Sentences with phrase «treated as a nuisance»

The FA cup has been devalued in recent years by the scheduling and by the bigger clubs treating it as a nuisance, the worst case when Man United dropped out altogether because of the Club World Cup, but Arsenal have treated it with respect and it has been good to us in return.

Makes me feel less alone in a world where babies are often treated as nuisances.

The debate seem to have forgotten what energy is for, and it's production is almost treated as a nuisance, fact - of - life sort of thing, rather than a thing which offers huge possibilities for better ways of life.

Within this generation of research, gender has either been commonly treated as a nuisance variable that is statistically controlled, pooled in primary analyses, or eliminated by design (e.g., exclusive focus on boys)(Davies & Windle, 1997; Johnson & O'Leary, 1987), or examined as a main effect (e.g., examining mean differences between boys and girls in the levels of exposure to interparental conflict).

Not exact matches

But I believe, and am of strong conviction at this, that this country is provoking the judgment of God on itself, by treating it's poor, under - privileged and those who fall through the cracks as a burden, and as a nuisance that is only in the way of it's «at all cost» coveted image of «greatness», instead of giving a hard and honest look WHY is it the way it is in this country?

They eventually become a nuisance to other people and are generally treated as such....

Giovanni de Medici, Pope Leo X, had treated the Luther affair as an administrative nuisance, something for the theologians and canon lawyers, when the first missive from the Archbishop of Mainz had arrived at the beginning of the year.

It was a scary situation, made worse by doctors who treated me as if my every question or concern was a nuisance, an obstacle to a healthy baby, or even neuroses.

Until now, Cuomo has sought to ignore his underdog rival, treating Tuesday's primary as a nuisance as he gears up to face Republican Rob Astorino in the November general election.

UPPER MANHATTAN — Dyckman Street restaurant owners say they are tired of being painted as nuisances by residents and community board members and want to be treated like part of the neighborhood.

One adviser to the governor described Mr. Cuomo's political reaction as akin to a person who aggressively treats the early symptoms of a cold — from taking Theraflu to increasing fluids — in order to avoid the nuisance of actually getting sick.

«Most people treat saliva with disdain, as a nuisance more than anything else,» says Irwin Mandel, professor emeritus at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery at Columbia University.

The effects of the cyanobacterial blooms include a higher cost for cities and local governments to treat their drinking water, as well as risk to swimmers in high concentration areas, and a nuisance to boaters when blooms form.

People in public education unwittingly destroy school cultures all the time by treating educators as interchangeable cogs, transferring principals and teachers without regard for a school's approach and operating assumptions, by creating one - size - fits - all mandates that suggest a school's distinctiveness is a nuisance, not a value, and by sending mixed messages and edicts from the central office until people are burned out and resentful.

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

More importantly, the activists haven't challenge the penchant for treating families as nuisances and afterthoughts that is rampant among NEA and AFT leaders (and in the agendas of the two unions).

After the election, its director Mark Brenner wrote, «For too long unions have treated members as an ATM for predetermined priorities or an unruly nuisance that needs to get «on program.»

Treat bad breath (cat halitosis) as a potential warning - not a nuisance and discover what you can do about it.

Treated as everything from a nuisance to an evil threat, pre-owned game sales continue regardless.

What I've heard in conversations with Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault II and other leaders is that Indian Country is tired of being treated as an afterthought or a nuisance in federal decision - making.

Instead of treating these calls as a nuisance, see what you can learn from them and how you can improve your service.

In an opinion piece for the Globe and Mail, road - safety advocate and environmental lawyer Albert Koehl wrote: «[P] rogress is often thwarted by long - reigning attitudes that accord every car trip superordinate importance while treating the interests of non-motorists as secondary — or even a nuisance.»

When we approached NTES with requests for advanced classes and later requests to change to a teacher more flexible and understanding of ADHD issues we were treated as part of the solution and not some nuisance.

Unfortunately, some licensees treat the correspondence and the requests for information as either unimportant or a nuisance.