our knickers in a wad over same - sex spousal relationships if we are really concerned about strengthening the emotional bonds necessary to bind family members together so that the family may once again become the primary building block for a healthy society.

... I once (when I had more religious certitiude than I do now) prayed for a family member to * die * rather than live for just that reason, that and how their lingering was affecting the family.

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

«It has been widely supported for the past 10 years and rather than have disagreements over which religious leaders participate we would like to keep the focus of our commemoration ceremony on the family members of those who died.»

The disabled are treated as the weak to be served, rather than as fully committed, integral members of the Body of Christ and the human family; the specific contribution which they have to give is ignored....

(4) To mutually nourish rather than starve self - esteem in all family members.

It is appalling to a family when one of its members decides that he or she would rather be dead than continue to share their company.

(19) This proposal is quite a new departure, since it involves the church world communions, families of churches rather than the individual churches that are members of the WCC.

Non-Anglicans were present as guests, rather than as members of the family.

Rather than the common policy of discharging such patients to nursing homes when family members insist on continued treatment or the insurance money runs out, Catholic institutions could develop sorely needed long «term rehabilitation facilities that could build on the encouraging work being done with such patients in England and Israel.

The parents may want to introduce members of the extended family gradually rather than all at once.

We hear it from our family members, our schools, our pediatricians, our politicians, parenting books that continue to be published influenced by this old - fashioned thinking despite the mountains of research to the contrary — ideas of how children should be raised, based on personal opinion rather than research - backed fact, subtle revelation of how our society is still scared of giving «too much» nurturing to our children.

Take lots pictures of your baby (sooner rather than later as your child's coloring will change) Dress, hold and clothe your child Spend as much time as you want with your child Have a priest and other family members visit and see your child Get foot and handprints

Rather than take young children door - to - door, reserve the tradition of Halloween night for visiting family members or destinations hosting large - scale parties for baby Halloween - ers.

And a lot of times what ends up happening is moms will doubt their supply or it might be other influences, maybe it's a family member as well, they'll interfere with nature and rather than being a primary insufficient milk supply issue, it kind of transitions into a secondary causes that also interfere with her full production.

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

The adoptive parent (s) have grafted a family member onto their tree, one related by love rather than biology, much like a marriage.

Rather than feel helpless when a friend or family member loses a child and saying and doing nothing in response, here are some actions you can take to support your friend or loved one through their loss.

Rather than attacking taxpayers by undermining the property tax cap, NYSUT and its members should be working with school districts and families to ensure that our children receive a world class education that is affordable.»

«My Deputies would rather issue a ticket than visit family members following a crash, so I strongly urge everyone to take the It Can Wait pledge.»

Focusing on the nuances of investigations of political violence, particularly distrust of the state and the strong emotional response of surviving family members, Fondebrider also emphasizes the unique role of Latin American forensic organizations, born out of necessity rather than academia (p. 70), and the value this experience can have for novice investigators worldwide.

* The CareBot allows seniors to stay in their homes (rather than an assisted - living facility) while reducing isolation by initiating videoconferencing sessions with family members.

Families that had lost a member to AIDS, rather than other causes, were more likely to report eating insects to save money.

A study of the development of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans by Neda Masoudi, Oliver Hobert and colleagues reveals a novel function for a member of the basic helix - loop - helix family of transcription factors in controlling terminal neuron differentiation (rather than initial commitment to a neural fate).

The program also allows the patient and family member more control over when they perform the care activities rather than following a schedule when the nurse or patient care tech are available.

To get new healthy habits to stick — forever — make your goals specific and concrete, focus on the positive behaviors you're going to start rather than the negative ones you want to stop, and enlist close friends and family members to help support you and keep you accountable along the way.

If a problem does seem to run in the family, knowing it sooner rather than later can help other family members and future generations lower their risks.

... I had no idea how resistant my family members would be to getting screened for celiac, as well as how many times I'd hear the words, «I'd rather die than have to stop eating gluten.»

What your family member or friend does, with that information, is their prerogative, but finding a neutral tone to express how you feel, in «I» language, rather than provocative «you» language, just might help you feel understood, and turn a corner in the relationship.

80 % would rather use online dating than rely on family members for matches, and 78 % believe it's better than relying on friends to find matches.

There are several occasions when the family has to fabricate a story to justify what they're doing and why, and rather than collaborate the four members just begin spouting dialogue that has clearly and indulgently been improvised.

If I was stabbed in the back, I'd much rather bleed to death than to be forcefully held under water by a family member.

Black Panther not only kills a fellow Wakandan — a family member — when he makes it painfully clear earlier in the movie that he has the technology to apprehend rather than maim.

Rather than choose, he assembles the family in their living room to let fate decide — by blindfolding himself, spinning around, and firing a rifle until one unlucky family member takes a bullet.