Sentences with phrase «rather than their personality»

For clinical purposes, bipolar is classified as a mood disorder rather than a personality disorder, but that's a technicality.

-- the situation rather than the personality is the thing to be imagined.

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

An increasing number of news stories are centered on issues rather than personalities; for one thing, there seems to be a shift in the public's attention from personal scandal to issues of campaign financing and contributions.

The choice of words may seem odd, but in Communist China at that time people were assumed to have ideologies rather than personalities.

Jerry McDonald is reporting that the Raiders» decision to move on from Marquette King was about finances, rather than personality, writing that the team opted to allocate his $ 3 million to a cheaper punter and more talented special teamers.

We wish to reiterate that, our candidate and party members have kept their calm and composure in the face of extreme provocation because members of the National Democratic Congress are peace loving people and thus engage in healthy politics based on ideas and strategies rather than personality attack.

I must add that I am inclined to discuss substance rather than personalities, and unlike some who may get their testosterone levels enhanced by mentioning individual names multiple times in a 2,200 verbiage, I remain interested only in the issues!

So could policy, rather than personality, now start to swing the polls?

However, he was resolute in defending it, arguing the alliance was built on shared values rather than personality or tactical concerns.

New research has revealed how people's intelligence, rather than their personality traits, leads to success.

I'm really hoping to find «The One» but that has proven to be very difficult considering that most people are more interested in looks, rather than personality.

In character with the student protests» lack of visible individual leadership, there has been an awareness that the spotlight needs to stay on the work, rather than personalities.

Being juvenile doesn't get the point across very well — and some of us are actually interested in facts rather than personalities and propaganda.

On a more policy, rather than personality / leadership basis, of some concern, is the lack of agreement by the DUP and SF on when policing and justice powers will be devolved to the Assembly and Executive.

In the case of mania the model accounted for 52 % of the total variance for this love attitude but even on the Storge where the model had its lowest predictive value of 22 % it is worth remarking on how a significant amount of love can be explained by social rather than personality factors.

Not exact matches

Rather than asking prospective clients to take the tests, he relies on the overt trappings of the personality factors: speech patterns, office decor, style of dress.

They represent personality extremes, rather than any group of personality traits.

Because, as New York University professor Arun Sundararajan told Mercury, the personality of Uber «is very much «we're going to dominate the world, and we're going to ask for forgiveness rather than asking for permission.»»

But Joy Chik, 40, one of the execs in the room, says it's a sign that the company is spending a lot more time trying to use data rather than seniority or force of personality to make decisions about product fixes or features.

«Considering that «histrionic personality disorder» is still in the DSM - 5, and that women in general are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some other mental illnesses by clinicians, I'd say he's stoking the flames of a much larger problem about how our society seems to view women — as having excessive emotional needs that need to nearly constantly be managed or controlled rather than taken seriously.

When an election turns on personalities rather than policies, then when we wake up on Nov. 9, regardless of who wins, we'll be asking ourselves, now what are we going to do?

A study found when companies focused on employees» individual strengths and personality rather than emphasizing conformity and an organizational identity, there is greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after a six - month period.

If there's any danger here, it's that the VR workplace might create an overly homogenous workforce where people's personalities start reflecting the blandness of their avatars rather than their individual real - world uniqueness.

SCL claimed to be able to do a new type of political targeting that would be based on modeling individuals» personalities (rather than just demographic traits like age, race, or gender, as is traditional).

Your religion is a cult of personality rather than a religion of peace and love.

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

Thus Walliyulla builds his concept of Islam on ideals rather than on personalities.

To what extent does the AA approach alter underlying personality structure rather than simply controlling symptoms?

The answer will be divided into three categories: (1) AA's effectiveness in breaking the addictive cycle and producing initial sobriety; (2) its effectiveness in producing long - term sobriety; (3) the extent to which the approach is successful in changing underlying personality - structure, rather than simply controlling symptoms.

Rather than concerning itself with specific «sins,» the Emmanuel approach focused attention on the underlying causes of these symptoms — namely, the sick personality.

What I love about Luther, besides his rather curmudgeonly and down to earth personality, is his emphasis on forgiveness rather than perfection in life between now and our complete restoration in the fullness of Eternity.

I find that most pastor's are «A» type personalities who want to be the center of attention, to be served, rather than serve.

Rather than envisioning the individual personality as an object for study as though it were an independent, discrete entity, Sullivan believed that personality manifests itself only in relation to others.

«I think the Indian personality is a very fine balance between the aggressive component of human endeavour and the more feminine, soft and cultured conception which tends to integrate various dimensions rather than push along one dimension.

Christianity is not an economic system, but it has a faith and ideal which puts upon any system the demand that it honor rather than exploit human personality, that it operate as a technique to provide for the material well - being of all the people and not for the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

If, on the plane of moral evil rather than physical or «natural» evil, one replies that with the real freedom of the free will goes the real power of personal sanctifying grace to sweeten and transform our personalities if we will allow Him, the rejoinder comes, «well, yes, but if He is almighty why does He not stop me from sinning and going to hell?»

In contrast to the pathology orientation, the growth approach elicits different responses from people, draws on different sides of their personalities (the healthy sides), and suggests that help lies in a different direction — setting goals and working toward them rather than striving mainly to repair damaged areas of relationships and personalities.

Men will take it as a mark of bad character rather than enlightenment if, after the most drastic alteration in personality, a man refuses responsibility for all earlier commitments.

Effective conflict - resolution communication focuses on issues rather than attacking personalities.

The fact that sacramental religion employs a multitude of symbols, rather than just one, already implies a wholesome conviction that no single concrete object, personality, or event can all by itself correspond completely to the unknown and unnamable mystery.

There was something about Roncalli's ways» his buoyant personality and self - deprecating humor; his willingness to affirm rather than condemn» that attracted so many to him.

We blame them rather than ourselves, saying that perhaps they are attracted to authoritarian personalities.

Anthropomorphism is indigenous to a faith which views God in terms of historical actions and relationships rather than in terms of natural power or impersonal being... [To Yahweh] are ascribed the characteristics of personality: wisdom, will, purpose, love, anger, anguish, patience, hatred, jealousy, joy, etc. 10

These two great principles, then — love and Justice — must be rather regulative of our application of other principles than taken as immediate guides to social policy... It can all be summed up in a phrase: the aim of a Christian social order is the fullest possible development of individual personality in the widest and deepest possible fellowship.

It also accounts for Updike's intention to bring sex both out of the closet and off the altar, and thus to reveal sexuality as «a function of, rather than a suspension of, personality.»

It makes more sense to believe that the personalities that are taught to us as having existed did indeed exist, rather than say somewhere in the murky middle between now and then, people made up all those personalities.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

Since personality problems and emotional immaturity rather than lack of information are at the heart of most marriage failures, effective preparation for marriage should place heavy emphasis on feelings, attitudes, and relationships.

Bonhoeffer is critical of the personality cult so frequent in the ministry, whereby people are attached to the man rather than the office.