Collocations withattitude

They adopted an aggressive attitude to members of the public, frightening shoppers who would not give them money.

There has been an ambivalent attitude to the biological characteristics of racial hybrids apparent ever since the problem first arose.

As a result of the somewhat high-handed and arrogant attitude of those responsible, a local action committee was formed.

In my view, it is because as a nation we take an excessively authoritarian attitude to what listeners should hear and what viewers should see.

We are not prepared to listen to lectures on human rights from people who have such a callous attitude to human life.

Parents and adolescents were administered the impulsivity items, which assessed the adolescents' carefree attitude, acting without thinking, spontaneity, and preference for quick action.

In those interviews, police officers are shown to present a caring attitude and a genuine concern about the comfort of a child being interviewed.

The contrast between crown vigilance in protecting its income and its casual attitude toward complaints about dissent could not have been more marked.

In general, the reports reflected a cautious attitude toward overly optimistic pronouncements.

It should be stressed, however, that this rather cavalier attitude towards empirical evidence remains an exception within the volume.

The changed attitude to film and memory was substantially indebted to these programs.

In part, the changing attitude towards business relates to the fact that business could not provide the government with meaningful political or economic support.

Concessions won by the opposition as regards the preparatory arrangements account for this conciliatory attitude.

The pedagogical approach adopted does not shy away from these, or develop a paternalistic or condescending attitude to their difficulty.

A political labyrinth emerged from this contradictory attitude.

In other words, though this volunteer had a very cynical attitude to the affair, he did not feel ideologically involved.

Why do we adopt this hopeless, defeatist attitude?

He said that if other efforts failed employers' needs would not be met through employment exchanges if they persisted in their discriminatory attitude.

It is a casual and dismissive attitude towards our responsibilities for conservation to claim that it does not matter because the birds will go elsewhere.

They concluded that dysfunctional attitudes are a state dependent symptom.

This was a significant development, and demonstrated a more enlightened attitude towards the partially hearing.

By 1993, however, taxpayers slowly but steadily slipped ' back to normality ', that is to the entrenched attitudes of non-compliance.

Despite sustained efforts, however, environmental attitudes to the smoke continued to vary.

Although the two groups differed in their views on this topic, the majority of all women expressed a favourable attitude (62-5 %).

But there were also numerous dissenting voices and the general attitude remained, all in all, ambivalent.

The generally hostile attitude toward lawyers in the house of commons was a significant obstacle.

Crushem's hypocritical attitude towards alcohol is not restricted to the double standards of his own consumption and the imposition of temperance on his workers.

Professional performers are politely unimpressed: the implicit attitude there is, this is news?

The majority had an indifferent attitude towards language classes at school, and less than a fifth considered them as pleasant.

Does this not show an extraordinarily lax attitude on the part of the medical profession?

And, what is perhaps much more important, there should be inculcated a responsible and mature attitude of mind towards society.

Physical motion is precluded here, and there do not seem to be any connotations of intensity or negative attitude (see note 11).

A selection rate over 50% indicated that the variable was prioritized, exactly 50% implied a neutral attitude, and below 50% indicated negative prioritization.

This nickname was given to him for his no-nonsense attitude in policing fights, and his 6-foot-2, 225 lb body.

This perspective plays no small role in the fact that mechanistic body concepts generally tend to promote an open, positive, and optimistic attitude toward the technological possibilities of modern biomedicine.

Overall feeling measures were calculated as the mean of the ten individual feeling scores, and similarly overall attitude measures as the mean of the ten attitude scores.

Especially, a more strict and authoritarian parental attitude turned out to be detrimental to school achievement.

We have seen fraud grow as a result and people have also developed a very passive attitude towards receiving their giro.

First, it takes a very paternalistic attitude towards children, denying them any agency in their own lives.

Would it be correct for clinicians to adopt a more permissive attitude toward such cross-cultural ethical differences?

It is not helpful to respond to this predicament with a pessimistic attitude.

Rehabilitation is about realizing potential, with both a positive attitude and a broad-brush approach.

The data suggest that people generally take a balanced and pragmatic attitude to their resources.

The prevailing attitude that all experimental data must be statistically analyzed to be of any value is also a detriment to integrated research.

But despite the fact that it is not itself a propositional attitude worship seems to be intimately related to propositional attitudes.

If we then look at the punishments handed down in these cases, a clearer picture emerges of the racial attitudes adopted by the courts.

One server ultimately realized that she - not the race of her customers - was the cause of the low tips, and that her racist attitude was not in her own interest.

Indications of a negative or rebellious attitude were frequently attributed to demon possession.

This relaxed attitude to inventory and accounting practices was one of the first mind-sets to disappear when managed care got serious.

Injustices are often caused to innocent people by the stubborn and selfish attitude of one partner to a marriage.

Ageism, combined with sexist attitudes, can have double-barrelled effects for older women.

Again, the aristocratic point of view associating physical pain with degradation shaped societal attitudes.

Inspectors often disagreed with the tolerant attitude of local authorities.

But the more dispiriting underlying attitude is that architects cannot be trusted with the public client's money and are not really team players.