Sentences with phrase «concerned about the culture»

Today these various concerns about culture, socio - economic justice, true equality for women, institutions, and the natural world are in some tension with one another.

For many years there has been growing concern about the culture of fear that is penetrating maternity services throughout the world, and that the fear felt by maternity care workers is directly and indirectly being transferred to the women and families they serve.

You mention language as a potential hurdle and may also be concerned about the culture shock and isolation that could stem from this.

We also need to address your concerns about a culture shock and isolation, and let me reassure that you can prepare for that too.

Do you know that Christians are always possessive and concerned about their culture and religion?

I have great concerns about the culture and attitudes we as a nation are creating.

Not exact matches

Steam Whistle places a large focus on workplace culture fit — to join the ranks of the Good Beer Folks you have to be outgoing, hardworking and concerned about quality.

Though concerns about flying and airplane safety permeate popular culture, it's much safer to travel by plane than by car.

Valukas also portrayed a corporate culture in which there was heavy pressure to keep costs down, a reluctance to report problems up the chain of command, a skittishness about putting safety concerns on paper, and general bureaucratic resistance to change.

About 90 % of the work of Swedish county councils concerns healthcare, but they also deal with other areas such as culture and infrastructure.

«When I questioned pointedly about their culture and my concerns, they doubled down on it,» he said, telling him, «We do have an aggressive culture, we do step on people's toes, and we think that the best way to get performance out of people.»

But it appears that some red flags never even reached them: Investigations revealed the bank has ignored, discouraged, and even fired employees who tried to voice concerns about the intimidating culture and unethical practices.

• Nike is reviewing its human resources department after employees raised concerns about pay equity and corporate culture.

Second, concerns about China's political culture / values (especially human rights) and security issues seem to be less of a factor in shaping public hesitancy around a free trade agreement when compared to certain economic considerations.

Such concerns have a stronger effect than do concerns about political culture differences between the two countries.

Several disgruntled former employees have expressed concerns about «groupthink» being ingrained in what is widely known as a hyper - liberal company culture value system where expressions of other views are not welcome and can lead to being ostracized or being shown the door.

Some of GFI's potential donors may be concerned about GFI's decision to invest resources in the development of plant - based foods in addition to cultured foods.

The company said it was investigating Ms. Fowler's claims and other concerns about a toxic workplace culture.

On the other hand, the younger set takes their sexual cues from the resurrection (preferring not to think about the so - called «order of creation») while using Genesis to highlight their culture - making activities and their environmental concerns.

If you are concerned about the status of women in a culture, you can say so.

Religious people are so concerned about the so - called «culture war» that they're out there voting for the greatest enemies of the well - being and opportunity of the working - and middle - classes.

There is no way to judge a culture across the yawning abyss of time... I'm not really concerned about any backlash.

But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.

♦ Richard Vigilante is writing in National Review about the changing forms of liberalism and conservatism, and the last line makes this one worth citing: «The future of conservatism seems to lie in a concern for the state not of the deficit, or of the defense budget, but of the culture.»

As a single man, I'm just as concerned about saving myself for the one woman I marry someday, and I don't think it's just because that's what my culture believes.

They were not very interested in feminism, not very sensitive to Christian anti-Judaism, not much interested in culture or in primal and Eastern religions, not particularly concerned about the repression of the body, and so forth.

Their precipitate refutation of Cardinal Bertone's justifiable concerns about the overlap of the homosexual and pederast cultures, lends some credence to this view.

This type of analysis is very much a part of current concerns about how media manipulate, for example encouraging us to become more active consumers, creating unrealistic perceptions of a more violent world, and imposing American culture on media audiences throughout the globe.

Now on our scale of concerns, what to do about meat sacrificed to idols ranks somewhere below decisions about whether to sod or seed the yard, but in Paul's day eating meat was a question about the limits of Christian participation in pagan culture.

The interview he granted me was the first in which May talked about the background of Paulus, its contents in relation to Mrs. Tillich's account, and his concern over what the reception of both books says about contemporary culture.

The culture seeps into the church, bringing with it a religion without commitment; spirituality without content; aspiration and talk and longing, fulfillment and needs, but not much concern about God.

In the culture of The Symposium, morally sensitive and reflective people thought about drinking differently than we do, especially concerning problem or heavy drinking.

This emphasis may provide a refreshing contrast to sociological approaches concerned with broad generalizations about culture and society — approaches in which the individual actor seems to have been lost.

Randal Balmer has made a fool of himself by issuing a political statement about Bill Graham's observation concerning the state of our culture.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

The man who would become Pope Benedict XVI was deeply concerned about the moral relativism he thought was corroding the West, and located its roots in Western high culture's refusal to say that anything was «the truth,» full stop.

Similarly, those concerned about the decaying marriage culture can and should strengthen the institution by living the married life faithfully and joyfully.

Our last conversation about William Webb's Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals certainly generated a lot of responses, particularly concerning the role of women in church leadership, which means the post accomplished its purposes of highlighting the challenges of applying the teachings of Scripture in today's culture.

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

In terms of the former, liberal Protestants were concerned about unbridled consumerism and an emerging mass culture while neo-evangelicals sought to buttress a world and life view that curbed socialism and a confessionless moralism on the part of liberal Protestants.

I have to say that whenever I lapse into my geezer mode of worrying about the younger generation, one of the concerns uppermost in my mind is our culture's devilish knack for preempting, co-opting and even marketing acts of youthful rebellion.

This is a blog concerned with the material culture of religion, and as a general rule, I don't write about politics.

Churchgoers have grown increasingly concerned about the secularization of culture and the moral, vacuum in public life, and many seek solutions in the reChristianizing of education.

Having made observations about the fabric of our society, of the lack of a supportive culture and the threats which these pose to family life, we are presented on page 42 with a recipe for building family life based on the Rule, concerning external and internal dispositions of mind and heart.

Given that these results tally with religious and secular aims in the United States, we should anticipate that parents concerned about the direction that American culture is taking will regard faith - based schools as providing a positive environment for their children.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

The Times, which is protecting the girl's identity the reason why she was placed in care, reported that her mother is concerned about her child living in a culture which she knows nothing about, as well as being exposed to religion that she doesn't follow.

«We're more concerned about the eagle population than any culture», so we must have two of them to mount on our wall!

A church that is concerned about human values has no business allowing itself to be an agent in the perpetuation of harmful attitudes in the culture.

It is an important one for every kind of Christian, especially those who are reform - minded or concerned about developments in church and culture.