Sentences with phrase «cultural force in»

Several of the New York School painters who first made American art a cultural force in the world were in rebellion against an earlier generation committed to social activism in art and communism in politics.

Contemporary art in China reflects that country's surging influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena.

Contemporary art in China reflects the country's rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena.

Contemporary art in China reflects the country's rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the international arena.

Hip - hop has been the dominant cultural force in Atlanta for several decades now.

Under Ann Philbin's direction, the Hammer Museum became a cultural force in Los Angeles.

These conversations became a cultural force in the decade Eklund covers in his show.

Together we have helped our Spanish colleagues build Random House Mondadori as a publisher that has become an undeniable commercial and cultural force in Spain and Latin America, and internationally.

He describes the role of language as a powerful cultural force in shaping how students perceive themselves as learners.

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.

Where Tartt's book is an internalized exploration of the concussed, Garth Risk Hallberg's City on Fire brilliantly explores the collision of historical and cultural forces in New York City during one of its most explosive decades.

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.

So there's a big cultural component of that and as well we have some forcing functions in the business that look for every year where can we drive efficiencies, where can we drive more effectiveness, where can we invest ahead of the curve?

But extending such power - sharing solutions to the Sunni Arab areas of Iraq, and eventually to ethnic and religious groups in Syria, will require internal cultural change, international guarantees, and an outside monitoring force.

During the decades since Mackey founded Whole Foods, it has emerged as a cultural icon and a force in its industry.

And while the brand is smaller in the U.S — at a 1.9 percent share — it has been a major cultural force with a history of groundbreaking ads dating back to the 1960s when Doyle Dane Bernbach won plaudits for an anti-establishment approach and classic copy lines like «Lemon» and «Think Small.»

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

Wilcox writes that «both cultural and economic forces are at work» in widening the marriage and divorce divides.

It is abundantly clear and the evidence has shown through the history and by adopting the maxim of parsimony in a cultural biogeographic context — we can say that religion is not a force of reality.

In Blankets, Thompson» with heartbreaking beauty» portrays Christianity as a cultural force that operated mainly as a confidence - zapping, guilt - inducing straight - jacket.

For instance, not once in Achieving Our Country is there a mention of abortion, the single most determinative question in the alignment of the forces in cultural and moral conflict today, which is to say in the real politics of our time.

When a person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and when cultural patterns deteriorate through internal contradictions in a society or by external forces, the persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.

We recognize the force of cultural influences and individual choice on concepts of maleness and femaleness, but we affirm that sexuality is rooted in the biological designation of the two sexes» male and female.

Some of my friends are sympathetic to the pro-life movement's ideal of a world where mother and child are both offered love and support, a world less subject to the cultural and economic forces that can make motherhood unthinkable for women in unplanned pregnancies.

They constitute a tremendous complex of instincts and inherited traits, family and cultural background, education, and all the aspects of the individual's own past experience which remain in his memory and in his unconscious as continuing motivating forces.

... In Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendIn Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendin this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendin most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defends.

To be sure, it took more than a biological theory to set in motion all the cultural forces which were beginning to reshape the ethos of the West in the mid-nineteenth century.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.

«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.»

He will compare instances where religious concepts, forces, and personalities effected subtle or far - reaching changes and transformations in the cultural and social context in which they occurred.

Richard Adler in Television as a Cultural Force, l976

What they can do is to interpret it in the light of the present forces impinging on their lives so that the new pattern of life may be continuous with their cultural tradition.

It should be borne in mind that because religion conceived of as a vital force transcends its expression, it can not be unreservedly regarded as one among many spheres of cultural activity.

However, in this case, unlike those of Socratic and prophetic existence, men experienced themselves as thrust out of preaxial existence by partly unwelcome forces, concretely the cultural imperialism of the Hellenistic empires, which drew men toward Socratic existence.

The question mark that is placed beside Buddhism has to do with its capacity to survive in a world in which the cultural forces will work so strongly to produce the personal or spiritual selfhood which it negates.

Invoking the term political correctness, he insisted that the military was caving in to cultural forces that wanted to wash religion out of the public sphere.

Waiving for the moment the far from settled question of the extent that Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence were adapted to the particular social and cultural situation in which he found himself, we still must ask whether we can really see the vindication of hope for the higher values in a cumulative and secure achievement of orders of persuasion over brute force.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

In each case (1965 and 1981) it is evident (and somewhat embarrassing) that my sense of theological dislocation is hardly a matter of my own new insight or innovation, but one of a somewhat panicky, sloppy and inept reaction to external events, to massive and threatening cultural and historical changes that, quite against my will, force on me a different procedure, a different viewpoint, a different set of questions — a different theology.

In discussing his own persecution during the Cultural Revolution, Ting told us about the seminary's closing, the destruction of most of its library, and his forced attendance at the Red Guard's political - education classes.

In this politics of freedom, religion figures as a cultural power, a recognized public force; and the freedom that one claims for it is the more legitimate as religion is not its exclusive beneficiary.

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

Similar rules for accommodating conscience adopted in a different cultural and legal milieu would force physicians to perform female genital mutilation (FGM) if another physician was not available to perform the procedure.

Spirituality paints itself as a benign, benevolent force, when in reality it is a dangerous and divisive cultural extension whose benefits stand in stark contrast to its legacy of inhumanity.

Kennedy's decision, now the law of the land, forces us to ask a series of critically important questions: Are citizens» whether Protestants, Catholics, Jews, or Mormons» who seek to apply transcendent moral values to public life welcome in political, legal, and cultural debates?

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

Things are changing, though, and again the complexity of the real is forcing itself into cultural consciousness (evident not only in recent trends in medicine and ethics — witness Callahan — but the arts and philosophy as well).

Faced with the first full - scale cultural revolution in history, Burke explained with grace and force that the role of custom, manners, and personal character is more fundamental to society than the form or content of law.

Beginning with Genesis 1:1, I plan on taking you verse by verse through the Bible to explain it from a historical - cultural perspective, and in a way that exposes how religion has forced Scripture to become its errand boy, when in reality, Scripture should be leading us away from religion and into a deeper and more intimate relationship with God.