Sentences with phrase «cultural distinctions»

It involves planned encounters between believers and non-believers of cultural distinction held in various cities, the first at the Unesco building in Paris and subsequent ones in Stockholm and Assisi.

Paul argued that what God achieved in Jesus was a relation which is not affected by cultural distinctions between Jew and Gentile.

Alfredo Sosabravo is a Cuban artist who won many important awards in Cuba and abroad, among them, his country's highest cultural distinctions.

What I have in mind here, though, is not the seemingly inevitable progression toward ever more complex cultural distinctions that has fascinated modernization theorists.

Cultural distinctions as a means of celebration is beautiful, but it can be manipulated by those with a thirst for power to control the masses.

For the earnest thought of death can liberate us not only from procrastination, but also from our typical pursuit of an identity based on cultural distinctions.

National PTA's Every Child in Focus is a campaign centered on strengthening family engagement in schools by celebrating important cultural distinctions and achievements, while highlighting solutions to potential educational issues.

Imperial mastery relied on techniques of translation, assimilation, hybridisation and mimicry, and although the exhibition presents these exchanges as creatively fruitful, they often also betray imbalances of power and oppressive cultural distinctions.

It taps into lawyers» deeply rooted cultural distinction between lawyers and «non-lawyers,» between those whose opinions merit a default level of respect and attention and those whose opinions do not.

Westerners have learned that cheese is a good thing to eat — a badge of cultural distinction, even.

Alfredo Sosabravo is a Cuban self - taught artist who won many important awards in Cuba and abroad, among them, his country's highest cultural distinctions: the Félix Varela Order and the National Plastic Arts Award.

A series of performances and video installations realized between 2014 - 2015 addressed the complexities of communication and the deconstruction of iconic symbols, simultaneously investigating how the political relationships and cultural distinctions between their two countries manifest on a micro or personal level.

You have to speak their language, which is an overtone to the cultural distinctions, not the actual spoken language.

If we can no longer conduct public debates according to the «objective» language of «self - evident truths» — ways of reasoning that purport to cut across religious and cultural distinctions — how will political debate move forward?

Cyberspace itself is filled with many options for religious identity, but they seem to be void of clear propositional and cultural distinctions.

The game is a worldwide one, yet the standardized game tracks sand away any cultural distinctions, so that geographical relocations are distinguishable only by the predominant racial makeup of a given crowd.

To remind us once again that certain films are commercial dreck appealing to the lowest common denominator, whereas others are within a genre of festival films designed to purvey a sense of cultural distinction, is finally to give all the power to the institutional and class divisions that one presumably wishes to challenge.

Subsequently, using its successful Harlem model as a starting point while accounting for key operational and cultural distinctions, Democracy Prep opened thousands of high quality public school seats in Camden, the South Bronx, the District of Columbia, Baton Rouge, and Las Vegas.

Granted, these places retain their own geographical and cultural distinction, but each location shares a laid - back predilection for catering to the aesthetic and recreational needs of Western budget travelers.

It is such that now, rather than trying to split the cultural distinctions of art forms from different countries, game makers can travel across the world taking bits and pieces of things they learn and enjoy, and then glue them together in their work to expand their creative possibilities beyond the confines of their native culture.

Untitled (Human Mask) captures a number of significant themes in Pierre Huyghe's body of work: the enigmatic and uncanny situations found in the film suggest a collapse of biological and cultural distinctions.

A provocation of the Western art world, it not only demands more recognition for African contemporary art, but also raises the question of why these cultural distinctions exist.