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externalise
verb
Alternative spelling of externalize
Exact(30)
"We cannot externalise responsibility for standards of care to government, politicians or regulators or anybody else," he said.
"In India people always like to externalise the reasons for inaction," he said.
The trick is to externalise our internal goals.
"Young men tend to externalise pressure – for instance by being angry or violent – while young women are more likely to internalise their feelings, and take them out on themselves, for example by cutting or through eating disorders".
In marriage his galvanic process could work on undisturbed, transmuting and interpreting; but in divorce he is forced to externalise that process so that its power is broken.
Boys and young men were "fast to externalise the behaviour by blaming others, particularly the female" – a phenomenon researchers said was already present among boys as young as 10.
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On the flipside, new business theories are emerging that suggest business profits are best achieved through addressing social and environmental issues rather than externalising them.
But in an unfettered free market, argues the professor, firms simply cannot be expected to consider issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, because the costs are externalised.
"Results consistently suggest that physical punishment has a direct causal effect on externalising behaviour, whether through a reflexive response to pain, modelling or coercive family processes".
The label's founder and designer, Rei Kawakubo, said she was thinking about "inside decoration": where other designers might use jewellery for the surface of their collection, this was about externalising what you do to protect yourself inside.
Having said that, I get satisfaction out of understanding what I'm going through, which I can only achieve by describing it with an almost externalised dispassion.
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