Sentences with phrase «cultural places on»

Due to the sheer number of different historical and cultural places on offer in Peru, unless you are travelling with a local guide, or someone who knows all of the local legends and off the beaten track hidden treasures, it's well worth doing your homework before setting off for Peru.

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«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.»

«You could certainly write a book on why the US has yet to see a federal paid - leave policy — but the answers essentially come down to two distinct cultural elements at play in the US: the values we place in individualism and business,» she wrote.

Every place I have been to has in many ways provided a set of cultural and mental challenges, but in terms of work, the majority of the places have been developed enough to welcome digital nomads with open arms, with reliable internet, affordable accommodation and plenty of beaches for me to unwind after a sweaty day grinding away on my notebook.

But in a sign of the film's power and place in the cultural debate, Apple Inc said on Sunday it plans to carry the movie for rental and purchase on iTunes, the biggest and most - popular online content store.

Chinese companies now have a level of self - assurance and success on the world stage that is allowing them to experiment with their own ways of working, and they are well placed to bring together the best of the American model with the best of their own unique cultural heritage.

A cultural implosion took place on Feb. 19, when former Uber engineer Susan Fowler published a horrifying account of harassment and systematic mistreatment by the company's human resources department.

There's a lot of «they hate us because we're gay» vs. «they hate us because we're Christian» stuff going on when the cultural issues are being discussed on various places on the social media.

To understand how BioLogos relates to other positions «in play» in our cultural conversation on origins, we have created the following categorical scheme into which most participants can be readily placed.

Here is another place where knowing the historical - cultural Jewish background of the Scriptures really helps understand what is going on.

Cultural intermingling inevitably took place on the frontier between a nomadic society to the south and a settled, advanced civilization to the southwest and northeast.

Might it be time to find your place among followers of Jesus who concentrate on following Jesus, loving others, and helping those who need help rather than among those who spend their time worrying about «marital cultural traditions» and similar things?

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

As in much else, the social issues raised by advertising are not based on the number of advertisements placed, but on the cultural and social impact of the influential visible advertisements in advanced media that go far beyond the mere announcement of price and availability of commodities.

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.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

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.

Despite the limping conclusion (he is writing for Commonweal, after all), Steinfels has nailed the mindlessness of a progressive insouciance that thinks it a good thing that, in the words of one author, younger Catholics «place a higher priority on being good Christians than they do on being good Catholics,» when «good Christian» is indistinguishable from the cultural liberalism promoted by, for instance, the National Catholic Reporter.

To incarnate the reign of God means to take on local flesh, to speak the vernacular, to dive deep into the cultural particularities of a time and place.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

While cultural disestablishment affects all Christian churches, its impact on the old mainline — the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Methodists — is dramatic, for mainline Protestantism was particularly ill prepared for the loss of a central place in American life.

As churches, we say we have placed ourselves on the side of the social, cultural, economic and spiritual development of all peoples.

Editor's Reply We would simply note that at a question and answer session with representatives of the new movements held at Pentecost Pope Francis made the following comment, which seems to dovetail with the emphasis Mr Keeffe places on devotion to the Real Presence: For us Christians, poverty is not a sociological, philosophical or cultural category.

The Crossroads Cultural Center and the American Bible Society host Dr. Giorgio Ambrosio and Stephen M. Barr on what The God Particle can tell us about human beings and our place in the universe.

Claire Paye said too great an emphasis is placed on encouraging mothers to find work after having a child, adding that cultural attitudes need to change.

I see a pretty strong case that Scripture addresses first and second century cultural norms and implies a continued progression toward equality while some see the restrictions placed on women as timeless.

Our 2015 Annual General Meeting and Annual Awards for Excellence took place at the Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre, Gatton, Queensland on November 27th.

So it was in 1991 that Stacey embarked on a journey to Rabi in Fiji to meet with the Banabans for the very first time and return copies of their family photos that documented special cultural events, places and villages that had all been destroyed over the years through mining.

Among his honers, he was awarded a Phoenix Award by the Lawrence Arts Commission (now Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission) in 2003 and again in 2016 as a member of The Committee on Imagination & Place.

The convention center violated Burnham's vision to preserve the lakefront for recreational and cultural use, placing a giant commercial complex on Chicago Park District land just south of Soldier Field.

I'm here to answer some of your most common questions about how you can achieve your personal breastfeeding goals without being undermined by cultural and institutional booby traps, such as the booby traps that might be placed on maternity leaves and while pumping at work.

A collaborative project between Politics in Spires and the Oxford China Centre, this blog provides analysis on the economic, political and cultural transformations taking place in China.

And any country that tries to turn its back on the get up and go energy and the cultural vitality that migrants can bring to an economy, is likely to lose its place in the world.

Picente said «With the unbelievable success of the Utica Comets hockey team and Utica College Hockey serving as a catalyst for economic and cultural activity taking place in downtown Utica it is time to work with downtown's stakeholders on a long standing problem.

Towards this end, Arase confirmed that a technical team is already in place to look into all cultural inhibitions against proper prosecution of offenders saying the Nigeria Police Force has commenced the training of officers billed for Gender - based violence desks on diverse courses.

Sure, people may differ on the value of teaching art and music, or on whether math and science should be placed in a cultural context or taught using innovative, experiential approaches.

But also in the model are numbers that stand for the prestige of each language — the cultural value people place on speaking it — and numbers that describe a language's economic value.

The dormant volcano has become a battleground between astronomers, who have placed 13 telescopes at its summit and now wish to build one more, and Hawaiian cultural and environmental activists who believe the stargazing science has already had too much impact on the 4,205 - meter - high mountain.

To improve work - life balance in the Sciences, a cultural shift is necessary that provides more space for creativity and places less emphasis on efficiency for efficiency's sake....

And just as important, says ResponsibleTravel.com, which promotes community based tourism in a partnership with Conservation International, the communities become «aware of the commercial and social value placed on their natural and cultural heritage through tourism,» thus fostering a commitment to resource conservation.

The maize reference genome and the haplotype map are published online today ahead of print in the journal Science, in addition to a supplementary poster on the maize genome placing the plant and the sequencing project in historical and cultural perspective.

Long considered the likely place of humankind's biological origins, recent discovery of the world's oldest stone tools on the west side of the lake suggests the region may be a good candidate for human cultural and technological origins as well.

So it was in 1991 that Stacey embarked on a journey to Rabi in Fiji to meet with the Banabans for the very first time and return copies of their family photos that documented special cultural events, places and villages that had all been destroyed over the years through mining.

As the industry's cultural profile rises, more and more students are applying for places on fashion related courses and the competition has never been tougher.

In addition they get chances to recognize approximately the local cuisines of Australia and the opposite cultural features, at the same time as visiting the neighborhood eating places and other places of traveler hobbies, on the costs of their rich sugar daddies.

Ignore The Cultural Differences And Language: Differences in culture and language can be placed without doubt the pressure on relations with the girl mail.

Continuing the subject of niches and their correct setup, and following on our commitment to a global market place which does not only mean adding languages but also taking into account cultural diversity, we are ready to present you with our newest niche market release — Dating for Marriage niche.

The important issues raised by the film - centered on the cultural, racial and moral struggle that took place on the American frontier - are glossed over in favor of a juvenile fantasy of male bonding around the campfire.

In partnership with African American Universities, museums and cultural centers, Open Road Films will provide free pre-release screenings for 11th and 12thgraders in seventeen (17) U.S. cities to take place on October 2.

Lady Bird dreams of going to school on the East Coast, or anywhere that isn't Sacramento, a place she feels is a cultural vacuum.