Sentences with phrase «cultural issues at»

He has also studied international legal and cultural issues at the University of Amsterdam and the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka.

The gist is that large firms can outgun their smaller rivals just by throwing a lot of money into the publicity machine and cranking it up, although there are cultural issues at work too.

But he concedes that there are also more deep - seated cultural issues at play.

While there are certainly important hermeneutical and cultural issues at play, I can't help but wonder if something more nefarious is also at work.

Equally in Sweden there is no cultural issue at all with breastfeeding in public.

Not exact matches

At an all - staff meeting to reveal the results of attorney Eric Holder's investigation into Uber's cultural issues, TPG founding partner and Uber board member David Bonderman made a sexist joke about how women talk too much.

(This hints at another cultural issue in Silicon Valley — bias against hiring older workers and parents.)

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

But initially at least Canada was seen as an additional complication to completion of the TPP, a «difficult» negotiating partner that brought its own baggage (such as a less than robust IPR regime, a traditional antipathy to the interests of the brand - name pharmaceutical manufacturers, a penchant for protecting so - called «cultural industries», and other trade issues that did not align with US interests) that might have resonated with some of the other TPP countries.

South32 chief executive Graham Kerr says the mining company is dealing with a «long term cultural issue» at its Illawarra Metallurgical Coal...

Let me add I have not seen your 3 posts asking me about how I feel about it before now when I copied and posted those above and If I had seen before I would have answered you with out any hesitation but did not because I moved to other blogs... And to satisfy you interest my saying I do not like it as a cultural habit but if religion failed to stop it and had to regulate it then what can I do about it... people can still lie and give you an elder age and how can you tell if 9 - 10or more at villages there are no birth certificate issued nor villagers interested to obtain it... what can you tell from their teeth like sheep??

Have social, cultural, and intellectual conditions changed in ways that introduce issues not addressed at all by these congregations current forms of speech and action?

Both English and Syrian Christian missionaries felt disappointed at the continuation of pre-Christian religio - cultural practices among the converts.54 The Provincial Council of the CMS in Travancore, which consisted of both missionaries and Syrian Christian priests, formally discussed this issue and concluded that the Pulaya Christians were «not well established in the faith.»

But since the rich powers and their academia and media condition the cultural framework of thinking on such issues, the just interests of the poor are not taken into account in the discussion of the rich as at the summit conferences of the G 8, but is not highlighted even in the discourse among the governments of the poor peoples as in the Non - Aligned Movement.

But since the rich powers and their academia and media condition the cultural framework of thinking on such issues, the just interests of the poor are not taken into account in the discussion among the rich as at the summit conferences of the G 8.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

It is cultural issues that most divide the nation» and that most put Democrats at a disadvantage.

What we today call cultural issues were not so much at the forefront of political sensibility as they would later be, but Nixon strongly benefited from his «law and order» appeal.

Important issues are indeed at stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even if they are in the cultural minority.

It looks at cultural issues like what were the common practices and beliefs of people in that time and place that this book was written to?

But nationalism and cultural issues were more important: irritation at a loss of sovereignty to Brussels; worries about the effects of mass immigration; resentment of a cosmopolitan elite that demeans local ways; a creeping sense of social disorder, epitomized by recent satires like Martin Amis's 2012 novel Lionel Asbo: State of England.

The problem for the young ministers, first of all, was to establish some kind of communication with East Harlem, to overcome the cultural barriers and get to know people at the level of our common humanity where the genuine religious issues arise.

I have already noted that Black theology deals at once with cultural and justice issues in a thoroughly unified way.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

I try to unravel some of the cultural aspects of the problem» the attempt to erect an empty «shrine» at the heart of western democracy» in the Spring 2012 issue of National Affairs, in an article whose title is taken from the Book of Daniel: «The Handwriting on the Wall.»

As Carol mentioned above, the issue is not simply the differences between «men» and «women» as occupants of different categories of personhood but the cultural assumption that such differences exist and that they should be a reason to establish and maintain immutable categories for those differences — e.g., men = alphas, women = betas — the violation of which categories is somehow at least questionable, if not punishable by society.

Showing that Greek life plays a large role in even larger cultural issues (the whole point of the post) at SU and other campuses.

In this issue of Attached Family, we take a look at the cultural explosion of breastfeeding advocacy, as well as the challenges still to overcome.

In this double issue of Attached Family, we take a look at the cultural explosion of breastfeeding advocacy, as well as the challenges still to overcome, with features such as: The Real Breastfeeding Story, Extended Breastfeeding Around the World, When Breastfeeding Doesn't Work, Breastfeed, Chicago!

As a former post-doctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Reischer also has extensive experience with issues of cultural difference.

With the move, President Donald Trump — who indicated during his campaign that he might protect LGBT rights — has sided with social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and liberals.

There are hard cases: advertising aimed at children, advertising that is an affront to decency and similar issues about advertising in a cultural context, but political advertising is not a hard case.

One part of the judge - led inquiry would look into the interest rate scandal specifically and report by Christmas, while a second party would look at the broader cultural issues in the banking sector and report later.

The issue hit the headlines again last year when a Guardian investigation suggested the practise was not confined to Mr Goodman and had been widespread at the newspaper, with many household names from political, sporting and cultural life, having their privacy invaded.

He posts regularly at his website, http://behindtheblack.com, on space, science, and other matters relating to cultural and political issues.

On Sunday, Clinton told worshipers at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn's Canarsie neighborhood that there was a «big difference» between her and Sanders on the issue, and that he «has voted with the National Rifle Association and the big gun lobby.»

«LGBT scientists should be recognized as excellent employees not as having sexual cultural issues,» says Jeff Hammonds, diversity coordinator at Battelle Memorial Institute, an international enterprise that develops and commercializes technology and manages governmental and industrial laboratories.

As a former executive with more than 25 years at the Dow Chemical Co., Wagener has seen many scientists leave the ivory towers and stumble because of what he considers to be cultural issues.

Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's senior author, noted that although parental surveys of this kind have weaknesses in terms of parent responses reflecting the breadth of traumas children may be exposed to, the findings, published in the Oct. issue of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense of cultural identity.

According to a study conducted by sociologists at the University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain), there is a feminine way as well as a masculine way to behave on the Internet: males tend to directly allude to ethnic and cultural issues whereas females are less obvious in doing so.

McLean Hospital offers a customized service that guides international clientele through the hospital's premier programs, beginning with a confidential and comprehensive evaluation at The Pavilion and continuing through specialized treatment as needed — all with careful consideration of cultural and family issues.

The other is looking at cultural issues in neuropsychology and brain injury rehabilitation.

In a new study published in the March issue of the journal Animal Behaviour, Luncz and her colleagues investigated whether these cultural variations are equally efficient, or whether some come at a cost.

This website is the online companion to Spectrum, a journal established to encourage Seventh - day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster intellectual and cultural growth.

Language issues, cultural differences, technological developments and preferences for specific European countries will be covered at this event.

This website is the online companion to Spectrum, a journal established to encourage Seventh - day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster intellectual and cultural growth.

Roseville, CA About Blog SpectrumMagazine.org is the online companion to Spectrum, a journal established to encourage Seventh - day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster intellectual and cultural growth.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

But beyond «Get Out,» there were many other powerful meditations on relevant issues, be they class («The Florida Project,» «Lady Bird»), gender dynamics («Battle of the Sexes,» «The Beguiled») or cultural discrimination («The Big Sick,» «Beatriz at Dinner»).

Oana Chivoiu is finishing her dissertation in Theory and Cultural Studies at Purdue University and has special interests in issues of migration, post-communism, and realism in European cinema.