Sentence examples for oppositional approach from inspiring English sources

While some local groups took an "antagonistic, almost oppositional approach", the Alliance took a pragmatic line saying: "It's shutting for a good reason: the funding isn't there to keep it open, let's find another way of delivering the service".

Adopting a longer time perspective and advocating a relational rather than oppositional approach to rural and urban, nature and culture, as well as the insider and outsider perspectives and public and private spheres may be useful for understanding the spatial frame and historical context in drafting scenarios.

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David Enrich, a Wall Street Journal editor, tweeted after the meeting that Baker was broadly speaking about "staffers unhappy with our approach - i.e. objective rather than oppositional".

The findings obtained when comparing hip geometric measurements support the assumption that reevaluating point positions after excluding modes of oppositional asymmetric patterns in the combined SSM is a suitable approach to account for subject positioning during image acquisition.

Campaigning will become confrontational and oppositional again, as in the 1990s, rather than the more consensual, round-table approach that is common now.

The introduction of diagnostic labels like conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder achieved, for the first time, an important step in the scientific/medical approach to problems of delinquency because they separated diagnosis and treatment from adjudication.

Compared to the low adversity group, severe adversity over time (class 3) was associated with an eightfold increase in odds ratio (OR) for disruptive behaviour disorders (conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and ADHD), a 4.8 times increase for depressive disorders and approaching a two-fold increase for anxiety and non suicidal self injury (NSSI).

Importantly, this approach to culture helps explain why individuals act violently without adhering to a coherent set of oppositional cultural norms or values as is suggested by subcultural theories (Harding 2007).

This recalls the approach of Fordham and Ogbu (1986), who show that perceived discrimination determines children's development of an oppositional identity and undermines their scholastic effort.

For the CTRS-R, simple regression analyses showed that MnH was significantly and positively associated with T-scores on the Oppositional (p = 0.005) and Hyperactivity (p = 0.001) subscales, and the relations with the two other subscales approached significance: Cognitive Problems/Inattention (p = 0.085) and ADHD Index (p = 0.062).