Sentences with phrase «by such culture»

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So by fostering a culture in which employees can make such a call — the first of Zappos» 10 core values exhorts employees to go «above and beyond the average level of service to create an emotional impact on the receiver» — Hsieh walks away with a hat trick.

During that interview, Parsons also responded to a question about sexism in the tech industry by disputing that any such culture exists at GoDaddy — at least in terms of pay disparities.

Now that Singapore has achieved such enormous material success, Lee says that he is appalled by the lack of books, culture, and social graces among citizens.

The theory, popularized by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma, warns that successful companies are inherently vulnerable to being «disrupted» by new entrants, and the only way to avoid such a fate is to replicate the risk - taking, pizza - devouring culture of upstart firms.

But at the present stage of European integration, it may be difficult for any European government to put into legislation many of the sentiments espoused by nationalist parties, such as immigration reform, opposition to economic integration or the protection of what they see as their national culture.

This is partly down to the corporate cultures created by hot firms such as Google and Facebook, but a lot of it comes down to profits: according to McKinsey, organizations whose employees are connected see a 20 - 25 % increase in productivity - an incredible advantage in today's competitive atmosphere.

Plant - based dairy products such as milk continue to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in the former category growing as sales in the latter category decline.45 It seems likely that cultured meat products will have similar effects, sometimes replacing plant - based products, but also replacing products of animal agriculture — particularly because they will likely be harder to distinguish by taste and texture than current substitutes.

GFI sees value in market research, and may conduct some themselves; they have already conducted a short survey to identify the most appealing name for cultured meat.96 They would also be interested in research done to identify other factors important in promoting plant - based and cultured meat, such as whether consumers are more likely to respond well to promotion related to health benefits or to animal welfare.97 They plan to conduct such research and will encourage its use by companies.

Such ill - defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that culture).

For those who by occupation or obsession (or a mix of both) monitor such things, the Times is as good a window as we have into the perversities of what passes for — because, unfortunately, it is — our high culture.

Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's Confessions) are of little help in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed influenced by the values of aristocratic culture.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

By the way I agree that there is an element of truth in what you say about such wisdom, love lacking in Christian culture.

Until now free speech claims have been safe against such erosions, by a virtual consensus of our legal culture that political speech needs most protection precisely when it offends.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

Only such communities can embody for the broader culture the large, capacious vision of the good made possible by moral restraint and traditional ways of life — the vast and beautiful «yes» for the sake of which an occasional narrow or stern «no» is required.

On a deeper level, one's degree of culture is to be judged by the extent of his education, the breadth of his interests, and his knowledge and appreciation of such «cultural» pursuits as good art, literature, and music.

His hard - hitting and humorous criticism of those who fostered such a post-modern culture was proportioned to that occasioned by the actual meaning of their quoted words.

I talk about the positive traits of hipster culture, such as the celebration of culture and «good things» (loving food, nature, art, etc), and the way that hipsters seem to genuinely appreciate God's creation and are curious and awestruck by it.

The dominant liberal utilitarian culture has been challenged many times but perhaps never by such an array of political and religious alternatives.

The sum of the treasures of knowledge and culture has increased to such a degree that the individual in the time available in one lifetime can no longer have any direct contact with the whole of the benefits of civilization available nowadays and which are in fact known and enjoyed by one person or another.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

The ideology of the «free market» plugged by the media and academics as the panacea for the problems of economy and society may help the spread of such elements of a mono - culture.

While there is room for talking about such a step, one should not ignore the specific contribution made by traditional cultures to the whole process of formulating Christian doctrines.

Granted — thinking, inquiry, assertion, and the like are all intellectual processes carried on by humans which, as such, must inevitably have an historical setting by way of place and time, of culture and era.

Any person who is referred to by such sobriquets as «the Catholic Barth,» «the most cultured man in Europe,» «a modern church father» and «Pope John Paul II's favorite theologian» is certainly someone to be reckoned with on many theological fronts.

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

Then Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and tried to merge cultures, where by such religious ideas might be considered where they normally might not.

Consideration of examples such as this may help to dispel the prejudice against the study of manners within the formal curriculum, by showing that people in other well - developed and successful cultures have considered the refinement of interpersonal relationships the central objective of education.

Jesus was attacked as the Seal Prophet was attacked by the pagan and the jews of Mecca for bringing that does not agree with the culture and customs they wanted to live with such as freeing slaves, forbidding the drinking of spirits and all that was mentioned and known about the people Mucca doing before any signs of Islam!

The previously independent ethnic cultures became superseded by supercultures, such as Christendom.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common grounBy contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common grounby sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

The first concerns the non-Christian defense of an appeal to human values — such as reason, justice, culture — by those who share these values with the Christian but are not related to Christ.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

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.»

Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

Our knowledge of derived principles such as «Rise up before the hoary head» may be weakened by neglect and erased by culture, but our knowledge of the core principles is ineffaceable.

The persistence and growth of the influence of Jesus seem also to be assured by the proven ability of Christianity to survive the death of cultures with which it has been intimately associated and, after a period of crisis provoked by the collapse of such a culture, not only to win a foothold in the new, succeeding culture but also to make a deeper impress upon it than upon its predecessor.

We must rebuild American political culture so that, at its presidential apex, it is far less likely to produce such a mortifying choice as the one created by this election cycle.

Rooted in the past as she was, intimately a part of the culture of the ancient world and heir of its thought, it is apparent at once that such wide divergence unavoidably implies bold and vigorous thinking, not by a few individuals, but by a long succession of them through the nation's history.

Indeed, it was only by virtue of his profound debt to the long Hebrew tradition in our Western culture that Wordsworth was able to rise to such concepts.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

But we also have to decide if the people who hold such views can be protected by the so - called tolerant culture as they seek not just to hold those beliefs in secret, but also dare to utter them in public — even on a sermon tape fifteen years ago.

I am convinced that if such programmes are augmented by the vision presented by the Theology of the Body such as that put forward in «Called to Love» by Carl Anderson and Father Jose Granados, then Catholic children will not only be better able to resist the false attractions of the Culture of Death and the nihilistic philosophies of modern youth culture, they will also go on to live more complete and happierCulture of Death and the nihilistic philosophies of modern youth culture, they will also go on to live more complete and happierculture, they will also go on to live more complete and happier lives.

But they risk everything — their national character and their capacity to succor the downtrodden — by permitting uncontrolled mass migration of peoples who know nothing of their culture, in such huge numbers and at such speed that they can not possibly be assimilated and integrated into this or any future generation.

Especially in those cultures, such as ours, that have been significantly influenced by the Protestant Reformation, it is important for Christian thinkers to engage the disputes of the sixteenth century.

Religion and culture supply a powerful framework for such interpretation, providing both the larger worldview and the more specific values by which voters may understand the contemporary world.

Our resistance to such claims is further increased by the fact that those who are most likely to make them are equipped with nice, neat lists of what God disapproves of — lists that generally reflect the bias of a certain class and culture and that show a special interest in sexual mores, lists that all too often can not distinguish between minor personal failings and major injustices.