Also, nudged by government policy and university entrance requirements, pupils have turned increasingly to traditional subjects and away from perceived softer or less academic courses such as media studies.
The results also revealed that both groups of lecturers perceive soft skills as important to be integrated in the teaching of technical courses.
Democrats, typically worried about being perceived as soft on national security, have tried to out-deplore the Republicans.
Referees are more or less people, Van Gundy understands, and they don't want to be perceived as soft on the Knicks.
Cosatu said it had learned that an influential A.N.C. committee had decided that Mr. Vavi should be sanctioned for saying publicly that the party was perceived as soft on corruption that is said to involve government ministers.
And shortly after debuting his "steady" fist, he went on to suggest, more or less, that Clinton isn't man enough to do the job – specifically as it pertains to foreign policy, where women leaders are famously thought to be in danger of being perceived as soft or weak.
