Sentences with phrase «without hearing the other side»

As a startled Kagan looked on and the entire ballroom audience sat dumbfounded, Siegel, the conference keynote speaker from that morning, asked for a microphone and announced: «I can't let this audience listen to your argument without hearing the other side.

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These walls, these assertions that others are «idiots» or sinners without hope and refusal to hear what the other side has to say, are just pathetic.
Eschewing the story's details, they invariably talk about «passing by on the other side», a reference for those with ears to hear, a decontextualized general moral exhortation for those without.
The two stereo speakers provide more than enough volume to be heard on a conference call, as well as play movies or YouTube clips without missing a beat, while the four microphones make sure the other side hears you just as clearly.
So I came up with the idea of a sustained series of short documentaries that would allow me to listen to people's stories without taking a side, allow people to share their views on and experiences with shale gas drilling, and that would allow people to hear other perspectives.
It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side.
It pushes the rhetoric and arguments to one side or the other - by necessity, since the tendency is for each side to engage in greater and greater bombast until those of us in the middle have a hard time being heard as neutral without being cast to one side or the other, because all people know is either extreme.
Sometimes, all we want from each other is someone who will hear us out without being judgmental, without siding with «the enemy», and without giving us advise based on their own perspective.
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