Sentence examples for perceived as optional from inspiring English sources

The problem is this: most people equate preparing for a brainstorm session with "work" -- totally boring work -- and since they already feel overworked, the preparation for a brainstorm session is often perceived as optional -- like what teenagers think when their parents ask them to clean up their room.

Whilst in times of economic growth and service expansion such measurement was generally perceived as optional, this is no longer the case.

Schools perceived as stronger blocked the way.

Employers were perceived as greedy.

a. Fear of diseases Among participants who vaccinated or intended to vaccinate their children with optional vaccines, anxiety was expressed about diseases perceived as severe and uncontrollable, to which their child was felt to be susceptible.

Family leave and affordable health care and opportunities for career advancement are all too often perceived as luxuries, and unions have always operated under the belief that these things are not optional – they are fundamental rights.

That's a long way from controversy in America about Mr. Obama's "leading from behind role" in Libya — optional translation: engagement, but not so much or so visibly as to be perceived as losing if things go wrong.

"Swaps are perceived as riskless.

Those wavelengths are perceived as colors.

Those returning are often perceived as arrogant.

I am perceived as anti-turkey.