Sentences with phrase «by social convention»

Till's mother insisted on an open casket at the public funeral, so that the horror of her son's death was not minimized by social convention.

When Rolls - Royce launched Black Badge earlier this year, CEO Torsten Müller - Ötvös said the bespoke program aimed to entice «elusive and defiant risk - takers who break the rules and laugh in the face of convention,» who are «dark and restless... glamorous and daring... uncompromising and unapologetic... untrammelled by social convention.»

The other point to be clear about is that sacraments are not merely arbitrary rites agreed upon by social convention, but possessing no inherent symbolic power.

We too are free to be good when we are unaffected by social conventions and expectations that tame us and render us predictable and safe.

«For example, cooperative behaviour may be enforced by social conventions or laws and failure to comply with these may result in collapse of the public good.

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Zuckerberg has built Facebook, which could be valued at up to $ 104 billion by the stock offering, into an international phenomenon by stretching the lines of social convention and embracing a new and far more permeable definition of community.

Increasingly, data gatherers find themselves tripped up by basic social media conventions like sarcasm and mockery.

It will institutionalize practices by which the routines and conventions of its social spaces are administered.

These roles and relations are not fundamentally natural phenomena integral to human identity and social welfare but are mere accidents of biology overlaid with social conventions that can be replaced by functionally equivalent roles without loss.

The history of the church is marked by interminable hours of silence, while the clamour of the persecuted, the imprisoned and marginalised was silenced, and the churches preferred to stick to the conventions, maintain good relations with the powers, not lose their social standing.

Radha is simply the personification of mahabhava, that «great emotional state» that is heedless of social proprieties and unbounded by conventions.

We need to work out a set of social expectations and conventions in which the proper regulation of sexual activity will be assisted rather than made more difficult by being thrust largely on the individual, as it is at present.

Relational truths, whether in the form of physical laws (such as gravity), social convention (as with mores) or personal reality (such as friendship), are known only by engagement and interaction.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Rutgers University Press, 388 pages, $ 37 Writing about the bloody Battle of the Bulge in World War II, James Jones contends that the true heart of the battle was not in the major....

[18] Insisting on the importance of the veil for women, responding to a situation where a group of young women in the church of Carthage, claiming that the status and virtue achieved by their renunciation freed them from social conventions (which insisted that women remain veiled in church), boldly took their positions in church with faces uncovered and head unveiled, Tertullian reiterates forcefully that there is great danger in such actions because

In spite of this, we catch a glimpse of women and men, responding to what they sensed was a new movement inaugurated by a man from Galilee, a man who tried to break so many of the social conventions of his time, a response informed by the possibility of change and transformation, even though what he «actually taught often became a matter of bitter dispute....»

By way of illustration, we have all had experiences of being in the grip of certain invisible and determining social conventions.

By so doing, the investigation was able to develop a more complete, comprehensive and, therefore, accurate picture of the individual as a human being embedded in and shaped by certain social conventions and the larger contexts of his culturBy so doing, the investigation was able to develop a more complete, comprehensive and, therefore, accurate picture of the individual as a human being embedded in and shaped by certain social conventions and the larger contexts of his culturby certain social conventions and the larger contexts of his culture.

If Benson's thesis holds in 2012, the votes of this constituency will be shaped not by convention speeches, but by the social groups these men affiliate with.

Whereas, throughout America's history, New York State has been a leader in civil, human, and social rights; this is well illustrated by the number of suffragists who called New York home and the choice of Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848; this momentous event outlined certain rights that women should be granted, including the right to vote, thereby sparking the nationwide crusade for women's suffrage; and

Catherine Murphy was selected to be the Social Democrats candidate for the next general election at a convention on 17th July 2016, as reported by the KFM Radio website.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

Former Assemblyman and senior fellow at the Demos foundation, Richard Brodsky, says if there is another convention, it won't be motivated by concern about legislative ethics, but by social issues that people care more about, like schools, and pension benefits.

The governor made the announcement Wednesday while addressing the annual convention of the National Action Network, a social justice group founded by Al Sharpton, in New York City.

This suggests that the ancient tendencies still exist but may be less influential than previously thought, because they are also reinforced by arbitrary social norms such as the convention that men usually approach women when there is potential for romance.

Larger Pacific Striped octopus; image courtesy of Richard Ross Of the hundreds of known octopus species, most are anti-social, practice safe sex (to avoid getting eaten by a mate) and lay just one clutch of eggs before dying.The poorly understood larger Pacific striped octopus, however, seems to break from these conventions: They are somewhat social, they mate face - to - face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.The octopus is so rare that science has yet to even give it a formal Latin name.

By modeling its structure, articulating the architectural principles that have fueled its phenomenal growth, and discovering how social conventions drive online human interactions, Web science hopes to find mechanisms that will ensure the network continues to grow productively and in ways that support the basic social values of trustworthiness and privacy.

At the high school level, one assessment tested whether students were familiar with key social media conventions, including the blue checkmark that indicates an account was verified as legitimate by Twitter and Facebook.

The purpose of Yin yoga is to take us out of the systems of social convention indoctrination, and mechanistic ways of thinking, not to reinforce them by demanding conformity to rigid, limited paradigms.

Last of all, Dino recommends that single geeks get over their shyness or social awkwardness by attending a convention for fandoms they enjoy.

The convention is attended by in the dating & social media market.

Provides resources by region and includes finding mentors, latest news, finance, health care, property Ten things to know before you move to China Living in a Communist country with drastically different social and moral conventions proved a bumpy

The convention is attended by owners and senior executives in the dating & social media market.

The hats are quite lovely, and Vukotic is a hoot as a decadent contessa with seven or eight yapping lapdogs, but as a tale of Beautiful People struggling to overcome social convention (either by searching for true love or by cynically rejecting it, for each policy has its pitfalls) and live authentically, it doesn't really sparkle.

As for his own personal life, Alexander defies convention not by the intense homoerotic suggestions between he and Jared Leto's Hephaistion (homosexuality not a social taboo during this time), but by his marriage to Roxane (Rosario Dawson), a woman of a lower social order and about whom Alexander is given much grief from his advisors.

A man (Danny Glover) holding vigil by the death bed of his beloved (Tantoo Cardinal) recalls their struggles to defy social conventions in search of true love, and the unbreakable bond they forged by following their hearts.

People who defied prejudice and jealousies, conventions and the social mores of a hypocritical society, who fought for their passions, conquered them or were conquered by them.

The obligation to assist them is imposed by South African Constitution, UN Refugee Convention of 1951, African Refugee Convention of 1969 and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966.

A better social and cultural order, both nationally and internationally can not be achieved by laws, prescriptions and conventions alone, but needs a Universal Charter of Human Responsibilities.

Beatrice de Clerval is not based on a single real artist, but in developing her I was inspired by the life of Berthe Morisot, one of the six original exhibiting Impressionists, a dedicated and very gifted painter who also protected the conventions of her social and family life.

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Characterized by a relentlessly experimental and inquisitive attitude, the artist's work employs unusual materials and techniques, and playfully defies social, political, and aesthetic conventions.

Characterized by a relentlessly experimental and inquisitive approach to a wide variety of styles and subject matter, the artist's work engages unconventional materials and techniques, and playfully defies social, political, and aesthetic conventions.

Many of these changes were influenced by technological advances, such as the invention of the metal paint tube and photography, as well as changes in social conventions, politics, and philosophy, along with major world events.

De Andrade's works also attend to the ways in which attitudes and emotions are shaped — and governed — by images, social conventions, and political ideologies.

For both Yayoi Kusama and Sharon Hayes, expressing the self is an expansive practice that challenges the limitations imposed by social and artistic conventions.

Pipilotti Rist is widely known for her large - size video - installations, though which she ironically (and self - ironically) investigates taboos, conventions, and social issues by inviting the visitors to interact with the works, as well as by creating «worlds» where spaces and every - day objects combine with a surprising use of light, videos, and projected images.

Her work harks back to the grotesque satire of popular social convention expressed by such artists as James Ensor and Otto Dix and exhibits the visceral comedy of Nathalie Djurberg and Tetsumi Kudo.

Caught between fretful urgency and an odd, immobilising calm, these canvases feel like glimpses into a sideways dimension, where everything from social conventions to the laws of physics have been subtly redrafted by some shadowy consciousness.