Sentences with phrase «common culture held»

These items provide tantalizing hints of commercial traffic on a Silk Road predating by two millennia the trading route that eventually linked China to Europe in the early centuries A.D. Hiebert likens the Oxus civilization to Polynesia — a scattered but common culture held together by camels rather than canoes.

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But in the face of a society marked by unbelieving ideologies and the culture of death, we deem it all the more important to affirm together those foundational truths of historic Christian orthodoxy that we do hold in common.

Evangelicals come from many churches, languages, and cultures, but we hold in common a shared understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ, of the church's mission, and of the Christian commitment to evangelism.»

This unique human possession, which we hold in common, is at the core of a large part of our culture and our imaginative intellectual life.

Such distributed leadership, Elmore is quick to point out, does not mean «no one is responsible for the overall performance of the organization» — rather that leaders must create a «common culture of expectations» regarding skills and knowledge, and hold individuals «accountable for their contributions to the collective result.»

This has built a culture where expertise is not tied to the position you hold or the numbers of years you have been part of our school community, but rather the standards and specific demonstrations of what «Highly Accomplished» and «Lead» practice means, have given us a common language to not only value expertise, but to be able to collectively recognise it.

The emphasis on holding educators responsible for results and the dreaded teaching - to - the - test - culture had been in place long before districts added one more Common Core - related assessment.

In spite of sharing the common bonds of history and culture, each district has been able to hold on to the distinct features that make their community unique.

Officials at the Ministry of Culture understood the connections, and under the condition «to seek common ground while reserving differences», they held many contemporary art exhibitions mainly in the form of new media art as international cultural exchange projects.

Romberger's work is held in the collections of The Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT; Common Press Archive, University of Pennsylvania; and Southern Graphics Council Archives, The University of Missouri, Columbia, MO..