Sentences with phrase «influenced by myths»

Thus, it stressed, the rate of convictions to offences recorded as rape is currently 5.7 % and by nonchalantly setting this bare statistic alongside the notion that juries are commonly influenced by myths and stereotypes about victim typology, the implied conclusion is reached that convictions by juries remain, as it put it in para 4 of the report, «unacceptably low».

People are unconsciously becoming carb sensitive 100 % influenced by that myth.

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Mendelson dethrones the ubiquitous myths spewed by influence peddlers claiming special insight into how individuals and small - business owners can profit using social media.

the woman that say that the persecution of the christian was just a myth and a fabricated, is influence by the spirit of the ROMANS to say something like that.

The dying person may be influenced by the Christian myth of hell — So they buy their way out, a young lover — who finds them hot at the age of 90, or a cat — That will be taken to the pound upon the person's death.

These are merely part of the «etiological myth» to account for death produced by a traditional Christianity influenced by Jewish and Greek cultural concerns, by scholasticism, by the «personal preoccupations» ofAugustine (and Luther), and continued by Anselm, Aquinas and the Council of Trent (p88).

Influenced by the prevailing faith in man's progress and the evolution of culture, these authors dismissed myth as the product of the prelogical mind during «the childhood of the race».

Other positive developments include a recent ruling by the Court of Appeal allowing trial judges to explain to jurors why a victim would have delayed reporting a rape to police, helping to alleviate the influence of the rape myth.

Around 1 trillion bacteria live in the gut and around 100 million neurons also reside in the intestines, blasting the myth that our neural health is influenced only by the brain.

In the end, the main achievement of «Knightfall» may be its effectiveness in reminding the viewer of better films and more exciting versions of stories influenced by the group's myth.

In Meacham's telling, Bush indeed lacked an ideological vision, was as overmatched in domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family's influence, and remains overshadowed «by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons» political lives.»

It's no secret that many of Gaiman's novels, like American Gods and Anansi Boys, are highly influenced by folklore and myths.

Recent research conducted by Cats Protection shows that the myth that black cats are unlucky seems to be taking hold with the younger generation who perhaps are being influenced by American attitudes.

Although I failed miserable at the language part, I did get my geek on by all the history, myths and influences the ancient...

There's some obvious stuff in there about how the games have been influenced more by Japanese culture (namely the country's «vengeful ghost» myths) than by western archetypes, which has differentiated them from Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

Guston continued to paint murals until around 1942, but since 1940, his work was increasingly influenced by elements of abstraction, realism, and reference to myth, altogether creating a very unique and personal style.

To this end, the vastness of Gagosian's 21st Street gallery is a fitting space in which to encounter the work of an artist deeply influenced by the storytelling richness of ancient epic and myth, and to be swept along on Twombly's own odyssey of pictorial exploration.

The exhibition also explores how Twombly is influenced by antiquity, myth and the Mediterranean, for example the violent red swirls in the Bacchus 2005 paintings which bring to mind the drunken god of wine.

Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present Bending the Grid: Pat Lay: Myth, Memory and Android Dreams.This major survey exhibition presents for the first time a broadened view of Lay's expansive vocabulary, in two and three dimensions, in a range of various media and styles, influenced by her extensive travels and informed by her overlapping art and non-art interests.

Among other factors, critics and historians have written that Woodman was influenced by the following literary genre, myth, artistic movement, and photographers:

In the Making pairs an example from Warhol's Myths series, a suite of ten portraits of cartoon figures and other cultural emblems, with a silkscreen by Condo that conveys his own hybrid style of the grotesque while reflecting the influence of his past mentor in surprising ways.

In the 1980s, American artists such as Sherrie Levine and Jeff Koons brought appropriation to a new level, influenced by the writings of German philosopher Walter Benjamin in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and American critic Rosalind Krauss in her 1985 book The Originality of the Avant - Garde and Other Modernist Myths.

Though «climate denial starts at the top,» the New York Times» Coral Davenport wrote in March, it was trickling down into a variety of high - influence position: Vice President Mike Pence, who once called global warming a «myth» disproved by the fact that his home state once had a cold winter; then - senior advisor Steve Bannon, whose news site Breitbart remains one of the top destinations for climate misinformation; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who believes carbon dioxide is not a «primary contributor» to global warming; and Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who believes the same myth, saying in June, «No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»

Giaever continues ticking off the most common climate myths, going from arguing that it may not even be warming, to claiming the warming is insignificant, to asserting the warming is caused by water vapor, and ultimately that the warming is indeed caused by human influences:

«By prohibiting admission of sexual history evidence to support the inferences leading to the twin myths, parliament has signalled that because of the significant dangers of influencing the jury to engage in lines of reasoning based on those myths, it is not sufficient to allow them to hear it even with an appropriate cautionary instruction.»

Myth: AMCs are necessary to ensure that appraisers aren't influenced by lenders.