Sentences with phrase «cultural side of»

I tend towards an economics and technology bias, I guess, while others lean towards the political and cultural side of things.

But that's not all as you will also visit national parks and discover the cultural side of the island with a stop at a historical plantation house.

Guests of this Tarazona Spain hotel have the option of a nearby morning hike or a day at the natural springs and guests who want to explore the cultural side of the nearby area, will want to visit the Cistercian Monastery.

A popular choice for those wishing to see the more cultural side of Fiji, with opportunities to visit villages and make friends with the locals.

Of course there is also the cultural side of life on the island of the Gods: Balinese dance, artwork and architecture give the island its unique fascination.

The cultural side of Japan is also a feature of this trip as we have included a journey on the iconic bullet train to Kyoto for a taste of quintessential Japanese lifestyle, history and culture.

Over the weekend, we also investigated the history of babywearing, looked at the cultural side of babywearing in the UK and discussed different parenting styles.

«We give too little heed these days to the cultural side of agriculture,» says Phillips.

Not exact matches

As Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, put it, «There was a cultural tendency to be always on one side and always to be pushing the limits.»

The «demand - side» view attributes the unbanked phenomenon to cultural determinants (i.e. the poor may distrust financial institutions or may not have a «culture of saving») or to a lack of financial literacy.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

Rice's grim portrayal of our cultural and political circumstance notwithstanding, this is a book marked by a bracing confidence that the friends of life are, in fact, on the winning side.

Ryan Anderson has now tackled another fevered social issue from what today's cultural tastemakers and enforcers regard as the wrong side of a red line.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

In response to the Cultural Revolution of the «60s and «70s, religious Americans also began choosing sides.

Given the large cultural and psychological dimensions of forgiveness and revenge, these should be areas where both sides can learn.

One of the doubled - edged gifts of the enlightenment is that we've dispensed with a lot of superstitious thinking, but we've also dismissed the more useful side of myth - forming and cultural narratives.

Postconservatives are convinced that both modernist and fundamentalist slopes are sides of the same cultural Mt.St.

And, out of that history, black churches have evolved a different kind of community of mutual support, along side such cultural developments as gospel music.

An adviser to the excellent documentary series With God on Our Side and a cultural anthropologist at the University of California - Santa Cruz, Harding explores the rhetorical world of Falwell and his followers.

For Nye — and on the other side of the aisle, many conservative Christian leaders — opposing ideologies about science, particularly as they pertain to the role and existence of God, is a high - stakes cultural battleground.

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

David Kinnaman's UnChristian signaled that many Christians have concluded the big problem is that the evangelical church has aligned itself on the wrong side of some social issues, or with social issues that have little or no cultural cachet — and thus they move to champion more popular social...

If there is a local church where half the people want contemporary music and half want traditional hymns, both sides can stop accusing the other of cultural compromise or religious traditionalism and instead recognize that it takes all kinds of churches to reach all kinds of people, and that the two groups can either go their separate ways in peace.

The fact that Jesus is on the side of women should be our source of encouragement and empowerment as we continue to serve God and strive for a full and equal ministry.81 Nothing, perhaps, was more shocking for his contemporaries than the freedom with which he associated himself with women, considering the inferior position of women in Jewish society.82 According to R. L. Hnuni, «male dominated cultural and traditional values and injunctions may put boundaries and debar them from full ministry, but this should not discourage women's conviction and commitment to full ministry.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

On the other side, much of English Canada has been unwilling to yield its cultural dominance so that Canada could become a truly bi-cultural country.

By labeling the two sides of the psyche «masculine» and «feminine,» he unwittingly helped reinforce cultural stereotypes.

At the very least, a renewed culture of hospitality could help debunk what seems (at least on the Internet) to be an operating assumption of Americans on both sides of our religious - cultural - political divides: the belief that our «enemies» are almost uniformly malevolent and unintelligent.

Although I regret the cultural changes that now make many people think assisted suicide, like abortion, a permissible form of killing, I find myself siding with the German approach.

What Sehat misses is that what he calls the moral establishment, which roughly corresponds to the mainline Protestant cultural hegemony that existed through the early 1960s, was common to all sides of the debate and made the conversation over religious liberty possible in the first place.

If I have to choose sides, I'll choose my sides with them, because the radical recognition of God's absence as a cultural fact offers the only basis for theological speculation in our time.

Liberals largely have higher education, the elite newspapers and time mainline churches on their side, as conservatives never tire of pointing out; for angry conservatives, the cultural power of American liberalism is suffocating and immense.

This religious and cultural monopolizing of public reality has a formidable shadow side, a suppressed animus forming the underside of its own dominant identity.

Some parents on both sides of the Israel - Palestine divide still hesitate to let their kids enter PPI's programs — Jews out of safety concerns and Arabs because of cultural norms for girls.

Despite a commitment from the Joliet Park District to expand a recreational center on the city «s east side, members of the area «s Hispanic community are complaining that the plans indicate a cultural insensitivity.

Michael Kelly, CEO of the Chicago Park District, and Michelle Boone, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, joined the mayor Tuesday morning on the West Side.

Visit more than three dozen cultural attractions along CTA Culture Bus routes of the city «s North, South and West Sides.

But I argue that as the sole model for the Canadian side of my daughter's cross-cultural heritage, we need to strike a balance between both cultural parenting practices.

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.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

On the other side of the conventional spectrum we have the left wing, which often advocates environmentalism and social services but are dismissive of vetting immigration and are open to changing core cultural values according to the trend of the moment.

Also running are: former NYC Council member Alan Gerson; Diego Segalini, a Lower East Side resident who's executive vice president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and former Brooklyn prosecutor Eileen Naples.

• $ 500,000 or so in three separate donations to the United Jewish Council of the East Side • $ 386,000 to the Chinese - American Planning Council • $ 200,000 to the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty • $ 100,000 to the Museum of Jewish Heritage • $ 75,000 to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council • $ 40,000 to the Eldridge Street Project, to preserve a synagogue

He urged Principals and Head teachers of public and private schools to mobilize their students and pupils to participate actively in all the events, including Cultural Display, Novelty March, Cycling and other side attractions.

Many of the battles in the 2016 race have been over cultural divides, but not necessarily those that cut neatly across demographic lines: Stavisky's side has been hammering Jung for his proposal to ban pictures of same - sex couples from textbooks and his pro-life stance on abortion.

Posed as an important site for the maintenance of national security, this nearly 2000 - mile expanse is also one that bears biodiversity and ecosystem significance on both sides of the border.This panel seeks to better understand the intersection of science and technology with national security, human rights, environmental and cultural resources along U.S. - Mexico border.

Research administration is developing into a more sophisticated field — research management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportunities.

But Kahan believes that the curious from both sides of the political and cultural divide should make good ambassadors to the more doctrinaire members of their own groups.