Sentences with phrase «cultural divides recently»

I have been pondering our sharp political and cultural divides recently, and it has become depressingly clear to me that true «debate» has become nearly impossible on many issues.

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Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

[2] More recently, the idiom has come to describe a missed connection between two people or communities; a divergent or transient relationship undone by interpersonal, geographic or cultural divides.