Sentences with phrase «cultural ethos as»

By imbibing the local culture in the dà © cor and keeping a very strong emphasis on contemporary design, the hotels are extremely modern but with a flavor of the local cultural ethos as well.

Work has morphed into a twenty - four - hour fact of life, bringing its own set of standards and expectations when it comes to sleep... Sleep is ingrained in our cultural ethos as something that can be put off, dosed with coffee, or ignored.

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Instead, the Word of the Year is chosen because, in the opinion of Oxford Dictionaries» lexicographers and consultants, it is «judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.»

As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain free from the marriage bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»

It would not be too farfetched or inaccurate to say that Darwinism in its deeper and persistent effects, as these became manifest in science and industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, through them, in other cultural disciplines and activities, contributed to, if in fact it did not create, a new ethos in Western society, dedicated to the task of dealing with the immediacies of existence in their practical aspect.

The work they do to avoid perpetuating or acquiescing in the oppression of women but rather to contribute, whenever possible, to the further understanding of dissolution of sexual inequality, has often been branded and labeled as «Western» and therefore rejected as not being related to the India's «cultural ethos.»

His own position of seeing the economy as «embedded» in sociopolitical contexts and social values opens the door for dialogue about the cultural - religious ethos and ethical, even explicitly theological, assessment of global processes.

Various literatures show that lack of awareness and understanding of education, conflict, cultural ethos, social customs, poverty and poor economic conditions, the gap between the home and the school etc. are the some of the factors which stand as obstacles in their path of attaining education.

None of the Big Five started out as the smug, provincial, insular little clubs they have become, and when the day comes that Bezos and his corporate ethos are gone, Amazon will be headed up by the products of the same cultural, educational and business machines that gave us the mess at TOR.

A reference to fifty - four countries that constitute the African continent, the title of 1 - 54 establishes the parameters of the fair's ethos: as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase the diversity of contemporary African art and cultural production on an international stage.

A reference to fifty - four countries that constitute the African continent, the title of 1:54 establishes the parameters of the fair's ethos: as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase the diversity of contemporary African art and cultural production on an international stage.

The attention toward the collective's activities and ethos is particularly representative to understand a new era of art production in which Colab could serve as a model of decentralization, pluralism, and autonomy, both in the cultural field and in society at large.

While Africa and Brazil have a long history often centrally linked to slavery, more recently South Africa and Brazil have grown to share many other connections, as young democracies with a similar political and cultural ethos and a comparable economic and urban fabric.

This era marked a shift in social and cultural life from a money - driven, individualistic ethos of the Reagan and Bush years, to a foregrounding of collective identities of communities that had been pushed to the margins, a period commonly cited as the rise of identity politics.

Converge 45: YOU IN MIND is conceived as an «art convergence in four chapters» that takes an acute and particular care about the idea and ethos of Portland's inherent positivity to amplify (for good purpose) the generous hand of independent artists whose practices tend towards perpetuating / activating the now radical notion of our cultural commons... It is my intention with YOU IN MIND that the projects we exhibit and / or present, focus on artists who have a «public» in mind, conceptually, structurally and / or are actively present within the resulting work itself.

Classical notions of ethos as a component of the writer's character — or as the writer's character — emerge from a different historical and cultural moment and fail to account for the complexity of the modern self.

Over the last decade, he has spearheaded the introduction of mindfulness training into policing in the United States and internationally as part of a larger cultural transformation toward a compassionate, skillful and resilient warrior ethos.