Sentences with phrase «cultural products as»

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Most significantly, it's in how their products feel — not just as consumer goods, but as cultural artifacts.

More than introducing new products or marketing strategies, Facebook wants to cement its position as the social backbone of the web — and entrench itself as more cultural phenomenon than corporation.

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As the General Manager of Autodesk's media division (Discreet) and of Avid's Video and Broadcast business, Paul directed the organizational, product and cultural changes necessary to recast strategic direction and return these divisions to profitability.

Last month, the company hosted another full day, live - streamed event during the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., which mixed product placement and cultural education as a way to engage Chinese consumers.

As John Milbank and Adrian Pabst put it in their new book The Politics of Virtue, contemporary political culture is the product of a convergence of two strains of liberalism: a leftist cultural libertarianism that took off during the 1960s and 1970s, and a rightwing free - market liberalism that reached its apogee with the Reagan - Thatcher alliance.

Yet this is far from saying that any particular society or cultural group is as God would have it, or wholly the product of divine activity.

The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

In the case of the doctrine of revelation and inspiration the shift meant that the Bible and its teachings came to be viewed as the product of human cultural experience, time conditioned and relative in authority, and certainly not a suitable cognitive guide to thinking persons today.

The export of cultural products, such as television programs, is a major item of world trade.

Dr Hardy told The Sunday Telegraph: «People tend to talk about [the King James Bible] as a distinctively English cultural product, as something that was made in England, by Englishmen, for English readers.

Instead, they saw economies as a product of cultural, historical, and political forces.

Other instances of cultural accommodation include denominational adoption of bureaucratic business models and the marketing of the church as a consumer product in the American arcade.

The great civilizations of the world do not produce the great religions as a kind of cultural by - product; in a very real sense, the great religions are the foundations on which the great civilizations rest.

Care should also be taken to insure that cultural products sent abroad are reasonably representative of the sending nation and are not a caricature of it, as has unfortunately too largely been the case with American motion pictures circulated in other countries.

Cultural relativism has asserted that each religion can be considered only as a product of its culture.

Decisions that affect people's daily lives are taken in such matters as the quality of information, the diversity of cultural products, or the security of communications.

Racial intermixtures have produced some very white - skinned Negroes with blue eyes and fair hair, yet the product of such a union remains a Negro.5 Race as the term is commonly used designates very nearly what the Germans call Volk — a group sharing a common cultural tradition, whether of achievement or servitude, with some measure of national, geographical, and biological affinity.

But giving things away for free as a marketing strategy only works when the product you are giving away is good and stands out in the overcrowded cultural market.

«By exceeding guest expectations of product and experience, developing a brand image with a distinct and Devilishly Good attitude, and expanding the St. Louis Bar and Grill franchise system carefully and responsibly, it's earned a reputation as a cultural «institution» with an expanding, loyal customer base and «one of the hottest franchise opportunities» within the restaurant industry,» the company says.

Under its Zócalo Gourmet brand, the Collective supports small - scale producers of all - natural cultural foods in Latin America by bringing quality products such as grains, flours, beans and chili pastes direct from the producers to US and Canadian retailers and consumers.

This is the result of the power of cultural myth, family dynamics and imprinting, and excellent marketing of products including books and magazines that have only profit — not child welfare — as their goal.

The cultural effects are on tangible things like access to cultural products (such as food but also all kinds of entertainment), intangible things like attitudes (due to our exposure to a wider range of ideas, outlooks and experiences) and, of course, on literal cultural diversity.

To see if a president's speeches reflect egotism in American society at large, the team compared its results to studies of egotism in other cultural products, such as 20th - century books and songs.

Although some scholars decry what they see as a global homogenization due to the spread of American cultural elements overseas, Ferguson finds that rural Haitian youth are not oriented toward American persons, products, media, or sports.

These analogies are as much a product of our cultural experiences and beliefs as they are an indication of an underlying reality that exists independently of the probing of physicists.

There is a deep cultural heritage and history around wildlife products such as elephant ivory and rhino horn in some parts of the world.

[55] In some botanical products, undeclared ingredients were used to increase the bulk of the product and reduce its cost of manufacturing, while potentially violating certain religious and / or cultural limitations on consuming animal ingredients, such as cow, buffalo or deer.

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The answer is simple: because couture offers cultural validation; because couture sits quite nicely in the fashion cycle, allowing for early product deliveries; but, most of all, because couture is couture — fashion to the nth degree and the last remaining remnant of the old world concept of fashion as a language and privilege of the elite.

(The pop - cultural references and canny music selections, meanwhile, mark «Flushed Away» as an all - American DreamWorks animation product.)

Movie 43 doesn't just bury the notion that a star - studded cast can somehow elevate a film's status as a cultural product, it also pisses, defecates, and spits ethnic slurs onto its grave.

As a product of the operatic cultural ideal, he is a multiplicitous representation.

It's interesting to think about Philadelphia, dated and slightly stereotypical as it is, as a product of its time and an effort to broach a taboo subject in light of today's cultural movement in Hollywood for diversity in storytelling.

Gardner defines intelligence broadly as «the capacity to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting.»

A look back at the history of comic books as cultural products implies a look at how these publications were made.

This is supposed to protect the book as a cultural asset, and ensure availability of the product in a wide variety of sales channels.

Booksellers still have a strong place in Germany and in France compared to UK and USA thanks to the fixed price law, based on the concept of the cultural exception that says that a book is not a product as other goods are.

African cultures have been virtually obliterated, among slaves; whatever small cultural differences exist between Negroes and whites (after controlling for social class) are the products more of cultural «drift» as a result of segregation than of surviving African traits.

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.

One of the things they accuse Amazon of is not seeing books as cultural artifacts, rather than another product.

As stated in the opening statement of the copyright law «giving due regard to the fair exploitation of these cultural products, and by doing so, to contribute to the development of culture,» it is hardly foreseen that our culture and society will grow without copyrights protected.

Now, as absurd as Hana - chan might seem, the product makes more sense when you consider the cultural context.

The campaign will encourage tourists to make informed decisions and help reduce demand for trafficking in persons, cultural artefacts, wildlife, fauna and flora such as ivory products, as well as counterfeit goods, and illicit drugs.

SC: At the UK - based Turkish Culture & Tourism Office, we are working on decreasing Turkey's dependence on seasonal trade by focusing on the promotion of such alternative tourism products as city breaks, cultural tours, golf tourism, ecotourism and health tourism.

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Its mission is: «To promote the sustainable development of tourism in Guyana that produces maximum economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits, while minimizing negative impacts as part of an integrated national development strategy through the optimal use of human resources and the provision of a product of the highest quality.»

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A product of the Cultural Revoltuion, his early works, such as Hospital Series and Mask Series, drew the global art world's attention to Chinese contemporary art.

Shonibare regards himself as a cultural hybrid, a product of complex and layered relationships forged by centuries of global trade, migration, politics, and cultural exchange.