Sentences with phrase «lost cultures in»

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A former employee gave the company three stars and wrote on April 28: «Employees are in constant fear of losing their jobs for saying or doing something that proves to management that they aren't a «culture fit.»»

Dig Deeper: Nolan Bushnell on Games and Parties in Company Culture How to Create a Company Philosophy: Fixing a Broken Company Culture As a company grows, it's possible for the leadership or the employees to lose sight of the founding values.

Change is critical — even if it means losing top performers — because the world has changed and what happens in the culture of a company affects business metrics, said Huffington, who founded media website HuffPost.

But a shift in corporate culture in the 1990s that led to a single - minded focus on profitability and shareholder return actually proved counterproductive for Boeing, as it quickly lost ground to Airbus.

«I've seen so much solidarity in our communities — something I think we had lost as a culture with the craziness of everyday life,» Aquino said.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

She also provides a reality - check of sorts; it can be easy to get lost in the world and culture of your institution and not realize that what you are experiencing is abnormal, unhealthy, or unfair, and having someone to help me sort all that out has been really helpful.

In that way, car culture is losing its local structure — the clubs, museums and meets that brought people together.

NP, I am still so baffled by the culture in my church that I read your blog like a women who has lost her water bottle in the desert.

Concerned as he was to assert his distinctiveness within Viennese intellectual circles by every possible means, he yet retained a lifelong lingering desire to lose himself in German culture, and above all, in the German language.

Four of the six chapters in Losing Our Virtue constitute the heart of the book and are devoted to themes liberally treated in Wells» first two volumes» materialistic consumption, image and style over substance, the therapeutic culture, the lack of civic virtue, and, not least, society's aversion to truth, truth - telling, guilt, and moral accountability.

Okay, if we're going to mince words, yes an atheist «can» run for president, but they'll lose the election, and all the money they spent on it, because the culture in Washington requires the candidate to be Christian.

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.

The problem with the evangelical purity culture, as I see it, isn't that it teaches saving sex for marriage, but that it equates virginity with sexual wholeness and therefore as something that can be lost or given or taken away in a single moment.

The generation that has lost one out of five of its members to abortion in this country seems to be more poignantly aware than any other of the tragic cost of the culture of death as well as the ever - present urgency of the need to confront its lies courageously.

In this celebrity culture, it's easy for a servant to lose her way.

Although country legend Johnny Cash's most famous album was recorded for a captive crowd at Folsom Prison in 1968, simultaneously signaling his pop culture comeback after years lost in addiction and the rise of the live album as a serious piece of art, Live from San Quentin is a stronger album.

The main point of this critique is that Fundamentalism goes too far in creating a segregated community and has lost its ability to communicate effectively to the culture.

The remaining ecumenical contribution is what we ought to call «Lutheran culture,» one filled with blessed pieties, a love of Jesus Christ and Sacred Scripture, a sense of being a company of saints that is often lost in Roman Catholic parishes, and other collateral graces stemming from the passions of the Reformation.

During the past few decades, our culture has become increasingly invested in avoiding the reality of losing.

«In the new 24/7 mediaverse, in a brutal, unending culture war, with the web unleashed and news and opinion flashing every few seconds, you can very easily lose yourself, and forget how and why you got here in the first placIn the new 24/7 mediaverse, in a brutal, unending culture war, with the web unleashed and news and opinion flashing every few seconds, you can very easily lose yourself, and forget how and why you got here in the first placin a brutal, unending culture war, with the web unleashed and news and opinion flashing every few seconds, you can very easily lose yourself, and forget how and why you got here in the first placin the first place.

«My fear is that we will lose our voice in the culture.

Yes, Phoebe is embedded deeply enough in the culture around her to want to lose weight, but she is a sparkling and animated young woman who mostly enjoys her life and refuses to be so controlled by her diet, or the social norms around her, that she won't defiantly consume a bag of buttery popcorn now and then.

American fundamentalists indeed retreated into the wilderness by the end of the «20s, keenly aware of their lost influence and their status as outsiders in a culture their forebears had done so much to shape.

This emphasis may provide a refreshing contrast to sociological approaches concerned with broad generalizations about culture and society — approaches in which the individual actor seems to have been lost.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

Yet the novel does suggest, in curious and even captivating terms, that today the religious frame of reference has lost its controlling power across much of Western culture, but it hasn't quite disappeared.

Those cultures in prolonged, intimate contact with it gradually lose the effectiveness of their sacred violence to act as an immunity to profane violence.

All you fools who are engaged in discussing whether Islam is a violent religion, a Theocracy, or suitable to merge into American culture... are lost in your academic, intellectual hypotheticals... while totally missing the reality that you are assisting an insidious enemy in creating your own demise.

Since the revelation of the Cross, those cultures and religions in closest proximity to it gradually lose the effectiveness of divine justifications.

And through all this came the emergence of the idea of a new Kerygma, a new way of proclaiming the Gospel to people who, living in a culture formed by centuries of Christianity, had nevertheless lost all effective contact with the Church.

Christianity as a whole has lost status in the culture.

What a culture gains in therapy it may lose in its grasp of soul.

They seem to be looking for something that we've lost in our culture — the notion of a city as a place where the population is mixed and interesting, and where life is lived on a human scale.

This I something we have discussed at length here on the blog in the past, (see «How to Win a Culture War and Lose a Generation») so I won't spend much more time on it here.

After acknowledging that reality, here are three basic steps we can take to live in a culture in which Christianity continues to lose its «home field advantage»:

Because in the face of supermarket tabloids that barely allow a woman's perineum to be stitched up before they are gleefully asking «how she's going to lose the weight» and a celebrity culture that plans a tummy tuck before even nursing the new babe for the first time, we have forgotten how having a baby actually looks on a body.

Wednesday's post, «How to win a culture war and lose a generation,» shattered every record in my blogging history.

Not only did we lose one of the great warriors in the battle between the culture of life and the culture of death, but we also lost a true healer: a man who worked so hard to bridge the scandalous five - hundred - year - old chasm in the Church.

Yet, in the culture as a whole, and as a percentage of the population, Evangelicalism is losing ground.

We're losing cultures — that whole web of intelligence that tells us how to survive and live well in a particular environment.

As I wrote in November, Christians are increasingly considering the reality that we might be on the losing side of the culture war.

When religion loses itself in culture, it becomes lost to culture — and loses in strength, m identity, in spirituality.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

The culture in the United States has many values that are lost in the Middle East, but in the Middle East there are values that they need to keep that are lost in the West or in the United States.

The assumption is that hard cultures win out in history and that they start losing when they soften.

But he is not mistaken to see that, if belief in the Caller becomes less pervasive in our culture, the work ethic will lose «its deepest purposive dimensions» and devolve into little more than the search for a satisfying and fulfilling career.

Is there reason to believe that the human voice, with its personalizing and socializing effects, has never really lost its place in our culture, and now in a mechanized and impersonal world, is more than ever needed and longed for?

Having lost faith in the capacity of religion to reveal truth, the culture and its artists sought to find meaning in the only place that was left — the world as it appears.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.