Sentences with phrase «sidestepping conflict»

During Burns» first years as chief executive the Hawaiian Humane Society came under vehement activist criticism for allegedly sidestepping conflict with legal animal use industries, cockfighters with connections in high places, and especially ---- and perhaps most controversially ---- with the longtime Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources policy of trying to purge the islands of feral cats, mongooses, and other non-native wildlife.

Superintendents and principals intent on sidestepping conflict while overhauling low - performing schools and systems will prove, at best, tepid agents of change.

«In Luca Guadagnino's sensitive, sensual Call Me By Your Name, a bright teenage boy living in the picturesque Italian countryside falls into a passionate summer fling with an older man, the American graduate student who's come to study for the season... Paced like an especially lazy summer, the film sidesteps conflict...

This is an affable, predominantly inoffensive bit of goes - down - easy middlebrow fare, whose crimes are mainly those of uninspired screenwriting technique (underwritten roles, conveniently sidestepped conflicts).

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia sidestepped the conflicting rights between LGBT students and religious freedoms of Evangelical Christians, and focused instead on the legislative authority of the Society under the Legal Profession Act to require law schools to change its policies, following their 10 — 9 vote against accreditation.

To this day, I prefer to sidestep conflict whenever possible, but that's not an option in couples therapy.

Not exact matches

The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.

A standard approach is the praise sandwich or feedback sandwich, which attempts to sidestep blame, conflict, and hurt feelings by surrounding negative feedback with positive statements.

Each crewmember, new and old, still have individual stories, but because there's no sidestepping the Reapers this time around, they all tie into the greater conflict, making Mass Effect 3 feel more urgent and swift than its predecessors.

As a result, insurance - coverage lawyers often find ourselves deep into the world of choice of law and conflict of laws, a subject most of us sidestepped in our law - school education.

Dealing with rather than sidestepping clients» emotions was appreciated and helped to contain conflict.

Dealing with rather than sidestepping clients» emotions was appreciated and helped to contain conflict.