Sentences with phrase «cultural works for»

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... lawyers» work on behalf of clients positively requires — both for its justification and its successful functioning for the benefit of those same clients in the long run — that lawyers also help maintain and refresh the public sphere, the infrastructure of law and cultural convention that constitutes the cement of society.

«To get the full change to happen, we probably need not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the work place.»

Then we looked for highly collaborative banks with a good cultural fit: Bankers and firms that would work well both with us and with each other.

Perhaps most important to success in a rapidly changing world is a cultural assumption of the temporariness of solutions and with it, culturally committing to a mindset of constantly looking for new and better ways to work and create.

Every place I have been to has in many ways provided a set of cultural and mental challenges, but in terms of work, the majority of the places have been developed enough to welcome digital nomads with open arms, with reliable internet, affordable accommodation and plenty of beaches for me to unwind after a sweaty day grinding away on my notebook.

The need to continually provide work for my virtual assistant, along with the obstacles formed by the language barrier and cultural differences between us, ended up creating more work for me.

People always associate holiday gift guides major thank you or gift giving days like Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, Graduation, but if you think outside the box and pitch to publication's for holidays that commemorate cultural or personal celebrations like Mardi Gras, Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, or even National Blood Donor Month you can get coverage in a less competitive guide that's highly targeted to your offer.

Air Force officials have cited «cultural issues» — such as training requirements and trouble maintaining a work - life balance — as reasons for the service's recruitment and retention problems.

And sometimes, smaller organizations win talent wars by looking for gifted employees where larger companies often fear to tread: Job candidates who lack skills or experience, but seem like cultural fits based on work ethic and personality.

But for any company that is working towards a major cultural change, there is no quick fix.

«Cultural issues that affect the quality of life and service for our airmen,» such as duties not related to flying and difficulties maintaining work - life balance, also appear to have driven fliers away, Grosso said.

Galen Cranz, a sociologist and professor of architecture at the University of California Berkeley who has long crusaded for more active work environments writes via e-mail: «It will take cultural change in order to make significant change.»

For larger franchisors, it's vital that they work to institutionalize a practice of screening for cultural compatibiliFor larger franchisors, it's vital that they work to institutionalize a practice of screening for cultural compatibilifor cultural compatibility.

«Like Vietnam, one of the crucial elements we secured was what is known as a work plan, a mechanism to deal with outstanding issues, which for Canada includes ensuring the deal provides better access and terms for autos and does not affect our unique cultural sensitivities,» Joseph Pickerill, spokesman for Canadian Trade Minister Francois - Philippe Champagne, said in a statement.

You want to make sure people working on automated solutions for content are not just all from one cultural background.»

This cultural mindset has created for some of our hardest - working employees a launch pad from which they could establish their own franchises and pursue their own entrepreneurial dreams.

Companies should, therefore, consider using visuals that are multigenerational and that show groups — friends, classmates, work colleagues, multigenerational families, cultural «tribes,» or strangers coming together for a common cause.

But really glad that they are still there as I worked for a cultural organization and all they did was close their libraries!

If Canada is going to make our future generations Asia - ready, it will bode well to provide more opportunities for cultural exchanges and mutual conversations, and for young Canadians to pursue grounded experiences through work, study, or travel.

It often takes time for economic immigrants to find proper jobs because of a lack of recognition of foreign credentials, real or perceived language or cultural competency issues, and / or the lack of Canadian work experience.

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

«In no way will Amazon's decision slow our pursuit of a strong growth agenda for Baltimore, as we work to attract new investment, quality job opportunities, and importantly, new residents to a city celebrated for its diversity, and its rich higher educational, athletic, cultural, medical, and maritime assets.

Intellect and its Women in IT Forum will continue to work in an open and collaborative manner to inspire the cultural change required for achieving the targets set in Lord Davies» report.»

It's still new territory for organizations of all stripes in lots of ways, and making flexible options work may take a different approach that's supported at the top levels and is open to cultural change within the organizational structure.

Unify Earth serves as the platform by which cultural, social and financial communities can work together for the good of all.

TIAA Direct provides a full range of banking services for professionals who work in a wide range of academic, cultural, government and research professions.

To help in building a world in which people can live and work together across religious and cultural divides, we strive to be a primary resource in religious and theological studies for the academy, for religious communities, and in the public sphere.

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

Jesuits are known for their work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits, and for their missionary efforts.

Such ill - defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that culture).

And then maybe a year or so later to do a session on learning styles and how to use the different ways God «wired» us to create stronger teams for doing cultural field work for missional stuff and / or church plants.

When you look at the New Testament model, Jeremy, as you have done in this series... one cultural difference that I think most people fail to really account for is that those men, Paul and others who worked, generally worked in a modern day trade equivalent.

Though he stems from Noah's pious son Shem, and though he himself was more attached to his father than was his brother Nahor, Abram's immediate paternal ancestry is not a model for the work of cultural perpetuation.

Working - class Americans have fewer resources for navigating cultural change and stand to lose more from it.

Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Ultimately, Contextualization in World Missions is a great primer and summary of issues related to contextualization, and I recommend it for anyone interested in learning more about this all - important topic for understanding the Gospel and applying it to the various cultural contexts in which we work and minister.

The recent work of German sociologist Jurgen Habermas, in which questions about the formal characteristics of social systems in general and the dynamics of the lifeworld are the focus, exhibits a clear preference for deductive theory of a prescriptive sort.13 Habermas has drawn eclectically from modernization theory and Marxism to create what he calls a reconstructive model of cultural evolution.

Indeed, foreign - policy issues for the moment aside, it is not too much to say that the Democrats» current electoral dilemma boils down to this: their old economic issues no longer work, and on cultural issues they lose.

Perhaps, as we work and pray for such a faith - guided cultural resurrection, we might show Fantasia and Sleeping Beauty to our children and shield them from the barren and looted moral landscape of Tangled.

He is a British writer and cultural commentator who lives and works in Washington, D.C.. For decades now, he has been observing the political / societal scene and writing about it in a particularly insightful, witty and acerbic manner.

Ogden, for example, argues that by far the most important way in which we can participate in God's emancipating work of «helping people manage their opportunities for good... is to labor for fundamental social and cultural change.»

When social historians look for the time when this originally «antiestablishment» world was finally awarded the robes of cultural dominance, they might do well to look to the premieres of these works at the Met.

Unable to work as a minister during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to work in the countryside for many years.

And if «fiction» and «art» are shorthand for all works of human culture, then the connections between all human cultural life and the physical life of nature are also unknowable.

There is so much work to be done in correcting misunderstandings, in discovering and exploring commonalities, in tempering or removing hostilities, in contending for cultural renewal, and, above all, in proclaiming the saving gospel of Jesus Christ with one another rather than against one another.

If we are to understand the peculiar links between religious commitment and economic justice in American society, therefore, we must also locate the cultural pressures that work against taking responsibility for the poor — some of which are also reinforced by religious commitments.

He suggests that pastors need to learn to appreciate the diversity of the churches they serve, to care for those cultural differences, and to work with them rather than against them.

Charles Davis has made a useful attempt to mediate between the unwillingness of political theologies to accept a role for philosophy and the human drive to understand what is at work in any cultural phenomenon, among which theologies must be counted.3 Davis distinguishes between «original» and «scientific» theology.

F. Work with U.S. companies through such groups as the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility3 on shareholder actions to persuade U.S. companies to respect nations» attempts to protect their cultural sovereignty.