We have a family -
influenced culture in my office, and our open door policy encourages younger agents to stop in and pick the brains of any of the seasoned agents who rent private office spaces.
The popular space opera has changed economies, revolutionized technology, and
influenced culture in ways George Lucas probably never imagined.
We look forward to working with her to raise awareness of and challenge some of the forces that
influence the culture in which we feed our babies.»
Not exact matches
Oftentimes leaders focus on strategically
influencing innovation at the organizational level and can overlook the key role it can play
in influencing a
culture of openness and ideas through interpersonal effectiveness.
A woman alone behind the desk, with the microphone
in front of her and a posse of the best writers
in the country behind her, is
in one of the most significant positions of
influence in American popular
culture.
While there are many different organizational
cultures that thrive, tapping into your unique water - cooler
culture can help you hire someone who will be a team player that will
influence and support your existing members
in positive and encouraging ways.
These radiations
in part came from Japanese management
culture, very different from U.S. practice, the ideas of Deming — which both
influenced and reflected Japanese practice — and their elaborations by others.
Keep
in mind that actively building and maintaining a
culture requires an ongoing effort and a deep understanding of the
influence each of the elements listed above bring.
Wanda started building cinemas about a decade ago
in a foray into a
culture industry that Wang said has «no ceiling» on brand
influence and profitability.
Limited partners play a critical role
in shaping
culture at firms by way of their capital allocation processes and
influence.
The organization's mission is to strengthen the wealth - creating capacity of its members and promote economic development; to create innovative and effective change
in the business
culture; to build strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations; and to transform public policy and
influence opinion makers.
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?
As Christians living
in a
culture that tends to present opportunities counter to our identities
in Christ — children of God, as we're referred to time and again — the danger is that we may be
influenced into believing the lie that the decisions we make are without the burden of consequence we could expect when we were younger.
Alternatively, many sociologists predicted that, with the increasing emphasis on individualism and the therapeutic
in American
culture, religion would have an increasingly marginal
influence on domestic life, and the traditional family as the 1950s knew it would gradually disappear
in the face of «family modernization,» as some theorists called it.
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.
Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends
in general intellectual
culture have
in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of
influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric
in their thinking.
Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's Confessions) are of little help
in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed
influenced by the values of aristocratic
culture.
One result is that Jews tend to have a disproportionate and, yes, inordinate secularizing
influence in our
culture.
We are stuck
in a boundaried
culture where the walls are being constantly bombarded by the influx of others and their
influences and differences.
But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated
cultures not
influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding
influences?
But
in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly
influenced both
in content and method by the prevailing
culture of the day.
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.
And then I went to a tiny Christian college and that's where I lost my faith, surrounded by Christians, with no
influence of pop
culture and not so much as one atheist
in my circle of acquaintances.
It is due to wounds which we have received, from Original Sin, from our own failings and from the hedonist
influences which re becoming stronger
in our
culture.
In a
culture where lobbyists and media conglomerates seem to have more
influence over politics than the common person, it's easy to become skeptical.
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.
You live
in a country where a prime minister has appointed half of his leaders to be female, not based on merit, so it's not surprising that this has
influence on the rest of the
culture in your country.
Cultures, even with all their values which their people do well to prize, need to be challenged and transformed through the
influence of Jesus as this is mediated through his followers
in every age.
Who a person becomes is affected greatly by the formative
influence of the whole
culture in which he lives.
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.
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.
The Muslim
culture in Sind did not receive much
influence from its Arab rulers since the center of the Arab Empire was
in Damascus and then
in Baghdad, so far from the Sind that the Arabs paid little attention to their distant eastern provinces.
A
culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist
influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place
in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.
Generally speaking, life - affirmers are the dominant
influence in any
culture.
Similarly, one can not understand Russian politics without reference to Russian Orthodoxy and the
influence this faith has had on the formation of the predominant worldview
in Russian
culture.
Coupled with Russia's failure to establish a religiously and ideologically «neutral» public space
in 1990s, this indicates that Christian religious ideals still hold strong
influence over Russian
culture.
In short,
Culture and Abortion is addressed to the committed pro-lifer who seeks to understand more about the social, historical, political and literary
influences on the «barbarity of abortion».
However, lately life - deniers have gained an inordinate
influence in African - American
culture.
Self - schooled
in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini
in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western
influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly
culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.
What makes this stream interesting is that, while it is decreasing
in size and
influence, the veneer of the institutional church still has an impact on the
culture.
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.
As a result our
influence is ebbing from public life and we are increasingly finding ourselves at odds with popular
culture and political opinion
in areas of morality such as bioethics, right to life, family and sexual ethics.
Every church has a dominant
culture deeply
influenced by the traditions and expectations of the dominant group and leaders
in the church.
However, regardless of whether or not Jesus was
influenced by this or that
culture, the point still stands that if something is true, it is likely to show up
in various
cultures and places rather than appearing
in only one place and one
culture.
A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline
in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive
influence of ghetto
culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.
The scholars who study Islamic
culture today point out that the chief factors which have
influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion
in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy
in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.
I suspect there was much more
influence in first century Palestine from closer
cultures, such as the earlier Egyptian and Babylonian
cultures, and from Greek and Roman
culture, than there was from Indian
culture.
But
in allowing some traditions to change and new
influences to be introduced, we create a new
culture that may welcome the very people who have walked through those open doors and then never returned.
So widespread is the
influence of the Christian faith
in the
culture that has nurtured us, that nothing we do or say is left uninfluenced by it.