Sentence examples for accommodating rather than from inspiring English sources

REFLECTIONS on Western Europe's attitude toward the United States and its Finlandization, or policy of accommodating rather than confronting the Soviet Union, as Finland has done.

By William Pfaff The New Yorker, September 1 , 1980P. 30 REFLECTIONS on Western Europe's attitude toward the United States and its Finlandization, or policy of accommodating rather than confronting the Soviet Union, as Finland has done.

It is a commendation of a style of action that consists in being receptive rather than aggressive, following from behind rather than leading in front, accommodating rather than confrontational, and being flexible and ready to change with the situation rather than rigid and operating from general predetermined principles.

Reflecting a strand in German politics that calls for accommodating rather than confronting Putin, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned "loud saber-rattling" and "symbolic tank parades" on NATO's eastern border.

Iraq is slowly learning the give-and-take of a system where differences are accommodated rather than quashed.

Labour accommodated rather than reversed her attack on the welfare state and left her employment legislation almost untouched.

They would rather, as Kenneth Collins of the theater company Temporary Distortion said, "be in a more functional theater," one that accommodates rather than inhibits their ideas.

Aiming not at perfection but at improvement, accepting the vagaries of human nature as a premise that policy must accommodate, rather than wish away, meliorism forces a longer, more calibrated approach.

Silberman also highlights the campaigning work being done today by autistic self-advocates (modelled on the gay and deaf rights movements) to reframe autism as a "difference" to be accepted and accommodated, rather than eradicated.

He hasn't used it that way; the considerable cash he has put into campaigns has been spent learning how to best to accommodate, rather than as a safeguard against ever having to do so.

Signs of increased hostility from a state that has often preferred to accommodate rather than confront the Brotherhood have persuaded many of its members of a need to retrench and lie low for the time being.