Sentences with phrase «for certain cultures»

For certain cultures or religious groups, there could be similar concerns.

Not exact matches

You believe in and are acting to generate a peak performance culture by standing for certain behaviors.

GFI estimates that cultured meat could become cost - competitive with conventional meat in about a decade.42 The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil) reports that one of two scientists they spoke with who work on tissue engineering gave a similar estimate — though Open Phil themselves remain much more pessimistic about the timeline for the widespread commercial availability of cultured meat.43 We are not certain whether it is realistic to expect cultured meat to become cost - competitive with conventional meat within a decade.

I differ also from the various middle positions, which hold that there are some good things in this culture (like greater freedom for the individual), but that these come at the expense of certain dangers (like a weakening of the sense of citizenship), so that one's best policy is to find the ideal point of trade - off between advantages and costs.

For a certain sector of society, religion has been replaced by the aesthetic, by culture understood as high culture (and, increasingly, as deviant culture).

Because we, as a culture, believe certain myths about how rape happens and what rape looks like, we end up punishing victims for their failure to follow the prescribed rules that come from these myths.

Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human spirit.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqFor example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

As those terms remind us, Keillor's remembrances of Lake Wobegon appeal to a certain complacency in our faith, a nostalgia for the days when religion and culture went hand in hand and did not need to be too closely distinguished.

The prospects for conscious control of human biological evolution posed by recombinant DNA research raise directly and sharply certain questions about the future not only of our own culture but also of the human species itself.

Whether you believe in a certain religion or not, it has shaped mankind for thousands of years including primitive and advanced cultures.

But today there is developing a certain discontent with our culture and its tradition, and a certain suspicion regarding its capacity for radical change.

Certain basic developmental and relational issues, for example, must pervade all cultures.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Speaking during Premier's News Hour, she said: «We have whole issues with purity culture and modesty culture which says, «well, women, if you dress a certain way it's your fault if a man behaves in that way» and so actually for a lot of women they have been conditioned to blame themselves and say «if he's done that to me it must be my fault».

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

While we may pick and choose to emphasize certain aspects of it, and even change it slightly during our lifetime, our culture is like the air we breathe — something we take for granted, but without which we would cease to be who and what we are.

For instance, even American Protestant liberals whose theology may seem as bland as a Hallmark card, can be shown to stand firmly against the culture on certain issues.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

To say that a symbol has a «history» can mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered in all the cultures where it is found.

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby (Gen 18:2 NIV)»... Furthermore, there is a good reason to study the old Orient, the rituals and cultures of the Middel East, especially at that time,,, i myself being Half Egyptian and having been raised there, am blessed with this foreknowledge for certain things that are still the same way now as they were at th etime of Jesus and earlier,,, where Men kiss to greet one another for example,,, so when King David talks about the love of Jonathan being greater than that of a woman,,, and at the same time knowing that the Hebrew litreature (as the Arabian culture to quite an extent still is) was very poetic and used éndless symbols and parabels to express an idea,,, one might do himself a favor not jumping to conclusions which satisfy only his very own ideas and thoughts,,, the biggest problem with Bible interpretations lately is Verses ripped out of the context and interpreted in such a way that has nothing to do with its original context... «To the law and to the testimony!

In certain cases, archaic symbols linked with death, with sexuality, or with hope for an afterlife have been modified or even replaced, by similar symbols brought in by waves of superior cultures.

I am certain that Rest, Play, Grow will be the go - to guide for confused and exhausted parents who are receiving mixed messages from professionals and the culture - at - large about how to raise their children.

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

She also laments a trend on the left and right of shouting down those who hold contrary opinions, and criticises the media for creating a culture whereby only certain groups of people are seen as valid to comment on issues from feminism, Brexit or religion.

But let us take for example the practice of human sacrifice which has been long regarded with horror in the West, yet was seen as a noble and pious act in certain cultures (e.g. the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).

In certain cultures, a strong desire to avoid using charitable / welfare services may allow for extravagant welfare systems to flourish, but in other cultures where a strong desire to avoid charitable / welfare systems doesn't exist, there might be good reason to limit welfare.

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

For instance, high - status people tend to seek eye contact more often than low - status people, and various cultures, including some Muslim ones, avoid prolonged eye contact in certain settings.

There is a certain scientific culture that is difficult to relate to for a nonscientist,» he says.

Researchers have videotaped cultures in which embryos develop but found no visual pattern that hints at which cells are about to sprout, and staining for certain patterns of gene expression has been inconclusive.

They exposed the cells to proteins associated with TB and then analyzed the cell culture for expression of certain cytokines.

«Probably for thousands of years in some cultures, certain kinds of intellectual ability may have been tied to reproductive success.»

In cultured cells, drugs that inhibit Cdk1 prevented HIF - 1alpha levels from falling and restored its ability to halt cell division, suggesting they may be effective treatments for certain cancers.

But after several questions about potential outcomes of such early research, Niakan did «wildly speculate» that, if certain genes are found to be particularly important for development, one eventual approach might be to check during IVF whether eggs were making the proteins encoded by those genes, and if not, then add them to culture media.

But the scientists can't be certain these cells are perfect matches for native human motor neurons since it's difficult to obtain samples of cultured motor neurons from adult individuals.

Because the insertion can be placed so that it interrupts a protein's function, the insertion and repair system may be useful for producing certain pharmaceuticals or protein products, such as cancer drugs, in culture, which would otherwise kill the cell.

For example, «certain cultures may see divorce as more taboo,» he said.

Although it's traditionally been used for healing purposes in Indian culture, where there are lower incidences of certain diseases (like Alzheimer's), its popularity is spreading.

Where the grains originated for certain, like all of the fermented food starter cultures, is difficult to pinpoint.

«For one thing, I'm not sure if anyone knows EXACTLY how our ancestors ate, but I'm pretty certain that it depended a lot on the culture, climate and geography.

Not for the reasons you comment and I am not certain that it is 0 % but it is likely given that no culture in the past was vegan.

Certain brands of cultured coconut milk (coconut yogurt) have substantially less sugar than equivalent servings of dairy yogurt — which is excellent for the Two - Week Test.

A lot of times we blame culture for why we eat a certain way, regardless if news reports start clamoring that it is harmful.

It became very common for certain nomadic cultures to rely on dried yogurt as part of their staple food.

While dropping specific prescriptive antibiotics on a culture has been methodically worked out to correlate with a certain dose of that antibiotic orally, it's never been done for herbs and volatile oils.

I've forgotten what she said though but my point is: In fashion, we seem to go for what looks good or trendy without always knowing what certain designs mean in different cultures and religions.

While all people are different, there are some common denominators for prospective partners brought up in a certain culture, and Russians are not an exception.

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