Sentences with phrase «challenge oppressive»

Mario Merz, Tom Sachs, and Théo Mercier, challenge the oppressive logic behind indus - trialization, while Nassos Daphnis, Mark Hagen, Gregor Hildebrandt, and Wim Delvoye exercise the potential of industrial materials to achieve a new aesthetic form.

Equity is at the heart of PolicyLink's work, and, in the words of its president, Michael McAfee, it encourages policymakers to be «irascible» as they challenge oppressive systems and structures.

In the eighteenth century, radical campaigners like John Wilkes used these principles to challenge the oppressive powers of the British government, campaigning for individual rights and protections from legal tyranny.

The women who are ignored by theologians are the first to challenge oppressive structures.

Award winning artist Amélie Barnathan challenges oppressive perceptions of women through drawing.

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What is more unfortunate is that contemporary bishops, who have been exposed to and educated in the modern world and its global challenges — at least by comparison with their predecessors, who were restricted by the «iron curtain» or oppressive xenophobia — appear less interested in transcending any prejudice and parochialism.

For now I'm accepting my own personal challenge to teach in a way that is not coercive or oppressive, but encourages people to happily recognize their own spiritual condition and to willingly move deeper into a life of love.

The book of Revelation challenges Christians to oppose oppressive power and to accept the risk of imprisonment and death.

My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.

A very challenging album, but it is Portishead at its best: dark, sometimes claustrophobic and oppressive; but at the same time the sound has

To those rookie mavericks out there looking to settle the galactic score for the first time against oppressive invaders, there's far tastier fare available on the Xbox Live Arcade and elsewhere, but if you're not short of a few bob and fancy a gaming challenge that could take you under an hour to get through (shorter in co-op and possibly even shorter on the easiest difficulty level) then you might be OK with this, but as a shoot «em up veteran of some 34 years standing, I'd be remiss in recommending this.

Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon and yet another challenge to our oppressive relationship with other creatures who aren't human, joining Okja, Beatriz at Dinner, and War for the Planet...

«My students face daily the challenges of poverty, of immigration, of language barriers, of an oppressive and racist society,» says Stocklin, «and yet they still consistently outperform the global mean on every type of essay on the AP English Language exam.

Folk education is «learning that happens when individuals and communities come together to celebrate culture and life in order to critically analyze challenging and especially oppressive situations, to build a knowledge base [and] to apply that knowledge to create alternative possibilities for the institutions in which we live and work» (as quoted from the Folk and People's Education Association of America web site at http://www.peopleseducation.org/).

A critique must actually center on characters exploring, challenging, changing or struggling with oppressive social systems.

As ever, this promises to be a lively mash - up of subverted references, that challenges you to think again about the colonialist or otherwise oppressive histories that western art helped to write.

We must recognize their consistent efforts toward gender equality by constantly challenging systems of oppressive and structural violence.

While the anti-globalization era of protest was intentionally amorphous and without clear leadership or direction — a direct response to the hierarchical, oppressive global systems that the movement was attempting to challenge — climate change has finally given these groups something around which to coalesce.