Sentences with phrase «about cultural declines»

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Pac - 12 Commissioner Larry Scott also declined to confirm the arrests, but said in a statement the conference was «disappointed by any situation that detracts from the positive student - athlete educational and cultural experience that this week is about.»

Whatever else may be said about the American cultural scene, religion is not in decline today.

But his willingness to call out what he saw as complacency within the contemporary art elite, his exacting knowledge of art history, and his witty approach to writing and speaking about art, marked him out, winning him a wide audience in an age obsessed with cultural criticism's supposed decline.

After the Turner Prize - winning artist Jeremy Deller told the press that he never intended to sign an open letter in support of the cultural boycott of Israel, stating that he thought long and hard about it and then declined — following its publication by Artists for Palestine UK — whose signatories pledge to reject professional -LSB-...]

Reasons for this vary, but it includes declining donor nation assistance for family planning over the past 17 years, a variety of cultural factors (e.g. prevalence of child marriage, male opposition, and misconceptions about the dangers of contraception).