Sentences with phrase «regarded as a positive»

Likewise, the unveiling of the long - awaited Republican tax plan didn't immediately move the markets, even though it was widely regarded as positive for corporations.

are mostly regarded as positive.

All law is nowadays to be regarded as positive, i.e. man - made.

They like their leader's authentic disregard for political orthodoxies which makes them perhaps the only electorate for whom amateurishness and disorganisation is regarded as positive.

Again, this may be a turn - off to some people, but it really should be regarded as a positive.

Which I regard as a positive thing.

Although a car prone to unexpected oversteer would be described as having poor roadholding, the ability for deliberate oversteer to be easily controlled is regarded as a positive handling attribute.

This can be regarded as a positive trend compared to last year's actual deflation of 5.8 — 19 % against the 2010 figures which were caused by heavy sales and stock discounts.

In real terms (after inflation) management has likely returned zero book value growth which is not something that I regard as positive as a value investor.

The limitations that constitute the medium of painting - the flat surface, the shape of the support, the properties of the pigment - came to be regarded as positive factors, and were acknowledged openly.

Reduction of legal costs and due diligence, increased legal certainty and higher transaction volumes are regarded as positive effects of the introduction of a uniform rule on the property aspects of an assignment.

The latest information from the company, though, has nothing to do with its recent travails, still can be regarded as a positive move.

[31] However, they came together and worked through these issues to achieve what is regarded as a positive agreement.

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Lagarde, meanwhile, is regarded as a consensus - builder who can contend with the increasing dissatisfaction among EU member states — in three years Britain plans to hold a referendum on its membership — and bring positive change to the organization.

Combine this insatiable demand for talent with a sub-cultural shift of regarding labels such as «nerd» and «dweeb» as positive indicators of nuanced passion rather than pariah - like brands, and you end up with many more people interested in coding.

While a majority of professionals and managers say they work overtime with the help of mobile devices and their workloads have increased as a result, most attribute that to the accompanying productivity increase and regard the change as a positive influence on their lives.

A Nanos poll sponsored by The Globe and Mail echoed Ondrack's findings, indicating more than three - quarters of Canadians regard smartphones as a neutral or positive factor on lifestyle.

In the absence of positive developments that shore up investor sentiment, such as a resumption of growth or rapid progress in achieving fiscal consolidation objectives, neither of which is likely in the current environment, the government is likely to become increasingly constrained with regard to the terms under which it is able to refinance maturing debt.

But in the mid -»90s government regulators began to regard Southwest as a positive competitive influence on the hubbed airlines — whenever Southwest managed to enter a new market, fares fell.

Odell's enthusiasm regarding bitcoin's future, however, remains just as positive as his initial view of the new exchange.

Mr Bagley described the conversations he's had with investment firms regarding the RQFII as positive and added that he expected the recent sell off to trigger more urgency given the relative value of the China share market.

There is nothing you can do as regards these threats and challenges other than to stay positive that things will work out well for you.

There is nothing you can do as regards these threats and challenges other than to stay positive that things will work well for you.

We therefore regard having a license as a positive indicator.

And since some 40 % of scripture regarding alcohol has a positive view on drinking it, then i don't see a problem here (as opposed to the 10 % that is against drinking and the 50 % that is neutral).

The author mentions Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin in a positive light regarding Islam, but conveniently leaves out that these and many other Founding Fathers were against Islam (commonly referred to as Mahometism back then) as a threat to American society and safety.

In view of its inability to evade assuming self - existence somewhere, «even that which is commonly regarded as the negation of all religion — even positive Atheism comes within the definition» of religion

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

Positive images of the future are regarded as the primary causal factor (although not always the exclusively dominant factor in a changing complex of causes) in cultural change.

I've been encouraged to receive positive reviews from biblical scholars like Ben Witherington, Peter Enns, Roger Olson, Daniel Kirk, and Brian LePort, as well as from conservative evangelical women who weren't necessarily expecting to like the book or who may differ from me regarding some gender issues.

It says that because of this the pre-Christian religions, too, need not simply be regarded as illegitimate but that they, too, can very well have a positive meaning.

The amended Article 41 declares inter alia that two men or two women who are «married» to each other are to be regarded as a «natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.»

Wealth, on the other hand, is regarded at best as an impediment to righteousness and at worst as a positive evil.

, this wave of what some regard as faddism, may have had its positive side.

It has also been supposed that leisure would take care of itself, since it was regarded as requiring no positive attainment, but only the natural capacity for relaxation and pleasure.

I count Russell a Puritan iconoclast in his village atheism, with a positive evaluation of what he regards as essential, such as love and knowledge, and above all devotion to Truth.

For this reason, the Pope says that the «almost universal consensus with regard to the value of democracy... is to be considered a positive «sign of the times,» as the Church's magisterium has frequently noted.»

Over the years history has often regarded revolution as a positive actions against oppression.

An essence low in the scale, therefore, as regards what is positive in it, is not purely unlike and in contradiction to a higher essence.

That if it is adopted on apparently just grounds to overthrow tyranny, it must never be regarded as more than a preparatory step to positive structures of law and justice.

A study reported by Carl R. Rogers points to three components which are a part of what I am describing as the therapeutic attitude: Congruence, empathic understanding, and unconditional positive regard.

Unconditional positive regard means warm, human regard for the individual as a person of unconditional worth.

In this regard, mere legalization of these procedures does not guarantee the free and open access to them deemed by progressives as a positive right.

Thus, the stage is already set for the creation of a positive right to die here that could, one dark day, subsume the religious liberty of doctors not to participate — as is occurring now in Canada, and afflicts pro-life doctors in Victoria, Australia regarding access to abortion.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

Given that these results tally with religious and secular aims in the United States, we should anticipate that parents concerned about the direction that American culture is taking will regard faith - based schools as providing a positive environment for their children.

For Muray's paper is a good bit taken up not so much with Hauerwas» ideas but with Muray's own positive proposals regarding character, virtue and the like that he means to put forward as appropriate extensions of process thought.

In general, while there are a number of positive and insightful elements regarding the interpretation of the Council, at the same time, perhaps inevitably, in such a short space, one would hardly describe it as comprehensive, or even completely adequate.

Staying positive has been tough and I'm experiencing some post-holiday blues regarding the weather, the back injury issue, as well as it being crunch time at school for testing.