Sentences with phrase «lives shaped by»

Born and raised in Nigeria and now living in Los Angeles, Akunyili Crosby constructs intricately layered scenes reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary lives shaped by postcolonial African cosmopolitanism and global, hybrid identities.

Fusing Nigerian and American source materials, histories and cultural references her intricately layered scenes reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary lives shaped by postcolonial African cosmopolitanism and global, hybrid identities.

The Night Stages explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's wild and elemental landscape on lives shaped by its beauty.

An elegiac novel of unusual emotional depth, The Night Stages explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's wild and elemental landscape on lives shaped by its beauty.

This surprising, almost miraculous reunification may spark a renewed attention to art and to ways of living shaped by these words.

Marshall's work reflects a life shaped by growing up during the civil rights movement.

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We try to foster greater innovativeness at our businesses with new programs or processes, we scheme to get in shape by making healthy lifestyle changes, we strive for the good life by trying to accomplish more and be happier.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

Birth - order theory asserts our personality and our success in careers, relationships and future life all is shaped and determined by the order in which we were born within our family unit.

Millennials are the first generation of Canadians whose world will be shaped by the «rise of Asia» for the entirety of their adult lives.

Birth order is not decisive when it comes to an individual's life achievements, but personality is shaped by experiences, and individuals have different experiences due to birth order, said Ben Dattner, a NY - based organizational psychologist.

In so many ways, GFI's work culture is shaped by the richness of our out - of - work lives.

This decision should be shaped by your unique objectives, cash flow needs, time horizon, and life experiences.

This article claims that a word game can gauge motivation levels, which is absolutely false on many levels, motivation is shaped by a strong purpose in life and not those that claim they are a product of chance.

A believers motivation is high and shaped by a strong sense of purpose in life, their motivation is rooted in the scriptures as evidenced by those high performers.

Our view of relationships is shaped by the relationships we engage in starting from the earliest years of our life.

He was grieved by it all, and at the end of his life was finally putting his running away from his problems to an end and trying to connect the dots between what happened to him at a young age and how his life had been shaped.

In this new dispensation, the shaping of the inner life would not be limited by ethnic identification.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

Bachelor subculture, he holds, shaped and was shaped by city life and contributed to the diversity of America by encouraging new forms of social order different from, and in some ways richer than, family life.

Travelers along the Way: The Men and Women Who Shaped My Life by Benedict J. Groeschel Servant Books, 159 pages, $ 13.99

By conceiving of collegiality in terms of «support groups,» the authors fail to appreciate the potential for strong forms of collegiality that have the character of friendship, in which fellow pastors share each other's lives and help shape each other's character.

So let's say this movie is about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is about her coming to terms with the truth about personal love and death and all that.

This very act is a blessing for us as we are drawn into the life of the Blessed Trinity and our own lives are conformed little by little to God's purposes, shaped by his grace and guided by his providence.

They align their lives by their hope, and in that way, their lives are shaped by hope.

«If we are ever to reach you, matter, we must, having first established contact with the totality of all that lives and moves here below, come little by little to feel that the individual shapes of all we have laid hold on are melting away in our hands, until finally we are at grips with the single essence of all subsistencies and all unions.

Some non-mechanical causative principle of order is required to explain, for example, why the molecules of living beings come together into specific shapes, why organisms develop specific characteristics or have the capacity to regulate their metabolism or readjust and reintegrate themselves holistically when injured or when challenged by their environment.

Revolutionary structures, he adds, can not serve this design except by providing occasion for each social group to participate more fully in shaping the community's economic and national life.

But the self's vision of the promise of life is surrounded by an awareness of the many ways in which the future is being shaped by forces and circumstances that can neither be predicted nor controlled.

That way of living — shaped by memory, bounded by tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it is about relational commitments.

Less of you is more: more laughter, more tears, more people paying attention, more life amidst death, all by allowing the plurality of others» voices to shape the life of the deceased during the service.

In Shaping of a Life, Phyllis Tickle reflects on how she has been formed and informed by the office.

- C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Harvest Books, 1955), pp. 170, 72, 168.

Like that of the Reverend John Ames in Gilead, my friend's life has been shaped by a long faithfulness that prepared her to be open to the work of grace in one of the hardest places imaginable.

Every act is conditioned by early life experiences which shaped the personality, by environmental factors in the present, and by historical contingencies.

One dies to a selfish, loveless, self, and comes alive, open to the new life that is shaped by fellowship with him and the members of his body.

He argued, in his inimitable style, for a «dead Constitution» — whose meaning is fixed until changed by formal amendment — over a «living Constitution» that a judge can manipulate into whatever shape he wishes.

The following comes from chapter 9 of his autobiography: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.

The man in the street had few possibilities, but by this very fact he was as it were held together from outside, he was confronted with a certain structure and shape of his life from the beginning, so that he did not need to think very much about it.

He thinks of his life and world as involving a real freedom, possibilities as yet unrealized, an open - ended future which he shapes partly by his own decisions.

Some evolutionary creationists have argued that this non-randomness of evolution is a way that God uses evolution to shape His creation (the best work on this topic is Life's Solution by noted Cambrian paleontologist Simon Conway Morris).

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

If theology is tested by its ability to shape new kinds of personal and corporate existence in the times in which it lives, then it would seem that radical theology may be able to pass such a test.

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

Brilliant minds of the order of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, John Von Newman, W. Ross Ashby, and Stafford Beer, among many others, provided the conceptual structures for the multidisciplinary methodology of the systems approach.2 Incredible advances in computers, in league with sophisticated instruments of systems analysis, play an ever increasing role in shaping the life style and the world view of contemporary society along the lines suggested by systems theory.

But finally the transformative injunction Augustine heard in the garden in Milan, Tolle lege, «Take and read» (unnecessarily lengthened and diluted in Boulding's «Pick it up and read»), has oriented and shaped by life.

Something of the Calvinism shaped by the hardships of the frontier still marks Baptist spirituality in the South, especially among African Americans and poor whites who have been taught by experience to know that nothing is assured in this life, and everything good in it is a surprise, a gift.

A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped by the time and place in which we live, by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of culture or time.

If we are shaped by a theistic heritage, our aim is to live out this way of experiencing in faithfulness to God and with respect for others.

If Christians lived by the Sermon On The Mount, if the Buddhists followed the Noble Eightfold Path, if the Muslims truly followed the teachings of the Prophet, and the Hindus shaped their life in accordance with the teachings of the Lord, of saints and sages, there will be peace everywhere.