Sentences with phrase «back against our culture»

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

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

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.

Miller pushes back against a culture that over-protects young people to keep them from feeling scared, sad, or not special.

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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.

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.

But art mirrors culture and, currently, the United States» most lucrative, popular artistic output is a genre that began as fanciful depiction of fighting Nazis, and has been dedicated to the notion that good people can fight back against wickedness ever since.

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.

Rick Perlstein writes about the resurgent protest culture that is fighting back against Rahm Emanuels» austerity agenda.

He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.

Almost as soon as the Enlightenment unfolded there were counter-Enlightenment movements that glorified the tribe, the homeland, the culture; that pushed back against reason as the way to grapple with our world.

Knowledge is power and in «In Defense of Food,» Pollan pushes back against the rise of nutritionism and the «lipid hypothesis,» (fat causes heart disease — no scientific research has ever proven this to be true, though it has pervaded our culture for nearly 30 years!).

I'm probably one of the few people who pushes back against this idea that dating apps or dating sites are actually responsible for the dating culture becoming more permissive or more sexualized.

The individuals he is talking about are «Cartel Land's» twin protagonists, vigilantes from two different countries and two different cultures who are determined, each in his own way, to fight back against the endemic violence the Mexican drug cartels bring to everything they touch.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

How does farming simulation role playing game Stardew Valley's emphasis on earnestness, community, and peacefulness promote a culture of kindness that can push back against animal exploitation?

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But while this often led the older generation — artists like Hans Haacke, Hanne Darboven and Robert Barry — to work that was visually spare, or barely there, the younger artists have embraced the tools of spectacle — lights, camera, action — and tried to turn them to purposes that push back against mass culture.

Pushing back against the anachronistic images that haunt Africa in popular culture and parlance, they managed to create a space that facilitated dozens of individual, specific, complex histories, even within the larger cadre of a glitzy art fair.

Culture Vulture Kim Howells Praises Writer's Anti-Tate Venue; Minister Hails Gallery's Stand against Art World «Stasi» Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); November 26, 2003; 700 + words OUTSPOKEN government minister Kim Howells - in backing a controversial art gallery which calls itself... Meldrew of Westminster.

Role Reversal, an exhibition currently on view at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) presents the work of three women photographers whose images push back against long - held perceptions of beauty and gender roles in visual culture.

Is there a possibility within the dialogical fabric of networked culture to enact a meaningful social restructuring and so push back against the totalitarianism of the apparatus?

by James Osborn Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — Steve Milloy, a regular on Fox News and publisher of the blog JunkScience.com, has long railed against a culture within the U.S. government of pseudo-scientific research and overregulation that has held back America's energy industries.

Learning how to repair knitted sweaters is one way to fight back against disposable clothing culture.

Now, unlike the dominant tide in Canadian political culture against which Chief Justice Joyal wants to push back, I am not uncritical of the courts — of their power and of the manner in which they exercise it.

Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out, the Center Against Religious Extremism (TWOCARE.org) and author of «Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth» (Routledge, 2003) and «Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on People, Politics, and Culture.»

She said this led her to committing her career to resolving issues of alcohol, family violence and abuse against children in Aboriginal communities as a means to get back to her culture and community.