Sentence examples for directly disagree from inspiring English sources

But when the newspaper asked him about the exclusion of remarried divorcees from the Catholic Church he did not directly disagree with the practice, but rather said that it is "not a sanction".

"Because foreigners are often in higher positions in companies, or even when they are not, there is sometimes an implicit respect given to them that makes Chinese people not want to directly disagree with them for fear of being perceived as impolite," said Ms. Dillon, who is now director of sales and marketing at That's Mandarin, a language school based in Beijing.

As I posited above, the largest number of objections do not directly disagree with universal and mandatory preschool but rather function as "warnings" about the need for "high-quality" settings.

They called his embattled Environmental Protection Agency head "swampy". And they directly disagreed with him on some major conspiracies the president has been pushing about the Russia investigation.

Imagine the following: Cheng, a Chinese professional, is starting a new job as a management consultant at a major strategy consulting firm in the U.S. Cheng is explicitly told that he needs to show his leadership potential in meetings with senior colleagues and partners by outwardly expressing his opinions and even, on occasion, directly disagreeing with his superiors.

"This is one of those issues on which Jon and I disagree directly," he said, in response to a question from an audience member at a synagogue in Livingston.

This could be taken to imply that natural selection should not be taught until later grades; however, those who have studied student understanding directly tend to disagree with any such suggestion (e.g., Clough and Wood-Robinson 1985; Settlage 1994).

If someone's face or body language was off, she would pull that person aside and ask directly "what did you disagree with in that meeting?" Over time people learned she was serious and was thankful when people told her the truth.

Asked directly if he disagreed with Mr. Boehner, he replied: "I just told you my position.

The suit, filed last Tuesday in United States District Court in Louisville, Ky., contends that The Herald printed articles and photographs about Santos that were libelous after Santos "directly and inarguably disagreed with, contradicted and denied all of the allegations" presented by a reporter during a telephone interview.

Additionally, (Roberts et al. 2001; McArdle and Epstein 1987; Reips and Funke 2008) (Dawes (2012) (Dawes et al. 2002; Sparks et al. 2006) (Friedman and Amoo 1999; Allen and Seaman 2007) have found that grammatically balanced Likert scales are often unbalanced in interpretation; for instance, 'tend to disagree' is not directly opposite 'tend to agree'.