Sentences with phrase «defining national identity»

Beginning in the Renaissance with representations of mythological, religious, and literary themes, the most famous artists of the time were commissioned to commemorate pivotal historical events that defined national identities.

His paintings of geological marvels west of the Mississippi helped the United States define its national identity after the Civil War.

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Apart from apartheid, Christianity — or at least the Afrikaner Calvinist version of it — defined the country's national identity.

Not only did it not possess the shared language, culture, and national identity that have defined many nations; it had more social and cultural variety than even the continent of Europe.

Furthermore, there is a centrist political pull that seeks to draw nations together within a new political order or geo - political system, defined not in terms of national sovereignty or cultural identity but in terms of the economic well - being and styles of life of certain powerful nations.

The lack of a revolutionary experience, the long history of special ties of English Canadians with England and English symbols of civil religion, and the existence of a large province that is linguistically, ethnically, and religiously distinct from the rest of Canada — all these conditions have militated against not only the emergence of a Canadian civil religion but of any very clearly defined sense of national identity.

It is about how people define themselves through their national identity.

The Reach Institute for School Leadership affords equal opportunity to all students, and other participants without regard to race, color, religion, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (as defined under California law), veteran status, family care status, sexual orientation, sex (which includes gender and gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), taking or requesting statutorily protected leave, or any other basis protected by law.)

Under the SEC proposal, an ETF would be defined as a registered open - end management investment company that: • Issues (or redeems) creation units in exchange for the deposit (or delivery) of basket assets the current value of which is disseminated per share by a national securities exchange at regular intervals during the trading day; • Identifies itself as an ETF in any sales literature; • Issues shares that are approved for listing and trading on a securities exchange; • Discloses each business day on its publicly available web site the prior business day's net asset value and closing market price of the fund's shares, and the premium or discount of the closing market price against the net asset value of the fund's shares as a percentage of net asset value; and • Either is an index fund, or discloses each business day on its publicly available web site the identities and weighting of the component securities and other assets held by the fund.

JJC The Tate started out as a nation - defining institution, inasmuch as it attempted to define a «national» art, at a moment when national identity was important and dynamically self - projecting.

Historically, U.S. national identity has been defined by the systematic delegitimization of Others.

This exhibition traced the complex expression of national identity and international perspective that define Polish modern art.

Homeland is usually defined as the country of origin, one's native or ancestral place, the country of our national identity.

Through his rigorous work Gavin Murphy makes visible the histories of The Hugh Lane as a municipal museum, as a space for defining, contesting, and interrogating national, cultural identities.

From an early age, Alberto Giacometti, who was born in Borgonovo in the Canton of Grisons, saw himself as an international artist and refused to be defined through a national identity.

National commemorations operate within a framework of national identity and defined statehood — frameworks that are increasingly contested and problematic within global discourses on the shifting relationship between civil society and thNational commemorations operate within a framework of national identity and defined statehood — frameworks that are increasingly contested and problematic within global discourses on the shifting relationship between civil society and thnational identity and defined statehood — frameworks that are increasingly contested and problematic within global discourses on the shifting relationship between civil society and the state.

Freedom of assembly is one of the rights Americans take for granted; Opie is interested in the way that sites, such as the National Mall in Washington, D.C., come to be defined by the groups of people who assemble there and how their gathering shapes the identity of the place.

And NZ has other related defining moments which have helped shaped it's national identity, including declaring the country a Nuclear Free Zone, which caused the US to downgrade their status from ally to «friend».

Instead of aligning itself with the perilous task of defining the extent of the Italian Constitutional identity, it decided to leave to the national Court the possibility to exceptionally disapply EU law.

HMLR has proposed to achieve this by using the Government's «Verify» scheme, which provides ID assurance to assurance level 2 (as defined in the CESG (now National Cyber Security Centre) Good Practice Guide on Identity Proofing and Verification of an individual).

First, he maintains that the immediate application of a longer limitation period would not affect the national identity; in this respect, as pointed out under p. 5, it is worth stressing that some commentators argue that limitation rules do not per se define the constitutional identity, but in the Italian legal order they are nevertheless subject to the principle of legality, that is definitely part of such identity.