Sentences with phrase «than criticism for»

Fourth, parents can change their parenting practices by giving special attention to positive behavior to encouragement and praise for positive behavior rather than criticism for negative behavior.

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Twitter has often boasted about its commitment to the principles of free speech, sometimes leading to criticism from those who felt the company was more interested in tolerating all forms of speech than in trying to ensure a harassment - free experience for its users.

While Miscavige and his organization have held up the media complex as a valuable tool for spreading the message of Scientology and recruiting new members to join, the new facilities have received criticism from opponents of the religion — including some former members — who claim the complex is nothing more than a propaganda machine and a ploy to attract donations.

With about 53 million subscribers, Sprint has taken more than its share of criticism for its customer service over the years, as have many of its competitors.

Even Viacom (VIAB) has seen better than expected results, despite being embroiled in a power struggle between CEO Philippe Dauman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone — and despite criticism for its lackluster stable of fading brands like Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.

This was the case recently when Amy Pascal, Sony's co-chairman and chief of its film division, came under intense criticism for her remarks about President Barack Obama and less than flattering statements about high - profile actors, including Angelina Jolie, Kevin Hart and Adam Sandler.

In the more than 500 pages of Principles, he preaches for higher - ups to embrace constructive criticism, and to use blunt and honest critiques to grow.

For example, Philip Morris, the tobacco company, faced criticism for spending more to publicize its charity than it did on charities themselvFor example, Philip Morris, the tobacco company, faced criticism for spending more to publicize its charity than it did on charities themselvfor spending more to publicize its charity than it did on charities themselves.

The New York Giants» decision to bench Eli Manning in favor of Geno Smith for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders is being met with harsh criticism, and no critic is louder or in possession of a larger megaphone than long - time New York sports talk radio host Mike Francesa.

Hence, bitFlyer is wise to upgrade its identity verification now, when the FSA is still in early stages of criticism, rather than waiting for something detrimental to happen that might risk the exchange having to shut down.

Jewish department - store owners unquestionably influence newspaper policy in cities where they are numerous like New York but the influence is rather negative (against criticism of Jews) than positive (for particular Jews or particular Jewish programs).

In particular, it seems to be addressing one criticism that has dogged it for years: that it offers humanitarian aid rather than economic development.

PHILADELPHIA — Starbucks will close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for an afternoon next month to train employees as the company responds to criticism after two black men were arrested while waiting at one of the coffee chain's Philadelphia stores last week.

Despite the criticism about corporate governance in Hong Kong, its rules remain stricter than New York's — for now.

Airbnb spent more than $ 8 million fighting the measure, called Proposition F, and the company came under intense criticism for its series of anti-Prop F billboards and ads in the city.

Considering the sources, this is a strong criticism for something currently worth more than gold.

These remarks from Buterin might seem like negative criticism directed at the cryptocurrency community that has built its tokens on the platform he incepted, but the healthy dose of realism might be just what is needed to keep the eyes of the ecosystem focused on the benefits of developing decentralized technologies for reasons greater than the value associated with their related tokens.

Less than a decade later, the association garnered criticism for distributing API's «Fuel-less» film to teachers while API funded the association's educational website for kids.

For one thing, it's heartening to see the Republicans stand fast for a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the preFor one thing, it's heartening to see the Republicans stand fast for a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the prefor a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the press.

Rather than a fair criticism of what you perceive to be the overzealousness of some of the people involved in advocating for the cause of AIDS, it is a bitter and unwarranted attack against what you refer to as the «AIDS Lobby.»

I know this will draw criticism, but I say if it weren't for all the faithful people of all good religions doing good acts, helping the poor, clothing drives, and on and on, this world would be in a lot worse shape than if just your average aetheist were in charge of helping those who suffer.

For me historical biblical criticism is fine as long as the agenda isn't «Let's prove it's all made up human nonsense by primitives who are far less sophisticated than Enlightenment mankind».

Remember, it's got about 2000 years of history on its side and has endured more intelligent criticism from 17th and 18th Enlightenment thinkers than the dribble you mistaken for intelligent thought.

You don't seem to understand Jack that the criticism women receive is often fueled by something deeper than the hearer's concern for theological correction, etc., but by sexism and even misogyny.

We have here an updated version of Kant's criticism of the Leibnizian monad in the «Amphiboly» in the Critique of Pure Reason: the spatially situated existent is indeed made up of relations rather than being a substance containing its «inhering» attributes internally as predicates which are part of its concept; only the relations are no longer those of the synthetically connected manifold, but the relational connections between the particulars of modern functional or mathematical logic, expanded to include within itself the spatial and temporal relations which Kant could only account for by means of the synthetic a priori.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.

Rather than repeat my criticisms and proposals for university reform, I will focus on how the greening of theology would in itself contribute to university reform.

Because women live lives that are considered public property, to be legislated and debated and discussed, rather than merely lived, there's not a woman in the United States who is not facing criticism for her choices.»

Matthew Yglesias has gotten some criticism for celebrating Clinton for being «more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas,» and for being the kind of person who «believes in asking what she can get away with rather than what would look best.»

Although I dunk that Gewirth's proposal is subject to the criticism of nonteleological ethics I suggested summarily near the outset, anything approaching a decisive resolution of this issue in favor of teleological ethics will require nothing less than a more or less complete case for a metaphysical proposal.

I am not greatly disturbed, though, by Neville's criticism that Hartshorne takes «the ontological structure of the world... for granted» rather than makes it intelligible.»

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrFor example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrfor Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrfor a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual progrfor children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

Sigmund, who is strongly critical of liberationists» rejections of capitalism, also takes Novak to task for trusting to «the magic of the market» and for being «no more willing to engage in criticism of capitalism than liberation theologians are of socialism.»

But our most basic criticism must be directed toward ourselves and our leaders, rather than toward the economists to whom we have turned for guidance.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

However, in recent decades a new generation of evangelically minded scholars has been overhauling the assumptions of Higher Criticism, showing that the Gospels have a lot more going for them than Bultmann and his movement were willing to give credit for.

And we often conclude that to criticize something is to hate it rather than suspect that the criticism is borne out of an intense passion for the thing.

Sans «Koran burning», which has always been nothing more than a diversion, and an easy target for criticism at that, I applaud him.

Nor, whatever allowance be made for overcoloring in the course of controversy, is it possible to doubt that he did deliberately criticize them, and sometimes in trenchant terms, though we need not assume that all of them were included in such criticism; there were perhaps more teachers of the Law with whom Jesus could find himself in friendly agreement than the two or three who have found their way into the gospels.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

In his own wide - ranging and nuanced criticism of both biblical and secular texts, Ricoeur himself moves easily from a close reading of symbols to theoretical reflection, thereby modeling for an entire generation a more conceptually sophisticated way of joining religion and art than had heretofore been practiced.

I can not see any reason to suppose that this need for objective criticism of immediate insights is less today than it was in St. Paul's time, or in Luther's and Calvin's.

[2] In expressing this point Ratzinger subtly shifts the debate away from an assessment of what the historical - critical method has achieved or not to a new openness for something which goes much further than historical - criticism itself.

Historical criticism is quite compatible with warm appreciation, and to be a biblical critic does not imply anything adverse any more than it does to be a music critic or literary critic, who would be useless unless he had the capacity for appreciating what is good in his field.

The ordinary Christian in one of the mainline churches, more inclined to look to the Bible for directions for living than concerned with problems of textual criticism, is apt to draw from them only an injunction to fidelity and perhaps a warning to be ready to die, since death may overtake one at any moment.

JEDP is an outdated understanding of biblical criticism and has been discarded by most mainline Abrahamic biblical scholars for over a decade.Other than your whole JEDP point for argument, you deliver a modestly sound criticism of biblical criticism and interpretation.

This relationship is of some importance, for Weiss developed a point of view that is steeped in New Testament textual and historical criticism but is more far out than that of his father and much at variance with the nineteenth - century liberalism of Ritschl.

Consequently when the form critics came to discuss the historicity of the gospel tradition, a question for which their method was at best only indirectly relevant, they tended to arrive at the conclusion which their general orientation suggested, rather than a conclusion which form criticism as such required.

But years of living with this realism during a period in which most of the voices of moral criticism have been silent have too often made it little more than a rationalization of whatever has seemed necessary for Western strategy.

What made it difficult for me were the ones who were less than gracious about their criticism and were given to dogging me until they got what they wanted, with little to no open - mindedness as to what goes into the decisions that were made and allowing for the fact that decisions were not made in a vacuum.