Sentences with phrase «more cultural pursuits»

If all this social life sounds a bit exhausting, and you're looking for more cultural pursuits, Edinburgh has plenty to offer there too.

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Engle explores the debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.

No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year - old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics with computer science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking better opportunities.

First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.

Every once in a while a reasonable, down - to - earth person will crystallize in the form of James Franco, which makes all of his absurd, vapid artistic pursuits and «cultural critiques» about Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman that much more frustrating.

But there's more to Vernon than active pursuits — cultural enthusiasts are treated to an eclectic assortment of local wineries, shops and galleries.

I hope to God, however, what ever or who ever helps bring lighting, food, medicine, etc. to these poorer and developing country's... that somehow we also help them retain their cultural heritage, celebrate it and NOT BECOME AMERICANS in pursuit of WalMarts, Starbuck's, «favorite things» and more damn stuff.

But the pursuit of science has become so intense and demanding that today's scientists are more likely to neglect our cultural inheritance.

Achieving self - determination is difficult because of the dichotomy of a government that focuses on the pursuit of individual wealth creation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who may pursue self - determination as individuals or groups within a cultural context that focuses more broadly on social, cultural and environmental as well as economic benefits.