Sentences with phrase «little cultures of»

The survey shows that, even in a country like France where there is little culture of industry employing researchers, such a career transition is not only possible, but often a rewarding professional choice.

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But the transition «wasn't smooth,» and he felt increasingly limited working on megaprojects where there was little contact with the client, which had once been a hallmark of Vanbots» corporate culture.

High - profile discrimination and harassment cases like those of Ellen Pao, a former junior partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Whitney Wolfe, a co-founder of Tinder, have made headlines but little change in the culture.

Lots of companies talk the talk on diversity — but it's the little touches that demonstrate how your culture really works

Come on, there have to be some basic behavioral ground rules and a little more substance to the culture of the tech and entrepreneurial community than the celebration of cash, cars, and creepy, chauvinistic CEOs chugging Cristal.

Whether we're posting, commenting, liking, repinning, or +1 ing, our new visual culture is one in which we're constantly offering each other little gifts, little moments of pleasure that remind us we're truly and deeply bonded to one another.»

The sliver of pop culture we've slid under the media microscope bears little relation to what's sampled by the rest of the country.

First of all, I disagree with your premise a little bit that culture comes from the top down.

«We see ourselves at Facebook as a community and culture of builders, so we like to see how people are thinking about things a little bit differently.»

At an early - stage, where there are a lot of moving parts and little processes in place, it can be difficult to create a healthy and engaging culture.

«Development» and «evolution» — words of such importance to us — would have meant little in the timeless culture of Sumer, where everything that was — their city, their fields, their herds, their plows — had always been.»

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

Buffett recently told Fortune that outside shareholders have little hope of changing the culture of excessive pay in corporate America.

The firm's hard - driving, solution - oriented sales culture has produced a new set of clients in a space that may seem to have little in common with energy giants and others in infrastructure.

«One of the reasons that this [culture] has proved so unbelievably difficult to change is that the winners of the system are the breadwinners who saw very little of their children.

#MeToo and fashion photographers: «The dirty little secret of the great fashion - industry purge of» 17 -» 18 — beyond an entrenched, unchecked culture of sexual misconduct — is that the racket was rapidly running out of steam already,» writes Ad Age's Media Guy, Simon Dumenco.

Fees are deducted from plan assets before investment returns — little value in our internet - driven culture of transparency.

We get trained by our elders to be the next teachers of our culture and that continues with our little ones too, we teach them to take on the role when we are not around, when we leave this world.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The problems at Wells Fargo and its overly aggressive sales culture date back at least 15 years, and management had little interest in dealing with the issue until it spiraled out of control resulting in millions of accounts being opened fraudulently, according to an investigation by the company's board of directors.

«I loved the life I had,» says retired expat Brian Gruber, «but it was time for fresh exploration and experience, and I have little interest in returning to my past cycle of high stress, high expenses, in an intensely money - focused culture.»

It's of little surprise that the name has proven so hot in the crypto world — «Lord of the Rings» is, after all, the geek culture equivalent to Shakespeare, and there's no lack of geeks in the cryptocurrency community.

For B2B organizations, this is a tough transition for buried deep into the DNA of their own corporate cultures is the emphasis on pushing outwardly product and sales messaging thus they have little guidance on how to turn B2B buying into a social experience.

They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known about the impact of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so new.

To their credit, the authors do provide thick descriptions of perennial problems in American political culture, but even then they do little to help us get beyond the false alternatives of individualism and communitarianism.

For the rest of us, it's a reminder that Christians are in a unique place in modern society, with a message of redemption through Christ in an era when mainstream culture has little to say about hope for the future.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

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.

As a result, the story that they are teaching ¯ a story where Jesus is the protagonist, God is little more than one of Shakespeare's fools, and culture is the director ¯ is superficially pleasing but deeply disappointing.

We are adult third culture «kids» who have spent all of our developmental years abroad... and then returned to our HOME country, where we must endure the commonplace ignorance and poorly educated adults who lack any interest in foreign policy and base all their opinions on what only goes on in their own backyard... Please give your head a good shake and crack open a book every little now and then!

But in a culture like ours, where parents have very little time to spend with their children, and where an obsessive pursuit of youth has caused an 800 percent increase in cosmetic surgical procedures in ten years, a focus on becoming childlike at Christmas seems guaranteed to skew the message of the incarnation.

Dan and I were both raised in loving, grace - filled homes, but in a fundamentalist religious culture that required total acquiescence to a strict set of theological beliefs and left little room for mystery.

As I look back, I recognize that there was a strong culture of silencing dissent, and the group as a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular people.

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.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

It is true that Jesus said little about «the world» except to warn against letting its claims usurp the place of first loyalty to God, and had almost nothing to say about particular features of contemporary Jewish or Roman culture.

While our culture may know little of things epiphanal, it certainly has its collective ears perked up and its eyes open for signs of the times.

For starters, China is about to experience a massive crisis in caring for its elderly — a task traditionally undertaken in Chinese culture by one's children, but impossible when there aren't enough children to do the job, Moreover, the pampered survivors of the one - child policy, often referred to as the «little emperor generation,» aren't going to easily forget that it's all about me as they face the challenge of inter-generational responsibility.

Cultures are of many types, and some have much and others little concern for the individual person.

While the emphasis on the external observances and rites of Islam is palpably decreasing, Western culture seems to have had little effect on the cult of saints.

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.

From N.T. Wright (in an interview with Justin Brierley): «Why is it in certain bits of our culture that people take that little verse from1 Timothy 2 so seriously and they ignore large chunks of what is going on in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?

Best Insights: Lisa Bloom with «How To Talk to Little Girls» ``... One tiny bit of opposition to a culture that sends all the wrong messages to our girls.

Galston: «There are compelling reasons to rethink the entitlement state, but they have little to do with a culture of dependence.»

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Here some elements of the Benedict Option become essential: educating our children, rebuilding our parishes, and patiently building little bulwarks of truly humanist culture within our decaying civilization.

Continuing with the theme of me being about two years behind popular culture, hey, have you heard of this little band called The Lumineers?

All the information made me feel like I had a little more control of my place in a culture that's becoming more confusing and disheartening every day.

Because the Church is universal she must often decide between many cultures, traditions, attitudes and tendencies, and in doing so may not please anyone completely, taking in too little that is new for one and retaining not enough of the old things for another.

Of course, «too much» and «too little» are relative concepts since socioeconomic norms vary widely from culture to culture and between the diverse social groupings within each culture.

There is little civilization or advanced culture in this region because of the poverty, ignorance, and fanaticism which flourish under an imperialist power.