Sentences with phrase «rather than acting»

Rather than acting as a limited dual agent, you can choose to act as the agent of only one of the parties, treating the other party, with their agreement, as a customer.

The art of nurturing connection means developing the skill of tenderly revealing our genuine feelings rather than acting them out by blaming, shaming, or attacking.

You're not able to lean into the comforting arms of your relationship when emotional safety is lacking — in fact, your relationship ends up causing you pain rather than acting as a buffer against distress.

However, its primary role is limited to monitoring government rather than acting an instrument for self - governance.

Sweden - a parallel indigenous Parliament, its role however is limited to monitoring government rather than acting an instrument for self - governance.

Sam learned to give Attention to the truth; to Sara's pain; and to resolving his fears, rather than acting out secretly and defensively, which essentially turned him away from Sara, himself and the world.

Rather than acting on impulse, they should be willing to take calculated risks to prove their abilities.

This is a data - driven skill rather than acting on instinct or innate response.

Notifications, quick settings, and quick toggles behave just like you'd expect, though they can open summaries and additional options rather than acting as strict toggles.

On the patent dispute front, Mordan insists his intellectual property team, headed by Jim Harrington and David Banchik, is generating revenue for Shire, rather than acting as a cost centre.

Often, these projects are part of an overall compliance program and function as training tools or «check the box» exercises as a shield against future compliance failure, rather than acting as useful decision support tools.

But rather than acting on the recommendation, the government has been doing all it can to stall the courts.

Unfortunately, fear, coupled with the fact that Benchers continually act in the self interest of the lawyers who elected them, rather than acting in the public interest, is a deadly combination for access to justice in Canada.

Whether, in hearing a moot case, the court will be straying into the legislative sphere rather than acting as an adjudicative body.

And some firms, such as Covington & Burling or Proskauer Rose have sports law practices, representing the leagues or teams rather than acting as agents for individual players.

The tragedy is that many politicians and special interests have dug in, rejecting a clear and well - founded consensus in science and continue whistling in the dark, rather than acting to mitigate the risks of climate change.

Rather than acting to clean up their pollution, cement companies attacked EPA's new rule in court and in Congress.

Talking, rather than acting, remains a political option because the electorates on which the pols rely for their jobs are not sufficiently threatened by climate change, personally, to make it an issue on which politicians have to act.

In an accompanying statement, the artist writes about the struggle to find ways of making marks that look natural and at home on the canvas, that have their own personality rather than acting as a conduit for hers.

In the film Schnabel remarks: «I started to use different kinds of materials because I was looking for some kind of new way to paint... working with things that already exist affords you associations that are beyond your invention... I see opportunities everywhere as paintings, in images that already exist, in surfaces that will repsond to paint a certain way, or it might come from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me react to what was there and come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with reacting rather than acting.»

In these images, rather than acting as a backdrop to the human activity, the artworks function as characters in the scene, silent witnesses to the drama unfolding around them.

She stresses that being a female gallerist means providing support and guidance to your artists, allowing them to grow, rather than acting as a hardliner.

Rather than acting as a static façade, Lee Kit's paintings operate against his formal training — another political gesture — by facilitating, or contributing to the illusion of his minimalist assemblages.

Rather than acting like they're the best (though a little of that did come through when talking about their developers), it sounds like they're striving to be the best, which is kind of a moving target, as goals go.

These Munchers are actually part of the environment, rather than acting as a typical enemy, hence that they can't be defeated, similar to a Bill Blaster being part of the environment.

Progressing through «Doom» requires internalizing the patterns of one's demonic adversaries to such a degree that one responds to their attacks with precision rather than acting on dumb luck.

Whether you are buying or selling in a downturn, it is important to focus on market fundamentals rather than acting solely on emotions.

Unlike other heritage designs that ape the original watch, the Superocean wears influences from watches of yore rather than acting as a simple reissue of an old design.

Just as important, schools must support parents rather than acting as a barrier to work.

Student ETH2's statement accentuated the importance of working together with other educators to troubleshoot solutions to issues in the classroom rather than acting alone.

Rather than acting as directive teachers, our faculty members were more like coaches in a student - led inquiry environment.

Even as it becomes glaringly clear over the course of the movie that he's pulling his own strings, rather than acting on the suggestions of Pitt's rock - star - perfect persona, it's the human inclination to be lead that troubles us.

Lorene Scafaria, the director of «Seeking a Friend,» compares him to Jack Lemmon and Peter Sellers, though by that she means his versatility rather than his acting style.

In fact, while she was filming 1979's «Kramer Vs. Kramer» with Dustin Hoffman, the heat got all too real when he physically slapped her in a scene rather than acting out the action.

He's learning about her, guiding her to find herself, rather than acting as a restrictive guardian imposing random rules.

And, rather than acting entitled, members take their responsibility seriously, doing the heavy lifting seeing all the nominated films requires.

Cage tries to give his lines energy with hammy mannerisms, while Jolie (The Bone Collector) has barely a dozen lines and is cast solely for her looks rather than acting ability (and she doesn't look particularly good in this film).

By Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, it feels like we're seeing these characters live through this story, rather than acting out an adaptation.

So, rather than acting on a hunch, better focus on proven tactics that do work, and the content with greatest value.

This is one of the best face creams I've tried by Lotus as it actually helps fix your imperfections from within rather than acting as a quick - fix.

Therefore the compound likely enhances your body's ability to make glutathione, rather than acting as a building block.

He felt like he was being dragged along by life rather than acting as the protagonist of his own story.

In addition, rather than acting as antioxidants, oxalates are prooxidants, so they encourage the oxidation of your fats, forming rancid fats in your body.

These resistant starches, rather than acting as a nutrient, behave similarly to dietary fiber and can help regulate blood sugar, improve appetite control and promote bowel health.

Rather than acting as an on / off switch, PAMs act like an amplifier, enhancing only the effects of the brain's own natural painkillers, thereby selectively altering biological processes in the body that naturally suppress pain.

«It is a pity that the government of Nigeria rather than acting decisively by deploying the necessary security apparatus to decimate these murderous herdsmen, has resorted to playing blame games with the plight of the Tiv man.

But Corbyn has been accused by some shadow cabinet members, most recently Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, of sponsoring a faction rather than acting as a unifying figure in the whole of the Labour party.

«I feel certain that the long - term best interests of your party are better served by acknowledging that and doing something about it, rather than acting out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the coalition.

Baby Milk Action sent the following letter to the JACEI Chair on 6 August questioning why he is advocating continuing with the same failed strategy rather than acting on the report's findings.

Thoughts and emotions come and go like clouds in the sky, we can simply observe them as such, rather than acting on them.