Sentences with phrase «against the culture of»

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

The truths contained in the Bible are constantly bucking up against the cultures of its day and the cultures of this day.

Practically speaking, how do we push back against a culture of lack and «never enough»?

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

Against liberal claims that it is only economic factors and not fluid family forms that predict child out - comes, they come down firmly against the culture of narcissism and sexual freedom.

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

Significantly enough, the Lima Document, when it talks about participation in the mystery of Jesus's life, death and resurrection, refers to Jesus» own baptism which meant solidarity with «sinners `, immersion in the culture of the despised masses as against the culture of the priests, scribes, the rich and the pharisees.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

This is also widely believed to be against the culture of the Yoruba race irrespective of the class of such mornach who is expected to be highly reverred.

Moreover, pursuing such a creation would go against the culture of responsibility that DIY biologists have developed over the past five years.

Diane Kruger won the best actress prize at Cannes for her performance as a grieving wife and mother in Fatih Akin's In the Fade (Germany, 2017, with subtitles, R), an intimate thriller that plays out against the culture of white nationalism in Germany.

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.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Kate Winslet recently spoke out against the culture of sexual harassment in Hollywood, saying at the London Critics» Circle awards on Sunday that she has «bitter regrets» over the «poor decisions» she made in working with certain certain «directors, producers, and men of power.»

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, and all the women who spoke out against the culture of sexual abuse

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.

Not exact matches

A culture of anti-Semitism is a fertile ground for breeding extremism and terrorist sympathizers, while a society with no tolerance for anti-Semitism presents a unified front against their agenda.

But the lawsuit «utterly failed» to reform the culture inside the company, Lockette alleges, where a «campaign of harassment» against minorities persisted, Bloomberg reports.

It is an online community of gamers that are upset that people are speaking out against the objectified way women are portrayed in gaming culture on - screen, and the community has also provided some resistance to the growing number of female gamers.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat, said Wells Fargo had a «culture of being fined and losing money for the bank» and held up a chart showing all of the fines and judgments that had gone against the bank since Stumpf became CEO.

Also, evaluate people on your team against the backdrop of your culture.

If your company can pull it off, thanks to depth of talent and strength of culture, then an unlimited vacation policy is hard to argue against.

In France, which proudly defends its culture and language against the global dominance of the United States, the decision is a victory for the traditional cinema distribution sector.

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.

So if you're rethinking your own company's level of LGBT policies and activism in the wake of the Nike - Pacquiao news, keep in mind that your culture's openness to LGBT employees is more than just a rating in an index, or a public stance against a celebrity's remarks.

«The current political situation in Austria is a culture of mistrust against traditional parties,» says Peter Filzmaier, a political science professor at Danube University in Krems, Austria.

The idea of hygge as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other cultural contexts.

The prospect of a Harper majority appeared to fade as Quebec lashed back against his perceived insensitivity to the value of government support for culture.

And if they do work hard, a culture of anxiety and paralysis will work against them.

Known as «Gamergate,» the controversy — ostensibly over ethics in gaming journalism, but used as a vehicle to lash out against women in the gaming industry — has shone a spotlight on the ugliest part of gaming culture.

The union took aim at «a hyper - masculine industrial camp culture, which can result in increased risk of sexual harassment, assault, increased levels of violence against women in sex work and hitchhiking and increased levels of child care and gender inequity.»

Recent developments, including ongoing investigations into bribery and corruption at the Company's subsidiaries in Mexico, China, Brazil, and India; new revelations of accounting fraud at the Company's China operations; a recent ruling by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge against the Company for its illegal discipline of employees; and, the NLRB decision to authorize a nationwide complaint against the Company for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, highlight the need for enhanced oversight of Wal - Mart's corporate culture and behavior.

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

Lacy, or any other journalist, isn't what Uber should be fighting back against — its target should be the internal culture that has led to all of the bad decisions that keep bringing it negative press.

«We are disappointed to see that Uber has selected a team of insiders to investigate its destructive culture and make recommendations for change,» they wrote in an Medium post published on Thursday, referring to the fact that Holder's firm has close ties to Uber and he previously advocated against fingerprint - based background checks for Uber drivers.

While Canada boasts historically low default rates, there is still a strong culture of insuring against the risk of default from borrowers.

Last month, WestJet Airlines filed an appeal after the Supreme Court of British Columbia refused to throw out a proposed class - action lawsuit accusing the company of fostering a corporate culture that tolerates harassment against female employees.

They are most often ambitious type - A personalities that move fast and get things done but these beneficial traits can also work against them when it come to the seemingly slow and inefficient tasks of management, responsibility delegation and building a desirable team culture.

The ride - hail company is not only going through a complete overhaul of its culture and governance, it's also navigating a major self - driving lawsuit brought against it by Alphabet, and it lost more than $ 700 million last quarter — though that's down from more than $ 900 million.

As waves of sexual - harassment allegations crash against the shores of work culture, now is a good time to support women — even robots with female personas like Alexa.

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

Rape culture is when a woman who campaigned for women to be included on banknotes got threatened with rape for her troubles, and when she tried to do something about it, got accused of using the (violent, graphic, horrific) threats against her as a way to get famous.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

The result is a culture that discriminates against other animals, has disregard for the environment, created hatred against people of different beliefs and cultures, and has created constant sect oral wars from the day of its emergence.

The lawsuit was against the city of Ferguson, Wilson and former police Chief Tom Jackson because of Ferguson's «culture of hostility» against black people that led to the death of Brown — an accusation supported by the Department of Justice's findings.

An Orthodox Christian, Dreher emphasizes that believers often must stand against the assumptions of the prevailing culture.

Dreher's book is a bracing read, reminding us that the life in Christ is a communal life and that it often requires us to live against the grain of the larger culture.