Sentence examples for directive control from inspiring English sources

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This study aimed to develop an instrument to assess other types of directive control and two additional aspects of parental child feeding, non-directive and food environmental control.

Normally I'm the one being asked the questions, but I loved the experience of being on the other side – asking the questions and having more directive control" Delevingne commented on her new role.

'a supervisor, admittedly in the employ of the railroad, in the daily course of the work exercised directive control over the details of the job performed by the individual workmen, including the precise point where the mixture should be pumped, when they should move to the next point, and the consistency of the mixture.' 359 U.S., at 228—229, 79 S.Ct., at 665.

It pointed out that the petitioners introduced evidence tending to prove that the work 'was part of the maintenance task of the railroad'; that the road 'furnished the material to be pumped into the roadbed'; and that a supervisor, admittedly in the employ of the railroad, in the daily course of the work exercised directive control over the details of the job.

Exploratory factor analyses yielded evidence for a five-factor structure to the ICQ, with two factors that may be conceptually viewed as infant-oriented beliefs regarding infant crying (Attachment/Comfort and Crying as Communication) and three factors conceptually reflecting parent-oriented beliefs regarding infant crying (Minimization, Directive Control, and Spoiling).

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Overly task-focused leaders also tend to be more reactive, operating from a position of fear, and often displaying highly directive, controlling, or perfectionist behaviors that can alienate others and be disempowering to their teams.

However, associate professor of law, Garry Jenkins, in his paper 'Who's Afraid of Philanthropcapitalism' (pdf), writes that the new venture philanthropists are "increasingly directive, controlling, metric focused, and business oriented with respect to their interactions with grantee public charities in an attempt to demonstrate that the work of the foundations is 'strategic' and 'accountable'".

As explained in a paper by Garry Jenkins, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota, this involves becoming "increasingly directive, controlling, metric-focused and business-oriented with respect to their interactions with grantee public charities, in an attempt to demonstrate that the work of the foundation is 'strategic' and 'accountable'accountable

Such treatments aim to change parental behavior (e.g., less directive, controlling, and critical, and more positive) as well as child behavior (e.g., less physically and verbally aggressive, more compliant, and less destructive), and parents perceptions of the children's behavior.

It is a 47-item scale, rated on a 4-point Likert scale (very true (1), very untrue (4)), and derives 5 scales of: care-concern, directive-control, critical-confronting, communication and charisma.

Ten items load on the 'Care-Concern' scale, 9 items on the 'Directive-Control' scale, 11 items on the 'Communication' scale, 8 items on the 'Charisma' scale and 9 items on the 'Critical-Confronting' scale.

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