Sentences with phrase «culture as a vehicle»

In a statement, Univision's chief news and digital officer Isaac Lee said comedy is «playing an expanding role in our culture as a vehicle for audiences to explore, debate, and understand the important ideas of our time.»

We could say that when missionaries adopted the specificity of vernacular languages and cultures as vehicles for the gospel, they were extending the principle of Jewish particularity, the paradigm by which God has chosen to instruct the world in righteousness.

Richard Prince's Untitled (Van Door 3), a sculptural presentation of a van door suggests undisclosed cargo, the occult, even kidnapping, while his print Untitled (Upstate) presents a similar dead end of celebratory car culture as a vehicle appears stranded, abandoned, left in a field to rot — no way forward.

Those would be dramatic words in any context, but spoken during a conversation titled «Cultural Diplomacy: Culture as a Vehicle for Dialogue and Peace» and including many of today's leading figures in global culture,

The Gardener Digs in Another Time, which is on show till 9 October 2016, reflects upon the use of the garden in visual culture as a vehicle for utopian thought and an emblem for an ideal society.

The white and the rich using art and culture as a vehicle of displacement and further exploitation of low - income people of color.

As a curator, Ossei - Mensah uses contemporary art and culture as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us.

Larry Ossei - Mensah is a Ghanaian - American independent curator and cultural critic who uses contemporary art and culture as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us.

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He said achieving a stronger ethics culture was a core business goal, «just as are vehicle development and marketing.»

Known as «Gamergate,» the controversy — ostensibly over ethics in gaming journalism, but used as a vehicle to lash out against women in the gaming industry — has shone a spotlight on the ugliest part of gaming culture.

He posits, for example, that Jesus in his omniscience knew that there were smaller seeds than the mustard seed, but nevertheless used «this facet of the culture of the people to whom he was speaking as a vehicle for conveying the cargo of revelational truth.

And we must note this salient, consistent feature of their work — namely, that they confidently adopted the language and culture of others as the irreplaceable vehicle for the transmission of the message.

The culture may yet have been Puritan at its roots, but the courts replaced the churches as the vehicle for expressing the moral standards of that culture.

The cult of expressive divorce, as mediated by therapists, self - help books and other vehicles of popular culture, changed all this, Whitehead argues.

L. acidophilus, a bacterium which is common in yogurt cultures, has distinct advantages as an oral vaccine antigen delivery vehicle.

Human beings are innately curious about other people and cultures, whether past or present, and she uses this interest as a vehicle for teaching in anthropology.

Human amniotic membrane (AM), the innermost layer of the placenta is the most common substrate used for both in vitro cultures and as a vehicle for transfer of cells during transplantation, due to its structural similarities to the ocular surface, as well as its biological and functional properties.

Many activities in our culture, such as using computers, driving vehicles, and reading books, tend to subluxate the neck into a damaging position.

Unexpectedly rich, «The Wedding Plan» uses the frame of an apparent romantic comedy as a vehicle to study religious faith, loneliness, culture and inner turmoil.

The «Stanceworks Track Expansion» features «two modified vehicles from the renowned car culture enthusiasts, Kiwi Mad Mike Whiddett's insane MX - 5 RadBul Formula Drift car, and the KTM X-Bow R, as well as a brand - new road course of Bannochbrae set in the highlands of Scotland,» publisher Bandai Namco today advised.

She said: «We pride ourselves on using food as a vehicle for learning across growing, cooking, outdoor learning and beyond so our pupils are immersed in a good food culture.

The Publisher of The Texas Pilgrim is James M. Windham, who founded the publication in April 2000 as a vehicle for commentary on current events, public policy, and culture.

The school chose an intentionally broadened International Baccalaureate program as a vehicle for extended entrée into advanced classes to students from many races and cultures.

We will be joined by Chris Nielson from New Zealand who will be looking at collaboration between primary, secondary and early years settings, Marie - Claire Bretherton from England who will be sharing her experience of peer review as a powerful vehicle for school improvement, leadership development and culture change, Matt Carver from Australia who will share his experience of collaboration in rural and remote communities and Rodney Eckhert and Nancy Sabo in Ontario who will share their collaborative work with elementary school teachers and students.

Also, instructional leaders need to use this real picture of the classroom environment as a vehicle to establish a more learner - centric culture in every building.

Just as with the other vehicles, this comes down to a question of taste and culture.

As the world's largest engine producer, continuous improvement to vehicle powertrain technology is an integral part of Honda's engineering culture as every new engine design tends to become more powerful, efficient and cleaner while also becoming smaller in size and weighAs the world's largest engine producer, continuous improvement to vehicle powertrain technology is an integral part of Honda's engineering culture as every new engine design tends to become more powerful, efficient and cleaner while also becoming smaller in size and weighas every new engine design tends to become more powerful, efficient and cleaner while also becoming smaller in size and weight.

As an artist, Tillrock takes a unique approach, capturing the essence of his automotive subjects in pencil, and he is best known for his detailed, almost photographic depictions of go - fast vehicles and iconic car - culture scenes.

Originally ushered into the Japanese auto manufacturer's model lineup as a flagship vehicle to demonstrate the company's advanced automotive technologies and performance capabilities, the Nissan Skyline GT - R has become a revered fixture in not only the global automotive enthusiast community but has transcended the car world to become an icon in popular culture through blockbuster motion pictures as well as video games.

Driven by their vision of «real» Canadian travel culture, they launched Toque and Canoe as their own storytelling vehicle — a means to share Canada with Canadians and the world — on Canada Day 2011.

On the third Saturday of September each year is an event known as «Wavecrest», a major meet of woodies, which are vintage cars in which the rear portion of the bodywork is made of wood; these vehicles are a traditional part of West Coast surfing culture.

Whereas our superior tours feature travel on upgraded vehicles with additional excursions such as wine tasting in the Willamette Valley, or a glassblowing workshop in Quechee, to really experience the culture and heritage of each destination.

The fourth Track Expansion features two modified vehicles from the renowned car culture enthusiasts Stanceworks, Mad Mike Whiddett's insane MX - 5 RadBul Formula Drift car, and the KTM X-Bow R, as well as a brand - new road course of Bannochbrae set in the highlands of Scotland...

Documented actions and interventions such as Gordon Matta - Clark's (1943 - 78) BB gun window blow out, Gianni Motti's (b. 1958) appearance at the VIP box of the French Open wearing an Abu Ghraib - style hood, and Chris Burden's (b. 1946) TV hijack, will be seen alongside works by Dan Colen (b. 1979) and Nate Lowman (b. 1979) whose hijacked landscapes have become vehicles for the slanders and libels of a malignant culture of pollution, racial slurs, and tarnished reputations.

Performance, in particular, has emerged as a flexible vehicle for these artists living under politically repressed regimes because it is able to speak across the multitude of cultures, languages, tribes, identities, songs and landscapes of South Africa and beyond.

Image painting — here, a term to include a broad range of figurative and representational approaches — served as a vehicle for issues and activism: gender, First Nations culture, social injustice, and a global reckoning of environmental concerns.

While their ancient forebears may have turned to abstract form as a vehicle to explore the divine, artists today approach abstraction as a language, rich with references to contemporary culture.

Also at the Savoy Centre, «Ascending Delight,» a show with recent MFA grads, considers art as a «vehicle for alchemy and magic,» presenting some small and surprisingly lovely pieces responding to an «increasingly linked but dissociative culture.»

Kiefer's use of a material such as highly flammable straw as the central vehicle of these events suggest a kind of suicidal impulse at the core of German culture.

These swollen, cartoonish renderings of vehicles — immediately discernable as such — pose as light and familiar members of our visual culture.

The University of Houston's Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center soon will launch a major initiative that will use art as a vehicle for expanding awareness of Muslim cultures.

«Our culture favors driving long distances in powerful vehicles and the car as a social expression.»

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

People like the AD are primarily about the culture wars, and only became interested in climate change as an issue when it could be seen to be a vehicle for promoting their broader social agenda.

Even as BC's capitol city boasts astonishing commuter stats — at 5.9 % Victoria has basically three times more bike commuters than other Canadian cities outside of BC — the Motor Vehicle Act, RSB 1996 c. 318 is a misfit for BC's cycling culture.

Even though it entered popular culture as a getaway vehicle, the Bronco started life as a true, no - nonsense 4 × 4 with better - than - average off - road prowess.

Uber has been under a cloud lately as a result of an internal investigation into a culture of harassment and sexism, as well as a major lawsuit filed by a subsidiary of Google alleging the theft of the search giant's automated vehicle technology.

«What has emerged from the High Court is a concept of recognition as not simply the law providing a vehicle for Indigenous people to enjoy their culture and property rights,» said Dr Jonas.

Emerging from the High Court decisions in Yarmirr, Miriuwung Gajerrong and Yorta Yorta, is a concept of recognition as not simply the law providing a vehicle for Indigenous people to enjoy their culture and property rights, but rather one where the law becomes a barrier to their enjoyment and protection.