Sentences with phrase «away from the culture»

«You almost have to look away from cultures and to what makes a human being a great person and a great [professional] and make that almost your guiding light as you hire.»

As I've said before, I believe the first step in moving away from a culture war mentality regarding sexuality in the Church is to stop talking about LGBT folks and start talking with LGBT folks, particularly those with whom we share a common faith.

This is not about apportioning blame but we need to get away from this culture of ignoring our talent while ignoring the deficiencies of big money signings.

... special occasions are precisely when the rules ought to be relaxed — that helps to establish them as special — and provided we get away from the culture of «every day is special», its not as if you'd be exposing kids to unhealthy food all the time.

Greg above wrote: «provided we get away from the culture of «every day is special,» it's not as if you'd be exposing kids to unhealthy food all the time.»

«There are those who contest that the UK has historically set far too much store by home - ownership and that we should be unconcerned that the average age of the first - time buyer is approaching forty but taken together, this trend, the spread of means - tested benefits, the regime for long term care, the damage done to private pension provision by one of Gordon Brown's earliest misjudgements, compounded by the current squeeze on household finances which has seen over a million people forced to abandon contributions to their pension funds, all amount to a massive turn away from a culture of property ownership with the responsibility and independence that goes with it.»

«It's sort of going away from a culture of trust to one of proof,» Bradley says.

But Peat was finally convinced to write because so many Native American youth are turning away from their culture.

Ultimately it gave me more peace stepping away from the culture of buy more, have more.

, and has given me more peace stepping away from the culture of MORE.

Probably the most thought - provoking portion of Professor Wax's essay is her discussion of how both models — no - excuses and income mixing — «assume that, to succeed in school and in life, poor children need to be taught bourgeois, middle - class values — and socialized away from their culture of birth.»

We are trying to move our elementary program away from a culture of specials to a culture in which all subjects, whether offered daily or not, are considered part of the core curriculum.

As noted, both income mixing and no - excuses schools assume that, to succeed in school and in life, poor children need to be taught bourgeois, middle - class values — and socialized away from their culture of birth.

This beach resort offers something for everyone from golden sand beaches to water sports and beach - front dining whilst only being 35 minutes away from the culture and shops of Malaga city.

Their goal was to move away from a culture of materialism and commercialism, and to disrupt the art world's emphasis on valuable substances.

By deciding to boil half of Alberta to release oil from sand as a way to balance our exports drives us further away from the culture of innovation we see driving growth and prosperity here.

«You almost have to look away from cultures and to what makes a human being a great person and a great [professional] and make that almost your guiding light as you hire.»

Not exact matches

April 20 marks National Weed Day in cannabis culture, and some brands are not shying away from the holiday.

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

In order to move away from recruiting and hiring based on intuition, businesses should add third party testing, do group interviews and consider company culture.

Individuals come away from such a process with renewed enthusiasm and purpose, which helps define and develop the company culture and prevents work from feeling only like work.

The now - canceled panel, «Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games,» was to feature «experts on online harassment in gaming and geek culture,» including activist Randi Harper, and discuss «how to combat it, how to design against it, and how to create online communities that are moving away from harassment.»

Just because salespeople are often away from the office — either working remotely or in the field — doesn't mean they don't want to be involved in company culture.

Despite your best judgment, you're going to have to move the armoire away from the front door and move your business out of your studio apartment as you start to grow, bring on new employees, and begin to build a workplace culture — preferably one that watches Shaun of the Dead on a loop each day.

Rinearson understands the male - dominated culture of both finance and tech can lead some women to shy away from jumping into the industry, so she's made it her mission to get more women involved — starting with high schoolers.

Long After Mrs. Handler left Mattel and turned away from toys, Barbie remained wildly popular, not only as a toy, but as a touchstone of American culture.

In such works as Idea of a Christian Society, After Strange Gods, and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, he turned away from firmly embedded nails and toward goads.

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.

During their time living away from the Holy Land, they adopted aspects of the local culture and that most definitely included intermarriage with local populations.

The moment that I set myself up as the «victim» of «journalism shaming,» not only do I take something away from people who have truly been victimized, but I add to the momentum of false victimhood culture while ignoring the words of Jesus about turning the other cheek.

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

Although he insists he was never persecuted and eschews the label of «victim,» Berger suggests that it was his rightward drift in political outlook» a drift away from the zeitgeist of the intellectual culture» that effectively exiled him from the elite institutions.

«Scientific culture thus exerts a powerful influence on young and impressionable minds, and gradually they drift away from the Church.

We talk about culture and real - life issues that other faith - based magazines might shy away from, because we believe it's important to address the gritty stuff of life — even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Wouldn't it make more sense to ban assault rifles, and start to begin to wean our children away from our rediculous gun culture?

Although postmodern culture certainly tends to push individuals away from institutionalized forms of religion, this is usually part of a search for spirituality elsewhere.

Unfortunately, as mainstream culture continues to drift away from — or even blatantly revolt against — Christian values and Christian definitions of morality, more and more media will fall into this category.

It has often been charged that by focusing attention away from «the world» to God, the kingdom of heaven, and eternal life, Jesus introduced an ascetic and otherworldly element that nullifies human culture.

What distinguishes the Muslim from the Hindus, he said, is a particular kind of dress and a few remnants of Mughal refinements which will soon be swept away by the scientific and international culture of the modern age.

Bob, American mainstream culture has been moving away from the principals of Christianity for the last 4 decades.

«Unfortunately, we've always had this premise in Christian culture that the world is bad, the world is wicked and anything that has to do with the world you stay away from,» Franklin says.

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

(12) The consumer orientation of electronic culture and the expansion of widely advertised and available alternatives has brought a shift away from a committed and sacrificial relationship to organically - integrated communities towards one where as individuals we construct our own individualised networks characterised by tentativeness and usefulness.

The movement of the culture away from the church, and the attendant loss of $ $ $ is forcing churches to either radically redefine church, or close the doors.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

In the second lecture I looked at what happens when people simply drift away from Jesus into the wider Western culture, the option of Gautama,...

«As pop culture gets away from faith,» White notes, «it... abandons its most important social function, confusing rather than uniting our humanity.

I am speaking generally, of course, but I think Christian women wrestle with these questions most of all, perhaps because in a religious culture that often puts forth narrow and contested definitions of womanhood, young women whose interests and personalities might lead them away from the list of acceptable rules and roles are subtly punished for not exhibiting a more «gentle and quiet spirit,» for not reigning in some of that ambition and drive.

1) Copenhagen demonstrated that global governance has overreached itself; 2) The crisis provokes a shift away from idealistic globalism, back to pragmatic concerns; 3) «Global consensus» established by «experts» is not and has never been genuine; 4) The institutions of global governance prove unable to resolve their identity crisis and to reform themselves; they are fragmented; 5) Global governance pays the bill for not taking into account non-western cultures and civilisations; 6) Displaying an incapacity to provide real leadership, produce a vision for the world, new ideas / ideologies, global governance opts for a survival approach.

«We say: Don't take the crucifix away from our classrooms and courtrooms, because the crucifix is the symbol of our culture,» Morelli said.