Sentences with phrase «challenge prejudice»

It is the responsibility of each and every one of us to actively commit to and participate in conversations and actions within our families, communities and workplaces that build awareness and understanding, challenge prejudice, and contribute to creating just and respectful relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.

It's bringing a judicial review against minister's proposals to make independent schools challenge prejudice against other faiths.

She has been outspoken in challenging the prejudice with which victims of Aids and HIV infection have often been treated.

Challenging prejudice can be as simple as learning to see that people don't necessarily fit into stereotypes.

Miliband is keen to address the argument that a Labour leader must necessarily challenge the prejudices and complacencies of his party; must, in effect, be defined against his party, in order to demonstrate his moderate or centrist credentials.

The Blairite strategy for resolving this problem was both a cynical triangulation towards the priorities of swing voters in marginal constituencies; and a consequent abandonment of any transformative political objectives that potentially challenged the prejudices of that constituency.

Why challenge your prejudices when through the power of the internet they can be catered for?

As with The Station Agent and The Visitor, McCarthy creates a series of encounters for some astonishingly vivid characters, and the result is an entertaining film that challenges prejudice.

Having sex and relationships education (SRE) in every year of school helps children build up the understanding needed for good sexual health, and ensures that children learn about stigma and challenging prejudice as well as the biological aspects of the transmission, prevention and treatment of STIs including HIV.

It might challenge your prejudices, but the 185 / 60R -16 Toyo Proxes A27 tires also contribute a lot of goodness here.

- Booklist «Perry Baird was a pioneer in attempting to understand the workings of manic depression... In bringing her father's harrowing, tragic, and moving story to life, Mimi Baird celebrates him and gives voice to the terrible suffering the mentally ill once endured, and still do today, and challenges the prejudices and misperceptions the public continues to have about the disease.»

Social media has broken down barriers and continues to challenge the prejudices and limitations of the traditional publishing industry.

The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African - American Art at Harvard last month opened the show «Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl...,» which focuses on Ms. Weems's storytelling and how she has challenged prejudice.

The works in «Prejudice at Home: A Parlour, a Library, and a Room» explore individual and collective identity viewed through the lens of history, challenging the prejudices of society.

I certainly don't see her challenging their prejudices.

Not exact matches

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

This can be a challenge to overcome, particularly if there are underlying prejudices between cultures, making them less inclined to work together.

This prejudice favouring traditional religions demonstrates a degree of imperial ethics... Sometimes, while not based on established jurisprudence, the perception is that we are prepared to challenge in the courts a newer religion with different belief structures but are prepared to accept the more established religions.

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.

So although it claims to challenge irrationalism and anti-scientific prejudice, it tends to confine its anger to the dogma of the three Abrahamic religions.

Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district — and in their lives.

They need, however, to be challenged because the way in which Christians have heard the story of Jesus» passion has inflamed prejudice and hatred of Jews and has been a cause of persecution in every century — most of all in the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Egalitarian View: It was the early evangelicals who first challenged gender and ethnic prejudice biblically.

Richard Whinder on the words of Oscar Romero that will challenge a few prejudices; Paul Brooks finds plenty to interest in a spirituality of self - esteem; James Tolhurst enjoys fascinating insights into parish life in England in the turbulent years of the 16th century and David Standen on a magisterial overview of Pope John Paul's theology that captures his unity of thought.

It must fruit in action to challenge and overcome the evils of society with its poverty, ignorance and disease, its wars and destructive conflicts, its prejudice, oppression, chicanery and quest for profit and power, its insensitivity to the deep needs of persons.

As we listen to one another across differences, our own assumptions, prejudices, and limitations are challenged by other followers of Christ.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

And this seems like a silly one perhaps — women in bikinis, good gracious — but it was really a challenge about my body and how I view my body, about shame and freedom, about the goodness of our bodies before God, pushing back against my own prejudices and cultural conditionings.

As white Christians have tried to move beyond the prejudice of their grandparents and second and third generation black British Christians feel less need for the safety of a culturally specific home church, the challenge is to find ways of reintroducing both sides to each other.

Many times, when people of faith are challenged about their anti-gay views, they cite biblical verses or other religious texts as a safe haven when they are unable to articulate why they hold prejudiced atudes toward LGBT people.

Locus Corporation wishes to apologize regarding the first elements of our marketing campaign (in the form of a Cannes billboard and a trailer) which we realize has had the opposite effect from that which was intended... Our film, a family comedy, carries a message designed to challenge social prejudices related to standards of physical beauty in society by emphasizing the importance of inner beauty.

Jesus was the master of challenging religious prejudice and breaking down sectarian walls.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Race prejudice, we have seen, is basically a matter of emotion, and there can be no effective challenge of it without right counter-emotions.

Where significant challenge comes from those who stand within the same traditions as the broadcaster, the likelihood of theological prejudice is minimized and the broadcaster is more likely to be confronted with the appropriateness of the challenge.

A place where everyones preconceived notions and / or prejudices are at the very least challenged?

In December 2007, the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board dismissed with prejudice, the Petition for Cancellation of Smokey Chipotle where Kraft Foods conspired with Urban Accents, Inc. (listed below) in a failed challenge by alleging Smokey Chipotle is a generic phrase for a chile chipotle (a variety of processed chile, i.e., a spice); heretofore the word «chipotle» was already disclaimed as a condition of registration at the U.S. Trademark office in 1995.

They also want it to help inform the national debate about teenage parenthood, challenge stereotypical prejudices and remind people that «dads matter too».

I also wonder whether some of Denham's language - rejecting «the traditional 1960s version of egalitarianism» and talking of «a tough, hard headed, but at the end of the day, compassionate version of fairness» - does more to pander to Daily Mail prejudices than challenge them?

But of course, God forbid that your prejudices were challenged by facts, intelligence or common sense.

Instead, she took the microphone to challenge him to deny the popular prejudice that real men don't do childcare.

Editorial: Nick Clegg's wife interrupted the deputy PM to challenge him to deny the popular prejudice that real men don't do childcare

When women run for office, they face closer and more negative scrutiny from the media, are more likely to get damaging coverage based on how they look and what they wear, and face other gender - based challenges, such as voter prejudice and difficulties raising money.

Director of Shooting Standards, Richard Thorne, said: «It is really important not only to challenge anti-shooting prejudice in schools but to volunteer your time to re-educate the educators about the facts of shooting.

Children who grow up with no knowledge of others, with no friends from other backgrounds and with no understanding of other religions and ethnic groups, stand little chance of being able to challenge stereotypes and avoid prejudice.»

In this talk, I will review how cognitive science enriches our understanding of belief and rationality, challenges commonly discussed theories of religion and atheism, and provides a more empirically grounded account of the mind that we can utilize to better understand the causes and effects of atheism and anti-atheist prejudice.

Whereas, Dr. King confronted unprecedented challenges with the knowledge and belief that, as one people united in principle and purpose, «we shall overcome» all prejudice, hate, and intolerance; his legacy lives on through the civil rights victories won during his lifetime, as well as those won in the decades since;

As long as you «label» people, and worse, categorise them with lame 20th Century, dubiuos, eponymous epithets, we will not truly rise as a Party - inclusive, dignified, judgemental only on merit with compassion for those who falter, nonetheless encouraging but challenging, a traditional values bias with an enforceable law and above all, opportunity for every man, woman and child backed by an efficient but inclusive state - especially for the sick, infirm and old - and your like will see us falter as a nation, only to facilitate prejudice, inequality (and worse, masqueraded as EQUALITY..)

The Tories collectively could be appalling, with some ugly tribal prejudices, and when their party interests were directly challenged, they could be vicious.

I was very happy that she challenged many long - standing assumptions and prejudices that people have about migration; it is rare to see such a full - throated, data - driven argument for open borders in the media.