Sentences with phrase «against dominant»

«Perhaps the most significant factor that helps us to understand why custodial mothers lack a discourse with which to voice their concerns... is that they must fight against a dominant discourse that controls all the terms of the modern custody debate.

It provides people the tools and confidence they need to radically change their diet, to rebel against the dominant food culture, to become a food renegade.

It seems reasonable to encourage historically dis - advantaged cultures to be recognized and valued by providing some sort of protection against dominant cultures.

They calibrated a combined terrestrial (tree ring, ice core and historical documentary indicator) and marine (coral) multi-proxy climate network against dominant patterns of 20th century global surface temperature.

Further evidence against a dominant solar role arises from older analyses targeted at detecting the solar response (e.g., North and Stevens, 1998).

Reacting against the dominant Abstract Expressionist tendencies of the time, he focused exclusively on the control he found in symmetrical and linear compositions and the materiality of the canvas.

The art of Enrico Castellani was always deeply influenced by the styles of his fellow artists, who had also decided to go against the dominant streams of Surrealism, Informel and Abstract Expressionism, and to seek an infinite, minimalist form of expression.

The Hudson River School created the first local art movement, which is often referred to as American history painting, setting it against the dominant tradition in Europe at the time.

Although Jess was an influential artistic figure throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, he often deliberately worked against dominant artistic trends.

On the other hand, cultural trends began to change as well — with Elvis Presley in the US, and the Beatles in the UK (a couple of years later), a big cultural rebellion started against the dominant traditional cultural patterns.

Part of a generation of artists that reacted against the dominant action - oriented, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism, Wesselmann took interest in quotidian, figurative, and popular subject matter, as well as the representational and graphic qualities afforded by collage.

Being avant - garde implies being ahead of, outside, or against the dominant culture; proffering a vision that implicitly stands (at least when it is conceived) as a critique of entrenched forms and structures....

If you live in a hot or cold area, the kennel must be proved against the dominant climate.

It's OK to understand various entry triggers and setups, but if you're trading against the dominant market bias, your probabilities of making money decrease dramatically.

Finally, let's examine the risk - adjusted performance of the fund against it dominant equivalent position, IWO, using a traditional model:

New Thought arose in rebellion against the dominant, gloomy message of American Calvinism, which was that relentless hard work was the duty of every Christian — with the additional sting that, thanks to the doctrine of predestination, you might in any case already be marked to spend eternity in Hell.

DTV, along with engineering firm Blydenstein Racing, selected the humble Chevette to compete against the dominant Ford Escorts.

This car contested the GTU class, for cars under 3.0 liters, and while it didn't win a championship, GTU Celicas racked up 10 wins over several seasons against the dominant Mazda RX - 7 GTU cars of the day.

The most common type of education reform book from the period argued against the dominant strategies.

Later an adult attorney in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Murdock (Ben Affleck) uses his remaining, superenhanced senses to battle crime as Daredevil, the masked and vengeful «man without fear,» pitted against dominant criminal Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) and the psychotic Bullseye (Colin Farrell), who can turn almost anything into a deadly projectile.

If a mouse loses a series of fights against dominant rivals, its personality shifts.

The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

Captain Wayne Rooney scored a 77th - minute penalty as Everton came from behind to earn a draw against a dominant Liverpool side in the Merseyside derby at Anfield.

West Ham completed the ultimate smash and grab at Stamford Bridge to earn a draw against a dominant Chelsea side.

To say Fiorentina have had a poor start to the season is an understatement, The Viola are tenth in the table after only winning one of their games and drawing three as well as an opening day loss against a dominant Roma.

2:57 Our Under - 18s find themselves up against a dominant Chelsea side once again - but this time there's silverware on the line as the two sides do battle in Sunday's Under - 18 Premier League Cup Final.

It was a strong presence of returning champions facing off in Team Maione against a dominant volleyball power in the 1 seed, Team Valvassori, who seemed destined to dethrone the kings.

Opening Round Softball and the Winner would immediately take the field against a dominant # 1 seed that basically ran the table..

Their veteran experience will come in handy on Thursday as they look to fend off elimination, and they'll need all the help they can get against a dominant Predators team.

And while the second - winningest golfer in tour history will take on a stout field that includes four of the world's top - 10 players at a track on which he has prevailed eight times, Woods will also be competing against his dominant, glory days self as well as the expectations of fans and the media.

I want to provide individuals with the essential tools and confidence to radically change their diet and to rebel against the dominant food culture.

In order to compete against the dominant category leaders, RTD tea companies have been forced to think of some unique and creative ways to set their products apart.

In order to compete against the dominant category leaders, RTD tea companies have been forced to think of some unique and creative ways to set their products apart, such as organic tea or use of natural sweeteners.

The life story of the people is indeed that of religio - cultural struggle against the dominant religious and cultural powers.

This is probably due chiefly to a certain sense of solidarity in injustice in protest against the dominant white, bourgeois, employing classes.

Each time the leaders of the seven or eight great industrial powers gather for what they call an Economic Summit, there is also a meeting of TOES, The Other Economic Summit, which articulates the NGO vision over against the dominant one.

The alternative proposed over against the dominant modern world view does not necessarily include God.

This is not an area in which the Bible typically stands against the dominant mores of the time.

• Against those dominant views which deny man's spiritual soul, and his call to relationship, primarily with God.

It is because they were specific that people in and outside of the Catholic Church saw what their values really were and how they stood over against the dominant economic thinking in North America.

I was not turning my back against science, but against the dominant worldview derived from science called mechanism or materialism.

Furthermore, unlike previous sectarian movements which tended to define themselves against the dominant culture, these churches tend toward cultural accommodation.

At the same time, I acknowledge that we can not tell whether he would have been willing to side with a small intellectual minority against the dominant thinking of the time.

The poor countries have to get together, once again, to press their claims against the dominant G8 nations for a reform of the international economic order.

The President's warning is directed against the dominant discourse carried out by the think tank in the financial media which comprises of the Government (both Center and State).

Few of us as individuals can stand against the dominant currents of our societies.

He associated his thought with the liberal Arminius against the dominant conservative Calvinism that insisted on the doctrine of predestination and all its consequences.

Those who followed them insulated themselves against the dominant intellectual changes.

I was out of the box early on Trump's «Germans are bad» rant, as I've long inveighed against the dominant DC notion that trade... Read more

Not exact matches

We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.