Sentences with phrase «about culture of country»

Learning a language should always include learning about the culture of the country or countries where it's spoken.

When talking about the culture of a country, it is impossible to not speak about food.

Our aim is to enthuse our students about language learning and awaken their mind by allowing them to become curious about the culture of the country.

Sometimes I go to the business trips and I want to learn a bit about culture of country that I visit.

This does not mean that American lawyers must learn specific details about the cultures of every country where the firm has an office (although some familiarity would be nice).

Not exact matches

No, but jokes apart, I think the most important thing about the country is the culture, and there is an element of Nordic culture in what we do.

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

- Despite the rise of mixed martial arts — and subsequent talk about the decline of boxing in mainstream culture — six boxers led their countries in earnings, and four of them made in excess of $ 20 million last year.

I have a decent understanding of the country and its culture and everything about it fascinates me.

And that's one of the great things about the space station, it's an international space station — different countries, cultures, languages.

Culture is a complex thing, but we do know a few things about how to characterize the cultures of different countries.

A graduate of the Schulich School of Business at York University, Melissa is the outgoing chair of Point of View, the country's premiere magazine about documentary culture.

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The Literary Review of Canada is the country's leading forum for discussion and debate about books, culture, politics and ideas.

The funny thing about people saying their faith isn't shaken is that these are the same people who will often look at other natural disasters in foreign countries and say God is punishing these people, or that something bad happened because of some aspect of the culture that God disapproves of.

If women, of any culture, are being hurt in this country, you can do something about it: you can call the police.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

Let's face it: We are unlikely to find a single party that truly represents a «culture of life,» and abortion will probably never be made illegal, so we'll have to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels of the Kingdom to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our homes and churches, reach out to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute to the abortion rate in this country, (especially birth control).

Last year in Ireland, a police file was opened on Bishop Philip Boyce after one of the country's leading secularists, John Colgan, complained about an «offensive» homily in which the bishop stated that the Church is being «attacked from the outside by the arrows of a secular and godless culture.»

With close to 400 Confucian institutes established in different countries of the world, the PRC is serious about promoting Chinese culture.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

It condemns sex - selective abortion and female infanticide, although one wonders exactly why, and exactly how it intends member states to go about addressing what it calls the «root causes of son preference» in benighted native cultures that don't understand all about human rights the way that most EU countries do.

Contemporary evidence about the economic cultures of East Asia, of successful ethnic groups in different countries, or of the mobility of immigrants to this country all seems to point in the same direction: self - denial and discipline are virtues that are the condition sine qua non of early capitalist development.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

And we preserve the rights of countries to determine their own policies about abortion, so that everyone can work together to build a culture where the dignity of every human being is respected from conception.

If we really want to catch the attention of the culture, how about selling all the church properties and using the billions in proceeds to get the homeless off the streets and to provide vaccinations and clean water for third world countries?

With us, it's just like: We're a hodgepodge of different cultures, but in most ways, our cuisine is about the overabundance of what's been produced in this country since its inception.

I admire his commitment to his taste, but if a beer is going to be carrying the reputation of our country's entire beer culture on its slightly tipsy back, I want it to really represent what our country's beer scene is all about: morning hikes with your grandpa, strong opinions on trivial issues, trash talk at the Super Bowl, and doing whatever it takes to snag first place at your hometown pie - eating contest.

As the creator, executive producer and host of the Bizarre Foods franchise on Travel Channel (including Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Bizarre Foods America and Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations) and Andrew Zimmern's Driven by Food, he has explored cultures in more than 150 countries, promoting impactful ways to think about, create and live with food.s

ABOUT LOS ANGELES FOOD & WINE: Now in its fourth year, the Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival, presented with generous support from Founding Partners FOOD & WINE, Lexus, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Resort, JENN - AIR, Delta Airlines, is a four - day epicurean event showcasing the finest in food and drink culture throughout Los Angeles and culinary personalities from throughout the country.

Fever Pitch is about the quotidian and what one man can learn about himself by participating in the national obsession; The Soccer Diaries starts with a child in search of something thoroughly other, a citizen cheating on his own country's sporting culture.

The owner Tony Fernandes constantly drones on about rebuilding, culture and philosophy but how is he ever going to run a successful football club if he can't be certain one of his 25 players has the right to work in the country?

Or you can read stories about the legend of Saint Nicholas, or explore the different ways he is celebrated in different countries and cultures.

I don't think you can draw any conclusions about the health aspects of breast feeding after the age of ~ 12 months in a modern 1st world country from studies of 3rd world cultures.

Cass at The Diary of a Frugal Family shows us how she teaches her children about other countries and cultures whilst having fun in America Day.

At present it is the softest of soft borders, not only in the sense of being unpoliced, but in the sense of there being a deep - rooted borderlands culture stretching north and south about which the Conservative MP for the Borders Rory Stewart has written eloquently (see «Loyalty of the borderlands», Prospect, March 2012 and his wider ranging claims about «Middleland» in his TV series Border Country).

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

Culture and creative expression provided a key to the Revolution of 2011 that confounded the foreign policy experts around the world, and they reveal much about the divisions tearing the country apart today.

Recalling his experience of working in various parts of the country as an army officer, Buhari noted that serving in some southern parts of the country like Lagos and Ibadan were very rich experiences, as he learnt more about the culture of the region.

Bharara's recent convictions of two of New York's three most powerful political leaders isn't so much about the misgivings of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, but rather the culture of abuse and entitlement that has plagued our capital, as well as our state and country.

They were asked how connected they felt to their heritage culture as well as to American values, and how they felt about their level of integration in their new country.

Under a community - based tourism arrangement, unique benefits accrue to both the traveler and the hosts: Travelers usually accustomed to chain hotels and beachfront resorts discover local habitats and wildlife and learn about traditional cultures and the economic realities of life in developing countries.

Jayson and Mira have been to countries that many of us have never even heard of and know the real story about these cultures that we often talk about in health discussions.

For those following along in the world of nutrition and holistic health, sometimes it feels as though any positive change in the general culture's awareness about the foods they eat and the state of health in this country, are slow to come by.

Many tourists directly fly to the islands, but there is something about Asian cities that fascinates me and I love to experience as much of a country as possible: city life, culture, food, people, landscapes...!

Yes, Chiuri wants her dream rooted in reality — and she is quite pragmatic about learning a new culture, in terms of both a new company and a new country — but, with Stephen Jones's masques de bal, Red Riding's hoods, stars sparkling on the models» faces, and Edward Scissorhands on the soundtrack, she is clearly still in love with fairytales.

Almost every time I read one of your posts, I realize something else I take for granted about my country / culture.

Knowing Pinay online singles definitely paved way for more men to learn more about the culture and the feminine charms of each woman in this country.

Find out more about culture and history of the country where your lady is from showing respect to her in this manner.

That was for me because I always loved traveling and the idea of visiting the country where my future wife is living in order to learn more about local customs and culture was very attractive.