Sentences with phrase «try reasoning with»

I might have to try reasoning with him telling him it's just fun to collect it, not to eat it.

I have tried reasoning with him, giving him options, ignoring the bad behaviour and rewarding the good.

I tried reasoning with her to be content relaxing at home, but she told me she wasn't interested.

I'm guessing you've tried reasoning with him and it's just not working.

Paterson, a former state senator himself, tried reasoning with his former colleagues, to no better effect.

You've tried reasoning with them and nobody seems to care.

Not exact matches

Another reason bots fail is that some businesses try to make chatbots with too much personality.

Those kinds of business realities are almost certainly part of the reason Kelly tried to mend fences with Trump in April, convincing him to sit down for Tuesday's chat.

Equity crowd funding is worth trying as just one tool to help foster startups, at the very least to keep pace with the U.S. and give Canadian entrepreneurs more reason to stay here.

«Part of the reason to focus on brands and content platforms first is because there is a built - in audience that they are trying to deepen their relationship with,» says Patterson.

But the real reason Walmart would bother with its own app is simple: helping Walmart improve the in - store customer experience, something key as it tries to fend off Amazon.com and a resurgent Target (tgt).

Both for marketing reasons and pure economic reasons, it's much better to go with a common platform that brings together content from a bunch of different players than to try to go with individual platforms for all the different players.

Without any rationale thinking and fueled solely by emotions is the very reason why you see people try short - term fad diets and other questionable health choices along with poor business decisions.

Faced with uncertainty, economists are trying to find reasons to remain optimistic.

And I learned about the wristband, and I decided, yeah, this isn't going to end too well, so I should proceed with a court case instead of trying to reason with the district because they were not listening at all.

The reason: Cain Express always tries to match a northbound shipment with a southbound one so the trucks aren't driving empty.

«The reason we are doing Tesla is to try to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport, to have there be more electric cars on the road,» Musk said in September during an interview with the Danish news site Borsen.

And the reason they blame Russia because they think they're trying to tarnish me with Russia.

The company's biggest rival Burger King didn't seem to try as hard with innovation in 2013, with its biggest new product being the lower - fat Satisfries — or, for some unknown reason, Gratifries in Canada.

It's not rare for potential business buyers to try to strong - arm sellers into offering financing, but that's never a legitimate reason for sellers to go ahead with it.

Packing your lunch instead of dining out is a tried - and - true savings strategy, with good reason, said consumer savings expert Andrea Woroch.

I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach.

I'm going to start with a short summary of what happened in Canada during the crisis, if for no other reason that I've never tried writing one before.

The main reason for altcoins to emerge was to improve Bitcoin's flaws and to somewhat, try to compete with bitcoin by innovating and developing new features as to improve and surpass bitcoin limitations.

There's no reason to try and implement a portfolio that you're not comfortable with.

«One of the primary reasons people fail in franchising is they don't start out with enough money or access to money to get through the tough times, and the opening and the first few months as people try to find them,» Haff says.

And the NDP tried to move a motion to get Bill C - 27 withdrawn, because they sailed a conspiracy theory that somehow there was a conflict of interest with a bill that they opposed for ideological reasons, in order to come at a different angle of attack on it.

There are three common reasons why a B2B lead generation program fails to create good business leads: you're not reaching the decision maker, your script is shut down before you really get going, or you're trying to create business leads with companies that are the wrong fit for your product or service.

There are four big reasons for failure that tend to stand out when talking with companies that say, «We already tried that and it doesn't work for us.»

There may even be some auto - generated clicks to your ads that have nothing to do with click fraud, but may be a bot trying to spider your site for whatever reason.

Nevertheless, there were numerous critics expressing worries about the growth of margin lending, but the financial press tended to play their arguments down, even going as far as charging the critics with trying to undermine confidence for ulterior reasons (Barron's and the Wall Street Journal both published editorials to that effect).

And on paper, all equities, for example, would be maybe the best portfolio for them, but the behavioral reasons to try to mess with that.

I'm a Christian, and it really ticks me off when I hear someone trying to use Jesus as a reason why he would disagree with something that someone else believes is wrong.

@John — I don't have anything against the Easter Bunny either, but I have no reason to try to be friends with him either since I don't believe in him either.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

Try supporting your statements with credible evidence and reasoning.

At this moment, for example, I am trying to understand something very abstract indeed — the fading, vanishing of tasted reality as we try to grasp it with the discursive reason.

You're attempting to convince me with your reasoning, and I'm trying to tell you WHY your reasoning is flawed, and therefore completely ineffective to a person who understands proper logic.

These beliefs are apparently the ones set forth by Messrs. Johnson, Hoge, and Luidens in «Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline» (FT, March 1993): (1) That Christianity is the only religion with a valid claim to truth, (2) that persons can be saved only through Jesus Christ and otherwise go to hell, and (3) that therefore one should try to convert others to the Christian faith.

People with that theory would have never tried to figure out the real reason behind it.

For that reason it has been a classroom staple for me as a political science professor... I'll be using it this semester to show American politics students the sort of thing the founders were trying to avoid, and I often use it with political philosophy students as a foil to Aristotle's defense of the democratic element in a polity.

Guys you are trying to reason with Topher, simply futile.

rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic — humans do not reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone) with rational argument — I tried to reason with her, but without success» I accept nothing on faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started by random chance?

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

if you listened to evolution and school and disagreed with it on purely religious reasons, that's not good enough to then try and get it out of the classroom.

But, as a person who tries to depend on reason and community harmony, I don't see a problem with it being there, as long as we can have a mosque in the neighborhood, a star of David, and whatever else represents people who lost their lives in this national tragedy.

@Jeremy: I do agree with some of what you said but... The reason Christians try so hard to convert is because they think we're all going to hell?

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

Trying to use reason, logic and science with these wacko's is like trying to stop a tank with a poTrying to use reason, logic and science with these wacko's is like trying to stop a tank with a potrying to stop a tank with a pop gun.

People have some obsession with trying to find reason in everything... sometimes there is no reason.