Sentences with phrase «for influencing the culture»

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Once you are able to successfully get past the hiring stage, focus on building a great culture that makes room for creativity, as your workplace environment has a big influence on how well you can execute on your strategies.

«Tom's drive, energy, and passion for our clients and our culture have influenced a generation of salespeople at Goldman Sachs,» the note said.

Commentary: The baby boomers continue to have an outsized influence on our culture and our politics and on the U.S.'s fiscal situation for years to come

This case can be used to teach how branding can be used as a tool for spearheading culture change — not to exercise influence without authority — and how businesspeople can effectively work with a design firm.

In the post, the Kapors say they've worked for years «behind the scenes to exert a constructive influence on [Uber's] company culture.»

All the words pouring forth in our magazines and books, for example — are they influencing the culture at large?

At the time there was a cult by Corinth in the nearby city of Eleasus (sp) who baptised for the dead, Paul was also warning the Corinthians (who were highly influenced by the other cultures around them) not to follow suit.

I think if you did a more careful analyis of many of these «differences» between men and women you would find that both the degree of difference and the prevalence for many of them would vary greatly from one culture and time to another as they are largely influenced by our environments and societal attitudes.

It is evident that this period influenced Morrison's permanent interest in exploring the relationships between religion and its surrounding culture, with the result that a unique feature of the Century came to be its openness to articles on topics — political and literary, for instance — that did not commonly appear in religious publications.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

But he underestimates both the language and the ethnic barriers, since so much of the Pietist influence came in Dutch and German packaging — languages and cultures that did not count for much among those of English descent.

In conclusion, the above suggestions — Indoctrination, Incarnation, and Influence — are public, personal and practical ways for contemporary evangelical Christians to confront ongoing racism within our culture and even within the church.

«Holmes» influence promised, then, to help release American culture from a Christian bias that most Jewish intellectuals found provincial at best and that at worst provided a basis for continued prejudice against Jews and other non-Christians.»

One might also note the irony of using ideas that are undeniably constructs of Western culture» solidarity, anti-imperialism, self - esteem, the universal family of humankind, respect for pluralism» to condemn the influence of Western culture.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

One common idea among its promoters, for example, is that of social sanctification or «the leavening influences on the entire culture» spilling over from personal regeneration along Reconstructionist lines.

The second harbinger of possible mortality for Western civilization and culture has been the dramatic shift in the past few decades in the relative global power and influence of that culture.

I suspect we will see its splintering in five different directions, only one of which genuinely responds to the human drive for ultimacy and thus has much potential for influencing contemporary culture.

And perhaps this view, which until fairly recently was dominant in American culture and law, and which still exercises influence (in, for example, significant publications such as First Things), helps to explain why many gays and lesbians still, as Reno says, «feel put upon.»

In our clocks and watches we still observe the long - term influence of the culture of ancient Babylonia, for it was the ancient Babylonians who began to use the number base of 6o for counting time and for measuring angles.

Especially in those cultures, such as ours, that have been significantly influenced by the Protestant Reformation, it is important for Christian thinkers to engage the disputes of the sixteenth century.

The Bible can be used as a guide to faith that transcends the particularities of time and place for those who remember that both the original readers and modern readers are influenced by a culture.

Therefore, our next step is to examine in more detail the way Christian believers, that «cloud of witnesses,» found meaning in Jesus and the Gospel throughout the Christian Era, and how their cultures influenced their own search for meaning.

John M. Staudenmaier, «The Influence of Communication Technologies on Modern American Culture: A Framework for Analysis,» paper presented at the University of Dayton Conference on Religious Telecommunications, Dayton, OH, September 26, 1988, p. 4.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

As CT has reported, the small but growing population of Christian converts in Nepal has pushed for social and political influence over the last several years, including securing rights for cemetery burials (amid a Hindu culture of cremation).

What does it mean for other cultures to have an influence on the Bible that we believe is revealed by God?

No doubt this results - based culture influenced Driscoll's decision to use church funds to pay for a spot on the New York Times bestseller list and to vow to «destroy» other area churches «brick by brick.»

We should pay careful attention to our students» long - term goals, for they most clearly reveal the depth of the culture's influence.

This is true of developmental as well as cross-cultural psychology, in that the basic research strategy is to search for the influence of broad classes of experience (e.g., culture, SES, age, gender) that influence broad classes of individual outcome (e.g., IQ, personality, cognitive level).

Thus, current definitions of mental health may be influenced subtly by our culture in ways that make them faulty devices for evaluating religious ideas and practices.

We should remember that for a long time now our culture has been profoundly influenced by the redefining of the meaning of sexual relations that is inherent in the acceptance of artificial contraception.

and so it's easy to fall into this kind of thinking for anyone, and (2) Christian culture is so pervasive even our people get bitten by it — we live in an odd time where you can be exposed to other church's preachers on the radio, podcasts, Christian books, etc. and so the church you go to is not going to be the only influence on how you think and approach God & Christianity.

While the cultures» propensity towards spicy food has become a stereotype, reinforced through a commercial push for «Latino» products such as hot sauce and salsa, it remains true that the flavor of the culture's cuisine is influenced by hot chiles of all kinds.

Born and raised in Venezuela, Lorena grew up with a great passion for cooking and through years of travel, she has absorbed influences from many countries around the world expanding her knowledge of flavors and cultures.

After watching the live cesarean birth on the TODAY show last week and then the commercial for Jennifer Lopez's new movie The Back - Up Plan during the Superbowl *, I've been thinking a lot about the way childbirth is portrayed in popular culture — on TV and in the movies — and how that influences us.

Whether we want to believe it or not, our perceptions of birth are bound to be influenced — for better or for worse — by what we view and hear in popular culture.

• Among employed men, fathers» use of parental leave is also strongly influenced by organizational culture, including their company's commitment to caring values, level of «father friendliness» and support for equal opportunities for women; and also the fathers» perceptions of support from top managers, and of work group norms that reward task performance vs. long hours at work (Haas et al, 2002).

I recently spent time in the Netherlands, and was highly influenced by the Dutch creative culture, their love for functional design and most important of all, their products that are designed around their mobile, cycling culture.»

For Levine's latest book is, in fact, a cri de coeur from a clinician on the front lines of the battle between our better natures — parents» deep and true love and concern for their kids — and our culture's worst competitive and materialistic influences, all of which she sees played out, day after day, in her private psychology practice in affluent Marin County, CaliFor Levine's latest book is, in fact, a cri de coeur from a clinician on the front lines of the battle between our better natures — parents» deep and true love and concern for their kids — and our culture's worst competitive and materialistic influences, all of which she sees played out, day after day, in her private psychology practice in affluent Marin County, Califor their kids — and our culture's worst competitive and materialistic influences, all of which she sees played out, day after day, in her private psychology practice in affluent Marin County, Calif..

We just explain to our son that when we're in Bogota we do things one way because that works there, in the US we do them another and if he wants he can choose either at home, or even look to other world cultures for ways of being that suit him and his values (which try to influence pretty heavily lol).

Whether we want to believe it or not, our perceptions of birth are bound to be influenced - for better or for worse - by what we view and hear in popular culture.

After watching the live cesarean birth on the TODAY show last week and then the commercial for Jennifer Lopez's new movie, The Back - Up Plan, during the Superbowl, I've been thinking a lot about the way childbirth is portrayed in popular culture - on TV and in the movies - and how that influences us.

The Icelandic Naming Committee has the principal responsibility to determine whether new given names, deriving from foreign influence and the media, and not previously used in Iceland, are suitable for integration into the country's language and culture.

When we can push aside the stress, concerns about public perceptions, and influences of modern culture and connect with our true intuition we can usually make good choices and decisions for ourselves and our families.

«The Labour party has sponsored a culture of Cash for Influence, and has promoted unelectable individuals to the peerage so as to get them into the Cabinet.

Under the twin influences of religion and philosophy, the problem of relativism lost its force and seemed more or less banished from Western culture for centuries.

Even the supposedly «constructivist» factors of history, culture and religion have objective bases — these elements make Ukraine a pliable space for Russia to extend influence, and also contain historical narratives tying Ukraine to Russia's geopolitical safety (from the 18th through the 20th centuries, Russia has very often engaged threats from the West and South primarily in the broader Ukrainian / Black Sea region).

By most accounts, the task will not be easy, even for the highly popular Democratic governor, whose wide margin of electoral victory and long history in Albany has given him unusual influence within the slow - moving culture of the capital.

She is critical of an Albany culture that she says «has, for too long, been dominated by influence and money,» and she vowed to be a «full - time legislator.»