Sentences with phrase «cultural challenges make»

But money, academics and cultural challenges make for a rocky path to a degree.

Not exact matches

Given the unique team - building and cultural challenges faced by companies that operate completely virtually, it makes sense that no one existing tool or set of tools fits every remote company.

He has made extensive visits to Dubai, Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Istanbul and Damascus and has met thousands of talented, successful, and intrepid young entrepreneurs willing to take on political, cultural, legal and societal challenges.

The challenge to social conservatives at this point is still to name one social, political, or cultural problem that is not made worse by the pressure of overpopulation.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

It is also a fact that women, Hispanics, and African - Americans are the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity: Often for cultural reasons, they are underrepresented in many STEM areas, yet they make up the bulk of the future workforce.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

It was a challenge to translate a full programme from English to Spanish and make cultural and local adaptations, but all efforts have been worthwhile as hearing from my students in Mexico brightens my days as I know they are making a difference in the lives of many families.

THE OWNER — A Chinese designed, Chinese made, sunglasses brand that has positioned itself as a challenge to the cultural stereotype that is associated with Asian creativity and quality.

We interview The Great Wall director Zhang Yimou about the cultural challenges he faced making the film and what he hopes audiences take away from it.

While the impulse to «fix» every technical or cultural challenge may come from a true desire to make people's lives easier, it diminishes an organization's capacity to learn from those challenges and reinforces the idea that only the leader has the solution.

Critical student needs: How technology can support math learning Based on conversations with with a diverse group of educators and edtech decision - makers, we believe that technology is especially well poised to create an impact on middle and high school math by making learning accessible to students of all abilities and cultural backgrounds, providing age - appropriate scaffolding for underdeveloped foundational concepts, enabling rich social interactions with peers and teachers, encouraging growth mindset, metacognition and agency, and creating opportunities to apply knowledge to real - world challenges.

Will Rogers (no relation to Roy), wrote in his folksy newspaper column, «Let's have prizefighters with harder wallops and less Shakespeare», and Paul Gallico, the Columbia - educated sports editor of the New York Daily News, made light of Tunney's chances in his 1926 challenge to Jack Dempsey, opining: «I think Tunney has hurt his own game with his cultural nonsense.

From lingerie made of sealskin to temporary ice paintings captured on film, the show provides a glimpse at the teeming natural and cultural ecosystem found at Floe Edge, where human, ocean, animal and art all support and challenge each other.

In a groundbreaking career surpassing 50 years of practice and encompassing many significant visual and cultural movements including Conceptual Art, Post-Modernism, and Feminism, Nancy Spero made the female experience central to her art and challenged aesthetic and political conventions.

This installation is part of Target Art in the Park, a group show of major new commissions by Navin Rawanchaikul, Teresita Fernandez, and Tobias Rehberger, organized by the Public Art Fund and made possible by Target Stores and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Challenge, 2001.

Prouvost is wonderfully, unmistakably French, and her work merges subjects from a challenging diversity of cultural sources: such enlivening pluralism surely helps to make this a «British» prize, which corresponds to the complex composition of art as it is developed in, and in relation to contemporary British society.

As for artists who work across cultural boundaries, their challenge is to make art that is at once both deeply personal and broadly meaningful while addressing the issues and experiences of the different worlds in which they live.

«Take It or Leave It,» Ellegood explains, aims to challenge power structures and social - cultural institutions — be it politics, media, racism, sexism or art museums themselves — through artists who borrow and re-contextualize images, text and other elements from pop culture and fine art, among other places, to make a conceptual point.

While some black artists desire to be referred to simply as «artists» without a qualifying racial identifier, others make their racial identity and the black experience the center of their practice, challenging the established cultural stereotypes and generalizations.

His heavily laboured canvases are filled with popular cultural references and challenge the viewer to make connections between the seemingly unrelated content, a mechanism used in an attempt to represent the true complexity of our culture».

Making African - American art and artists visible and addressing the cultural and social context out of which their works arise without making the art secondary to race itself is no small chalMaking African - American art and artists visible and addressing the cultural and social context out of which their works arise without making the art secondary to race itself is no small chalmaking the art secondary to race itself is no small challenge.

Ruppe utilizes a broad scope of approaches to his art making, including graphite transfer drawing, casting, video, installation, and performance to challenge the possibilities of cultural ownership and altered identity.

We can therefore anticipate that a stronger cultural cohesion could make it even harder for ideas that challenge existing worldviews to be voiced or accepted - creating even further obstacles for the acceptance of climate change in societies that are currently skeptical.

Sure an academic case can be made, but in both cases the real challenges are political, social, cultural, institutional, etc..

The cultural and cognitive filters in human brains makes it easy for George Will to build a following and then go out and find a winner of a physics Nobel whose views mesh with Will's «no worries» approach to the energy and climate challenges.

The Ancient Greeks attempted to formalize instinctive skepticism and make it independent of values; a strong linkage to cultural values still challenges scientific skepticism where science has social impact.

But, if the Apprenticeship Levy is to succeed in making apprenticeships a feature of the modern workplace, employers and society alike will need to be open to embrace a cultural change, as this legislation challenges traditional perceptions of where apprenticeships are appropriate and where they are not.

KELLY FRIEDMAN: It is really a cultural change for litigators to make a cost - benefit analysis where the benefit is to the ends of justice as opposed to their particular case or their client's interests alone, and that is going to be the biggest challenge.

Furthermore, the lack of youthful talent in the profession means that a growing cultural disconnect between law firm clients and their outside counsel could make relationships more challenging to manage.

It is a challenging and demanding job field as the dynamics of the social, cultural and political environment make an impact on marketing tasks.

We believe that diversity of coaching issues, personality and cultural background will make our learning group richer and more challenging for the participants.

I will also be writing as a «thinker» who has published many journal articles in my field and who has made it part of his career to challenge the common sense of his profession and unsettle the quick and easy understandings we are offered at the cultural surface.

Without the space to process our quickly evolving cultural identities, and with no guidance from people who had experienced our journey, many of my peers turned to gangs, dropped out of school, or developed debilitating mental health challenges that made learning difficult.

Cultural and linguistic differences between ECE providers, children, and families can make this important work especially challenging.

The personal, cultural, gender, and familial conditioning we've all received related to sexuality can make it a challenging issue to explore.

Working with an international client on 2600 Seventh Avenue presented us with other challenges, like understanding the buyer from a cultural perspective, communicating in a different language and explaining the differences between how their country closes real estate transactions versus the way we make deals happen in the U.S.

We want to make certain that we remove as many barriers to home ownership as possible and that include accommodating any language, cultural, and religious nuances that may present as challenges.