Sentences with phrase «rather than positive»

I do agree with that point but I then take from your letter that you might think that when there is lack of response the result should always be in the negative rather than the positive?

If parents focus on negatives rather than positive behaviours, children are not given the opportunity to learn how to do things better and their negative behaviours can become reinforced through getting attention only in that way.

This makes me think of Gottman's idea of how couples in distress, when asked to recount their courting experience or how they met, focus on the negative aspects rather than the positive.

However, in order to take things to an even better level I want you to think SOLUTION rather than POSITIVE.

Sharing this type of information takes up valuable space and will most likely leave a negative impression with hiring personnel, rather than a positive.

Many candidates, not just those in the public sector, make the mistake of focusing their CV and interview answers on descriptions of their responsibilities rather than the positive outcomes they helped to achieve for their organisations.

If you tend toward the negative rather than the positive, you may be a negative manager.

The Court found Williams had caused the harm, not the police, so the issue was based on omission rather than a positive act.

Ironically, transparency led to negative rather than positive change, as the American need to compete and win whenever numbers, rankings or lists are involved took over.

In this case, the public policy implications of requiring married couples to disclose their thoughts of separation or their involvement in extra-marital relationships before executing a marriage contract are negative rather than positive.

After the publication of AR4, a study by Spencer et al., using physical observations from CERES satellites over the tropics, showed that the net feedback from clouds is strongly negative, rather than positive, as assumed by the climate models.

Model studies using super-parameterization for clouds have come to the conclusion that their net overall feedback with surface warming is negative, rather than positive.

If these new findings can not be refuted, it appears that the net cloud feedback is very likely to be strongly negative rather than positive, as assumed by the IPCC models.

As we both know, physical observations of CERES satellites since AR4 was published (Spencer + Braswell) have shown that the net cloud feedback over the tropics is strongly negative, rather than positive, as assumed by IPCC.

So, lolwot, all your words provide NO EVIDENCE that the added CO2 from human emissions COULD (or will) be catastrophic or even have a negative, rather than a positive net overall impact.

Also by correlating the radiant energy data to the SST Lindzen is able to show that the overall feedback is negative rather than positive as the models predict.

The implication of this statement is that there seems to be negative feedbacks dominating rather than positive feedbacks and that the Earth is still functioning well as a repository for life as we know it.

If one believes there is a strong AGW signature (I don't) this kind of work will ultimately prove negative rather than positive in convincing others.

But the effusive mania of the photographs and cartoons in the adjacent rooms carried through to the paintings, making it difficult to read them as neutral statements rather than positive ones.

I'm dyslexic and printmaking is all about dyslexic thinking — images are reversed, you carve away the negative space rather than the positive line, and you often have to work backward as in reductive printing.

The term «guarantee» if used, should clearly mean replacement of one dog with another or return for a refund, rather than positive analysis of the dog at hand.

Over long periods of time, smart indices that roll and / or weight differently have also performed well with reduced losses rather than positive returns in down periods.

Why does Mr. Barr assume that the teacher is having a negative impact rather than a positive one?

By a 10 - point margin, school superintendents see a negative rather than positive effect on teaching quality from «free agency,» retirements and other turnover.

It creates conversations and talks about scenarios that are more likely to bring regret to older viewers, unlucky enough to be watching, rather than positive reinforced nostalgia.

We all go through times where we're hyper - focused on the negative rather than the positive.

We now know this to be a negative, rather than positive addition to their food supply.

Couldn't it be that the people who said they were more bored were actually more negative people who looked for the bad side of their job, rather than positive people who always see the good?

When we hear the word STEROIDS, most of us automatically think of the side effects rather than the positive results.

It is clear, however, that evidence of an excess of amino acid substitutions (at least from site - by - site tests) is no longer a sufficiently convincing demonstration of selection, not only because a high ratio could result from selection on synonymous mutations rather than positive selection on proteins [5], but also because there is potentially a high false discovery rate of selected sites [6].

This contradictory behavior explained that Cyclin D1 acts as a negative regulative protein under some conditions rather than a positive regulator in the cell cycle, i.e. the modest increase in Cyclin D1 expression could hasten the G1 phase while the overexpression may lead to block the progression through the S - phase [28, 29].

Primer for Performance It is interesting that the title of Elizabeth Svoboda's article, «Avoiding the Big Choke,» focuses on the negative rather than the positive.

These students often see the negative side of academia rather than the positive side.

The finding that Mr Blair would close the gap will give Labour a ray of hope that the Tories» lead is «soft», showing hostility to the Government during the economic downturn rather than positive support for Mr Cameron's party.

I suspect that the effect of these changes may end up being negative rather than positive.

He argues that the baby's movements may be related to discomfort rather than positive stimulation.

Most parents find that it is easier to provide negative feedback rather than positive feedback.

Suffering is, after all, a form of evil, something negative rather than positive.

«Uniqueness» lacks the essential reference to time; «unrepeatability» bears a negative rather than a positive weight; «onceness» is strange, whereas Einmaligkeit is both a familiar word in German philosophy and also carries a connotation of positive worth.

Rather than the positive - sum notion of biblical chosenness» «through you all the nations of the world will be blessed...»» the Nazis articulated a vision in which the very existence of the rival chosen people, the Jews, meant the certain death of the German people.

(Deuteronomy 7:12 - 16) With these for the main objects of petition, prayer was naturally evoked by their lack, and it was typical of early Hebrew as of all immature praying that the negative rather than the positive purpose of prayer was prominent.

I think a «ficticious avatar» would sound too much like either a troll or a manipulative fiction and would have a negative rather than a positive effect.

But most people tend to focus on the negative rather than the positive, and businesses are no different: they spend the majority of their time addressing customer complaints and negative feedback.

Portuguese 10 yr yield falls 100 bps and 2 yr down 188 bps on the week 2) June Euro region mfr» g and services composite index unchanged at 46, well below 50 and points to clear slowing but was a touch better than expected 3) Lack of a negative rather than a positive but Syriza loses in Greece 4) NAHB home builder survey hangs at 5 yr high at 29 but remains still well below breakeven of 50 5 From construction standpoint, housing permits rise to most since Sept» 08.

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«But also we've found the hiring process is much better if you've got recruiters embedded within the company and they're much more proficient in telling potential employees about some of the benefits and the way the company works and really playing up the positive aspects rather than just saying, «OK, here's a list of five companies that are hiring at the moment; we're happy to make intros to you.»»

One of the best ways to cultivate a positive workforce is through relationships and tailoring to the individual needs of staff members — rather than using a one - size - fits - all approach, Branson advises.

«To see collaboration rather than being at each other's throats - that's a real positive,» said Daniel Yergin, an energy historian and vice chairman of IHS Markit.

Rather than relying on the barefaced bribery of a referral program or desperate begging for «likes» and positive reviews, try these five tips for adding a smart viral twist to your product.

Companies should develop more manageable aspects of customer experience rather than spending too much time, energy and resources generating positive WOM.

And Gates has in the past made positive comments on the technological advancements that Bitcoin represents, rather than Bitcoin itself.