Sentences with phrase «more than other cultures»

they are a close knit community that engages in nepotism more than any other culture.

Not exact matches

More than that, a non-provocative political discourse is vital to carry messages effectively to other cultures; Trump's childish use of capital letters and exclamation marks («SAD!»)

Your company's values, how you treat each other, your clients, and stakeholders, and a healthy work culture are more important than the business strategies you execute.

Conversely, a culture of «no - ego doers,» or a culture that focuses more on the craft than on the glory, tends to be one that invites candor, collaboration, and a sincere sense of pride for other team members.

To the four founders quoted below, company culture means more than exposed brick walls and other trappings of coolness.

For others, though, factors like academic culture, location or alumni networks may be just as, or even more important than pure finances.

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«What's going on is that many CEOs, COOs, GMs, and other executives haven't figured out that sales and marketing alignment is more about culture, philosophy and business orientation than it is about marketing providing sales with leads, marketing messages and sexy product brochures and sales selling enough so everyone, especially those in marketing, gets to keep their jobs.»

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.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Homosexuality is not a focus at Wheaton more than any other college, said Ryken, but culture places a priority on sex.

Others, more competent than I, could doubtless do the same for Eastern culture, whether it be Indian or Chinese or some other type.

-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common to their home culture than appropriate, but I know many others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)

I've seen this in my own life as my frustrations with the conservative evangelical culture in which I grew up cause me to dismiss its proponents with more anger and disdain than those of any other faith.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

The life of the mind, pursued in this way in partial isolation, though in the company of my wise, gentle, and practical wife, has proved so rewarding that the loss of theaters, concert halls, opera houses, and all the other temples to high culture that I left behind in the city is more than compensated by what I have gained.

A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

It may be that Kelley had «domestic issues», or «mental health» issues, or other factors (as is so often the case, real life stories are usually far more complex than the 24 hour / 24 second sound bite culture we live in) and that his expressions of hatred against Christianity were only secondary factors, if factors at all.

«More than any great Christian leader before him,» Niebuhr observed, «Luther affirmed the life in culture as the sphere in which Christ could and ought to be followed; and more than any other he discerned that the rules to be followed in the cultural life were independent of Christian or church law.&raMore than any great Christian leader before him,» Niebuhr observed, «Luther affirmed the life in culture as the sphere in which Christ could and ought to be followed; and more than any other he discerned that the rules to be followed in the cultural life were independent of Christian or church law.&ramore than any other he discerned that the rules to be followed in the cultural life were independent of Christian or church law.»

Until the day when the One Cell had broken into small divisions, where each thinks he is the righteous more than any other, so here it is it went multiplying to unend to becoming to suit each culture and race???

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

What we can honestly state is that the religious approach is more likely to be successful in our particular culture than is any other.

Ampontan has some nice juxtapositions, jumping off Victor Davis Hanson among others, highlighting the culture - and - mores - rooted FACT that Greece, Southern Italy, Detroit, and urban Britain are simply more difficult and troublesome places to live than Germany, Northern Italy, Switzerland, and of....

Cultures all over the World recorded bears, lions, eagles, deer, buffalo, elephants and other mammals much smaller than dinosaurs, but totally ignored the dinosaurs, which were many times larger and more fearsome!!

The culture that emerges will have more commonality than the present multicultural society can have, but this commonality will have elements contributed by all the particular cultures and other elements that grow out of the multicultural situation itself.

Furthermore, since our culture is roughly divided 50/50 between men and women, and man who has more than one wife is not acting in love toward all the other men who also desire to have a wife.

No culture stands completely still, even though some change more slowly than others.

If one culture or group of people looks at the laws of another culture or people, whether it is the 10 laws, the 600, the 6000, or the 60,000, and says, «It sort of worked for them; we'll do the same thing,» they will end up treating each other more miserably than any other culture.

I hope this approach will help churches build up a more positive culture rather than being so intent on tearing each other down.

When consistently loving, humble people who clearly live for more than our culture offers are repeatedly, publicly bullied and harassed, when charities and schools are fined and marginalized, and when the good and the forgiving turn the other cheek and get slapped hard across that one too, this conversation will start to look different.

«Amazingly, children - at - risk from different parts of the world [who have] similar problems have more in common with each other than with other types of children within the same culture.

This, too, is difficult in a culture in which it is more common to blame others than to accept responsibility for failure.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

Some have advanced the theory that the strong family and in - group ties of the Jewish culture provide a more secure childhood than in other groups, thus producing less need for artificial escape.

Similarly, when one examines the treatment of slaves encouraged by the biblical writers, it is decidedly more generous than that of other cultures... although the categorization of slaves as property, the use of slaves for reproductive purposes, and leniency regarding beatings, remains troubling, or «needing further movement,» according to Webb.

The similarity in style and content between the stories I knew from the Bible and the myths of other Mesopotamian cultures suddenly made those strange tales of talking snakes and forbidden fruit and boats packed with animals seem colloquial, routine — nothing more than myths operating from the religious and literary conventions of the day.

The second reason for the inclusion of all in our predicament is the fact that Christian culture has penetrated other cultures much more than they have penetrated ours.

This driving force has changed our culture and its communication modes more during the last century and a half than in any other period in cultural history.

More Than Faithful Presence Charles Colson Hunter and I Agree on Culture Making (He Just Doesn't Seem To Know It) Andy Crouch Faithful Presence Is Not Quietism James Davison Hunter Two other resources are worth considering: Ken Myers interview with James Davison Hunter Mars Hill Audio (Volume 101)» How Not to Change the World» Andy Crouch Books & Culture (May / June 2010)

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Some cultures are more predisposed to this than others and I think Peruvian culture is among them.

Seasoned and well - informed interpreters of the world's cultures should be employed to make of foreign travel something more significant than a pleasure tour, and persons who travel abroad should be encouraged to regard themselves as responsible representatives of their country to other nations and to behave accordingly.

Nonetheless, like so many other cultures, far too many — here in America — have, certainly, got it backwards; equating the uniform with the act, whereas, it's no more than a combination of cloths weaved together to conceal, in many cases, not just our private parts, but who we truly are indeed.

Americans are more religious than most other industrialized countries, and it's holding us back, both as a nation and a culture.

«The new media have the power to penetrate more deeply into a receiving culture than any other previous manifestation of Western technology», writes Anthony Smith.

View 1 is that of «colonial missions» in which missionaries see the gospel as «acultural and ahistorical»; or according to which missionaries recognize the need for some adjustment to culture but tend to look down on other cultures as primitive and inferior; to emphasize form more than meaning; and to introduce Western ways of living and worship.

Second, when one turns to anthropological study of primitive cultures, one discovers a somewhat startling revelation; namely that the economic factor of life more than any other factor has dictated the ethical behavior norms, particularly those norms which relate to the various generations.

This theory is no more plausible or implausible than blind faith except there actually is a large body of evidence to support this theory across all human cultures and «mythologies» (See Zecharia Sitchin, Rael, G. Cope Schellhorn, many others).

It was the perfect «angle» to attract viewers» attention: a Catholic theologian who spoke sympathetically of the man who, perhaps more than any other individual, had opened the door of mainstream culture to pornography.