Sentences with phrase «if other cultures»

For example, have you considered looking at foreign languages to see if other cultures have a word that's just right for you?

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Ask others if the job description you've prepared truly portrays the company's culture and its short and long - term goals, as well as its mission and vision.

If the culture of our business is right, all of the other elements required for success, such as great customer service, will just happen.

The only way you'll succeed in one of these intense environments is if you feel welcome into the space, and it supports an open culture where students encountering setbacks can tackle them without being worried about others having a level of ego or hubris.

In our culture, we have the feeling that if you're not climbing to the next rung, you're a failure; we rarely congratulate each other for climbing down.

«Now there is more of a culture of people thinking, «Hey, you should talk about these things even if they are rumors,»» says Floodgate's other cofounder, Ann Miura - Ko.

Culture, personalities and traits are all important, but if you're looking for a championship - level team, then you need to create a system that holds people accountable for their actions and for each other.

If I were a young person again, I would go to a school outside North America and learn more about other cultures.

The swabs, when cultured, grew colonies of bacteria that killed Micrococcus, a bacterium the researchers test to see if others might be susceptible.

«The other thing to watch is a bit a of culture change — I am afraid Apple may soon end up with the boomer crowd if it doesn't step up to bigger screens,» he said.

But if you don't trust one other or trust your partners» motives, then even small issues can grow into bigger arguments and quickly destroy any united culture at the company.

«If your employees are engaged and care about the company and its culture, and feel like they know what's happening», says Fradin, «then they become an advocate for the company — recruiting other people, talking positively about it, writing a review on Glassdoor.

And while I try to be culturally sensitive in all other respects — and enjoy learning about and respecting local cultures — if you are working with me, you are eventually going to get a hug.

If you enjoy working with or visiting other cultures, they are likely to enjoy the same with you!

You will get a much better feel for the candidate and her potential fit with your corporate culture if you can see each other while you're talking.

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Managers and directors set the tone for the rest of the organization, and having a discussion about healthy work culture will be worthless if the person leading it works 60 - hour weeks, takes no vacations, disrespects others, and thinks the discussion does not apply to them.

If I have a bunch of cells from a throat culture or other medical swab, that isn't a human life.

If we are creating a culture in which we get noticed because of our flirting or our looks, it means that others are not getting noticed because they are deemed less «fun» or good - looking.

This a staggeringly unhealthy narrative to promote to our children about the way sexuality works, and plays directly into the hands of a rape culture such as the one in which we live: If you are a woman and ever get catcalled, abused, molested, raped or any number of other sexual advances, you are probably at least partially to blame.

«R.M. Goodswell Christians would have you believe that they were singled out by the Romans... other cultures and peoples faired poorly when encountering the empire... heh... even being roman didn't buy you a pass sometimes in ancient rome... if they felt they needed fresh bodies for the arena, you became fodder.

And if burying bin Laden at sea and in accordance with Muslim law satisfied Muslims and indeed the rest of the world that's conscientious of other people's customs or culture, than so be it.

But if we are talking about just the age difference and in their particular culture (if in fact the numbers that you gave are accurate, and I admit that I don't know one way or the other), then I don't know how, in that culture that there was anything wrong with it.

I don't have any answers, but from all the reading I've done, I realize that Christian culture contributes to this greatly, as we are told that standing up for ourselves isn't kind, and that confrontation and dissent is wrong if may hurt others.

Let me take the instance of India to illustrate Operation Recolonization Limited, not because of idolatory of geography but because, if India, itself a great country in its own right with a socialistic public sector and intellectual culture were to be dominated, other countries, including even the Asian Tigers and China, may face the same doom tomorrow or the day after.

If the history of Christianity has taught us anything it is its ability to assimilate culture, other religions and science into its dogmatic fold.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

As it is, I understand many people, if not most, don't remember anything at all, and furthermore, people of other cultures and religions remember seeing things that conform to THEIR religions.

How can we know if it loves or hates, is caring or cold, prehends without loss, or offers us a lure other than those we get from the culture which gives us our conscience?

Even if your culture, your gender roles, others expectations are speaking differently.

If we recall Kitchner's hortatory words spoken just five minutes before, we can go to our dreams knowing that this is what our very own culture does better than any other — it defines the ultimate human quest.

If we are too easily accepting of blending the Christ way with other ways, the other way tends to start to dominate (e.g. Catholic church in parts of Latin culture) and we can end up with a sort of Christian flavoured paganism.

It may be that Kelley had «domestic issues», or «mental health» issues, or other factors (as is so often the case, real life stories are usually far more complex than the 24 hour / 24 second sound bite culture we live in) and that his expressions of hatred against Christianity were only secondary factors, if factors at all.

Though evangelical culture (and many other traditions) would say that if it doesn't look pretty to them, it can not be redemptive.

A conservative student, well versed in Burke and Tocqueville, knowing his Kirk and his Berry if not yet his MacIntyre, exhausted by the culture wars, seeks common ground with students on the other end of the political spectrum.

Today's world man has become with no value other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights... cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among cultures and beliefs turning against each other misunderstanding each other or unaware of cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

But there is one other facet that needs to be synthesised with this if we are to be able to refound Christian culture: the fact (and the Judaeo - Christian revelation) that my very power of intelligent observation is in the image of God's Mind.

In order for us to address these problems (and others not listed) we must move the culture in a direction that sees the procreation of children as a good thing and as an expected outcome of the act — even if it does not occur as a result of each and every act.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

I'd also point out how the Jews were influenced by Greek / Roman culture in that time period so even if they were heavily honor driven they had other cultural influences.

If you want to be «scientific» you also have to be agnostic about all the other gods, and about vampires, werewolves, dragons, ogres, leprechauns, and pretty much everything else from all the world's cultures and religions.

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

If we look to other countries, we see where one culture's moral imperatives are crimes in another culture.

If one culture or group of people looks at the laws of another culture or people, whether it is the 10 laws, the 600, the 6000, or the 60,000, and says, «It sort of worked for them; we'll do the same thing,» they will end up treating each other more miserably than any other culture.

If all cultures — groups of people who never knew others existed much less communicated with them — all realized there is a Supreme Being then what does common sense tell you?

If late boomers and possibly Generation X Jesuits are, as Cardinal Dulles suggests, different again, it may be simply that the Society and the culture have settled down considerably and young men are able to make clearer choices about whether to enter the Society or respond to God's call in other ways.

Of course, if he did, in our culture, he would be a murderer, which would be breaking other Biblical commands.

16To hold otherwise is to suppose a form of «immediate knowledge,» an absurdity if, as Hartshorne among many others holds, «human consciousness is essentially linguistic» («A Philosopher's Assessment of Christianity,» in Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich, ed.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.