Sentences with phrase «cultural standard of»

Reasonableness implies some social or cultural standard of reason to which one can defer.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

Most Christians today understand that passage as referring to the cultural standards of that passage as referring to the cultural standards of the time, and it has far fewer cultural references that the Roman passage does.

Despite the universal character of the Christian churches, the Christian missions in South India underwent a uniform metamorphosis depending on the social and cultural standards of the South... caste differences were further aggravated by denominational and congregational disputes.17

His acceptance of the outcasts — one of his most radical acts — pointed to an identity defined by one's relationship to God rather than by cultural standards of performance.

«Because thinness is not consistent with dominant cultural standards of masculinity, young people who conform to masculine norms may be more likely than other youth to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as high - calorie food consumption, overeating and sedentary behaviors,» explains Dr. Austin.

This is perpetuated by cultural standards of food - as - reward and yo - yo dieting.

It chronicles the cultural standards of what it means to -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Perhaps the best plan for most organizations is to follow the Ritz - Carlton daily lineup approach: a few minutes every day discussing just one of your list of cultural values or service standards, with the meeting led by a different employee every time.

She argues that by not taking tourism seriously, governments are both failing to fully capitalize on a booming industry and leaving their countries exposed to the destructive elements that accompany foreign travel: environmental degradation, lowered living standards for the poor, sex tourism, and all the subtler injustices and annoyances that materialize when droves of foreigners arrive on your shores demanding authentic cultural experiences.

This paper surveys behavioral science findings on how cultural attributes and management practices can either promote or undermine voluntary adherence to ethical standards, workplace rules and legal requirements, with special attention to the communicative aspect of management practices.

Work has morphed into a twenty - four - hour fact of life, bringing its own set of standards and expectations when it comes to sleep... Sleep is ingrained in our cultural ethos as something that can be put off, dosed with coffee, or ignored.

It brings into question our cultural standards for behavior, performance and punishment; it reaches into the workplace, the courts and the halls of Congress.

Theo, you said, «Mary's age is a question of cultural norms and standards, not of morals.»

Mary's age is a question of cultural norms and standards, not of morals.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

That is to say, theological schools have characteristically acted in this regard as though they acknowledged a responsibility to be part of a larger public cultural life and to be accountable to its standards.

There is no racial or cultural reason why India can not in five or ten decades have an American standard of living.

Mark Bauerlein does not reproduce any of N. M. Gwynne's arguments for the claim that the rules of Standard English grammar, unlike those of the many non-standard English dialects, possess «a rationality that runs deeper than cultural context and historical circumstance» («Grammar Rules,» February).

Such a commitment places Volf at odds with two formidable rivals in the contemporary world: (a) those ecclesial traditions (Roman Catholic and Orthodox) that insist that the «constitutive presence of Christ is given only with the presence of the bishop standing in communjo with all bishops in time and space» and (b) those postmodern cultural and social standards that are grounded in individualistic and consumer - driven life styles and that simultaneously relegate all religious experience to the nether regions of the privatized soul.

Companies, like individuals, are wise to take note of the local customs and not just have the arrogance of the imperialists who assume that every civilized person goes along with their dress codes and cultural standards.

Fundamentalist broadcasters have greatly leverage their cultural and political power in the U.S. due to the failure of the FCC to require their radio and television stations to meet the public interest standard.

These principles also indicate the standards to be used in sex education — the basic ideals to be inculcated by explicit instruction in homes and at appropriate levels in schools, and even more essentially by the complex of accepted acts built into social and cultural patterns.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Many of the people in Minimalism had achieved «success» by our cultural standards, but were left feeling disillusioned, anxious and depleted so they decided to live radically different than most Americans.

Neveldine «Taylor don't yet work in 3 - D, but they've mastered the previous standards of digital - era filmmaking as part of their constant critique of media overload and cultural excess and moral anarchy.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Relativism in this form is the scourge of the times, everywhere creating indifference to objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

We often fall into the grave mistake of moralizing our social and cultural worldviews and making them the standard of not just what is normal but also what is right and good.

Even if his statements about faith don't measure up to a traditional Christian standard, the fact that Kanye is making them should be seen as an opportunity to talk about real biblical truth in honest ways and be a part of the cultural dialogue.

The equality of death exposes the ephemeral character of the cultural standards by which we judge ourselves, whether we are puffing ourselves up by virtue of our achievements or being crushed by our failure to measure up.

In 1981 he founded the New Criterion, a journal that reflects both his passion for art and aesthetic standards and his skills as a chronicler of the ideological follies so abundant in the academy and other centers of cultural power today.

you keep talking the cultural concept of condemantion, because the culture says that law is the standard of what is of god, when instead it is love, christ's love............... love your enemy, do good to those who curse you, do not return evil for evil but return instead good.

The standard list of contradictions published by the Dawkins loyalists have all been debunked due to intentional twisting of translations or time / cultural relevance.

The history of the San Francisco Zen Center from the late «50s to the present shows a continuous movement from general intellectual and cultural interest in Zen to high and demanding standards of practice.

Some roles in the business world can be conducted better by those who understand themselves as professionals and accept a broad cultural and social responsibility for leadership along with that for the standards of their profession.

One can take this as a cultural bias, or take it as a tribute.3 In any case the fact is that the woman who fails to measure up in some way to the higher standards expected of her is more likely to excite the contempt of those around her, to forfeit the respect of her children, and (what is most important to our theme) to be dogged by a deep inner sense of personal failure.

Jellinek once pointed out that «a man who stays drunk for days without regard to family, work and other duties commits such a gross violation of all cultural standards that his action can not be a matter of choice unless his is a psychopathic constitution.»

The Master Baristas at Le Méridien San Francisco leads all coffee - related initiatives and standards at the hotel and serve as a coffee cultural ambassador, maintaining knowledge of current coffee trends while raising the local community's awareness of coffee.

Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life, by Marian Tompson, Just Released by Hale Publishing What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

For working - class and poor families, the cultural logic of child rearing at home is out of synch with the standards of institutions.»

Few democracies have spent so much time thinking so publicly about the cultural foundations of good standards.

A separate letter is been sent to the Evening Standard, signed by Simon Schama, Helena Kennedy, Howard Jacobson, Sandi Toksvig, Ruby Wax, William Boyd, Dawn French, Eric Idle, David Hare, Martin Amis and Joanna Trollope, in a campaign which is quickly turning into a who's who of British cultural life.

These alleged tactics, while morally depressing and possibly illegal, show an extraordinary meshing of violent and nonviolent methods and tools: military, cultural, political and economic, going well beyond the standard Western conception of «hybrid» war.

Whilst it would clearly be impractical to expect our PCRT rules to be appropriate in their entirety in other countries given cultural differences, we are just beginning to consider whether there could be some minimum agreed standards of behaviour that apply everywhere.

Governor Akinwuni Ambode of Lagos State has vowed that administration will to continue to preserve cultural and historical sites across the State and develop them to international standard to boost tourism, employment generation and relaxation.

He takes us from the analysis of largely non-justiciable constitutional provisions on socio - economic rights, through the commendable array of legislation in the field, to Nigeria's acceptance and ratification of international and regional standards such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.

Over the course of a two - year period, this research community developed common definitions and coding standards that will enable the future development of large - scale datasets documenting and quantifying the destruction of cultural heritage.