Sentence examples for alienate colleagues from inspiring English sources

Versity management called an emergency strategy session at which everyone who attended, Ms. Perlow is certain, knew the plug should be pulled, but no one wanted to slow the meeting with quibbles or alienate colleagues with unwelcome truths.

His occasionally abrasive manner can also alienate colleagues and may help to explain why he was demoted last year from shadow defence secretary to shadow international development secretary after he made little secret of his unease about Ed Miliband's decision to oppose military action in Syria.

Such secrecy can alienate colleagues and detract from the rigour of scientific presentations.

Like obnoxious remarks in the office, intemperate posts can alienate colleagues and reflect badly on you as an individual.

Zawahiri is dogmatic and argumentative, and has a history of alienating colleagues.

All of us carried a cost in changing our position, antagonising friends and alienating colleagues.

Telling employees that they're alienating colleagues requires "a great deal of delicacy," she says.

The author also claimed that Osborne's supporters in parliament were alienating colleagues by acting as his "narks" (informants).

Alienating colleagues is hardly a recipe for longevity in the Senate, especially if Texans conclude Cruz is more interested in his own future than theirs.

But the young Ben Franklin was a bit rough around the edges, prone to vehemently arguing his case in all matters and alienating colleagues.

Even if he narrowly won his election, or cobbled together a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, he would struggle to control Parliament especially if the grudge-bearing and control-freakery that have already alienated colleagues make him still more enemies.