The advice to do more acting is a terrific counter-directive to the commands that young people get from all sides in our therapeutic culture, with its focus on internal calm and personal authenticity.
Yet, by recognizing and starting to counter the directives of this inner enemy, we can become more resilient and act in our own self-interest.
By seeing these negative thought processes as an alien point of view, as opposed to a reflection of reality, we are better equipped to counter the directives of our critical inner voice.
In recent years, as self-styled Islamist sheikhs in Egypt and abroad have increasingly made use of satellite television and the Internet to issue fatwas, the mufti of Egypt has spent much of his time countering those directives he deems extremist or silly.
Anne B. Erickson, executive director of the Greater Upstate Law Project, a statewide advocacy group, said the state directive "runs counter to the spirit of what we anticipated.
In part, Messiah, I'm suggesting, goes patently counter to Romans 11, whose directive on Christian schadenfreude toward Jews, it's worth noting, is not contradicted anywhere in the NT.
Such "gender bias" comments or lack of sex-specific analyses would run counter to the 1994 FDA directive [ 47] stating that "gender bias" should be reduced by studying an appropriate ratio of male and female subjects as well as providing safety and effectiveness data by gender.
Troubled by the prospect of being drawn into a 38-year war that shows no sign of abating, Congress has restricted the use of the American aid to the counter-narcotics fight and a directive signed by President Clinton in 2000 bars the use of American intelligence to combat rebels.
The circumstances surrounding these three interventions are consistent with the Federal Reserve's Foreign Currency Directive: interventions "shall generally be directed at countering disorderly market conditions".
Obama's directives are intended to counter complaints about a system rife with abuse that gives borrowers few protections from companies that process their monthly payments or schools that mislead them into taking out federal student loans.
Since these two coping strategies run counter to the exemption, the Ministry issued two directives to prohibit these practices, although the effectiveness of these directives and the extent to which they are routinely applied is not known.
