Sentences with phrase «culture over force»

An exhibition at the city's de Young Museum last year, celebrating the centennial of this historic event, opened with an artwork that revived San Francisco's claim as a cultural beacon: a mural by local painter Arthur Frank Mathews titled The Victory of Culture over Force (Victorious Spirit)(1914).

Not exact matches

There's the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing economies and the middle class they supported; ethno - nationalist backlash to the forces of globalization; sprawling culture wars over «identity politics» and far more.

The team members who remain behind the scenes are the ones responsible for building a grassroots, bottom - up culture — the driving force behind our various accolades over the years.

Steve, um, yeah Christians have a long history of forcing thier religion on others, which in turn has destroyed cultures all over the world, main reason I am not a fan, Jesus would be ashamed of all of you.

David Cameron has reiterated his support for Culture Secretary Maria Miller after she was forced to apologise to MPs over a report into her expenses claims.

Maria Miller was forced to resign as culture and media minister because of public revulsion over MPs» expenses.

«There are those who contest that the UK has historically set far too much store by home - ownership and that we should be unconcerned that the average age of the first - time buyer is approaching forty but taken together, this trend, the spread of means - tested benefits, the regime for long term care, the damage done to private pension provision by one of Gordon Brown's earliest misjudgements, compounded by the current squeeze on household finances which has seen over a million people forced to abandon contributions to their pension funds, all amount to a massive turn away from a culture of property ownership with the responsibility and independence that goes with it.»

Their cultures evolve over time, and they are subject to the pressures of the market, which can force them to engage in illegal activities.

In a film culture that prized beauty over talent, she became a leading lady and a dominant movie star by the sheer force of her talent and screen presence and dedication.

National standards also risk unleashing negative forces in American education — including further curricular narrowing, harmful effects on states that got standards right in the first place, and the possible rekindling of culture wars over what knowledge and which skills matter most (and who gets to decide).

As a result, teachers and leaders who remain at schools with poor retention are forced to continuously restart the challenging and costly work of building a school community that can carry forward a culture of growth and success year over year.

Kirst helped to initiate the Statewide Special Education Task Force that produced a report in 2015 with multiple recommendations for change, including creating a «culture of collaboration and coordination» across numerous state agencies, and giving school districts more control over special education funds.

The artist explores the residual effects of natural phenomena and human intervention on the landscape over time and how these forces shape cultures and identities.

Reading about the latest controversy at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles — the apparently forced resignation of the longtime head curator Paul Schimmel over the pop - culture exhibitions that the new director Jeffrey Deitch is bringing to the museum — I experienced my usual feelings of disbelief.

Via the repetition of decontextualized ceremonies and farcical processions over the course of the film (including a trial, a coronation, and an impromptu catwalk), the gathered ensemble attempt to invoke, and perhaps thereby locate and release, those archetypal forces that lie bound within the institution of the culture industry.