Sentences with phrase «cultural environments of»

At the heart of the matter is the universal view of the importance of protecting the natural and cultural environments of places you're visiting.

While in the winter workspace, Agbomenou envisions creating a series of portraits and landscapes that depict the histories of people in his native Harlem, the Bronx and Upper Manhattan that would serve as a conservation effort to preserve the cultural environments of these communities.

By adopting an approach that looks holistically at the current technology, policy, and cultural environments of the agency and actively soliciting and incorporating public feedback, DOT is creating a plan that will enable the agency to align Open Government initiatives with strategic objectives, mitigate the risks associated with transparency, and improve performance by embracing the use of emerging communications technologies to increase citizen involvement.

All that a person owes to his parents and to the cultural environment of his birth can not be overemphasized, and yet it belongs to his very personhood that he becomes steadily independent.

Women suffer the most due to civil wars, being subject to rape, becoming single parents, made refugees and having to bring up children without proper schooling, social services and their traditional cultural environment of home, the extended family and village or town.

It was apparently, then, a deep ethical motivation that at length found expression in the dogma now familiar but in its cultural environment of astonishing radicalism: «Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image nor any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above or in the earth beneath or in the waters that are under the earth: thou shalt not bow clown thyself to them nor serve them» (Exod.

For we must not ignore the fact that these very expressions had played an important role in the myths of the «dying - and - rising god» which were still very much alive in the wider cultural environment of Israel.

In the cultural environment of the church today, there is very little appreciation for a Christian way of life.

With an international community at their fingertips, people of all ages are exploring the social atmosphere and cultural environment of contacts made half way across the world.

The Atmosphere brand will offer a unique and local experience immersing travellers in the natural and cultural environment of the Indian Ocean.

One of them, a show entitled Mirrorcity, focuses entirely on artists living and working in London, offering a snapshot of the multifaceted cultural environment of the art and of the city itself.

1965 - 1975» depicts the energy of the cultural environment of this American city as a center for figurative production, as well as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some artists known as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to urban murals.

Using photography, video, painting and installation, the artists referenced the imagery and text of football to explore the cultural environment of the game.

The department's mission is to enhance the cultural environment of the University and the Syracuse area through meaningful educational experiences and encounters with the University's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.

Jeff Gibbons will present a lecture at DASER (D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous) in Washington D.C. DASER is a monthly discussion forum on art science projects providing a snapshot of the cultural environment of the region and fostering interdisciplinary networking.

Stano Filko (b. 1937 Veľká Hradná — d. 2015 Bratislava) was part of the generation of artists who caused an upheaval in the relatively conservative cultural environment of Slovakia in...

2 Rooms Artist Residency is an opportunity for professional visual artists and writers to pursue their creative work in the rich natural and cultural environment of east coast Newfoundland.

The Chinese and international artworks featured in this exhibition span multiple periods, mediums and forms, presenting the expanding dimensions and imaginational space for contemporary art through the intersection of «Myth» and «History,» while also interpreting the character and cultural environment of the city of Shanghai through multiple perspectives.

John Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present a landmark exhibition Looking Back: 45 Years, celebrating 45 years the gallery has been in business and its commitment to the artistic and contemporary cultural environment of San Francisco and beyond.

Not exact matches

Whereas once it seemed like Facebook could ride out any bad publicity on the strength of its inexorable growth as a business and cultural force, it's increasingly operating in an environment where billionaire technology moguls like Michael Bloomberg and Pierre Omidyar are publicly criticizing it and even calling for it to be regulated.

«The demand to effectively operate in unfamiliar environments and navigate cultural differences can be an intensive one, particularly when business travel requires meeting rigid schedules,» write professors Scott A. Cohen of the University of Surrey in the UK and Stefan Gössling of Linnaeus University in Sweden.

In addition to the «subtle influences» of our genes on our behavior, our environment (or surrounding cultural norms and conditions) as well as our nurturing (i.e. upbringing, whom we choose to surround ourselves with and what we think about) is what really makes us who we are.

But, she says, the big difference is if a student can demonstrate that they've grasped the geopolitical environment of a particular country, or successfully navigated the cultural differences.

Galen Cranz, a sociologist and professor of architecture at the University of California Berkeley who has long crusaded for more active work environments writes via e-mail: «It will take cultural change in order to make significant change.»

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

We've written plenty about the job cuts, high - level departures, rise of technology, weak deal - making environment, strategic initiatives, and cultural changes.

Whether it's smart minds, a welcoming business environment, cultural assets, a legacy of innovation, tech talent or even cost of living — this region has all the ingredients Amazon needs to make HQ2 a success.

Amazon's request for proposals doesn't mention the LGBTQ community, but does include a section saying it requires «a compatible cultural and community environment» that includes «the presence and support of a diverse population.»

«We know that if the Enbridge pipeline is allowed to go forward that it will just be a matter of time before there is a major spill that devastates our marine environment and the cultural traditions, jobs and communities that rely on a healthy ocean,» said Chandra Herbert.

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

The actual archetypical buyer personas that are created serve as an interface and a narrative to social, cultural, and behavioral research of buyers within organizations as well as in individual environments.

In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

The teaching of the bishops of Malta sets up a cultural environment that will exacerbate both divides.

Dalits, who have been subjected to social and cultural oppression for generations are facing new threats to them by the wanton destruction of the natural environment.

Education today in the industrial environment and in the political and cultural environments consists of how to ensure that the human resources (since both you and I are now reduced to being human resources rather than human beings) can be trained on a continuing basis, throughout our lives, to be recycled at the right moment, to be a profitable human resource?

The Druzes of the Levant differ from the Sunnis of Egypt because of differing interpretations of the Qur» an and the Traditions of the Prophet, not because they live in different cultural or geographical environments.

(9) For a further development of this, see my article «Teaching theology in a new cultural environment,» in Chris Arthur (ed.)

But in the past this contemplation of a personal future normally took place with the idea that the cultural and physical environment had some permanence.

For the most part I would not normally listen to this type of music but it was a great cultural experience in a peaceful environment.

Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»

Cahill begins this book by treating the three concentric circles that made up the world of Jesus and those who were influenced by him and wrote about him» namely, the Roman social and political environment, the Greek cultural and philosophical world, and the Jewish spirit that was both indebted to and suspicious of the other two.

«Because globalization as a culturally homogenizing and environment - devouring force is coming on so fast, there is a real danger that in just a few decades it could wipe out the ecological and cultural diversity that took millions of years of human and biological evolution to produce.»

Irrespective of profound differences in general and special environment, cultural level and religious level, the rites conducted in the «homes» of the American Indian, the Egyptian, the Chinese, or the German or Englishman of the sixteenth century have certain features in common, as compared with public, congregational ceremonies.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

In a changing cultural environment where new ideas threaten the safety and security of the faith, Faith Unraveled is a fearlessly honest story of survival.

A symbolic image that comes readily to mind is that of the single passenger car on a six lane freeway that required the demolition and uprooting of thousands of homes and households, styles of human relations, cultural patterns, and the destruction of the non-human natural environment.

Now I experience a liberation for orthodoxy in the endless flexibility of centered apostolic teaching to meld with different cultural environments while offering anew the eternal word of the theandric, messianic Servant in each new historical setting.

It is the business of men of faith to see to it that they employ the forms which, in a particular cultural environment, will give the clearest and most exact description of the content of their faith to the people who live in that environment.

-- creation of new cultural consumer models, respectful of the environment and of the equal sharing of world resources

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