Sentences with phrase «cultural need for»

The cultural need for supporting poor elderly people will lead funding to continue, unless it makes the government, and the culture as a whole fail in the process, and that would never happen, right?

And finally, we can whisper to Liberals the fact that democratic nations actually have a cultural need for disadvantaged poverty and advantaged aristocracy to still exist.

Not exact matches

When hiring freelancers, it's not just a matter of finding the right technical skills and expertise — you need freelancers who are a good cultural fit for the organization.

«To get the full change to happen, we probably need not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the work place.»

They won't adjust a cultural nuance in one language for marketing materials that need to be available online and printed in two hours and in six different languages for your multicountry European sales team.

Deb is the author of «Tips of the Tongue: The Nonnative English Speaker's Guide to Mastering Public Speaking» for global leaders who need to master the confidence, competence and cultural comfort of making presentations.

The need to continually provide work for my virtual assistant, along with the obstacles formed by the language barrier and cultural differences between us, ended up creating more work for me.

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

That means there's cultural and social pressure to stay on the platforms that people are most likely to use to find you — for example, when, disaster strikes and you need to mark yourself safe.

A good early - stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels.

Many not for profit groups and associations have been deprived of the financial resources they need to contribute to the development of the economic, social, scientific, environmental, and cultural well - being of the country.

Businesses that have succeeded with international growth recommend leaving room in your business plan for market research and funding that might be needed to adapt your products or services due to cultural or market differences.

... If you want to win a [political] war, you need weapons for that — you wanted cultural weapons, and we could build them for you.

Taube Philanthropies» executive director, Shana Penn, said, «Taube Philanthropies is committed to being there for people and communities in need, whether those needs be long - term cultural and educational challenges, or critical emergency relief such as that which faces us in Houston.

the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

For the chairman of the Standing Commission on Evangelism, while claiming to honor those authoritative references, the normative articles of faith are constructed by perceived cultural directions and personal needs.

But the season of sewing is ending, and we need to separate that which is Christian from cultural forms taken over and reshaped for post-Christian purposes.

Until our cultural values about intimate relationships are consistent with the new laws regarding violence against women, we will continue to generate mixed signals about the need for justice in the home.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Even in the face of cultural chaos and color TV, there is a great need and demand for materials that are both interesting and mature.

Moreover, the various factors such as cultural, political, social and religious impact upon languages necessitate the need for innovative translations and revisions.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqFor example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Well, I think that orthodox Christianity has had precious little cultural credibility for many years, and so there is probably no need to panic on that score.

In describing the need for criteria within the corrective task, I noted that to know what «Jesus Christ» means requires acquaintance with a widening circle of «assumptions and prerequisites, cultural backgrounds, and definitions of concepts.»

Hirsch's misguided attempts to alphabetically list items that are thought to form the essential core of cultural literacy blissfully ignores Rorty's plea for the recognition of the contingency of our own language games and the need to extend our sensitivities to the marginalized.

no, you don't need to have a personal relationship with God or Jesus to fight for our Christian cultural heritage.

Another sociological explanation of the phenomenon is that the traditional functions of the clergy are not adjusted to the needs of the modern world and that the responsibility for the prevailing uncertainty must be placed on the Church as a cultural laggard which has not kept up with the times.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

But she realizes that it will be hard for individual women to accomplish much on their own and that what we need is «a real cultural shift.»

There are, as one would expect, several essays in the book on Jews and Judaism, some reflecting Kristol's religious interests» the need, for example, to sustain in Jewish identity a religious element and not merely a cultural one» others his political ones, exploring the relations of modern American Jews with a pluralistic American society that has given them an uncommonly large, though not unlimited, berth.

His reply is that a faith of strong convictions is needed, because only faith of that kind will be able to inspire a movement for cultural and political change.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

And the liberators misunderstood their own needs and those of their movement's members: «The culture of emancipation was apparently too thin to sustain these people and enable them to reproduce themselves; the radical rejection of the past left, as it were, too little material for cultural construction.»

I did not expect that I would be a witness to the severity of need for the «church» to find some kind of peaceful resolution to this horrible religious cultural war.

To answer that question, Justin argues that we have to have «a clear, consistent biblical standard for interpreting the text, a principle we can apply to various passages that will help us to determine, fairly and consistently, how to translate them for our culture... Such a standard would need to be able to differentiate God's eternal laws — such as those dealing with murder, theft, and adultery — from the cultural biblical rules Christians are no longer obligated to follow — such as those dealing with dietary restrictions and head coverings.»

The social, cultural, economic, religious, ethnic, racial, tribal, and gender aspects of humanity need to be democratically addressed in order for what creative and healthy plurality that does exist among humans to be honored and preserved.

Yes, and they are wrong, except for the fact there are still parts of the message (see above regarding «no greater love has a man than this» moral truth, that still resonates with us today) that have managed to transcend both cultural and historical changes, albeit they need to be slightly recast from time to time so they retain their relevance.

In a speech to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), he said: «There has perhaps never been a greater need for cultural connectivity.

The natural assumption would then follow that the writers of the Bible constucted a personal theological and cultural justification, based on the need for a comfort zone religion.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

Pope Francis presents a call to action in Laudato Si, writing «All of this shows the urgent need for us to move forward in a bold cultural revolution.»

He suggests that pastors need to learn to appreciate the diversity of the churches they serve, to care for those cultural differences, and to work with them rather than against them.

If this message is to be most fruitfully grasped, whether for cultural enrichment or the deepening of personal faith, we need to understand the Bible's structure and content.

Though I myself welcome the recent cultural ascendancy of the community question, I need to admit and then to face honestly three further difficulties that have attended this development before I can then proceed to demonstrate the need for the cultivation of certain religious virtues within communities of higher learning.

After World War II, the military headquarters recognized the need for some guide to the religious groups in Japan and asked the Religious and Cultural Division of the Civil Information and Education Section to prepare a concise description of Japanese religious organizations for the guidance of occupation personnel.

Our new self - understanding would be informed by Darwinian biology, but we could expect that our moral and social instincts, rooted in biology as they are, would remain unmodified except for slight cultural corrections that would need to be made after religion disappeared.

In the emphasis on a display's context, and the need for a «cultural, artistic, or festive,» as opposed to religious, meaning, the Conseil's rulings closely track the American approach.

The respect for culutral relativism is important up to the point when it offends OUR cultural relativism... no American Bald Eagle should ever be sacrificed these Native American tribes should no better... maybe their religion needs to go through a period of modernization instead of being stuck in stupid traditions of the past... this extremely offends me as an American... why do not the Native Americans respect our culture?

Do we need common points of cultural references for our society to endure?

Not that they would in any sense wish to belittle Christianity; they would merely be emphasizing the fact that though God's revelation may be for all, the cultural garb in which it is dressed need not apply to all.