Sentences with phrase «rather than their colleagues»

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara, who did President Mahama the honours said he sees him as a brother rather than a colleague Head of State.

«People see interns as useless people — just another part - time worker rather than a colleague,» complains one participant, who requested anonymity.

The study's design, in which teachers were judged against percentile benchmarks rather than their colleagues» performance, sought to preserve collaboration among teachers.

They now want a monopsony as well — they have spent the last few years offering greater and greater incentives for self - published authors to pull their titles from all other vendors, while also making it easier for them to see other authors as competitors rather than colleagues, with things like their zero - sum KDP Select book - lending promotions.

Not exact matches

While I was exploring the possibility of franchising, colleagues posed the question: Why would I choose to pay a franchise royalty fee, rather than starting a business from the ground - up?

What's more, as entrepreneurs are often on the go rather than chained to the desk, you need a line of communication with colleagues that's all - inclusive and easy to understand.

Increasingly, bosses are becoming coaches, colleagues, and cheerleaders for the employees they support rather than prison wardens or executioners.

I knew the Internet was changing the world when my colleague started reading The Wall Street Journal online on the day it was published rather than his usual process of waiting until it arrived by mail a day later.

In their work, they emphasize the priorities of their staff members, colleagues and investors rather than those of their customers.

Rather than implementing prohibitive rules that make for distracted and unhappy employees, it's far better to prepare some sensible guidelines for your company to cope with the relationships that will inevitably arise, and in a manner that is helpful to everyone, from the couple's managers to their colleagues.

But just because conflict is inevitable when colleagues of diverse backgrounds and temperaments are thrown together in a high stress work environment, doesn't mean disputes can't be dealt with constructively and in a way that reinforces rather than erodes morale at your company.

Another, settled in 1998, alleged that men in the asset - management division mockingly awarded the «pink pump» — a woman's high - heeled shoe — to colleagues who went home to a wife or girlfriend rather than out for beers with the guys.

Most important, feedback encourages employees to focus on building one other up, rather than bringing their colleagues down through behind - the - back chit - chat.

Or they could be special holiday or anniversary celebrations that let employees relate to each other as people rather than only as colleagues.

At the end, you exhort your professional colleagues to come up with some new ideas to combat secular stagnation — an excess desire to save rather than invest, with consequent drag on the world economy.

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

The Gallup study showed about two - third of employees in offices or other work settings spend a large part of their workday «killing time» rather than actively engaging with their colleagues.

After he left the University of Strasbourg in 1913 to go to Africa, Schweitzer increasingly felt compelled to communicate with the literate public rather than with his academic colleagues.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

I advise my scientific colleagues and students to become more political rather than less so, because it is impossible to separate science from politics when government funding is a primary factor for promotion and tenure in academia.

I was in fact asked by a colleague why I was bringing my lunch in a jar rather than a lunchbox, and I couldn't really give a satisfactory reason, but here are a few reasons why you might:

He notes, «mainstream supermarket coffees generally fail to provide much option for those of us who want to recognize and reward coffee growers as our colleagues rather than exploit them as unacknowledged drones in the vast global commodity hive.»

Susan RoAne, known as «The Mingling Maven,» has some sound and savvy strategies for those who would prefer to order room service rather than attend the closing gala to network with colleagues and potential business associates.

Because as my school food reform colleague Dana Woldow once memorably wrote, cleaned - up junk food products «are «better for you» only in the sense that it is «better for you» to be hit in the head with a brick only twice, rather than three times.»

She commented on how Ainsworth was made to seem as if she were a colleague of Bowlby's rather than a woman who theorized on her own.

Indeed, the 2014 University of Rochester study [23] suggests that, «rather than monitor total head hits, as [was initially suggested [by Sports Legacy Institute in its much publicized Hit Count program], it may be more effective to monitor those hits that are most likely to produce [white matter] changes, which Bazarian and his colleagues found were when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration of 4500 rads / sec2exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration.6000 rads / sec2 exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.

In his statement yesterday, Roberts said he's «very disappointed that the bipartisan, bicameral Child Nutrition Reauthorization negotiations have come to an end for the 114th Congress» and he accused his colleagues in the House and minority members of the Senate of putting «certain parochial interests and the desire for issues rather than solutions... ahead of the wellbeing of vulnerable and at - risk populations and the need for reform.»

Ronald Reagan may have called government the problem rather than the solution, but DeLay and too many of his colleagues took those words to heart and seemed determined to put them into action.

Perhaps after that retreat and the specific resolutions and implementation mechanisms it outlined, the Vice President and his colleagues may be able to exert the required impact on the nation's economy based on pragmatic, proactive and rational economics rather than the president's probably well - meaning but misguided ideological positions.

He appears to be using apartheid era politics as an analogy contrasting insider and outsider politics rather than as a dig at his Conservative colleagues.

When asked whether he could convey to his European colleagues that the new rules are meant to be applied reasonably rather than draconically, he replied: «I can confirm that that will be precisely the message in the final negotiations on the fourth money laundering directive.»

Her deed was even reinforced by a round robin letter from 70 other Labour council chiefs, which a cynic would see as evidence of collusion rather than an entirely unaffected outpouring of love and affection for a fallen colleague.

He reiterated that he would prefer to see Democrats united in that chamber, and suggested his colleagues across the Capitol should focus on what unites them, rather than what divides them.

Allies have rallied behind their semi-disgraced colleague, leaving the door open for him to return to the government sooner rather than later.

Senior Tories, including John Whittingdale, chair of the influential culture, media and sport select committee, and loyalists such as Nicholas Soames are among those who have signed the letter, which concludes with an appeal to colleagues to ensure the bill is given the «full and unrestricted» scrutiny it deserves rather than the 10 days being offered by the government.

The veteran Harlem lawmaker and former Manhattan Democratic chairman chose to go his own route rather than add his name to the letter circulated by his Queens colleague, Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Cathy Nolan, and signed by 68 fellow Democratic legislators.

«Jesse Norman's bill was a smokescreen and the Tories should be using parliamentary time to fix the economy rather than wasting valuable time targeting dedicated men and women who spend their days preventing accidents, avoiding tribunals and supporting their colleagues.»

Quinn's role as the voice of her constituency is not as loud as her colleagues because the Council speaker's responsibilities are more of a whip rather than a representative.

Some Democrats, who supported votes on individual bills in the package, said their colleagues wanted to use the standoff in the upcoming elections rather than resolve it.

«From some of the off - stage and some on - stage noises from party colleagues that have been signalled to me, it's almost as if there is a subliminal desire to see David Cameron take over rather than Gordon Brown,» he said.

The governor issued an unmistakeable message to George Osborne, who is currently in Brussels discussing banking reform with European colleagues, that the Vickers reforms of the banking sector must be implemented sooner rather than later.

«There is currently not a precedent for stripping anybody because of a civil suit,» Breslin said, explaining why he wanted Espada to voluntarily take himself out of the game rather than be subjected to a formal vote by his colleagues.

Commenting on this, he stated that the sign was initially regarded as a bit of a joke rather than a threat, until one of his colleagues was disciplined and later dismissed for the crime of not smiling.

Chatham House research last year showed that Conservatives, in stark contrast to supporters of their Lib Dem colleagues, tend to think that British interests rather than ethical considerations should drive UK foreign policy.

Maffei has refused to join his upstate House colleague, Rep. Mike Arcuri, in calling for Rangel to resign rather than go forward with his fight of the 13 ethics charges he faces.

But pressed on whether the Home Secretary should resign, Ms Rudd's cabinet colleague David Gauke said the «implementation» of the policy was to blame rather than the policy itself.

Revealing he has been putting pressure on his Conservative colleagues for a suspension of the licences rather than a review, he said: «I believe we will be able to make an announcement on this, finally, very shortly.

But it is Miliband rather than Burnham and his colleagues who will be most concerned by Prescott's intervention.

«My colleagues are choosing to side with the Comptroller because he has a «D' after his name, rather than the County Executive who has an «R.» The result will be borrowing that costs taxpayers $ 900,000 more, all for political gain at the expense of everyday people's pocketbooks,» said Minority Leader John J. Mills, R - Orchard Park.

Tim Farron said it was clear the coalition parties had different views on Europe, claiming his had «a sane mature collegiate approach to our European colleagues rather than just throwing crockery at them.»