A «strict dress code» is uniquely
defined by the culture of your work place.
Here, all the songs are sung on a stage, as part of the show - within - the - movie, and the result is a harrowing glimpse of a decrepit society
defined by its culture.
, Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake; all of these speak to characters
defined by their culture.
Not exact matches
Nicknaming is just one example of how The Pink Ceiling's
culture is
defined by «a healthy irreverence,» as Whitehead puts it.
Great companies have a clearly
defined culture that is supported
by mindsets and experiences designed to support specific goals.
From the C - Suite to marketing to customer service and beyond, a newly adaptive corporate
culture,
defined by digital technology and bold leadership, is fundamentally changing business.
While bro
culture is typically
defined as being led and dominated
by men, in the case of Thinx, the complaint alleged that the «only two employees who negotiated higher salaries at Thinx were men,» according to The New York Times.
Established in 1995, the mission of the Partnership Committee is to steward the firm's
culture as
defined by our Business Principles and standards, preserve the spirit of partnership, promote and enhance the benefits of partnership, and advance the long - term success of Goldman Sachs through the cultivation of its current and future leaders.
They have created «a customer - centric
culture where you seek to understand and welcome «the voice of the customer» to the table and where you are
defined by the level, quality and breadth of service provided to customers and the experience they have doing business.»
Linda Henman, president of Henman Performance Group in Town and Country, Mo., says a company's
culture can be
defined by how its leaders make decisions, which should be compared with candidates» traits.
Founded in 2014
by Taylor Schulte, CFP ®, CEO,
Define Financial provides objective, conflict - free advice, and prides itself on its forward - thinking
culture and personal approach.
Our family office point of view is
defined by the intentional integration of our wealth management services with an industry - leading approach to helping your family
define its
culture and legacy.
It makes fiscal sense if you want to plan for the long - term, but in the Alberta context, it symbolizes an awkward
culture shift for a political party that
defined itself
by this rally cry.
Such ill -
defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced
by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that
culture).
Fundamentalism uses the
culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as
defined and interpreted
by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.
But, to my surprise, I learned through my reporting that as Christianity finds its place in Chinese
culture, its adherents are less
defined by how they cope with state - sponsored adversity.
One of the major «means of the transmission and diffusion of imperial ideology» was the construction, throughout the empire, of buildings associated with the pursuit of specifically Roman forms of leisure: public baths, circuses, amphitheatres, and Roman - style theatres — a phenomenon recognized as one of the
defining features of Roman
culture (both
by the Romans themselves and
by others).
Culture in this more limited sense, as defined by the attributes of a cultured person, is an important formative factor in the total culture of a people but can not be identified w
Culture in this more limited sense, as
defined by the attributes of a
cultured person, is an important formative factor in the total
culture of a people but can not be identified w
culture of a people but can not be identified with it.
While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly
defined by the circumstances of
culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.
Because of changing U.S. demographics, American food is
defined less
by hot dogs and apple pie and more
by the cuisines of a multitude of
cultures.
Contrary to long - entrenched expectations, we witness a world in which different civilizations —
defined by different
cultures that are typically
defined, in turn,
by cult or religion — are the deciding factor in collective allegiances and conflicts.
The Counter-
Culture became less
defined by a positive understanding of the alternative
culture it offered, and more
by a general antagonism towards the «Establishment.»
It must certainly be admitted that man always exists in a particular
culture, but it must also be admitted that man is not exhaustively
defined by that same
culture.
By compassion I do not mean the sentimentalized and privatized feeling our aggressive
culture defines as compassion.
Insofar as
cultures are
defined by their dominant stories, premodern Western Civilization was a biblical civilization.
The nature of this Koinonia in Christ is that it transcends all communities
defined by nature,
culture and even ideology and religion and opens people for inter-personal communication with each other.
Christians who, knowingly or unknowingly, embrace the model of «Christ without
culture» — meaning Christianity in indifference to
culture — are captive to the
culture as
defined by those who control its commanding heights.
But because the early church inherited from Hellenistic
culture the love of penetrating into the truth
by intellectual enquiry, the Christian thinkers of the West have too commonly concluded that they could
define and delineate the being of God in the forms of human language with some confidence.
The authoritative word given
by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the
defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular
culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.
Individuals in community
define themselves and are shaped
by these intersecting parameters, being both limited and / or enabled
by the prevailing
culture type.
The most developed, systematic and sweeping version of the idea of a
culture war appeared in the 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, by James Davison Hunter, a University of Virginia socio
culture war appeared in the 1991 book
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, by James Davison Hunter, a University of Virginia socio
Culture Wars: The Struggle to
Define America,
by James Davison Hunter, a University of Virginia sociologist.
After all, what else should politics be about if, as Aristotle suggests, it is the deliberation of how we ought to order our life together, and «ought» is
defined by available and commanding ideas, which is to say,
by culture?
It must be a community of people willing to
define itself
by God's standards rather than
by the prevailing standards of our
culture.
'' I think multiculturalism is great because
culture is what makes a people unique...» Because people are both
defined and constricted
by their «
culture?»
People can choose whether they want to be
defined and / or constricted
by their «
culture».
However, postmodernism, (though less
defined), has its problems too, particularly as it is (mis) interpreted
by popular
culture.
Even in Middle - eastern
culture, there are still many white people, so although it is unlikely for him to have appeared as a «white person», it's still not improbable, it does however contradict the cynic principles in Christianity, as they
define him
by what they believe would constitute their creator as being great or perfect as a manifestation equal to his greatness, but this was the exact mistake the Jews made, and why they disregarded Jesus when he came in the Flesh, his appearance can be debated on, but just like his birthday, or day of death.
In a very real way, our time and the surrounding
culture may be
defined by scientific and technological advances, and perhaps even more
by the incoherent and confused responses to these advances.
It seems that the essence of each commandment is clear, but the edges are
defined differently
by different
cultures.
We are incomplete in the body of Christ if we remain in our siloed communities
defined by race,
culture, country of origin, language and socioeconomic status.
It may be
defined as that society, with its own geographical area, which was subject to the rule of Christ, and whose
culture and way of life had become so permeated and shaped
by Christian beliefs and values as to form a cohesive whole.
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.
His principal concern was with building a healthy and unified mainstream
culture to which socially progressive Christianity might make a contribution.10 Today o there is much more awareness that «
culture» means different things to different people: Often people
define themselves against the mainstream
culture by defining themselves in terms of a sub-
culture.
Apartheid,
by its inventors, is
defined as separate development and defended as a protection for disparate
cultures.
As the essays collected in the Martin Buber Reader clearly show, Buber's central preoccupation in his remarkably broad and vast writings was the modern meaning of religion,
defined precisely as (to use Strauss» description of Guttmann's position) a field of
culture that is marked
by a «turn of consciousness.»
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.
In so far as people in our
culture act in segmentalized roles are
defined and required
by organized groups able to apply social and economic power, the church that makes no demands upon its members, gives them no stronghold from which to fight, and is afraid to use its own institutional power when it is necessary is simply eliminated from the struggle.
The vision of the «good» life, the central values, even the corporate identity expressed
by a congregation's host
culture in its dominant languages will in various ways stand in tension with the congregation's own understanding of its own communal identity, its own picture of the good life, its own central values as they all are
defined «in Jesus» name.»
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.
There are studies in Western
cultures that find high rates of pediatric sleep disorders — upwards of 40 % [1]-- commonly
defined by night wakings in infancy and then night wakings and bedtime resistance in childhood.