Sentences with phrase «something about a conflict»

Sometimes, there may be something about a conflict that brings up an issue in your own heart, or underscores your personal own agenda or some selfish priorities.

It says something about our conflict - of - interest laws lagging behind the craftiness of those who try to get around them.

Not exact matches

After a journey landed them in the DRC, the founders of Falling Whistles, Sean Carasso and David Lewis, became determined to do something about the atrocious conflict.

Despite the need for skepticism about management's motives, it is worth remembering that «having a «conflict of interest» is not something one is «guilty of»; it is simply a state of affairs.»

If you want to point out something in the Bible that seems to be conflicting about one of the apostles, I'll go check that out, though.

The book isn't intentionally profound, and it's occasionally very misguided — but the description of what people claim they want (a soul mate) and how they go about securing it (Tinder) does reveal something profound: Modern romance is complicated because the ends, the means, and our expectations of relationships all conflict.

So it should be possible to study nature without the Bible and learn something about God, and it shouldn't be in conflict with what God explicitly tells us.

If you continue to have the same conflict over and over again, chances are, you're fighting about something that symbolizes a deeper issue.

The main thrusts of Rank's theory are particularly useful when counseling with persons caught in severe independence - conformity conflicts (such as some adolescents) those who are paralyzed about finishing a project or chapter of their lives (e.g, pre-graduation anxiety attacks) and in danger of sabotaging the successful completion of something they really value; those who are afraid to make decisions or try something new which they want but which may mean giving up old securities; couples who are struggling to find satisfying closeness without either of them losing their identity and autonomy heir lives (e.g., pre-graduation anxiety attacks) and in danger of sabotaging the successful completion of something they really value; those who are afraid to make decisions or try something new which they want but which may mean giving up old securities; couples who are struggling to find satisfying closeness without either of them losing their identity and autonomy.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

However, if you hear a person refer to «Israel» today, and they are at least somewhat educated about the Israeli - Arab conflict, they are likely referring to something like the second or third definitions.

For example, in Latvia, debates and arguments about who and how is to do something about outmigration often invoke seemingly conflicting notions of the state.

OTOH, if they picked on a lesser foe, like France / UK it is quite possible that France / UK would do something about it and then China wouldn't want to risk the conflict.

Just one more thing that I would like to mention, one factor that comes up over and over again when I talked to scholars and scientists about war, is something that can really reduce the risk of conflict is educating females.

We at the Eugene Chapter, WAPF want to be your clan, network, tribe or whatever... We all need friends who support us, especially when our understanding about something as basic as food conflicts with the modern accepted beliefs.»

Acceptance is not about agreeing to something for the sake of ending a conflict.

I know we've seen crackle polishes on the blog before, and each time I'm always conflicted about wearing one; it's something between «Man, this is super cool» and «Dude, what was I thinking?»

The storytelling either lazes out something awful or tries much too hard, hammering on and on with its themes, a couple of which are very problematic, for although the aforementioned themes about misunderstanding people and trying to find a better path in life are reasonably worthy, there are underlining themes about the benefits of taking advantage of the vulnerable, and about running away from certain conflicts that are just about offensive, that is, when you look deep enough into this film to spots its sorry intentions.

When most filmmakers want to say something important about cultural conflicts, they labor to bring tears to our eyes.

How those two goals intermingle and conflict is a source of drama, but mostly this film is an endless series of scenes where white men bicker inside candlelit rooms about the fate of the nation and the foolhardiness of trying to get something like this passed.

The first problem with creating a film about an actual conflict, that is barely five minutes long, is finding something to fill the other hour and a half of runtime.

What is Bucky struggling with, after the tag scene on Winter Soldier, and how does Steve's desire to save Bucky bring him into conflict with something else, thinking about how do the sins of his past sort of affect him?

Set in the years leading up to World War II, there's a sense that something horrid lies in wait in the near future, and Jiro is conflicted about his creations.

At a time when 90 percent of our daily news has something to do with international conflict, it does the heart good to happen upon a movie about brotherhood and the importance of peaceful coexistence.

Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith about the relationship between an unhappy wife (Blanchett) and a twenty - something department store employee in 1950s New York, the project was previously to be directed by «Boy A» helmer John Crowley, but he's bowed out due to scheduling conflicts.

I Used to Be Darker isn't about anything more complicated than observing unhappiness and conflict; take it as the counterpoint to Felix Van Groeningen's Broken Circle Breakdown: the quiet between notes, a celebration if you can call something this downbeat celebratory, of what film should act like and look like when you leave it alone.

Olsen continues to show the sort of spark that is wasted in films like Oldboy (here's hoping Joss Whedon can do something worthwhile with her in Avengers 2), but she's a plot device instead of a character, existing to make Jesse feel conflicted about falling for a teenager so he can grow up and embrace his life away from the college he believes defines him.

Promoting my own work is something that I have conflicted feelings about.

I started writing character sketches, little short snippets about a character I liked faced with something interesting, Conflict isn't always about people punching others in the nose.

Even Freud felt this kind of tension — very late in life, Freud described an earlier experience of his own that showed how ambitious strivings led to inner conflict: «there was something about it that was wrong, that from earliest times had been forbidden.

She was very up front about this being a conflict of interest and something I would have to think about.

Lip lick - A lip lick is a quick flick of tongue or nose lick that signals that the dog is «conflicted» or is anticipating something but is unsure how he feels about it.

As a first time visitor to China I was apprehensive and excited about my trip, I had heard so many conflicting opinions on this great country but as the Asian Proverb goes «It's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times» so I was eager to set off on our journey and discover it for myself.

Mobile gaming is something I have conflicting feelings about.

Word War I inspires developers to teach something about the futility of war in a way that other conflicts don't.

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Sometimes there can be something uncomfortable about being excited by work that directly relates to an artist's disturbance; or, at least, there's a conflict between the content and its artistic presentation.

Maybe there's something to be said about that when it comes to spousal conflicts, but this is a SCIENTIFIC matter, yes?

Try posting something about bristlecones, aerosols, or the non-climactic «adjustment» in MBH99 that conflicts with the Hockey Team view.

It is something of an irony that Monbiot — who, as we have seen, has barely more than an idiot's grasp of the terms of the debate — complains about the misconception of «The great political conflict of our age».

Well, if someone says something to the effect of, «The only remaining source of conflict concerns what to do about emissions, not the science», one might be forgiven for construing that as, «there is nothing in the science left to discuss», and it doesn't require a great leap from there to, «the science is settled».

In particular, from my reading of the (stolen) e-mails, it looked like the problem was that there are conflicting studies on exactly what is going on with storms regarding whether they were getting stronger or weaker, so rather than saying something that potentially inaccurate (that storms were getting stronger, since there were apparently some studies suggesting that they were getting less numerous as the wind patterns shifted) or verbose (describing the whole situation about what differing studies have to say about storms) they decided to simply drop mentioning what was happening to storms altogether and instead focus the bullet point on the part that they were confident about, namely that particular wind patterns were changing.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

And, I suppose there's some reason to consider there's some basis for believing the fact that the Ontario Court of Appeal and the British Columbia Court of Appeal seem to have different views on the law regarding causation could be some basis for believing there's something about the law regarding causation that's a wee bit controversial (even accepting that the division of powers structure in the Constitution Act means that that conflict IS constitutional).

For example, is there a legal principle about avoiding «double dipping» that is a counterpart to something like avoiding conflict of interest?

Google has no clear parameters as to what is in the «public interest»... and there is something grimly amusing about the guardian of the «public interest» and «privacy» being a large corporation whose own interests do not really put it out of conflict.

But the starting point for any conversation about collaborative divorce has to be an overall shift away from the «us versus them» mentality of divorce litigation into something that allows people to work through their conflicts and disagreements with integrity.

Don't make impulsive, hasty decisions about family members you've had conflicts with because you may say or do something you'll regret, says Steven J. Hanley, PhD, a clinical psychologist in Southfield, MI.

Frequently the conflict is not about the topic they are discussing; rather, the real problem is some underlying or symbolic meaning which may be tied to a dream or fantasy or need, something that they feel they simply can not compromise on without invalidating their dreams or value.

Gottman decided to answer this question by trying something very simple: Recording married couples talking for 15 minutes about a recent conflict that they were having in their relationship, and then carefully scrutinizing these recordings to see how happy and unhappy couples behaved differently.