Sentences with phrase «back by this culture»

On the other hand, we're presented with the psychological study of an intelligent boy who was raised in and is being held back by this culture.

Not exact matches

It's a new book by Andrew Keen, a deep thinker on Silicon Valley culture, that proposes reconstructing our whole approach to the Internet by putting humans back at the center of our technology.

By fully integrating with social networks, and cultivating a culture of helping and giving back, you will be amazed how vibrant your Rotman School of Management community is!

Our culture is one of passion first, but it is always backed by data.

In the case of ethereum, there are now two versions of the open - source software, both running largely similar feature sets, but backed by different communities and cultures.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The problems at Wells Fargo and its overly aggressive sales culture date back at least 15 years, and management had little interest in dealing with the issue until it spiraled out of control resulting in millions of accounts being opened fraudulently, according to an investigation by the company's board of directors.

Reflecting back on the World Series victory reveals a concerted effort that began years ago by the new owners to change team culture.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

The consensus achieved by the faithful comes to the individual as embodied in a broader culture that moves from the local to the global and back again.

But likely Douthat is right that the future of Christianity will not be marked primarily by our pulling back from mainstream culture to subcultural communities of our own fashioning.

Meanwhile, a semiautonomous «youth culture» — backed up, I would add, by massive marketing to children — endlessly demands a sexualized precocity that mimics adulthood without meeting genuine developmental needs.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

The innocent description of the culture of the times, of supposed god actions, recorded in the bible pretty much proves the non-existence of a god, even without the lack of any evidence found by astronomy looking back almost the whole 13 Billion years.

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.

Ok, I need to rant, but I'll try to do so in love... I listened to a message a while back by a famous pastor in Seattle who gave a message called «Building a City Within the City» in which he basically argued that God's heart was for the city, because that is where culture and -LSB-...]

Given the delicacy of the topic, it is likely that interviewees felt pressured to answer one way or another, not because they actually believed it, but because of trends in the culture they inhabit (trends sometimes backed by law or force).

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

Backed by an old culture, endowed with a rich civilization, and acquainted with logic, philosophy, and other intellectual pursuits, the people of Iran became familiar with the teachings of Islam.

I listened to a message a while back by a famous pastor in Seattle who gave a message called «Building a City Within the City» in which he basically argued that God's heart was for the city, because that is where culture and education and art and music all happen.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

The Christian community in Corinth probably had in it people of both Jewish and Gentile back grounds, and even after their conversion, they must have been troubled by the discrepancies between the faith they affirmed and the taken - for - granted assumptions of their culture.

Christians should not assume, however, that the emerging global civilization will come back by itself to common sense and traditional values: the new culture must be evangelised.

Says Newbigin: «It is only when we are exposed to a totally different culture and a different language, shaped by a widely different history, that we can turn back and see that what we always took for granted is only one way of seeing things.»

To go back to the main point, dying to the world of convention — dying to those identities conferred by culture, dying to the values of culture — is utterly central to the way of Jesus.

We can go back as far as Kierkegaard to find these roots, but our focus is more well placed in Jean Baudrillard's theories that argue for a heightened abstractness within culture pointing us to the negative side of an intertextual world view where meaning is paradoxically contained in and unbound by deferánce.

We can also bring Catholic culture back into the curriculum by studying the English language itself.

If I interpret the prospectus of the CMC correctly, the objective of the CMC namely to «impart to men and women an education of the highest order in the art and science of medicine and to equip them in the spirit of Christ for service In the relief of suffering and promotion of health», that is, the idea of a combination of training in professional skills, moulding the technically trained in a culture of human values and motivation, equipping them to utilize technology to serve «with compassion and concern for the whole person», the people especially the weaker sections of society, and giving spiritual reinforcement of that culture by the «spirit of Christ» and the motto «Not to be Ministered unto but to Minister» derived from him, goes back in tradition to the founder herself (Prospectus MBBS Course p. 5).

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

[P.S.: I think Jonathan Merritt responded in a helpful way to the situation by taking a few steps back and examining the overall Christian conference culture here.]

When in the early 1900s anthropology was able to get its ethnographers into the byways and backwaters of the world, it soon found that their reports quite contradicted the models of culture conceived by scholarly folk back home.

The crisis is caused by an ecclesial culture that has built up in recent decades and has roots going a lot further back.

There will be heightened calls for a return to the religious or ethnic cultures of the past and for the re-introduction of stricter controls backed up by force from a higher authority.

HOWARU ® brand cultures from DuPont encompass a range of clinically documented probiotic formulations backed by expert marketing, as well as technical and regulatory support.

DairiConcepts operates an established, well - documented quality and food safety management system backed by a corporate culture devoted to continuous improvement.

The prize is a tribute to the energy of thousands of women who have created a countrywide network of education and have been given back our dignity, identity, and culture by means of the chocolate trade.

There is a heritage and culture associated with Tequila and Mezcal that dates back well over a thousand years, when the agave plant — also known as the maguey — was utilized by Mexico's native peoples for virtually everything: from food and drink to sugar, shoes, soap, building supplies, and even medicine.

It was lazy of Wenger to emphasize a family atmosphere especially in recent seasons, it almost, if not created a culture where everyone patted each other on the back fostering mediocrity, in the real world of the premier league and elsewhere, it is important to be fired up by competition even among the players, and with a manager of Wenger's stature, I'm sure he has enough in his locker to make sure said competition don't get nasty and counterproductive to overall team performance.

The Eagles have guys ingrained in the culture coming back hungry to have the glory they were denied last year by missing out in the SB.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

As the Twittersphere and today's Boston Globe reported, and as I was glad to make it back to Boston to hear him say in person, Goodell recognized that changing the culture of the NFL was not only his most important mission as commissioner but also the «biggest challenge» the league, and by extension, football at every level, faces.

Where I have worked, in equatorial Africa, by the age of eight or nine, children, almost all of whom have been sibling or cousin caretakers at times when mothers have not taken babies in a back sling to work in a field or do another task, know everything there is to know about raising a baby in their culture except what one learns through the direct experience of breastfeeding.

Activists said the Games supported discrimination, MPs savaged the Home Office and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport for not keeping track of things, Seb Coe tried to ban people wearing Pepsi T - shirts from entering the Games and ministers decided to step back from the abyss by not using VIP lanes.

The net offers opportunities to create and enjoy culture like never before, yet this openness and creativity risks being undone by corporate monopolists backed by bullying states.

A change.org petition calling for Culture Secretary Maria Miller to pay back # 45,000 - the amount recommended by the Standards Commissioner - or resign, has gained more than 140,000 signatures.

Now, in a political culture dominated by Brexit and Donald Trump, we can peer back at the recent past and spot quite clearly where our problems originated.

Tom Daley just did more for gay culture by lying back on a couch than thousands of hours of diligent campaign work could ever hope to achieve.

The Federal government ably represented by the Minister of Information and Cultures, Alhaji Lai Mohammed alongside the Convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), Oby Ezekwezili and other delegates have arrived Yola on a tour to Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram ravaged territories.

Back home, the Ministers of the Interior, Foreign Affairs and Tourism Arts and Culture ought to be requested by the President to draw up concrete programmes towards the full realization of this objective and Parliament should be apprised regularly of how many persons of African descent in the Diaspora have been granted the Right of Abode Status.

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.

The power is afforded the government by section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, which the culture secretary must decide whether or not to trigger now that a state - backed press regulator has been recognised.