Sentences with phrase «important cultural forces»

The Bechers» typologies and photographs grant anonymous forms a sculptural presence, showing how mundane buildings express important cultural forces.

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Kennedy's decision, now the law of the land, forces us to ask a series of critically important questions: Are citizens» whether Protestants, Catholics, Jews, or Mormons» who seek to apply transcendent moral values to public life welcome in political, legal, and cultural debates?

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

We emphasize a socio - cultural approach to issues of language and learning, acknowledging the value of linguistic and cultural differences, and recognizing that academic settings represent important socializing forces in students» lives.

Looking forward, House says it's important for the games industry to have the courage to experiment with new game concepts — to promote itself as a cultural force, not just a financial success.

As a curator and museum professional of long standing working in the field of contemporary art globally, and currently directing arguable the most important museum of contemporary art in Portugal, I am committed to the museum as a place, an idea and a force of intellectual and cultural empowerment for individuals and communities.