Sentences with phrase «against culture»

We have to consciously push back against the culture of fear that has come to surround parenting if we are to raise truly successful adults.

It will not be perfect, it will not be even close, but it will provide a place to return to and will also provide a place to battle back against our culture.

If a company isn't a nice place to be for people your age, you'll be up against the culture at some point.

It takes conviction and courage to speak against the culture.

Protestant churches teach against the culture of prosperity all the time.

For this reason, I fight daily against a culture that suggests I dress differently, wear my hair differently, and defer to a more masculine identity.

But such a move would be unheard of, as it goes against a culture that celebrates and reinforces sleep deprivation at every turn.

Yesterday the Stuckists, whose co-founder Charles Thomson is standing against Culture Secretary Chris Smith in Islington, opened five exhibitions all called Vote Stuckist across London, to vie with the Turner announcement, which they described as «a national joke».

In MoviePass, Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc (NASDAQ: HMNY) bet big against the culture of big - screen movie exhibition.

I feel my crime against the Culture Club, sitting and waiting — against the roll, arms crossed in the lifeboat while colleagues paddle & paddle round & round.

This is a cultural struggle against the culture of violence and death of the Roman Empire.

Cuomo said in a statement that «2017 was the year of reckoning — and 2018 will be the year for action against the culture of rampant sexism and misogyny.»

Her party leader will be stealing the headlines, but she too has an opportunity to once again stick the knife in against culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, her opposite number in the Commons.

As Marriage Week (7 - 14 February) kicks off, J.John explains why Christians need to fight back against a culture which devalues marriage More

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.

We need to set the claims of the Kingdom over against the culture of narcissism.

It is a movement of cultural resistance against the culture of despotic domination with its god of Power.

Non-compliance to the government dictates will result in sanctions against cultures that do not comply with the monolithic dictates of a centralized Social Order of Government.

Meanwhile, Russian Methodists have little interest in the Christ against culture role which Niebuhr devises for embattled Christian minorities.

Extreme fundamentalists who forbid members to watch TV, who sometimes even burn TV sets, illustrate a Christ against culture view.

This is the situation of religion against culture.

Those are strong words, written by the Czech activist Václav Havel in his essay «The Power of the Powerless,» one of the twentieth century's great calls to «living in the truth» against a culture based on violence, manipulation, and lies.

This cultural struggle of the people of God is the same as their struggle for the culture of their covenant with God against the culture of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

In many ways they inspired and led the renewal in American Christianity while defending the teachings of the Gospel against the culture even as an enfeebled and wounded Church fell back in disarray.

(We must examine the liturgy and theology of the churches, which contain this theology against culture.)

But there's a weird thing in the church where it preaches against the culture of celebrity then the first thing we want to do when we do a men's meeting or whatever is «who do we know whose famous?!»

They strongly advised against culturing the mother's milk for bacteria before feeding, describing this as not a useful practice.

In 2006, researchers at the University of Florida conducted a study testing extracts from Acai berries against cultured human cancer cells.

Set in Mexico against the culture and folklore of Día de Muertos (the Day of the Dead)-- a national holiday that honors departed loved ones — the emotional movie centers on universal themes.

After the year of Weinstein and the tidal wave of victims» voices against our culture's systemic oppression and mistreatment of women, maybe my peers are reticent to reward an abusive character.

This low - key tale of a shoeshine man (André Wilms) who takes in a runaway African boy (Blondin Miguel) is set against a culture of unemployment, poverty, and loss.

The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity George Couros's 2015 jeremiad against cultures of compliance within the school system emphasizes empowerment instead, stressing the importance of questioning, creativity, and wonder for students, teachers, and administrators alike.

At some level you're rowing against a culture challenge in education, which is a culture of non-differentiation.

Mellor's project enacts a rebellion against the culture industry's colonization of our consciousness, as described in Guy Debord's 1967 text Society of the Spectacle.

Another is that any work that essentially constitutes «applied science» cuts against the culture in modern scholarship and academic institutions — which is mainly focused on pushing frontiers of understanding more than pursuing a solution to a societal problem.

If you've suffered in an accident for which another motorist was at fault, you shouldn't have to labor against culture and the insurance company's biases against motorcyclists.

Biblical fundamentalists have adopted what Niebuhr would classify as Christ Against Culture, rejecting the appeals of the mass media and, to a certain degree, the media themselves.

But untranslated books are a real crime against culture and literature and every author should expect to get their work translated into several languages.

The movement of Jesus for the Reign of God is a combined struggle against the culture of the Roman and Greek imperial powers and principalities, and against the encroaching cultural pollution in the life of God's people.

The state Democratic Party, controlled by Mr. Cuomo, started a campaign on Wednesday to pass Mr. Cuomo's so - called Women's Agenda, quoting the governor as saying «2018 will be the year for action against the culture of rampant sexism and misogyny.»