Sentences with phrase «by cultural standards»

This is perpetuated by cultural standards of food - as - reward and yo - yo dieting.

to determine what the natural age at weaning would be in humans if it was not set by cultural standards?

His acceptance of the outcasts — one of his most radical acts — pointed to an identity defined by one's relationship to God rather than by cultural standards of performance.

Many of the people in Minimalism had achieved «success» by our cultural standards, but were left feeling disillusioned, anxious and depleted so they decided to live radically different than most Americans.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

Part of that may be because this newer generation of teachers is less encumbered by a cultural standard that keeps them in line.

Not exact matches

Perhaps the best plan for most organizations is to follow the Ritz - Carlton daily lineup approach: a few minutes every day discussing just one of your list of cultural values or service standards, with the meeting led by a different employee every time.

She argues that by not taking tourism seriously, governments are both failing to fully capitalize on a booming industry and leaving their countries exposed to the destructive elements that accompany foreign travel: environmental degradation, lowered living standards for the poor, sex tourism, and all the subtler injustices and annoyances that materialize when droves of foreigners arrive on your shores demanding authentic cultural experiences.

She refuses to be judged and evaluated by ethical, cultural, and religious standards and values prevailing in the West».

These principles also indicate the standards to be used in sex education — the basic ideals to be inculcated by explicit instruction in homes and at appropriate levels in schools, and even more essentially by the complex of accepted acts built into social and cultural patterns.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

The equality of death exposes the ephemeral character of the cultural standards by which we judge ourselves, whether we are puffing ourselves up by virtue of our achievements or being crushed by our failure to measure up.

Despite the universal character of the Christian churches, the Christian missions in South India underwent a uniform metamorphosis depending on the social and cultural standards of the South... caste differences were further aggravated by denominational and congregational disputes.17

The standard list of contradictions published by the Dawkins loyalists have all been debunked due to intentional twisting of translations or time / cultural relevance.

Some roles in the business world can be conducted better by those who understand themselves as professionals and accept a broad cultural and social responsibility for leadership along with that for the standards of their profession.

One can take this as a cultural bias, or take it as a tribute.3 In any case the fact is that the woman who fails to measure up in some way to the higher standards expected of her is more likely to excite the contempt of those around her, to forfeit the respect of her children, and (what is most important to our theme) to be dogged by a deep inner sense of personal failure.

We learned that the Haida nation's strict cultural forestry regulations — derived from Yah» guudang — gave Taan Forest a huge advantage in achieving Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, the stringent standard used by Rainforest Alliance.

Rated # 1 by Zagat and praised by the New York Times as «Art, not Soup,» it set the standard for innovation and excellence long before the famous «Seinfeld» episode made it a cultural icon.

Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life, by Marian Tompson, Just Released by Hale Publishing What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

A separate letter is been sent to the Evening Standard, signed by Simon Schama, Helena Kennedy, Howard Jacobson, Sandi Toksvig, Ruby Wax, William Boyd, Dawn French, Eric Idle, David Hare, Martin Amis and Joanna Trollope, in a campaign which is quickly turning into a who's who of British cultural life.

«I have already ensured that the issues surrounding CIHR and its reforms will be considered by the panel, and I look forward to their advice,» wrote Philpott, who also noted that «I expect CIHR to ensure that the very best health research across all pillars [biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and social cultural, environmental factors that affect the health of populations] is funded according to the highest international standards of research excellence.»

AAAS has encouraged the development of ethical standards by scientists to encourage responsible conduct, stressing the importance of protecting established cultural and ethical norms of information privacy and data integrity.

«Beauty standards have always been influenced by the social, cultural and historical periods,» she said.

So next time you find yourselves sputtering mad over the cultural perversity of The Twilight Saga and its ability to rake in billions of sparkle - tainted dollars, an even more culpable target for lowering the standards of cinema can be found merely by looking at kiddie flicks, which undoubtedly kick starts bad taste in movies.

Well, that was 2016 — a weird, troubling 12 months by anyone's standards, characterized by war, political catastrophe and so many extraordinary people in the cultural arena shuffling off this mortal coil that it sometimes felt like some sort of sick...

Even though FGM has been parallelized to male circumcision or other cosmetic surgeries that women have undergone in the Western World, it is a fact that in contrast to cosmetic surgeries, FGM is not a woman's choice but a decision that is taken by her family, community in accordance with the cultural and social standards of her society.

The program still had to tie in with Florida standards, and students increased their cultural awareness, enhanced their technology skills, and participated in the scientific process by monitoring the compost pile.

-- Journalism / English: Present the story of eco-tourism, as seen through the eyes of nature guides and caretakers, and develop ideas to determine if the culture of the Kichwa has been changed for the better (more economic determinism) or the worse (degrading of cultural standards) by eco-tourism.

They also found «an increase in cultural capital of one standard deviation is estimated to increase the likelihood of completing upper secondary education by 12.5 percentage points.»

This growing segment of American society is marked not just by economic poverty, but also by social and cultural poverty: the decay of bedrock institutions like marriage and organized religion, as well as the erosion of cohesive social standards like the two - parent family.

The six standards assert that school administrators should «promote student success» by doing things like «facilitating... a vision of learning,» «collaborating... with community members,» and «influencing the larger political... legal, and cultural context.»

Standard 6: An educational leader promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to and influencing the political, social, economic, legal and cultural context.

The standards movement gained greater momentum in the mid-1980s with the creation of the Core Knowledge Foundation by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., a professor at the University of Virginia who in 1987 authored the bestseller Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know.

AB 2491 by Assemblyman Blumenfield, which requires the State Board of Education, upon the next revision of the Gifted and Talented Education program criteria, to adopt a standard ensuring that school districts participating in GATE adopt student identification procedures in order to provide economically disadvantaged pupils and pupils of varying cultural backgrounds full participation in the program.

Likewise, issues surrounding school discipline loom large, with middle - class standards of behavior and decorum recast as a form of cultural hegemony imposed by well - off, mainly white parents intent on remaining in control.

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There are a number of luxury hotels in Bandung featuring spas all of which are of a great standard and you can visit the cultural areas of Bandung and the temples as well as the museums using the tours which are set up by a number of companies and are offered by most of the hotels in Bandung area.

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA, an initiative of the Getty to encourage ambitious research and exhibitions at Southern California cultural institutions.

The MOVEMENT movement has performed at various artful happenings, museums and galleries including Pacific Standard Time, REDCAT Now Fest 2013: Molly Maps Erratic written, choreographed, and directed by Mecca V.A. Recent Commission by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department to develop site - inspired work for The Wonder Room at Tongva Park.

This iteration of Pacific Standard Time celebrated Southern California's lasting impact on modern architecture with exhibitions and programs presented by 17 area cultural institutions from April through September 2013

Recent exhibitions and publications include New American Paintings, issue 107; the LA Art Show 2018, Los Angeles, CA; Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Transient Visitant (with Marimba, Clarinets, Body and Chair), Truman State University, Kirksville, MO; performance piece in collaboration with composer Victor Marquez - Barrios; Mutual Dealings, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago; The Moments Between: New Work by Rafael E. Vera, Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Chicago; Pillow Talk: New Sculptures by Rafael E. Vera, Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL; Nothing Concrete, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago; and the 23rd Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL.

PACIFIC STANDARD TIME More than 100 galleries, museums and cultural institutions will be mounting shows as part of this polyphonic dialogue, initiated by the Getty, between Latino and Latin American art and the city of Los Angeles.

To provide cultural leadership in Southwest Florida by maintaining a high standard of quality and by offering exhibitions with a wide variety of aesthetic experiences and not otherwise available to area residents and visitors.

The city of Culver City; LAXART, Los Angeles; Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; Artist Jim Skuldt's Studio, Los Angeles; MacArthur Park & NOKIA LA LIVE, Los Angeles; The Standard Hotel, West Hollywood; The city of West Hollywood; Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood; Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale; The Lab, Costa Mesa; UAG / ROOM Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; EL CUBO at Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara; Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; and High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree with works by Joel Kyack, Hannah Greely, Ry Rocklin, Patrick Jackson, Alice Konitz, Jack Pierson, Yoshua Okon, Amy and Wendy Yao's Art Swap Meet, Jonathan Hernandez, Thom Merrick, The Wonder Valley Institute for Contemporary Art, Julia Scher, Ann Magnuson, Marnie Weber and the Spirit Girls.

About Pacific Standard Time Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945 - 1980 was an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the LA art scene.

Liliana Porter's work will be included in the exhibit How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney's Latin America and Latin America's Disney, a Pacific Standard Time exhibition of over 150 works by 48 Latin American artists who investigate and challenge nearly 100 years of cultural influence between Latin America and Disney, on view Sep 9 - Jan 14.

Both a sly, dehumanizing, reference to the infamous Windows system software «blue screen of death» and a shrewd art - historical reference, the piece equates the chasing of artistic legend with suicide, and it uses standard technology — the light emitted by a television — to evoke a supposed cultural masterpiece.

2012 «Light Darkness and Shadow: Art and the Meaning of Life», Huffpost Culture, 11 December «Review: Tim Noble & Sue Webster Nihilistic Optimistic, Blain Southern», Kentish Towner, 6 November Mark Sinclair, «Nihilism, optimism and bedtime tales», Creative Review, 1 November Martin Coomer, «Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Nihilistic Optimistic», TimeOut: London, 29 October «Where to buy... Tim Noble and Sue Webster», The Week, 27 October Amy Dawson, «Art Review», The Metro, 24 October Rachel Campbell - Johnston, «Exhibitions: Critic» s Choice», The Times, 20 October Lia Chavez, «A Glimpse at Splitting, Multiplying Universes: Frieze London 2012 Highlights», Huffpost Arts & Culture, 17 October «Arts Agenda: The cultural highlights you have to see», I Newspaper, 16 October «Tim Noble and Sue Webster exhibition: We and Our Shadows», Evening Standard, 16 October Rob Alderson, «Amazing Silhouette Sculptures by Tim Noble and Sue Webster on show in London», It» s Nice That, 16 October Waldemar Januszczak, «Magic Lurks in the Shadows», The Sunday Times, 14 October Emma O'Kelly, «Nihilistic Optimistic by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Blain Southern Gallery», Wallpaper, 10 October Colin Gleadell, «The best anti-Frieze in London», The Daily Telegraph, 9 October Jon Savage, «Frieze Week: Tim Noble & Sue Webster», Dazed Digital, 8 October Kate Kellaway, «Interview with Tim Noble & Sue Webster», The Observer, 7 October Rachel Campbell - Johnston, «Critics Choice», The Times, 6 October Lynn Barber, «The Dark Arts», The Sunday Times, 30 September Charlotte Cripps, «Bringing art to the Charts», The Independent, 29 September «Modern Life is Rubbish», The Art Newspaper, October John B. Henderson, «Chess», The Scotsman, 18 September Tim Walker, «Observations: Chess is the name of the game in a new London show», The Independent, 4 September Liz Stinson, «Artists Turn Junk Into Amazing Silhouettes», Wired, 6 July «Tim and Sue», Hunger, Summer «Tim Noble, Sue Webster and David Adjaye in Coversation with Louisa Buck», Garage Mag Online, 25 May

Supported by grants from the Getty Foundation, «Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA» takes place from Sep 2017 - Jan 2018, at more than 70 cultural institutions across Southern California, from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, and from San Diego to Santa Barbara.