Sentence examples for proprietary attitude from inspiring English sources

They are landowners and their proprietary attitude towards what surrounds them is visible in their stance and their expressions".

There was pushback at the community board level, in part from runners and walkers who had developed a proprietary attitude about what had originally been exclusively for equestrians.

Take Charlotte Beauchamp — and Ivo apparently has, leaving Charlotte with a nastily proprietary attitude toward him and a bitchy one toward Cora.

Now that federal authorities have been forewarned about Time Warner's muscular, proprietary attitude, they cannot consider approval of the Time Warner-AOL merger a foregone conclusion.

Mr. Le is well aware of this proprietary attitude and takes steps in his video — on which he collaborated with two Vietnamese artists, Phu-Nam Thuc Ha and Tuan Andrew Nguyen — to shake it up.

(And while it's true that Kafka is a key figure of the Jewish cultural past, as one of the world's most significant authors whose themes find echoes in many countries and cultures, Israel's proprietary attitude is surely misplaced).

An ambitious comic novel that is more about how to read than about book groups or Jane Austen; all the members have different, private Austens, and their proprietary attitudes speak to the improbability that any two readers, or any two Janes, are alike.

The prospects for the reasons account, as an account of self-knowledge of the attitudes, may depend on whether attitudes have "proprietary phenomenology" (Pitt 2004).

And yet every pay-per-play music downloading service the recording industry has sanctioned has been notable mainly for clumsiness, proprietary paranoia and a condescending attitude toward its customers.

She noted that whatever differences existed between the typical mobster and typical gang member, they shared important priorities: a casual attitude toward violence, a proprietary interest in the distribution of drugs, and an obsession with quick profits.

Peerset's proprietary technology organically links interests, values, lifestyles and attitudes to brands, letting advertisers see the constellations of these links.