Sentences with phrase «cultural climate in»

The different cultural climate in the USA and the American avant - garde of the period made a strong impact on Afro.

But Schoenstadt's photo op was a success in that she got us thinking about the cultural climate in which this event is happening and the historically embedded issues that women artists are still facing.

To understand the cultural climate in which Reinhardt worked, it helps to look back at the history of Modernism.

An extremely conservative administration paired with a dominant art market has produced a cultural climate in crisis, heightening the need for cultural producers to create space for desires of their surrounding community.

He seemed to not want my brother and me to be artists (though he's an artist, too, now) because of the not - so - easy economic aspects and the cultural climate in Sweden.

In the 1980s, when he started to become aware of Western contemporary art, he found the cultural climate in China to be too repressive and moved to Japan in search of better opportunities.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

Talk about «the books of 2015» must include at least a mention of the cultural climate in which they appeared, dominated above all by a mood of ressentiment.

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The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

Your best climate might be up in the peaks of Ecuador, or in cultural Spain.

Each magazine covers several communities with well thought out articles and discusses characteristics such as: Median Housing Price City / Town Profile Arts & Cultural Activities Recreation & Outdoor Activities Continuing Education Opportunities Hospital Airports Tax Info Climate & Weather At the end of the articles, key characteristics are bulleted in a quick read section.

The main themes of the questions were innovation, climate - change policy and the cultural sector in Canada.

He first joined the C.D. Howe Institute in 1990, producing widely - cited research on international trade, Canada's economic union, climate change policy, and the economics of cultural policy.

It started in the heady days of the Second Vatican Council and was powerfully influenced by the 1960s cultural climate of polymorphous revolutionisms.

Feminist writers have rightfully long argued that pornography» promotes a (cultural) climate in which acts of sexual hostility directed against women are not only tolerated but ideologically encouraged.»

In today's cultural and political climate, however, to suggest that the current stampede to accept claims that a decade ago would have been regarded as signs of serious psychological disturbance — and that are still regarded as such by eminent psychiatrists — is to risk being shamed and cast to the margins of society as a bigot.

The increase in the number of Muslims moving to Western Europe makes an impact on the cultural and religious climate.

Who is able to critically engage the cultural climate we now live in and show us how to live in it better?

In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughtIn Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughtin our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughts.

These were willing to shed all the inherited and supposedly unchangeable dogmas in order to be free to explore fresh forms and expressions of the Christian faith which would be more relevant to the new cultural and intellectual climate.

It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.

The recent change in the cultural climate, one that everyone from fundamentalists to People for the American Way helped produce and to which each responded, has occasioned fresh talk about civic responsibility.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

It is doubtless correct that, under the influence of the peculiar American cultural climate, the churches here have developed a temper which is altogether lacking in Europe.

In a divided political and cultural climate, issues like the adoption tax credit should unite us.

The cultural shape freedom of expression assumes in the legal climate of South Africa, therefore, is of unique interest.

Unfortunately in our current political and cultural climate, those who claim to be the most tolerant are actually the most intolerant when confronted by someone who advocates a morality that differs from their own.

Another pioneer in this field was a Unitarian minister, Samuel Johnson, whose book Oriental Religions and Their Relations to Universal Religion was indicative of the cultural climate of his day.

The people of Riverside County, along with those in the communities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, enjoy an exceptional quality of life, a mild climate, good air quality, reasonably priced land and building sites adjacent to the I - 15 and I - 215 corridors, affordable housing at all levels, a highly skilled labor force, quality educational facilities and programs and cultural, entertainment and recreational activities for every lifestyle.

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

However, success can be measured by cultural change too - changes in society that affect the overall climate in which we all live and work.

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Thursday said that former President Bill Clinton should've stepped down had his affair with Monica Lewinsky occurred in the current political and cultural climate.

Researchers conducted 3,269 household surveys, more than 100 focus group discussions and open interviews about the economic, social and cultural losses incurred by a changing climate in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, Mozambique and Nepal.

Researchers also point to irreversible cultural and social impacts that could exceed monetary loss as a topic that should infuse climate negotiations this year and into the Paris talks in 2015.

«For current climate change adaptation research, it is worth looking into the historical record to take into account the cultural, societal, and political factors that hampered adaptation in the past in order to be prepared for the future.

Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in early modern human populations, according to new research.

Clear evidence of prehistoric conflict can be difficult to discern in other parts of the world, but the arid climate and sparse settlement in the Southwest have left pueblo ruins, cultural artifacts, and even human remains remarkably intact.

«It's a tremendous leap to draw these conclusions — that climate change is linked to violence — and factors such as economics, technology, poverty, group dynamics, cultural nationalism and personalities play significant roles in outbreaks of war,» says William Martel, an international securities expert at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Putting this theory to the test, however, the researchers found that remarkable cultural and technological innovations seen in the sites in South Africa can not be linked directly to climate shifts.

Established by Congress in 2008, the climate science centers develop science and tools to help land managers address climate - related impacts to land, water, fish and wildlife, and cultural sites.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Workers in the arts and the media would become experts in meteorology, convinced that cultural creativity depended on the climate.

And with the service's centennial happening in 2016, NPS is working on a «plan of action» to improve the parks for the big celebration, as well as to address long - term concerns, including cultural resource management, invasive species, and climate change.

The finding supports a case made by Jared Diamond and others that migration along the same lines of latitude in Eurasia promoted the sharing of crops, animals and technology, but that wide variations in climate found in the New World's north - to - south orientation hindered cultural exchanges

We want to strengthen Europe, improve integration through equal educational opportunities for everyone, drive forward the energy transition as a trigger for global climate change mitigation and firmly anchor cultural education in schools.

Improvements in air quality, microclimate and behavioural aspects of urban dwellers will be achieved in the selected cities assessed for future climate change scenarios and representative of different cultural and life styles in Europe.

Ongoing projects examine the paleoenvironmental context for human evolution and cultural development, reconstructing ancient rivers and lakes, dating geological formations, and attempting to understand the role that climate change had in producing new species and stone - tool cultures.

Due to tremendous variations in climate, indigenous food supplies, environmental conditions and the principles of evolution, adaptation, and heredity, different cultural and ethnic groups, over a period of many centuries, developed distinctly different kinds of dietary requirements...»

This association of the feminine with weakness or vulnerability may be objectionable in a cultural climate where criticasters monotonously beat the drum for the Strong Female Character, but Denis is an artist, not a sloganeer, and as such she has always been gifted with the only kind of strength that matters — the guts to speak hard home truths and not give a fuck about how they might be received.

It says something important about our cultural climate that Disney's superhero universe, in all its wholesome glory, has blown the competition out of the water for years.