Sentences with phrase «high culture at»

When Willem de Kooning painted de Kooning's Woman I, Greenberg saw an act of betrayal, with high culture at stake.

It's a lively volume with contributions by Terry Teachout (drama critic for the Wall Street Journal), Carol Iannone (editor of Academic Questions), and Asia himself (a distinguished composer and professor of composition at U of A), among others, and they all get to the heart of the problem of high culture at the present time in America.

Not exact matches

And at the highest level, business leaders should build their company culture upon their vision, social purpose and greater mission.

However, the new report comes at a particularly inopportune time for Cuban, as it follows a high - profile Sports Illustrated report, published two weeks ago, detailing «a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior» in the Dallas Mavericks organization.

But over a career at the highest levels in corporate finance, Porat has been equally unflappable, navigating physical obstacles and fighting great metaphorical discomfort — the race - the - clock stress of the financial crisis, the tension of negotiations among big - ego executives, and now the culture clash of imposing financial discipline at tech's biggest idea factory.

The deck is an attempt to codify the «high performance» culture at Netflix, which the company admits is not for everyone.

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.

«With the right tools and right culture, regular people can answer those questions themselves,» said Elissa Fink, chief marketing officer at Tableau Software, which has been the tech sector's biggest IPO of 2013, and after an initial public offering price of $ 31 has traded as high as $ 59.

When an organization's culture centres around unusually high expectations for performance at a blistering pace (like, say, a ride - sharing platform endeavouring to be the last player standing in a fiercely competitive new niche) a Machiavellian «the ends justify the means» stink can pervade even those departments meant to keep things in balance.

At the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Buffett commented on the fault he saw at Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customerAt the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Buffett commented on the fault he saw at Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customerat Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customers.

Jon Salas, standing, left a higher - paying job at a multinational HR company with a «cardboard dry culture» to join Hollywood PR, where weekly brainstorming sessions bring the small team together.

Entrepreneur teamed up with CultureIQ to rank high - performance cultures existing at medium - sized companies for our Top Company Culturcultures existing at medium - sized companies for our Top Company CulturesCultures list.

A high - performance culture means identifying the right goals, setting them at the appropriate times, recruiting and empowering the right people to execute them and establishing transparency across the company to enable different functions to operate as a single, united team.

Entrepreneur teamed up with CultureIQ to rank high - performance cultures existing at small companies for our Top Company Culturcultures existing at small companies for our Top Company CulturesCultures list.

Being personally responsible for creating a positive culture at a fast - growing company, it struck me how much we could learn from McDonough about building trusting and effective working relationships, given he did just that at a very high level.

Entrepreneur teamed up with CultureIQ to rank high - performance cultures existing at large companies for our Top Company Culturcultures existing at large companies for our Top Company CulturesCultures list.

Cultures and retail propositions at SBRY & Asda are very different and therefore the execution risk seems much higher than the smooth Ahold - Delhaize merger.»

At FlexJobs, a high - performance culture means that we hire for and cultivate amazing people who are supported to excel, who believe in both doing well and doing right in order to reach our company's goals.

Cadie McNaboe, a 17 - year - old senior at Philip Barbour High School, said the gun culture in her area is something she had to take into account, which is why the students will observe a moment of silence and release balloons.

At the heart of Peter's leadership expertise is his success in leading teams and ensuring that a «people first» culture thrives at Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality servicAt the heart of Peter's leadership expertise is his success in leading teams and ensuring that a «people first» culture thrives at Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality servicat Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality service.

Overall, the Total Rewards Program aims to foster a high - performance culture at all levels and to provide an opportunity for employees to earn significant rewards if HP achieves strong financial results.

Overall, the Total Rewards Program aims to foster a high - performance culture at all levels and to provide an opportunity for employees to earn significant rewards when HP achieves strong financial results.

Her exit follows several high - profile exits at Uber in recent months, alongside publicized scandals about the company's bleak workplace culture.

A World at Work survey discovered that organizations with a pay for performance culture and Talent Management programs that support their business goals are more than twice as likely to be high - performing companies.

Hanyu is providing Japanese high school students access to high - tech heated boxes that allow them to culture animal cells at home and grow them into meat - like products.

The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 people dead has sparked another debate about gun culture in America and spurred new hopes that something will be done to prevent future incidents.

The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»

They are at once chastened by the pettiness of their worldly loves — and elevated by a sense of divine transcendence that unites them not just with Christ, but also with the highest achievements of Russian culture.

There is remaining space in this chapter only for a brief look at the relations of Christian culture to higher education.

This occurred at the level of folk and high culture.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Babylonia, situated on a broad low plain between the rivers at their widest points, was very fertile and had developed an advanced culture as early as 3500 B.C.. From this region comes the famous Code of Hammurabi which, dating from long before the time of Moses, shows high ethical discernment regarding the establishment of justice in human relations.

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

When the highest moral value of a culture is unity at the expense of principle, there is no real unity and we can wonder if principles ever existed in the first place.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

Every year, at every level of culture, there's a flood of words about it, from abstruse, high - theoretical juridical and philosophical arguments to close - to - the - ground rants and breast - beatings.

From Casey: As a newish stay - at - home - mom at 40 (after a career in higher education administration), what I notice is a certain stay - at - home - mom culture, with all sorts of unspoken rules, at places like the park down the street from my house.

At other times they adopt a «Christ above culture» attitude, for instance, in adopting the prevalent American attitude that «business is business,» while adding to it higher spiritual practices.

One study of Catholic values on Catholic campuses disclosed that when administrators, faculty, students, and alumni were asked to identify core Catholic values in the culture of their institutions, «high academic standards,» «academic freedom,» and «respect for the individual» regularly ranked at or near the top, while «community of faith» trailed far behind.

But as the pragmatists were transforming higher thought at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago, and in the culture at large, another thinker was extending pragmatism well beyond the instrumentalist conception.

During at least eight centuries wave after wave of invasion menaced such recovery as had been achieved in the interval between the successive incursions, and the prospects both of a high culture and of Christianity seemed grim.

The stands piled high with fresh baked pastries, the artisan breads and fluffy pillows of pita, and the hidden gems of culture at every turn are awe - inspiring.

As a high school sophomore and self - identified hippie, I saw working at this ice cream franchise in the suburbs of Chicago not really as a job opportunity so much as a potentially transcendent life experience: I could go beyond consuming Phish Food ice cream and be part of the culture that created Phish Food.

At the time, I wasn't exactly wild about the pick, but Garnett was always viewed as a really high character guy — someone you could trust to put the team first and help the locker - room culture.

Interviews with more than a dozen former and current Mavericks employees in different departments, conducted during a months - long SPORTS ILLUSTRATED investigation, paint a picture of a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior: alleged public fondling by the team president; outright domestic assault by a high - profile member of the Mavs.com staff; unsupportive or even intimidating responses from superiors who heard complaints of inappropriate behavior from their employees; even an employee who openly watched pornography at his desk.

«The company culture was intense, you were expected to perform at a high level.

Arsene Wenger came in with a concept and footballing culture that was ahead of his time and not embraced by all, as lets face it, a lot of footballers at that time were party boys and just living the dream with their ridiculously high wages, but though there were legends who disagreed, their time had come to an end, total fitness and diet along with football science was about to take over.

@Fatboy Gooner The Ozil deal was far less that 40 plus million as has been exposed on football leaks it was more in the region of 32 million with verious clauses that enable REM to take a percentage of any profit we make on selling Ozil and I would assume there are similar attachments with the Sanchez deal, even our record signings are clouded in smoke and mirrors so let not run away with the idea that its all SWengers fault, if your employer is on your back and pushing for results then you perform at a higher rate and push harder where as Wenger has no push from above so does nt go out of his way Kroenke does nt have the culture around him to win trophies cos thats not his aim and that filters down to the grass roots at Arsenal and shows in Wengers transfer policy and in the players performance.

It's even added that the Red Devils have done extensive work on the player, in that they are already aware of his lifestyle and work ethic and believe that he will fit in perfectly under Mourinho and buy into the culture at the club to become a top player at the highest level.