Sentences with phrase «for cultural practices»

As naturopathic doctors are trained to prescribe botanical remedies they see the intrinsic value of natural remedies which may allow for improved cooperation with local traditional medical practitioners as well as an appreciation and respect for cultural practices.

Not exact matches

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

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But quality control, almost from the outset, came to be surrounded by what might be called a «cultural» radiation — namely management approaches, philosophies, and practices aimed at creating the right environment for a quality - driven industrial process.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

If you want to grow your organic traffic for items related to «tea» I would suggest finding other high search volume concepts closely related to the topic, such as types of teas, tea leaves, infusers, cultural practices or differences, etc... the idea being to build content containing keywords, and more importantly semantic relationships around the topic of «tea,» with the end goal being to broaden the relational authority your website has for more long - tail keywords.

That could be difficult for current candidate and MP Kellie Leitch, whose name remains associated with her controversial 2015 election campaign announcement of a «barbaric cultural practices» tip line.

It also helps account for the many times the taking of wine or alcoholic drink is referenced neutrally, as nothing but a common cultural practice.

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

The stakes of the answers are therefore high for implications in public policy, institutional practices, and deep cultural formation over time.

@ David, So am I correct to assume that you would also object to the cultural practice of teaching that women should cover their faces or else they are should be considered showing no respect for god or disrespect for their religion.

This will happen, for example, when the social and cultural context of its practices changes and seems novel and puzzling.

Despite the strict Christianisation and its apparent success, it did not take long for the missionaries to discover the persistence of non-Christian religious and cultural practices among Pulaya converts.

But this insistence on Kantian morality, to my mind, shows a thinness regarding the foundation of ethics not only when it moves to an abstraction beyond settled emotive, historical and cultural practices, whether they be for better or worse.

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

If we articulate ones who do not embrace the idea of «progress» as limitless liberation from all authoritative practices and structures do not soon do a better job of countering this cultural and intellectual intimidation, there will before long be few left to cheer another Miss California who would dare to stand up for an anti-progressive view.

«Without the dictates of religious authority to follow, or the rituals of unwavering cultural practice to enact, we had no choice but to invent a wedding for ourselves,» she writes.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

I agree with Bill Maher, but then again I'm a lifelong atheist... I have never believed for one minute that the god as portrayed in the bible or koran has any possibility of being real to everyone, otherwise that god would make itself obvious and not hide behind man made lies and cultural practices that self perpetuate thanks fo fear... otherwise there would not be several thousand man made religions trying to claim that god as their own... yes, it is an opinion, only valid to the opinion holder and no one else... Bill, thanks for so strongly making that point, not that it makes any difference to god fearing people... they will hold on to their opinion as strongly as they hold on to their shotgun, thinking that each provides them with some form of security... to intelligent people, neither is secure and neither leads to true freedom of the mind...

To quote Paul Brass in his essay on ethnicity and nationalism, «The cultural and religious forms, values and practices of South Asian countries have become political resources of the elite in competition for political power and economic advantages.»

Is it possible for religious people to continue to practice their religion without causing disruptions in the cultural contexts around us?

This reading practice, offering a purchase on literature to anyone who wanted one, receded in the 1970s as pedagogues turned from New Criticism to Big Theory, and further in the 1990s as poetry and novels lost prestige and young people no longer aspired to read them closely for cultural capital.

But if we interpret such texts in their appropriate context and with due regard for their cultural setting, and if we regard the argument from natural law as lacking content (even if Aquinas» generalized summary of that law as «doing good, not evil» is formally true), we must acknowledge the goodness of homosexuality when and as it is practiced with due regard for the genuine moral norms, to which I shall refer at the end of this chapter.

For example, in the case of the collective right to cultural autonomy of a group that practices sexual discrimination through the practice of female circumcision.

It requires what might best be called «theology of culture,» theological reflection on critical implications of cultural change for congregations» practices, and it calls for envisioning possible constructive reshaping of a congregation's practices insofar as they are ways in which the congregation tells its story in and to its host culture.

Other writers have suggested landmark events for the transition in cultural and religious practices for our nation.

The power elites have manipulated the people's religio - cultural practices for the maintenance and expansion of their own power.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Cultural practices such as cover cropping, mulching, crop rotation, and balancing soil nutrients and biology are important tools for managing weed pressure, but... Continued

The RUNA Foundation provides a reliable income stream for guayusa farmers, while respecting their deep - rooted cultural and traditional practices.

Pest Management: 84 % of growers used cultural practices to naturally manage pests, reducing need for pesticides

Eunice Aston, Chairperson Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, said this Partnership provides a process for the planning, delivering and monitoring of environmental water in our region that supports our cultural practices.

The plants were grown using standard cultural practices for growing chile peppers in southern New Mexico.

This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.

Differences in mattresses, bedding, and other cultural practices may account for the lower risk in these countries.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

While it is a cultural practice, it also fills a physiological need for nutrients.»

«In this anthology, we are exploring how we are informed by and participating with those mothers, especially radical women of color, who have sought for decades, if not centuries, to create relationships to each other, transformative relationships to feminism and a transnational anti-imperialist literary, cultural and everyday practice.»

Your body needs much more fluids when breastfeeding or in pregnancy, so fasting just for the sake of traditional cultural practices is getting the balance wrong.

Part of an Australian Research Council funded study titled Being and becoming musical: towards a cultural ecological model of early musical development, the study aims to provide a comprehensive account of how Australian families use music in their parenting practices and make recommendations for policy and practice in childcare and early learning and development.

The book discusses cultural and historic practices about nursing and weaning (human children were nursed well past their second birthday for thousands of years before the advent of formula).

Psychometric support for a new measure of authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting practices: Cross cultural connections.

But I argue that as the sole model for the Canadian side of my daughter's cross-cultural heritage, we need to strike a balance between both cultural parenting practices.

Though the family bed, or co-sleeping, is still the cultural norm in other parts of the world, it is not something that is seen as a normal practice in the United States, despite the fact that many families choose some form of co-sleeping for themselves.

Both skilled and lay (e.g., peer) support have been shown to reduce the risk of suboptimal breastfeeding practices [8, 9] with face - to - face support being the most effective for EBF [8], but effective approaches and strategies to support in different geographic, cultural, and income contexts are still being studied.

Same goes for age - graded schools, parenting done solely within nuclear families, and other cultural institutions and practices that are still relatively new even in Western societies.

If it is part of a cultural practice, decaffeinated tea is available but still not a healthful food for a baby.

To distance Huawei's meetings from the still - fresh memories of humiliating public denunciations during the Cultural Revolution, Ren likened Huawei's practice of self - criticism to «hitting yourself with a soft pillow: though the blows are gentle, they will remind you to constantly strive for better performance.»

In Ghana, the day will be commemorated under the adapted theme «Economic empowerment of rural women: A tool for sustainable development in a changing world of work,» which according to the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisah Djaba, was chosen to help rural women and girls to achieve their ambitions and also challenge the negative traditional and socio - cultural practices, discrimination and difficulties that confront the rural woman by changing the world of work for all women in Ghana.

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.