Sentences with phrase «take on both sides of a conflict»

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«They are taking place right now, on both sides of the conflict.»

This has been the nature of Christianity from the beginning — taking any side of any argument and being able to argue it from their conflicted Bible — I book based on rehashed folklore.

In conflict situations, the «chaplain» role comes under heated attack from «the other side,» and the church is accused of «taking sides,» The mediator role is often attacked by critics on both sides.

Yet today, millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic have good reason to wonder why governments led us into the economic maelstrom, and a good deal of Gideon Rachman's admirable book deals with the conflicts and forces that took us from the relatively benign world of post-war consensus to where we are today.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

The A.I. on both sides of the conflict is awesome; as the leader of the counter-terrorists, your A.I. pals will follow you and, in some cases, «take the point:» You can give them orders via the chat feature and they'll do things like camp on a bomb site or guard the bomb.

One, Heineman's documentary takes us directly into the true - life murderous conflict; it introduces us to real people on both sides of the border and puts actual faces to the growing vigilante movements both deep in Mexico and, north of the Rio Grande.

If the filmmaker focused on creating a more detailed plot - line and conflict, the crime action - adventure could have been an equally impressive visual and emotional tale of what happens when two enemies on opposite sides of the law vow to take the other down.

One of the most common lines (usually used in praise) on our newly - crowned Best Picture winner is that it's deliberately apolitical, taking no sides in the Iraq conflict as it aims simply to present the soldier's experience on the ground.

Not wanting to see any more bloodshed on either side of the conflict, Caesar plans to take his followers through a desolate wasteland of rock and sand to a lush utopia hidden on the other side of this expanse, well away from any remaining pockets of human civilization.

However, as the fighting continued, those on both sides of the savage conflict faced another deadly threat, one that took all as prisoners and favoured none.

This exhibition — organized by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with the DuSable Museum of African American History and other cultural partners and presented concurrently with the DuSable's exhibition South Side Stories: Holdings — takes a nuanced look at the cultural history of Chicago's South Side during this momentous era of change and conflict, with a focus on artists of the Black Arts Movement.

As for lead authors reviewing / citing their own work... the IPCC's got it covered in their package of «reforms» in response to the InterAcademy Council review: The task group on Conflict of Interest took a leaf from the Muir Russell report and tapped into the «team - work» side - step.

I once led training workshops for students on conflict negotiation, and the key concept to get across to student mediators was that as a mediator, they would have no credibility unless they went out of their way to establish that they weren't «taking sides.»

In many other countries it is also prohibited to act in a situation where you are not independent or there is a Conflict of Interest but this isn't taken as seriously as it is in the UK and we often find a lawyer acting for both sides on a foreign transaction.

The parties disagreed as to the approach that the court should take in respect of the latter requirement in circumstances where there were two conflicting accounts as to what occurred at a meeting, which the court could not resolve on written evidence alone; in particular, where both sides might be said to have a good arguable case.

In the fast moving world of handshakes and verbal contracts, not everyone takes the time to enshrine day to day deals in writing; however, there's nothing like having well - documented facts on your side to prove your argument or to avoid conflict all together.

This kind of entrenched conflict I can see taking on a life of it's own even after a divorce where one side blames the other in perpetuity, in turn poisoning the child (ren) against the other.

Our elder mediation services can provide families with a structured process for resolving age or disability related conflicts which can surface as elders or disabled adults and their family members are faced with important decisions related to the health, safety, well - being, and financial stability of the elder or disabled adult and can allow for important decisions to be made without putting the elder on - the - spot and asking them to take sides between one sibling or another.