As a leader, you must share that offensive remarks are counter-productive...or even dangerous.
Two centrist politicians who are considering political comebacks — Ehud Olmert, a former prime minister, and Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister — each used the remarks to contrast their productive negotiations with Mr. Abbas with Mr. Netanyahu's stalemate.
Friday, the 12-member panel voted as expected, and all the closings were approved".It's been a long night, it's been a productive one," Ms. Black said in brief closing remarks.
"Our government," Shannon remarked, "was committed to constructing a productive and positive relationship with our neighbors, while our rivals in the region were equally committed to discredit and humiliate us.
Calder, who died in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight, in fine productive fettle almost to the end, made many such remarks, which are certain to daunt ordinary maladjusted citizens.
How can we have a productive exchange, one that doesn't resort to unnecessarily inflammatory remarks?
Foreign Minister Shoukry asserted in his remarks that "Egypt... continues to play a positive and productive role in various efforts, international efforts, underway to eradicate the terrorist threat".
Rauf Denktash, who had enjoyed a productive personal relationship with Clerides in spite of their differences, remarked that he could not do business with the new Greek Cypriot president, citing Papadopoulos's "Turk-bashing" past.
The critic Morris Dickstein, in a wise and beautiful introduction to "Departures," painfully remarks that dying made his friend a fuller person, more empathetic, productive and eloquent.
President Susan Hockfield issued a joint statement last Thursday with the presidents of Princeton and Stanford in an effort to shift the furor over remarks made by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers '75 last month into a more productive context.
I edited the "snide" out of my remarks and, while I still disagreed with her stance, we had a pleasant, productive conversation.
