Sentences with phrase «limited by culture»

The problem arises because, as finite creatures, we inevitably see the world from some particular point of view limited by culture and history.

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Limited partners play a critical role in shaping culture at firms by way of their capital allocation processes and influence.

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Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

One learns best, however, by doing it oneself, perhaps starting out with a limited inquiry focused on one of the following elements in parish culture:

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

But their ability to carry the day has been limited by broader cleavages in the culture that put them against religious liberals on all these issues.

So Muslims in the U.S. should expect respect and kindness, but there must be limits to how much we alter society which is bound together by traditions and culture.

All «truth», therefore, is relative to our own minds limited by our time in history and our particular culture.

As a woman whose opportunities for Christian leadership were severely limited by the conservative evangelical culture in which I was raised, blogging has given me a voice and a reach I would not have otherwise had, and I am so grateful for that.

V / hen a person tries to understand someone of another culture, or a genius, or even a younger or older person, he has difficulty; his understanding is limited both by his own conception of what actions are intelligible and by his inability to share the other's views.

Individuals in community define themselves and are shaped by these intersecting parameters, being both limited and / or enabled by the prevailing culture type.

Television is taking over the traditional role of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming controlled by a few who limit the points of view.

Influenced by thesurrounding intellectual culture, they readily dismissed concepts as productions of limited perspectives, which later experience can and should modify.

You discuss looking at burial rituals to consider new ways to present the symbolism of baptism, but regardless of how a society buries it's dead you will never find a society on earth that isn't familiar with the concept of drowning; thus death by water has a universal power not limited to any culture.

Just as Hinduism is rooted in, and is pretty much limited by, the history, culture, and customs of India, so is Confucianism, along with its companion, Taoism, in China.

The team, assembled by Don S. Browning, director of the University of Chicago's Family, Religion and Culture Project, refused to limit itself to simplistic, mono - causal explanations of the difficulties facing families.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

At first glance, this answer is scandalous in a liberal culture, which promises freedom for freedom's sake, limited only by external considerations of public utility and to prevent harm to others.

Because evangelicals tend to subordinate discursive truth to evangelical truth, limiting inquiry by the creation of discursive orthodoxies to match their evangelical ones, dissipating the tension and traducing the complementarity which reside within the fullness of truth, they appear to have disabled themselves for the kind of free university inquiry out of which, historically, has come the growth of knowledge and culture.

Hosted by the thoroughly prepared Kevin Allen, no issue or controversy involving faith and culture is off limits in this always - provocative twice - monthly program.

Even without another football game to further overcrowd the city, which considers itself a cultural oasis in a vast wilderness of oil workers» helmets and Levi's, the downtown area is declared off limits by every sane person, cultured or not.

We will push the limits of what we think baby carriers are for in our culture, by exploring research and effects of policy in regards to kangaroo care and baby carrying in hospital and / or public health arenas.

Accepting concepts that have been considered blasphemous by some in our culture — like making it okay to marry for money, having term limits, or opening our minds to open marriage — would make marriage more practical and realistic.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

It lets down voters and constituencies by limiting their choices and fosters negative and agressive political culture.

Established last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to examine Albany's pay - to - play political culture and campaign donations, the commission's investigations were halted by Cuomo this spring after he got agreement from lawmakers to enact a limited version of campaign finance reform.

In a statement, Barb Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters said, «the legislature has left Albany following its «Watergate moment» by avoiding the most critical reforms such as closure of the LLC loophole, increased disclosure of discretionary funding and removing the pay to play culture by lowering contribution limits.

Senior Liberal Democrats pressed the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to limit the damage to the Coalition by derailing News Corp's bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it does not already own.

«Further, to end a culture of corruption and impunity of perpetrators, we urge the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN to urgently take over the prosecution of the corruption case against Mr Saraki by ensuring that the CCT decision is urgently appealed and that the case is diligently prosecuted within the limits of the rule of law.

Other examples include Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's studies of human reasoning, which show that humans frequently reason with unseen and persistent biases, and the work of Keller, Longino, and other feminist critics showing that scientists are cognitively limited by the ideologies accepted in their wider cultures.

The most well - known of these are so - called «senescent» cells, originally characterized by Leonard Hayflick as mitotic cells that reached growth arrest after a limited replicative lifespan (later associated with telomere attrition) under unphysiological conditions in culture.

Cellular biology: Isolation and culture of various cell types; cryopreservation; Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction (MLR); cloning by limiting dilution; cytotoxicity assays using Chromium - 51 release; proliferation assay (CFSE and 3H - thymidine); ELISA; Elispot; magnetic beads separation.

Triple - labelled preparations in which mDA neurons were identified by TH staining revealed that BMPR2 was expressed on, but not limited to, mDA neurons in cultures of the E14 rat VM (Figure 1A, B).

Limiting grains to a moderate level as practiced by Traditional Cultures is a good goal to strive for when making snacks — overeating of grains even if homemade and carefully prepared to eliminate anti-nutrients can bring on weight issues in a hurry and encourage lack of variety in your family's diet.

Most of the studies that claim inconclusive results are based on using a limited number of cultures (often one particular culture), further limited by the use of a single strain, and testing for a one predefined result that may or may not fall within that particular strain's actual benefits.

The power of the SelfQuest ® Inner Bonding ® process is that it self - heals the limiting beliefs — programmed in by our culture — that limit productivity, honesty, loyalty, and trustworthiness.

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But there are limits to what he can do, limits imposed primarily by the culture the kids re-enter when they leave class.

The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning by Kralovec and Buell (2000), considered by many to be the first high - profile attack on homework, asserted that homework contributes to a corporate - style, competitive U.S. culture that overvalues work to the detriment of personal and familial well - being.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

«We have long decried the Government's limited focus on teacher recruitment, which ignores the early exodus made by many excellent and experienced teachers due to an inflexible and excessive - working - hours culture.

Other ways school culture reflects Meaningful Student Involvement include, but are not limited to, educators maintaining a substantial focus on student involvement even when students appear to be disinterested; gradual or radical shifts in student - adult relationships to reflect higher perceptions of students and the elements of Student / Adult Partnerships introduced earlier in this book; and visually observable aspects, including relaxed conversations among students and adults about education and school improvement; verbal and written reflection shared among students and adults; and rituals reflecting Meaningful Student Involvement, including committee participation, Non-Violent Communication between students and adults; and student orientation programs led by students and adults.

According to the articles «Integrated Schools: Finding a New Path» (Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg, and Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, p. 22) and «Overcoming Triple Segregation» (by Patricia Gándara, p. 60), segregation by ethnic background of public schools in the United States is on the upswing, a reality which limits minority students» prospects for a high - quality education and all students» prospects for learning to work and interact with students from varied cultures.

I grew up reading the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen, fascinated by the ways in which gender, culture, and class limited the characters» movement within society, and Park added several more layers of complexity to Jane Re's story by introducing race, cultural identity and intergenerational conflict to the mix.

It results in extremely limited review opportunities for self - pubbed authors, especially in traditional media outlets like newspapers and magazines, and a culture of benign neglect by traditionally - pubbed authors who — oops!

Headlined by lead speaker Dr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary - General of UNWTO, the dialogue was joined by dignitaries including Mr. Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism, the Kingdom of Cambodia; Ms. Sandra Howard Taylor, Vice Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Colombia; Mr. Du Jiang, Vice Chairman of China National Tourism Administration; Dr. Alexis Tam, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government; Mr. Alejandro Schiavi, Undersecretary of Coordination, Ministry of Tourism, Argentina; Mr. Rodolfo López Negrete Coppel, Chief Executive Officer of Mexico Tourism Board, as well as private leaders like Ms. Pansy Ho, Managing Director of Shun Tak Holdings Limited; Mr. Gerald Lawless, President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Jumeirah Group; Mr. Peter Meier, Chief Executive Officer of Kuoni Group; Mr. Qian Jiannong, Vice President of Fosun Group; Mr. Francisco Silva Silva, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Security and Mr. Zhang Ling, Chairman of HNA Tourism Group Co. Ltd..

Located in the city's energetic and exciting new business area, the 196 - room Radisson Hotel Wuxi Hi - Tech Zone is owned by Wuxi Wu Culture Expo Park Construction and Development Company Limited, and will be managed by Carlson Hotels.

Bringing the spirit of Melbourne's laneway culture into the hotel, each of these limited deluxe studio suites features a personalised stamp left by the internationally acclaimed artist after his or her stay.