Sentences with phrase «culture by the nation»

This exploitation of culture by the nation - state is the decisive fact of the world in which we live.

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The inquiry was welcomed by Jeff Morris, a financial planner who in 2013 exposed a culture of corruption and coverup in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation's largest bank, that targeted vulnerable customers.

In 2010, Start - Up Chile was created by the Chilean Government (Ministry of Economy & CORFO) with two main intentions: to change the nation's culture towards entrepreneurship and to position Chile as the hub of innovation for Latin America.

The Soul of a Nation: Culture, Morality, Law, Education, Faith by Bernard J. Coughlin, S.J. Hamilton, 230 pages, $ 50

Speaking of motherhood... Have you seen the over-the-top article in the Nation about Conservative Christian fears about demographic collapses and efforts to win the various culture wars by out - populating the enemies?

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

It is a commitment of men and women to the supremely worshipful reality called God, as this reality is believed to disclose itself to us, but it is not an individualistic commitment, since it demands full participation, to a greater or lesser degree, in a corporate experience conveyed through the ages by a community of men and women drawn from the most varied backgrounds and races, classes, nations, and cultures.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

I am all for the marriage of culture with faith (being a First Nations person in Canada — out in Sask)-- and I see great benefits for the culture that is kept alive by Christianity.

In a nation where about one out of every three women has had an abortion, one bright light in pastoral outreach to women wounded by the culture of death is the Rachel's Vineyard retreat.

In short, the classical contexts of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals of the Cross by the sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands into the orbit of the dehumanizing power games of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.

Rooted in the past as she was, intimately a part of the culture of the ancient world and heir of its thought, it is apparent at once that such wide divergence unavoidably implies bold and vigorous thinking, not by a few individuals, but by a long succession of them through the nation's history.

In preparation for the new millennium Pope John Paul put it thus: «He is not a weak and ineffective Christ but a Christ who has triumphed throughout twenty centuries and who remains the power of God and the wisdom of God... the Christ of the millennium is the man who has entered into the history of nations, has uplifted cultures by His message, transformed the destinies of peoples and who, in revealing God to man, has revealed all humanity to itself».

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

Unlike the gods of surrounding nations, Yahweh does not appear mainly to create a sacred place, a cultic center, where human culture is protected by becoming close to unchanging divine reality.

The USA and the rest of the Western nations are predominantly shaped by Christian values and worldviews, the Middle East and Central Asia by Islamic traditions and cultures, and Israel and Jews living in USA by Jewish values and traditions.

American crisis management style has been easily overcome by the better - established Mideast - Obama is inexperienced and niaive to Mideast culture and «ancient blood» - America is still a young nation compared to the established old world of millenium existence and experience.

As Christians, we endorse these ideas, but insist that this agenda is not adequate to deal with the deeper issues of the cumulative effect upon cultures, nations and individuals by the mass media.

Everywhere in the world, societies and nations now live in a culture governed by the values of consensus, diversity, partnerships, sustainability, holism, choice, gender equity, bottom - up participation and so on.

Demanding that the nation be true to its pledge of civil tolerance for all (and buttressing their demands by citing their record of patriotism), they dedicated themselves to keeping the gap between Protestant culture and American politics as wide as possible, following Carroll's prescription.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

Secondly, the opposite danger exists, that of cultural leveling... In this way one loses sight of the profound significance of the culture of different nations, of the traditions of the various peoples, by which the individual defines himself in relation to life's fundamental questions.

Hindu nationalism, which is alive and well in India today, is concertedly engaged in the assignment of absorbing minorities into its ideology, Driven by the ideology of Hindutva — a term coined by V. D. Sarvarkar10 which has always advocated a comprehensive project involving the coming together of culture, society, and politics, it seeks to fuse all the distinct particularities and differences of religious minorities (Muslims and Christians) and ethnocultural minorities (Dalits and Adivasis) into its Brahmanic construction of an Indian nation.

This is the fact that the Church was designed by God to be inclusive enough to embrace not only the people of all parts of the earth, but also persons of every race, color, nation, economic or social class, age, sex, culture, language, and station in life.

Any nation is a nation among nations, each being defined by not being the other, and by the culture and experience of a particular people.

It is a melting pot of all nations, cultures and religions that is why everyone likes to come here... America is built by immigrants... even ur ancestors came from somewhere so don't act like ur own America... Muslim Americans have as much rights here in America anyone else.

The Bald Eagle was part of their culture and ceremonies long before their people were murdered, robbed, and sent to concentration camps by a very misguided nation at the time.

One of the most startling developments in the culture war is the apparent takeover of the Republican Party by conservative evangelicals who claim that the U.S. is a Christian nation, uniquely called and blessed by God.

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

It should also be pointed out that, in the areas to which Islam spread, the termination of one chapter of existence and the beginning of the new Islamic culture, with all that this change entailed in the forming of new relationships and acceptance of basic ideas, restored the vigor and revived the energies of nations which had been weighed down by age and tradition.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

America's Bartender Now in its 7th year, the GQ and Bombay Sapphire «Most Imaginative Bartender» (MIB) competition continues to identify the nation's leader in mixology by encouraging bartenders everywhere to push the boundaries of a rapidly evolving cocktail culture to it greatest potential.

They made a huge attack on the breastfeeding culture in developing nations by introducing mothers to their product Farine Lactée.

• International strategies to contribute to a more egalitarian and fair global order, such as the Alliance of Civilizations, established by Spain and Turkey with United Nations» sponsorship, aimed at achieving better dialogue and cooperation between different cultures and countries, particular the Northern and Southern sides of the Mediterranean Sea.

We believe in the spiritual values which have informed British institutions, her culture and her nation's sense of identity for centuries, underpinned by the belief in a strong nation state.

[268] Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, writing in The Observer, stated that the riots were not caused by a broken society, but due to a group of young, alienated, disaffected youth who are outside the social mainstream and who live in a culture at odds with any canons of proper behaviour; he added that this is found in virtually every developed nation.

The new center is focused on and driven by the history and culture of the Haudenosaunee and more specifically, the Onondaga Nation.

Gov. Ugwuanyi has institutionalized a culture of governance that is inclusive, endearing and also impacts positively on the lives of the people of the state in all spheres of development, despite the drought in the state's finance, occasioned by the nation's economic challenges.

Mayor Bloomberg called on people to stand by President Obama on ABC's Good Morning America Wednesday morning despite a nation embroiled in «blame culture.»

In a motion sponsored by Senator Fatima Raji - Rasaki representing Ekiti Central Senatorial district, she explained that Nigeria's Culture and Tourism sector runs short of United Nations standards as a result of unworkable policies of the Federal Government.

He has taken steps to unite the nation by ensuring his style of leadership brings people of diverse cultures and faiths together.

Their efforts rarely generate news coverage, but taken together, they make critical diplomatic contributions by encouraging communication and trust between nations and cultures.

United by similar cultures and language, the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark support internationalism and an ease of movement of scholars from one nation to another.

The results confirm that Vanuatu's first people were of the Lapita culture and arrived 3,000 years ago from South East Asia, followed by Papuan arrivals from the island of New Britain, in the Bismarck Archipelago just to the east of New Guinea and part of the nation of Papua New Guinea.

By combing through historical and ethnographic accounts, the researchers identified which cultures practiced human sacrifice prior to contact with modern industrialized nations.

The new research, involving 73 researchers working in 35 nations and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), explored how people of different cultures see themselves and their relationships with others.

László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and President of World Science Forum Ban Ki - Moon, Secretary - General of the United Nations (message presented by Flavia Schlegel) Tibor Navracsics, EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Flavia Schlegel, Assistant Director - General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO Gordon McBean, President, ICSU Rush D. Holt, CEO, AAAS H.E. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary

The term Hispanic (Spanish: hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.It commonly applies to countries once under colonial possession by the Spanish Empire following Spanish colonization of the Americas, parts of the Asia - Pacific region and Africa, principally what are today...

Even many Latin girls came to America or other Western nations for a long time, they are still affected by the culture they were born with.

A historical film about the Seneca culture featuring the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, Bury My Heart with Tonawanda tells the story of a developmentally disabled boy with Downs Syndrome who is rejected by his own family but is accepted and nurtured by the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.