Sentences with phrase «cultural world with»

Since the beginning of her career, Laval has alternated agency and magazine commissions and publications (Here is New York 2002) with an artistic practice, wherein she combines portraiture of personalities from the cultural world with images of geographical locations (France, Norway, Portugal, Cuba) and visual narratives.

Not exact matches

Countries around the world — from Chile to South Africa to the picturesque colonial town of Trinidad in Cuba — are home to cities that have done away with the practical in favor of the fun, whether due to a city - wide artistic streak, a cultural love of color, or a Hollywood payout.

Add to that a world - class food scene, theatre on par with its east - coast cousins, a rich historical and cultural background and affordable housing, and you can see how it's quickly become a hub of millennials and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Perhaps most important to success in a rapidly changing world is a cultural assumption of the temporariness of solutions and with it, culturally committing to a mindset of constantly looking for new and better ways to work and create.

Qualitative measurement of this type of progress is difficult, but the goal should be a lasting cultural shift, not a data point to share with the world.

In the announcement, Facebook said its goals are to: «Give people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events; Help people discover fun and interesting cultural moments; [and] Celebrate moments in history that continue to make the world more open and connected.»

While lucrative, the EU deal was always treated as a sort of stopgap measure, something to bolster Canada while it worked through the political, cultural and bureaucratic nightmare involved in expanding our trade with the world's new economic superpowers, China and India.

Pokemon Go, released last week, has quickly become a cultural phenomenon, with people wandering through every major city peering into their smartphones to catch virtual monsters projected onto the real world through their camera apps.

We work with a network of cultural guides around the world in 64 different countries.

Chinese companies now have a level of self - assurance and success on the world stage that is allowing them to experiment with their own ways of working, and they are well placed to bring together the best of the American model with the best of their own unique cultural heritage.

Are we going to have to have a cultural moment, where we're coming to grips with what it means to interface with imaginary worlds layered on top of reality?

«It's one thing for a marketer to try to predict if people like Coke or Pepsi,» he said, «but it's another thing for them to predict things that are much more central to our identity and what's more personal in how I interact with the world in terms of social and cultural issues.»

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

And both Youku Tudou and Wasu Media are companies with major investment stakes held by Alibaba — the world's largest e-tailer which is already using online video to sell movie tickets, games, merchandise and cultural tourism products.

Aside from the unacceptable optics, evidence shows that boards composed of people with diverse skills, cultural backgrounds, gender and experience — just like the real world — are more effective than less diverse boards, Leblanc says.

«Engaging with our partners around the world to promote new economic, business and cultural relationships is essential to ensuring economic growth and prosperity for Ontario.

«Toronto is brilliantly positioned for success in the global innovation economy, with world - leading scientific discovery and humanities scholarship, a stable economy, and a vibrant creative and cultural community.

These routes played a key role China's economic development and helped the country establish political and cultural connections with the rest of the world.

Google recently reached an agreement with the United National Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to take pictures of world heritage sites for use in the Google Street View service.

In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).

We are proud to be a multicultural team with employees from all different cultural backgrounds as well as vendors from all over the world, and we are sure that our market benefits from this.

A convinced Platonist, at least with regard to the existence of mathematical laws, Davies rejects the cultural view of mathematics merely as a language created by man to describe the natural world; and like his colleague Roger Penrose (one of the foremost theoreticians on black holes) he flatly asserts that mathematical laws have an existence of their own:

A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real in order to rediscover them as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a world of enduring meanings and human significance.

Perhaps our «enlightened» approach to science and reason in the Western world has also endowed us with some cultural blind spots.

The economic and political issues raised by the Latin Americans have relevance everywhere, but in much of the world they are closely intertwined with cultural matters.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

This new cultural reality raises some anxieties, but it also presents many of us with an opportunity to rediscover Christian witness in a world that we do not control.

Father Lombardi said Benedict XVI recalled «above all the cultural crisis of the West that exploded in «68, with the fascination for Marxism and the illusion of creating a new world, and the crumbling of the communist regimes in «89: the fall of the ideologies that did not give room to faith but rather to scepticism.

To become a monk is not easy, and the life of a monastic is not easy - but filled with joys few in the cultural world will every know.

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

As business / charitable activities has led me into relationships with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membership.

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.

Cultural imagination presents a world relatively preformed with objects, signs, and relevant respects of interpretation.

Another sociological explanation of the phenomenon is that the traditional functions of the clergy are not adjusted to the needs of the modern world and that the responsibility for the prevailing uncertainty must be placed on the Church as a cultural laggard which has not kept up with the times.

Political and cultural commentary is probably best left to people with a better understanding than I, but I think it is obvious that the world is in a state of upheaval.

If we put aside Roy's «doppelgänger» ideas, we find that her passage is even more directly relevant in that it is concerned with the ways in which the American version of sacrificial logic is currently devastating natural and cultural goodness throughout the world.

The question mark that is placed beside Buddhism has to do with its capacity to survive in a world in which the cultural forces will work so strongly to produce the personal or spiritual selfhood which it negates.

How on earth will any woman feel warmth and love at Church when people are over run with patriarchal ideas of what a woman «should be», when societies all over the world have different cultural aspects of what is considered «appropriate wear» for women.

To understand why and how we must collaborate for a new cultural and world era, it is important to contrast our contemporary situation with both the classical and modern periods.

America, being the remaining inheritor of Western world power, has yet even to try to realize that domination is no longer a possibility or a possible goal, that world power must be shared, not only with other groups with their own interests but with groups holding quite other cultural and value systems — and thus that the continuation of our power (and that of our forms of cultural order) is precarious at best.

Some within the Christian community contend that we can further the Church's purpose in this world by becoming more relevant — that is, by tactfully engaging non-believers with various artistic and communication strategies prevalent in the contemporary cultural milieu.

Such mission begins with a greater appreciation of a local church's own finitude, its own ethos drawn from the world's symbols but particularized in a cultural pattern specific to its own corporate life.

This media force, along with other cultural and social influences, shapes the disposition as well as the substance of theology associated with our view of the world.

And it is that hope which we are commanded to share with the world, whether Christianity is the cultural norm or not.

were at least as subtle, coherent and devoutly held as anything homegrown, and those who did not learn from World War II and the decolonial period not to identify cultural - linguistic traditions with Christianity, are learning from contemporary cross-cultural exposures that many things thought to be unique are in fact quite common.

My own desperate clinging to the tattered label evangelical has less to do with any political or cultural uniformity as it does to these core convictions, or rather, the core conviction that the good news of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection for sinners and a broken world is the mightiest power set loose in the history of the world.

All over the Protestant world it is obvious that preoccupation with the cultural form in which their faith is expressed is a more decisive factor in determining the future of the Protestant churches than preoccupation with the content of their faith.

She evokes his delight in «the world» together with his vivid sense of its brokenness; his dedication to the life of the mind along with his awareness of the limits of reason; his ease amidst cultural pluralism and multiple interpretations; his understanding of choice as always constitutive and often tragic; his struggles with temptation and doubt.