Sentences with phrase «cultural pursuits as»

Rich cultural pursuits as essential activities, championing access and involvement in arts and sport

Not exact matches

As a person who has dedicated over 20 years of my professional life in the pursuit of assisting clients in setting direction and driving change, I think that I've seen just about all there is to see when it comes to business and cultural transformation.

«In no way will Amazon's decision slow our pursuit of a strong growth agenda for Baltimore, as we work to attract new investment, quality job opportunities, and importantly, new residents to a city celebrated for its diversity, and its rich higher educational, athletic, cultural, medical, and maritime assets.

On a deeper level, one's degree of culture is to be judged by the extent of his education, the breadth of his interests, and his knowledge and appreciation of such «cultural» pursuits as good art, literature, and music.

A Culture of Conspiracy is in the tradition of studies of the cultural underground, including such works as Norman Cohn's Pursuit of the Millennium (1957).

Both cities offer award - winning cultural pursuits and cuisines, as well as sight - seeing and shopping.

No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year - old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics with computer science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking better opportunities.

«Bache actively promoted scientific research, not as an end in itself, but as an intellectual and cultural pursuit closely linked to social, economic and moral improvement... His particular career choice and the zeal with which he pursued that choice embodied values sanctioned by patrician - republican, Protestant culture, specifically the pervasive allegiance to progress that characterised this culture.»

First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.

Thanks to the multiple attractions of Chinatown, boutique retailers, cultural venues such as the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, small galleries, and the many pubs, eating places and nightclubs that line its glittering streets, it's where locals and visitors rub shoulders in the pursuit of adventure or just plain fun.

This notion of cultural development reflects Gugulective's pursuit of using and promoting the arts as an instrument towards social change through the platform they have created at Kwa - Malmli's Shebeen.

Perhaps in pursuit of that coveted Bilbao Effect, former Massachusetts governors Michael Dukakis and William Weld, as well as the city's mayor, Richard Alcombright, are backing the museums as part of an ambitious effort to make North Adams into a cultural destination.

There is a desire to enjoy the same opportunities as the rest of the world in terms of educational and cultural pursuits.»

They are becoming a major cultural force both at home and abroad as their art - related pursuits expand far beyond the auction block (see artnet News Top 200 Collectors Worldwide for 2015 Part One and Part Two).

Coming to us with a readymade patina of age due to their reliance on increasingly dated software, these works act as signals for the speed at which we cycle through and abandon cultural detritus in pursuit of the new.

Part of the challenge, as Justice Campbell explains, is cultural, and due to the belief that «zealous advocacy» requires the pursuit of all information related to a matter.

Achieving self - determination is difficult because of the dichotomy of a government that focuses on the pursuit of individual wealth creation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who may pursue self - determination as individuals or groups within a cultural context that focuses more broadly on social, cultural and environmental as well as economic benefits.