Sentences with phrase «many cultural traditions»

For example, Apple Pay lagged behind Chinese competitors in providing promotions timed with the Chinese cultural tradition of exchanging red envelopes («hong bao») filled with money during the Lunar New Year.

Some of the demonstrations, which are also celebrated under the International Workers» Day banner, reflected cultural traditions, and many others were a rallying cry for equal rights, equal pay, and a renewed focus on social, environmental and civil - rights issues.

Moreover, many nations have longstanding cultural traditions that both discourage women from working outside the home and from taking leadership positions.

The quality which makes them the scapegoats of Western history is the quality which makes them strangers in Western history — their devotion to their own cultural tradition under conditions of almost impossible hardship and the psychological traits which that devotion has established.

«We know that if the Enbridge pipeline is allowed to go forward that it will just be a matter of time before there is a major spill that devastates our marine environment and the cultural traditions, jobs and communities that rely on a healthy ocean,» said Chandra Herbert.

Boasting romantic 18th - century architecture, and a rich artistic and cultural tradition, the colonial city of Cuenca is set high in Ecuador's Andes Mountains.

The phenomenon of globalization is frequently invoked: «Accelerating globalization makes it essential for young people to be exposed to different cultural traditions.»

Moreover, we share as Americans, despite our differences, overlapping cultural traditions that can be a rich resource for the articulation of a common good.

If all thinking, then, is conducted within the context of a cultural tradition, it would seem to be done more consistently and more fruitfully when it is explicit about its own contextual limitations and does not pretend to be what it is not and can not be.

These belief system seek to trascend whatever sociopolitical environment their adherents find themselves in by asserting universal ideals over cultural traditions.

The spiritual and cultural traditions of vast regions of the West are increasingly being called into question; indeed, we can go even further and say they are being liquidated, quickly and relatively painlessly.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

Also, Indian theists therefore have lacked the conceptual tools to express adequately their faith in terms of their intellectual and cultural tradition.

The self - consciousness of the developing nations has meant affirmation of their own cultural traditions and identity.

Old cultural traditions have been obliterated by communism; Christianity provides a compelling and compassionate alternative to the hollowness of the regime's materialism; and unlike Europe, which has largely rejected its Christian heritage in a decades - long spasm of anti-clericalism, «Christianity» in China rings up «modern» and «humane,» rather than «pre-modern» and «inhumane.»

Thus, the universal moral obligations that inhere in the scientific commitment to truth are supplemented by the particular loyalties that are proper within the limited relationships of actual cultural traditions.

An Unscientific Church The mind of the churchman, especially of the Catholic priest, is still trained in the static formalism of Aristotle and the cultural tradition of the great classics and the arts.

To regard Christian faith, or any faith, as merely a private matter runs contrary to Russian cultural traditions.

Instead of seeing that we are all brothers and sisters on this earth and that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, we create false divisions based on skin color, cultural traditions, religious preferences, and invisible geographical boundaries called «borders.»

Ah the perils of incorporating pagan virgin birth mythology into pre-existing Jewish cultural tradition.

That Shakespeare was raised in a country where Catholicism had been the dominant religious and cultural tradition for more than a thousand years argues that he could scarcely have avoided some degree of Catholic influence.

This statement stands out to me: «But Jesus taught lucidly that Jewish requirements for purity — varied cultural traditions — do not matter before God.

But Jesus taught lucidly that Jewish requirements for purity — varied cultural traditions — do not matter before God.

He found a way to reject part of his cultural tradition, affirm part of it and modify part of it.

Religion is a personal thing and choices should be respected as part of cultural tradition.

Funny and sad how some people think that cultural tradition, an old book and special feelings are proof of a supernatural super-being.

I just don't enjoy being surrounded by people who are into marital cultural traditions that reflect the thinking of the 50s rather than what the bible says.

We must move beyond the humanistic ideals that have shaped our cultural traditions and invent, or reinvent, a sustainable human culture by descending into our instinctive resources.

In an interview with Premier Christianity, Monsignor Halík, who is committed to engaging in dialogue with people of different beliefs and cultural traditions, said he received the award on behalf of his teachers, many of whom suffered under the Soviet regime.

Might it be time to find your place among followers of Jesus who concentrate on following Jesus, loving others, and helping those who need help rather than among those who spend their time worrying about «marital cultural traditions» and similar things?

So far, the only «evidence» provided is cultural tradition, hearsay, spin and special feelings.

The religio - cultural traditions of the peoples all around the world are sources of life, giving identity, values, styles of life, perceptions and senses.

The rhetoric of liberal religious leaders, unlike that of their conservative counterparts, has often questioned the value of America's distinctive cultural traditions.

What they can do is to interpret it in the light of the present forces impinging on their lives so that the new pattern of life may be continuous with their cultural tradition.

Quest for historical Jesus and for secularization of the gospel, for example, was very much influenced the modernity of the Western civilization; and, consequently, Asian religious - cultural traditions were regarded as pre-modern and neglected not only as «pagan», but also as antiquated.

At our school we recognize all religious traditions of our students as well as cultural traditions.

This has become a cultural tradition rather than religious.

I think one of the mistakes Christian fundamentalists make is to assume that other religions or cultural traditions have absolutely nothing to teach us.

The divine aim to raise up persons whose goals and values are identical with God's goals - for - them and whose actions are complementary to the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only in so far as social ends and cultural traditions are also in harmony with the divine.

A second basic approach to biblical studies is historicism in which Scripture is treated in the same way as any worthy literature of a given cultural tradition.

Those Ukrainians, however, who emphasized their unique language and cultural traditions welcomed independence as an opportunity to construct a new national identity.

The process of privatising the media offers a particular model of communication that, undoubtedly, will affect all religious expressions, In public service the supreme criterion is the presence of society and its institutions and respect for religious and cultural traditions.

These include cultural traditions, loyalties to family, nation, place or social group, the sense of the transcendent (the incalculable)-- all are brought out in the pitiless light of rationality.

To you, I was going to say, this is a cultural tradition... do some reading, and you might see the value in it.

Under these circumstances theologians and philosophers of the western cultural tradition leaned more and more on the doctrine of an immortal soul as an expression of the Christian hope.

The Gallup survey concludes that the differences are more likely reflective of regional cultural traditions, but we at LifeWay Research wanted to drill down some more — especially in New England.

Faith is not the sole prerogative of any one cultural tradition, though Christians have often shown a tendency to think faith was exclusively a Christian phenomenon.

Yet the traditions of science embody unconscious premises which over a period of time are in two - way interaction with the premises of cultural traditions and institutions.

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

Not just the ones who look like us, dress like us, worship like us, believe what we do, or share our cultural traditions.