And yet, for all the cracker joke originality of the work, there is something rather constructive and even powerful about the benign nationalism on our screens.
In his public reply, the chief of the Pakistani Army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, said Mr. Mullen's accusations were "not based on facts," and suggested that they were unfair given "a rather constructive" recent meeting.
"The discussion was actually rather constructive and Thomson Reuters wanted to continue the dialogue," he told ScienceInsider.
He sought general existence proofs, rather than "constructive proofs" that actually produce the objects.
"Leaders take criticism as personal attacks rather than constructive feedback, and you become a 'yes person'.
Abroad, Mr Chirac continues to tout his vision of a multi-polar world, in which European power balances America's, in ways that seem confrontational, rather than constructive.
It is hard to tell, says Mr Goldstein, in an updated paper recently published by the IIE*.Mr Goldstein is no enemy of the IMF, rather a constructive critic.
Yet, as Beinart chronicles, major American Jewish organizations, their agendas often swayed by a few wealthy donors (like the casino mogul Sheldon Adelson), have in general made uncritical defense of Israel — rather than constructive criticism — the cornerstone of their policies and viewed deviation from the ever-refreshed victimhood narrative as unacceptable dissent.
We've asked executives who attended the People's Climate March to tell us why they joined and to describe their experience here: My impression is that, since the Vietnam War protests, mainstream Americans tend to believe that people who take to the streets to agitate for social causes are far-left-wing radicals bent on being destructive rather than constructive.
In the early days of nonlinear control theory most of the stability, optimality and uncertainty concepts were descriptive rather than constructive.
In this sense, assimilation is a destructive rather than constructive process.
