Sentences with phrase «cultural war for»

All that happened is we had a pointless cultural war for a year and wasted 100 million dollars of taxpayer money fighting over it.

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And sometimes, smaller organizations win talent wars by looking for gifted employees where larger companies often fear to tread: Job candidates who lack skills or experience, but seem like cultural fits based on work ethic and personality.

MEET THE CHINESE SENIOR CITIZEN WHO PUT HIMSELF UP FOR ADOPTION «Han Zicheng survived the Japanese invasion, the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution, but he knew he could not endure the sorrow of living alone.»

Movies like Black Panther and Get Out are celebrated, the new Star Wars made a point to have a diverse cast and a female lead, and cultural products are criticized for being too white and too male.

... If you want to win a [political] war, you need weapons for that — you wanted cultural weapons, and we could build them for you.

All of which must be considered a sadness, for it was the mainline that provided moral - cultural ballast to the American democratic experiment from the colonial period through World War II.

For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generatioFor in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generatiofor two generations.

Don't we have to say, at the very least, that Joshua mis - heard, that he mistook the cultural custom of «holy war» for divine command?

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.

These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for cultural and commercial exchange, a form of early colonialism, an expression of collective religious identity or social anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle of economic expansion.

In this way, Ruether helpfully positions the campaign for homosexual rights at the center of the cultural war in which our society is embroiled.

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

This is the beginning of the cultural resistance and struggle for survival in the global cultural war.

It has been reckoned that, in addition to the 87 million lives taken in the wars of this century, an additional 80 million were deliberately killed or starved to death in Hitler's death camps, Stalin's labor camps, Mao's cultural revolution and the «killing - fields» of Cambodia.2 So much for the advanced civilization of the twentieth century.

I did not expect that I would be a witness to the severity of need for the «church» to find some kind of peaceful resolution to this horrible religious cultural war.

Among old guard evangelicals, for example, there are many who still preach of moral decline and proudly wear the battle armor of cultural war.

After World War II, the military headquarters recognized the need for some guide to the religious groups in Japan and asked the Religious and Cultural Division of the Civil Information and Education Section to prepare a concise description of Japanese religious organizations for the guidance of occupation personnel.

While the soldiers of the radicals» class conflict changed from proletarians to people of color and victims of gender bias, the structure of the radical paradigm was maintained: the division of society into the «people» and those identified as the «enemies of the people,» into «us» and «them» — the prescription for cultural and political war.

In an age when nations are fragmenting» with some thirty «five civil wars underway over the face of the globe and cultural hatreds dormant sometimes for centuries now reawakening» Hungary seems to display a truly remarkable degree of cosmopolitan tolerance.

But to depict the Jew on the cross after the war was to confront a stronger taboo, for to do so required the victim to borrow from the oppressor's cultural tradition.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

How would you keep this insane cultural war going if we didn't make person A pay for person B's mistakes?

Modi's party's support for the Hindu culture war in India has shown that, for now, cultural standards trump economic arguments, which will leave demand high and supply low.

If women aren't being strung up as cultural sacrificial lambs for their decisions not to breastfeed then we have the constant brigade of alleged Mommy Wars to keep magazines afloat.

More than a decade ago, writer Tracey Thompson coined the term mommy wars, a «shorthand for the cultural and emotional battle zone we land in the minute we become mothers.»

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

19.30 The Stop the War coalition hosts a «Don't Iraq Iran» cultural event to raise money for campaign against taking military action against Iran.

The platform was developed and deployed for the ICC's first case prosecuting the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime.

He proposed a kind of marketplace battle of ideas as a meritocratic arena for the cultural war.

To take stringent measures against foreign students and drive them away works against the best interests of the United States: For example, the «war on terrorism» has demonstrated a striking lack of cultural competency that can be gained in exchanges with foreign students and scholars.

Natural and Cultural Resources Manager Tim Green talks about the history At the same location where soldiers passed through for two world wars and Irving Berlin wrote «God Bless America,» staff at Brookhaven Lab lead and collaborate with some of the world's brightest minds as an asset for innovation and inspiration with seven Nobel Prize - winning discoveries and countless other advances, supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's mission to discover the solutions that power and secure our nation's future.

The massive destruction of cultural heritage during the Second World War prompted the adoption of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 1954 at The Hague in the Nethcultural heritage during the Second World War prompted the adoption of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 1954 at The Hague in the NethCultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 1954 at The Hague in the Netherlands.

That goes especially hard for Star Wars, a cultural juggernaut that's been riding its own waves of hype for decades, to frequently mixed results.

He sets up for contrast and comparison two veterans, the well - to - do Max Rothman, a composite of the cultural elite shell - shocked by World War I, and Hitler, a homeless corporal with no real future.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

Paramount to J.J. Abrams» (who was also responsible for resurrecting both the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises with positive results) triumphant revitalization of the cultural phenomenon that is Star Wars, is a functionally working coexistence between the new major players introduced, along with fan favorite characters that have been heralded across multiple generations.

A cultural behemoth in Japan for the last decade and a half — Monster Hunter has the same sort of mainstream recognition on the streets of Tokyo as Star Wars does here — it's been a much harder sell beyond its home borders.

Trigger fingers are itchy, and the conditions for cultural civil war are fomenting.

But soon enough the cold war turns in to a cultural exchange, leaving just enough time for everyone to learn a little something before living happily ever after.

The last generation of director geek gods, now in their 40s or 50s — J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Guillermo Del Toro — grew up on comics and «Star Wars,» but the next generation is coming up, the ones in their late 20s and early 30s, for whom Link, Sonic and Cloud were just as important a part of their cultural upbringing as Spider - Man and Luke Skywalker were to the previous.

It has a powerful resonance as a metaphor for wars of cultural animosity, hatred and mistrust, with human and ape both equating the worst actions of the other with the entire species.

And when such links can not be ignored (as, for example, in the cases of the horrendous treatment of women by the Taliban or the rulers of Saudi Arabia, the clear calls for holy war against the infidel by many Muslim clerics, or the widespread dissemination of Nazi - level anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Arab world), students are still exhorted to tolerate the intolerable by «understanding» its cultural or historical context to the point of excusing it all away.

Consider, for example, starting a unit by showing students an image of two people or groups of people whose differences and known disagreements are likely to trigger historical or cultural assumptions (such as Native Americans and early Great Plains settlers, British and German soldiers from World War I, or police officers near a picket line of striking workers).

«Some of the «problem opportunities» that can occur when we use technology in the classroom include wiki wars, non-contributing students, difficulties in coordinating online projects with student teams around the world, troubles with creating videos for another student and delivering on time, and cultural misunderstandings.»

-- On the other hand however, we saw great accomplishments in education, the development of the mind, and a deep desire for peace, made poignant by two world wars and many cultural religious and racial conflicts.

«We believe that events like the strikes of maritime workers, the Stonewall rebellion, the fight for the 8 - hour day, rent strikes, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black nationalist movement and the rest of our history deserves to be seen by the very people who build and provide the resources to maintain cultural institutions like our foundations and museums.

Focusing on artifacts and activities based on the Museum's current special exhibition, The Pelican State Goes to War: Louisiana in World War II, discover the key themes that cross Louisiana's geographic and cultural diversity, review important individuals and events, and learn how the war changed the state for decades to coWar: Louisiana in World War II, discover the key themes that cross Louisiana's geographic and cultural diversity, review important individuals and events, and learn how the war changed the state for decades to coWar II, discover the key themes that cross Louisiana's geographic and cultural diversity, review important individuals and events, and learn how the war changed the state for decades to cowar changed the state for decades to come.

One walk, for example, began with a teach - in during which Yemeni students shared information about their home country, including its location, cultural traditions, and history of civil war.

Gift books for history buffs A History of the World in 100 Objects, Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History, The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War and Life Upon These Shores