Sentences with phrase «became more cultured»

From 2011 to 2013, I read 197 books, and I became more cultured, intelligent, informed and dare I say better looking.

It seems while in Italy Szcz may have become more cultured and he can now see the benefits of been a professional and how it can prolong your playing career at top level.

Not only will you have an opportunity to show off your dress, you will also have an opportunity to become more cultured.

Listen to the radio, turn on the news, scroll through a news website, and don't be surprised when you become the more cultured (and confident) version of yourself.

Not exact matches

If you develop a company culture based on mutual understanding and respect, your employees are more likely to enjoy their jobs and become ambassadors for your brand and reputation.

When you consider that more than half of workers are willing to leave their current jobs for companies that show their appreciation to employees, adopting a culture of gratitude becomes your most valuable retention strategy.

Vancouver's burgeoning technology community may aspire to become a nexus of money and talent akin to Silicon Valley, but it's making an ever more deliberate effort to distinguish itself from the Bay Area's uncaring «tech bro» culture.

The larger a company becomes, the more that culture has to reinvent itself to accommodate more employees and the need for management.

By embracing culture in this way, it becomes more accessible to companies that don't have the financial resources available or choose not to adopt some of the latest workplace trends.

Becoming a data literate culture means integrating data platforms into our work so we can become more familiar with it.

Needs are becoming more diverse Conversely, as we focus on ways to avoid meals and other unessential tools, there are brilliant ideas that fit the needs of specific cultures.

Although focusing on organizational culture as a differentiator has become a more common practice in the business world, there are still many misconceptions about what culture really means and how to make it successful.

As technology advances and businesses become more globalized, creating a truly diverse organizational culture that incorporates basic human principles and fosters diversity of ideas and perspectives is not just good for employees, Webster argues.

«Businesses are diversifying from traditional corporate models, and spontaneity is becoming more valued,» says Estelle Tang, a culture editor at Elle, where (no surprise) people tend to notice one another's clothes.

Adapting to the culture helped SAP's North American operation back to growth and McDermott was given more markets to oversee, including Asia - Pacific and Latin America, before becoming president of global sales and co-CEO with Jim Hagemann Snabe in 2010 and then sole CEO in 2014.

«When female attorneys become mothers, their constrained roles in a workplace culture built on gender stereotypes become even more evident.»

But as the #MeToo movement has swept the country — exposing badly behaving bosses and out - of - control corporate cultures — that harsh reality has become all the more apparent.

Berg also points out that a unified culture will «rally the troops,» but with multiple locations, this task becomes more challenging.

«While many markets are becoming more like Japan, I think the culture here is still very unique and special, so many products that are born here will stay here,» Garduño noted.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

Asper became the network's CEO last December and since then he has cleaned up its logo (no more blood), clarified its mission («We have to be about the culture of fighting) and boosted subscriptions by 10 percent (subscribers now number roughly 1 million).

More Unicorn Births: While it takes the same amount of time to become a unicorn, tech culture has become much more mainstrMore Unicorn Births: While it takes the same amount of time to become a unicorn, tech culture has become much more mainstrmore mainstream.

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Plant - based milk is already showing a tendency to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in one category growing as sales in another category decline.21 It seems plausible that cultured and plant - based meat will similarly take market share from the sales of conventional meat, especially as it becomes more cost - competitive, widely available, and harder to distinguish from conventional meat in taste and texture.

GFI estimates that cultured meat could become cost - competitive with conventional meat in about a decade.42 The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil) reports that one of two scientists they spoke with who work on tissue engineering gave a similar estimate — though Open Phil themselves remain much more pessimistic about the timeline for the widespread commercial availability of cultured meat.43 We are not certain whether it is realistic to expect cultured meat to become cost - competitive with conventional meat within a decade.

Our culture, our processes, our leaders, and our teams have become wiser, stronger, and more mature because of it.

Since becoming independent in 2016, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group has been on a technology transformation, adopting more cloud software as a service solutions, shifting towards a more agile, devops culture and releasing consumer - facing applications for mobile and internet banking.

Should those trends persist, in the long term America's religious culture may become more like Denmark's than like that of the Bible Belt of Billy Graham's youth.

The deal of self - deception becomes more attractive to us when certain vices are elevated in our hierarchy of values, and in many cases these are determined by our culture.

If our American culture is more Hobbesian than Hobbes in its incapacity to supply a summum bonum, unable even to choose between happiness and individuality, de Sade's challenge becomes a more serious question than normal opinion dares take seriously.

«Culture is becoming more tribal,» he says.

If we turn to the non-written elements of first - century culture, and particularly those encountered in the urban environments of the eastern empire, the importance of imperial ideology in the public culture of its day becomes all the more visible.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Thanks to the breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.

In a culture where lobbyists and media conglomerates seem to have more influence over politics than the common person, it's easy to become skeptical.

But it does mean that engaging with culture as Christians is a difficult prospect, especially as our lives become more and more inundated with cultural media and as culture becomes more and more secularized.

These three features of Western culture — consumerism, individualism, and secularism — have not been fully embraced by Russians since Western ways of thinking became more familiar to them after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

All the information made me feel like I had a little more control of my place in a culture that's becoming more confusing and disheartening every day.

I might be opening a can of worms here, but this is an important issue that I think will draw more and more attention as our culture becomes more global.

This type of analysis is very much a part of current concerns about how media manipulate, for example encouraging us to become more active consumers, creating unrealistic perceptions of a more violent world, and imposing American culture on media audiences throughout the globe.

First, in our culture with its tradition of voluntaristic moralism it is difficult for people to accept the idea that an individual is not personally responsible for having a neurosis and yet is responsible to society for getting help, i.e., for becoming more responsible.

It was only under the influence of nineteenth century Western androcentricity, one of the more dubious «blessings» of British colonial rule, that many educated Indians would become uneasy with this accentuation of femininity in a culture hero.

It is becoming more and more clear that Catholics can not remain faithful while trying to «blend in» to the default American culture.

The Counter-Culture became less defined by a positive understanding of the alternative culture it offered, and more by a general antagonism towards the «Establishment.»

As Heidegger journeyed more and more deeply into his intuition of Being, it became ever more clear to him that a central problem in Western culture is the forgetfulness of Being, and that this forgetfulness is symptomized by the will - to - power: that impulse to dominate and subjugate the world in light of human projects.

This once would have been my critique of the church in Australia, but things have changed as our culture has become more secularised and selfish.

Sociologically, christians are fading away because as a culture, we are becoming more and more unique; intent on individualism as opposed to group judgement.

The counterculture of the sixties has become the common culture today, and Americans are united only by an insistence on «ever fewer restraints on the sovereign self» and an insatiable desire «for ever more material comforts and pleasures.»

Blending cultures: Faith traditions are becoming more diverse in the U.S. as people of different denominations, cultural backgrounds and ethnic heritages adopt new beliefs or reinterpret traditional ones.

Until the day when the One Cell had broken into small divisions, where each thinks he is the righteous more than any other, so here it is it went multiplying to unend to becoming to suit each culture and race???