Sentences with phrase «given the culture at»

Given the culture at the time, it is extremely likely that he was, and the commonality of the fact simply didn't bear mention.

Not exact matches

The company culture at ChattyPeople has always been one of individual responsibility, and I manage that by giving a lot of freedom.

One thing that keeps a virtual culture together is making sure that everyone, even at the most remote location, is consulted on ideas and given a chance to voice their thoughts.

Similar to how learning the likes and dislikes of a potential new hire provides insight into someone's preferences, asking about the culture at their previous workplace gives us insight into how that company operates and what aspects of that culture attracted them to our opening.

Because living in another culture while still retaining your own forces you to see the world from multiple perspectives and acknowledge there are many ways to look at any given situation.

At that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversationAt that point in the run of «Breaking Bad,» Odenkirk wasn't even sure if the show or his character would make it to season three, given its low ratings and the fact that it wasn't yet at the top of pop culture conversationat the top of pop culture conversations.

The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, gave a detailed account of an alleged 2012 gang rape that a woman identified as «Jackie» said had endured at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house as a first - year student, and accused the university of tolerating a culture that ignored sexual violence against women.

«Our company culture at Dream Water is to give back to our community and help others lead balanced, healthy lives,» says Lekach.

Being personally responsible for creating a positive culture at a fast - growing company, it struck me how much we could learn from McDonough about building trusting and effective working relationships, given he did just that at a very high level.

«There's no question Johan is a visionary automotive leader, but given GM's conservative culture he may have pushed things a step too far,» Jessica Caldwell, an executive analyst at consumer auto site Edmunds.com, said in an email.

We give people the natural fuel they need to be at their very best, from protein - packed milk and cultured products to the boost of ready - to - drink coffee.

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride - hailing company's treatment of women — which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee — is no worse at Uber than at other companies.

Aleksandr Kogan, a researcher at Cambridge University who created a personality quiz to collect users data on Facebook, gives evidence before Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in London on April 24.

The magic here comes from understanding which culture you were raised in, which culture you are currently in, and which approach might be more appropriate at a given time.

Just as Beowulf gives us a glimpse at the mores and morals of the ancient, pre-christian Anglo - Saxon culture, so do the books of Bible give us insight into ancient middle eastern cultures.

At best you would be more like Spock given your exposure to Western culture and having a human mother.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

At least in my own experience, as I have gotten to know people different from me, it's given me an appreciation and / or understanding for what they go through, or their culture, perspective, etc..

It is far more likely, given the history of the people and cultures of the time, that the people who followed the old testament, whatever it was called at the time, realized that many new philosophies were edging out their beliefs, so they came up with the NT to try to bring believers back.

It concerns a man named Johnny Hake, a suburbanite pleased to be living among cultured and leisured neighbors who «travel around the world, listen to good music, and given a choice of paper books at an airport, will pick Tliucydides, and sometimes Aquinas.»

The same picture was in art books in our school library as were many other artworks of nudes but I was written up for giving a child «porn»!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the same time in our culture, in movies, on TV and internet, these kids could see much more graphic stuff.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

That's why we cover life issues and culture next to social justice and spiritual growth — to look at the things relevant to our lives and world, and give voice to what God is doing in and through our generation.

In the end, it hasn't been the GOP's most strident culture warriors or shameless religious panderers who have finally endeared themselves to Iowa's social conservative caucus - goers, or who give my generation reason to take a second look at conservative candidates in spite of our flight from the GOP.

The diversity of what Kekes calls secondary values arises as cultures give form to the content of the primary values: «And of course these forms, interpretations, attempts at the civilization of our raw drives - choose the metaphor that pleases - these secondary values, that is, will be different in different contexts» (emphasis added).

Whatever may be the level of a given society, it can and does develop such sharing, such participation in agreed values, such mutuality in pursuit of them; and it leads to the appearance of a «culture» which expresses such agreements and aims at their implementation.

Given that sports are an expression of culture, what does this say about our nation at a broader level?

At the other extreme are Christians who eagerly participate in worldly culture without giving a thought to whether it is compatible with a Biblical worldview.

Culture involves specific actions or rituals to be performed in a given way at different stages of life such as birth, marriage and funerals within a community, and these acquire the value of tradition.

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

This is a culture that puts man at its heart, respectful of his God - given dignity and insistent on an understanding of labor that allows each man not only to have but to be.

At a theoretical level, given technological drives and commercial interests, the juggernaut of «the culture of death» seems unstoppable, but there is a widespread and growing measure of intelligent anxiety.

Is he trying to say that Islam is, or at least gives rise to, «a mythic culture» that «needs violence for its foundation»?

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

But the person who insists she is a Catholic, but finds the Trinity «patriarchal and oppressive», Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross «just so bloodthirsty», lesbian and homosexual relationships «a lifestyle to be celebrated», and the Pope «a ridiculous figure»......... such a person's contribution to dialogue lacks integrity and meaning Pro's And Con's Of The Ghetto Culture Of course, the reasons for wanting to emphasise one's Catholicism are pretty obvious: it gives status, enlarges one's importance, and is, at present, very fashionable.

Would Punjabi Christianity survive at all, given the formidable pressures to assimilate into the dominant culture, and given the absence now of foreign rewards?

Marsden, in a speech at Austin Theological Seminary marking 50 years since Niebuhr had given the lectures there which later became Christ and Culture, argues that a careful reading reveals that «Niebuhr's five categories can he extremely useful analytical tools.»

Given that she had decided to join the millions of Christians fasting during Lent, she was all too happy to know that market forces were at work acknowledging this aspect of Christian culture.

The great cultures of the ancient world lay at the two ends, Babylonia near where the sweep of the Zagros Mountains terminates its length of eastern bulwark and barrier to the Semitic world, and Egypt nestling among her brooding deserts at the northeast corner of Africa in the perennial delight of her sunny clime and her life - giving river.

They are also puzzled by the fact that their culture at least tacitly gives access to a drug and then expels its users.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

One of the ironies of our situation is the fact that at the very time the church seems to have given up on its hope, an extraordinary resurgence of interest in religion, particularly in the non-rational aspects of religion, is being observed in groups as diverse as Marxists interested in eschatology and «cultured despisers» interested in the mystery of faith.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

«This year for the first time Oadby Multicultural Group will be laying a wreath at the War Memorial as well as the one I will lay on behalf of the parish and we do want people of all faiths who are paying respect to those from their own faiths and cultures who served and gave their lives, to feel welcome in the service.

was the title of a lecture given last night at Manhattan's Church of St. Vincent Ferrer by Helen Alvaré, associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law, senior fellow at the Culture of Life....

Given the ubiquity and gravity of sex in our culture, it's not surprising that sexual ethics was at the center of the controversy.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

Marsden's address commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture lectures, given at Austin Seminary January 31 - February 4, l949.

The freely given and unmerited love of God is proclaimed by speaking of the poor and their needs, their rights and dignity, their culture, and, above all, of the God who wants to place them at the center of the history of the church.3

And why are we giving the culture of Washington new powers of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded about all the issues of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?