These steps also played a role in defining an authorial / creative hierarchy, and ultimately in
defining the identity of different comic book authors within the industry and within the produced textualities as well.
We need to
define the identity of the company and its tone of voice.
This is what happens when multiple constituencies compete to
define the identity of the movement.
This technique can
define the identity of active plant constituents with greater accuracy than the conventional practice of measuring selected main constituents.
Art and culture has
defined the identity of Maine since artists began visiting Monhegan Island and trekking up Mount Katahdin before Maine even became a state.
Not exact matches
There, AT&T
defines it as «information that directly identifies or reasonably can be used to figure out the
identity of a customer or user,» like a name, address, phone number, or email address.
«People struggle to
define unique
identities - with no apparent reason to develop a talent, practice creativity, engage their intellectual curiosity, or achieve much
of anything, many people are left feeling purposeless, unmotivated, unfulfilled and alone,» says Bolton.
Rupert has a personal interest in photography and felt it was an area that hadn't received enough attention in culture, in philanthropy and in terms
of how it could
define corporate
identity.
As you grow your business and make your mark on the world in your own unique way, I think you will find it useful to keep these qualities top -
of - mind when
defining your own leadership
identity.
Top tip: Spend the time to
define the foundational elements
of your brand, including your brand mood & personality, exactly what you're brand is all about, and who your perfect reader / client is before you try creating a unique brand
identity.
Core ideology
defines the enduring character
of an organization — a consistent
identity that transcends product or market life cycles, technological breakthroughs, management fads, and individual leaders.
This question is
of course crucial in
defining the nature
of mission and the
identity of the church.
«Tribalism,» as he
defines it, is «the commitment
of individuals and groups to their own history, culture, and
identity, and this commitment (though not any particular version
of it) is a permanent feature
of human social life.»
One suggestion recommends, «not using phrases such as «gay», «lesbian» or «homosexual» to
define a person's
identity,» in order to «take every aspect
of the person into consideration.»
Identity, however, is a psychological concept much broader than just gender; it is the
defining core
of personality.
To millions, it is perhaps the only real contemporary religious event; for hundreds
of thousands
of Jews, it has served to
define their Jewish
identity, taking the place
of everything else.
Now Professor
of Sociology at both the University
of Chicago and the University
of Arizona, Greeley repeatedly asserts his dual
identity as both priest and sociologist, and in the latter capacity he adamantly insists that he is a «scientist,» usually
defining that term in an old - fashioned positivist manner.
Jenell Paris is professor
of anthropology at Messiah College and the author
of The End
of Sexual
Identity: Why Sex Is Too Important to
Define Who We Are (InterVarsity Press).
The whole point
of Christianity is not to accept and affirm autonomous or self - created
identities as ultimately determining
of who someone is, but to
define what it means to be a person in terms
of Christian teaching.
This region is
defined by the lingering shadow
of communism — the oppression
of spirit and repression
of freedoms that robbed people
of their
identity and dignity.
Its emphasis on social and communal relationships as the
defining element in its religious worldview made it the most attractive option for the growing number
of suburban Jews looking for a sense
identity and tradition in suburban yenemsvelt.
Whereas peoplehood was the bedrock
of Jewish
identity in the twentieth century, the concept today is being
defined by means
of the religious - existential question posed above.
Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use
of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or
defining a person in terms
of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place
of the clear definition
of our sexual
identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.
According to the principle
of limitation, «to be is to be something; and to be something is to have
defining properties that constitute an
identity, and locate an individual within a kind or type» (WPP 10).
It is vulnerable because it lacks «plausibility» in a culture that
defines women's
identity and story in terms
of love and attraction rather than power, thought and accomplishment.
The difficulty in which we find ourselves, however, is this: If the Bible itself, the revelatory,
identity -
defining text
of the Christian community, is portrayed as oppressive, on what basis do we know God or relate to God?
What emerges is a new ecclesial
identity as a «household»
of local congregations,
defined as Christians together meeting the needs
of a particular place.
Professional theologians today hesitate to share their experience, fearing lest the pure objectivity and the transcendent reference point
of their God thoughts be thereby obscured; but this is a great pity, for when they
define their role merely in ecclesiastical or academic terms, thus in effect hiding behind their official
identity, it renders their theology at best enigmatic and at worst downright boring.
While I recognize myself as a Protestant, an Evangelical, and a Baptist, none
of those labels
defines my spiritual and ecclesial
identity at the most basic level.
Religious groups can facilitate or undermine the legitimacy
of alliances, and any such alliances may spell victory, defeat, or at least minor alterations in the opportunities
of population segments, whose
identities are
defined by religious commitments.
The point here, however, is that the question
of how people
define their religious
identity may itself be a matter
of dispute.
Personal
identity is a special form
of genetic
identity and is very different from the more strict
identity dealt with in logical systems (since Leibniz first
defined it as complete equivalence
of predicates).
Being in space and time is
defined in common - sense experience by a law
of self -
identity and
of mutual exclusion.
If «sectarian instruction» is
defined so broadly as to include that one - minute prayer, then Charitable Choice's alleged protection
of the religious
identity and character
of FBOs is a sham.
Don't allow the end
of this relationship to
define the end
of your
identity as a beloved friend, brother or sister in the church, or leader to others.
As most professors will tell you, today's student culture is fixated on
identity politics and is terrified
of anything less than an «A.» In sum: diversity and academic achievement, with «merit»
defined as the maximization
of both.
«34 Personal
identity so
defined is offered as «the key example» for understanding the fusion
of activity and value.
My point is really that sexual orientation, like gender
identity, is also complicated and full
of greys and is also impacted by gender, which is so many different shifting shades
of grey, that to say we know where they intersect and where they don't, to pretend one is clear and one is not, seems impossible, especially without better
defining our terms.
He has
defined his
identity as that
of one made dependent on others by his disabilities.
Catholic bashing is not the «done thing» on Reformation Sunday, and a Protestant
identity that continues to
define itself by what it is not is in an increasing state
of crisis.
In its wake, we have adopted various unspoken beliefs that may or may not endure, for instance that all distinctions between groups
of people are always morally dangerous; that we expand our rights by
defining ourselves in reference to unchanging, inborn
identities; and that talk
of rights is inherently morally elevating.
It
defines conversion therapy as any therapeutic approach assumes one gender
identity is «inherently preferable to any other, and attempts to bring about a change
of sexual orientation or gender
identity, or seeks to supress an individual's expression
of sexual orientation or gender
identity on that basis.»
Erikson describes the union
of personalities which is intimacy when he
defines love as «The mutuality
of mates and partners in a shared
identity, for the mutual verification through an experience
of finding oneself, as one loses oneself in another.»
Apart from apartheid, Christianity — or at least the Afrikaner Calvinist version
of it —
defined the country's national
identity.
As psychological sexual
identity comes to
define who individuals are in the most basic sense, then everything else --- from society's moral norms to our physical bodies --- has the potential
of becoming simply so much external tyranny to be overthrown or turned into plastic, something to be escaped, ignored, or remade in accordance with individual whims.
In any case, the problem
of defining the nature
of personal
identity has been with me during all
of my teaching years, especially since a good part
of my efforts have been focussed on borderline issues in the philosophy and psychology
of personality.
The
defining characteristics
of personal
identity reflect (and in some sense are the manner
of) the resolution
of this complexity.3 I think it follows that in the living person both the complex content
of concrescence and the manner
of integrating the content are dependent upon the environing society — so dependent that the disembodied soul appears to be in categoreal difficulty.
But at the very least, none
of these
identities should be essentially
defined by my attraction to that which separates me from God.
The Eucharist is by ecumenical consensus the corporate act in which «the community
of God's people is manifested,» and it is
of crucial importance that the
identity -
defining rite
of the Christian community is precisely a rite
of remembrance, an act in which the many are united in a common turning in the Spirit to one in particular, to the Palestinian Jew Jesus, through whose life and in whose person the salvation
of the God
of Israel is confessed to have been conclusively bestowed on humankind.
His main concern was to link the
identity of Christianity with social justice, oriented in love and
defined by hope.