Sentences with phrase «many for cultural reasons»

If we can't drop sins from the list for cultural reasons, wouldn't it be equally wrong to add them to the list for the same reasons?

«Instead, it will be for cultural reasons that have long benefited one group, while burdening another.»

(I'm thinking of a recent NPR report on Mississippi where obesity is rampant but it's not viewed as a real problem by many for cultural reasons.)

Largely for cultural reasons, few young women of Asian, Indian, Jewish and Middle Eastern descent choose to participate in the increasingly popular form of assisted reproduction.

It is also a fact that women, Hispanics, and African - Americans are the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity: Often for cultural reasons, they are underrepresented in many STEM areas, yet they make up the bulk of the future workforce.

Her husband is from a country where young boys are circumcised for cultural reasons (although they probably say it is religious).

Sometimes that doctor's patient base, for cultural reasons, doesn't think they have received medical care unless they get a prescription.

It is frown upon for cultural reasons.

«The Leave campaign was a coalition, some against Europe for economic reasons; some for cultural reasons.

Advocacy groups often have a bias against direct marketing - style asks, usually for cultural reasons — «selling» feels distasteful, and they prefer to make their case with logic and facts.

Of course, both the BBC and Oxford University are part of the British establishment, and for cultural reasons will tend to reflect the establishment consensus; but that is a different matter from being agencies under the control of the government of the day.

On Tuesday, July 31, Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed S7722, a controversial bill which would have allowed parents to seek tuition reimbursement for special education students attending private schools for cultural reasons.

The allure of the VW badge may be strong for cultural reasons, but the VW Transporter has a lot more to offer than cool wheels for surfer dudes.

Attacking the source is very difficult for cultural reasons.

for cultural reasons?

It's a fantastic example of the power and importance of architectural preservation, not just for cultural reasons but for environmental ones: remember that the greenest brick is the one that's already in the wall.

There's always the chance you're just not a fit for that role or within that company for cultural reasons.

Long standing mineral sand mining was stopped on Fraser Island, the vast area of the Great Barrier Reef is protected from any mining or exploration activity and mining of the promising deposits of Coronation Hill was not permitted for cultural reasons.

~ Note: Aboriginal people don't support open adoption for Aboriginal children and young people for cultural reasons.

A senior Aboriginal activist (name not provided for cultural reasons) spoke of the personal impact achieved by the 1967 referendum:

Not exact matches

These are not «apologies,» they are fillers, and the cultural reasoning goes deeper than we have time for here.

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

While budget is often the primary reason for choosing to share, cultural factors contribute as well.

For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Glass was ousted from Twitter before it turned into a cultural phenomenon and didn't even get much company stock, according to a new book about Twitter's history.

Still, there are reasons to be cautious — cultural challenges, for one.

There are a few reasons for the increase in issues we've seen: cultural norms are shifting, cultures are different around the world, and people are sensitive to different things.

Air Force officials have cited «cultural issues» — such as training requirements and trouble maintaining a work - life balance — as reasons for the service's recruitment and retention problems.

There could be any number of reasons why one region's sales are lagging, such as a cultural or political situation that is making trade difficult, for example.

During development of the project, «there were multiple reroutes of the pipeline corridor for various reasons - cultural, environmental, landowner concerns - 140, 150 reroutes,» he said.

It also examined policies that would enable Canadians to exercise greater control over their own economic development and to retain and increase Canadian ownership of business where feasible or desirable for economic, social, cultural or other reasons.

The regions least likely to feel respected on the national stage are Quebec, Atlantic Canada and Alberta, though it's quite possible they feel this way for different reasons: Quebec as a result of its cultural differences with English Canada, Atlantic Canada because of its relative size and remoteness, Alberta, over frustrations surrounding economics and energy policy.

Candidates are more likely to be rejected for reasons related to character and cultural fi than for lack of expertise.

Residents in the area point to great job opportunities, low cost of living, and exciting cultural offerings as reasons for their migration into the area.

This role and framework is important also for another crucial reason: if buyer personas are developed and created through the prisms of marketing and sales research orientation, they will tend to be self - referential views of target buyers (an inside - out view) as opposed to a means for discovering not so obvious and hidden meanings that make up social and cultural contexts.

The use of religious and cultural beliefs to encroach upon sovereign territory for political and militarily strategic placement is the reason, whether it's sanctioned by international policy or not.

The targeted cutting of the beard is aimed at humiliation for a group of men that have religious and cultural reasons for not cutting their beards.

Mao Tse Tung didn't carry out the Cultural Revolution for religious reasons.

Fundamentalism prospers even amidst prosperity for some reason — seems to be cultural in that way.

In addition, Pennybacker expatiated, some regimes have legitimate cultural reasons for opposing Christian proselytism, and some Christians are guilty of resisting the revolutionary measures of so very progressive governments.

People are different for both biological and cultural reasons.

Horned animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned animals seems to come from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes of human women, and the animals are usually associated with fertility and female symbols.

He concludes that the reasons for priestsbeing required to give up all conjugal relations with their wives on being ordained was not the «cultural purity of the minister of the altar, but rather the efficacy of mediatory prayer by the sacred minister».

There are other reasons besides favoritism present in the story for those who care to study it closely enough and who are willing to educate themselves on the meaning of the story in its own cultural and literary context.

This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

For precisely this reason every human being has the right, in principle, to share in the economic and cultural possessions of mankind.

For the same reason the religious beliefs and allegiance of a man are nearly always those of his own family, or of his immediate cultural setting.

With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 24/7.

Hitler was born with little money, and the majority of jewish families that lived near and around germany HAD been wealthy, and so one could argue that Hitler was just looking for funding and a back reason to make his sheep like followers do his deeds so he played on his peoples misunderstandings and cultural separations.

It's for this reason that ideas such as a guaranteed basic income will not solve the social and cultural problems caused by globalization and technological innovation.

Rorty's answer is somewhat glib: «The reason I like Hirsch's book better than Bloom's is that it mostly stays away from philosophy and instead asks what concrete institutional factors are responsible for the prevailing cultural illiteracy.