Sentences with phrase «close cultural links»

Solomon's reign (971 - 932 BC) was very cosmopolitan with close cultural links with all his neighbours.

Not exact matches

The West Philadelphia sites, on the other hand, are closer to the city amenities that Amazon plainly wants nearby — neighborhoods with varying housing stock, transit links, university campuses, cultural attractions — but also are crammed among them, said Bill Luff, founder of the commercial real estate consultancy CRE Visions.

It is true that there have been close links between the Christian faith of a majority of Americans and the country's legal and cultural underpinnings.

At the same time, the imaginative fertility of Anderson's latest movies — the way they conflate meticulously re-created historical details with wild confabulations and surreal touches of pure fantasy, always trying to top their own sweeping gestures with wider and weightier ones — is linked, in my mind, with the way they close off all possible routes of access to the respective cultural mainstreams of the eras they depict.

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

The Chinati Foundation sponsors art and education programs, establishing close links to the local community and other cultural institutions and universities in the United States and abroad.