Sentences with phrase «of cultural support»

The hard part will be navigating the distracting advice and creating the workarounds she needs for the lack of cultural support.

Yet notwithstanding the above difficulties, and also that the role of cultural support as well as resistance needs consideration (hence: what characterizes the public response to scientific theories or discoveries that are «convenient», or encouraging to one's lifestyle, livelihood, or deeply - held beliefs?)

«Practically speaking,» he explains, «our ancestors were not our intellectual or creative equals because they lacked the same kind of cultural support.

The hard part will be navigating the distracting advice and creating the workarounds she needs for the lack of cultural support.

Now that modernity is waning (a slower process than advertised by some), this position will become more exposed as heresy by its lack of support from the biblical and orthodox truth (the Bible does not teach what MacArthur is peddling and the church has historically not taught this) and by its lack of cultural support, which was able to mask the lack of legitimate support for a while.

Not exact matches

«We are elated to be celebrating RBC Foundation's transformational gift in support of the Museum and our shared commitment to cultural diversity and its role in shaping the character of our nation,» said Marie Chapman, CEO of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.

To financially empower and support entrepreneurs of the BVI so that they can contribute to the region's social, cultural, environmental and economic development.

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

This includes the splitting of pension income for seniors, (to make amends for breaking its promise on the taxation of family trusts); special tax preferences to support participation of youth in sports activities, arts and cultural activities; tax breaks for people who take public transit; and, tax breaks to help volunteer firemen.

Part of the web cultural phenomenon called «hacktivism» (internet activism)- petitioning is a means of getting signatures in protest of or support for an issue or cause.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Amazon's request for proposals doesn't mention the LGBTQ community, but does include a section saying it requires «a compatible cultural and community environment» that includes «the presence and support of a diverse population.»

We not only need to find topics that can cross geographical and cultural boundaries, but we also need a process that can support the implementation of an editorial calendar.

It's still new territory for organizations of all stripes in lots of ways, and making flexible options work may take a different approach that's supported at the top levels and is open to cultural change within the organizational structure.

Poland may be predominantly catholic, but there was a time, before the Nazi occupation, when it was the best place in Europe for the cultural support and mixing of Jews and Christians.

The economy can not work without a polity of law respectful of natural rights, as well as the cultural habits or virtues necessary to support all three systems - in - one.

It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».

By restricting the activities of foreign organizations and what are seen as non-Russian forms of religious belief, the Russian government has consolidated its religious support and made an intentional (and enforceable) display of Russian cultural unity in the face of the external pressures of consumerism, individualism, and secularism.

Some of my friends are sympathetic to the pro-life movement's ideal of a world where mother and child are both offered love and support, a world less subject to the cultural and economic forces that can make motherhood unthinkable for women in unplanned pregnancies.

How is it possible that while the sitting president of the United States squarely opposed same - sex marriage just a few years ago, the liberal intellectuals who supported him passionately also condemn any opposition to same - sex marriage as bigotry, rooted in cultural backwardness?

The combination of this pessimistic anthropology, the very real fear of hell for themselves and others and cultural values supporting harsh discipline made for a dangerous combination for children.

Like their fathers before them, Robert and Tommy's cultural background almost dictated which of the city's two giant clubs they would support.

And while more than 90 percent of black voters supported Jackson in recent primaries, Hertzke notes that «many of these same black voters register remarkable sympathy for Robertson...» Robertson's appeal among blacks is correctly attributed to religious and cultural attitudes.

And to win the support of educators who do not share the neoconservative commitment to educational reform rooted largely, if not exclusively, in Western traditions, he argues that in pluralistic America, if schools do their job there can indeed be one cultural vocabulary.

The author provides no new documentation in support of his relentlessly grim essay, but the fair - minded reader will appreciate the frequent insights about the social and cultural currents that have contributed to Catholicism's now long - standing discontents.

Perhaps an academia made up of more parents with more children would be more likely to support the family as a cultural institution.

And although the «pro-wealth policies of the right have enjoyed sustained low - and low - middle - income support, particularly among religious voters enlisted by cultural facets of conservatism,» these households have lost ground precipitously.

It is this combination of structural and cultural supports for child - rearing that the authors wish to recover, without losing the gains won in the past 30 years for women and people of color.

UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the National Council of Churches, and Lutheran and Methodist groups are among the organizations supporting Peters's map.

New Thought's cultural and historic roots in the 19th century New England ethos of personal independence and spiritual entitlement support an individualistic response to communal problems.

Unfortunately, people who «think of themselves as married» not only refuse the obligations of real marriage but demand all of its cultural privileges; because rationalization is so much work, they require other people to support them in it.

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

Another factor in the victory for «the right to die» was a striking inability of the opposition, both religious and secular, to secure high - profile support within the cultural and political mainstream, despite strenuous efforts to do so.

Two days after President Obama came out in support of a plan to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero, the controversial project has received yet another high - profile endorsement — this one from the chief of the terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

And, out of that history, black churches have evolved a different kind of community of mutual support, along side such cultural developments as gospel music.

They do, however, follow the direction of the cultural groups to which they have some residual attachment: for example, traditionalist evangelicals who voted for Perot supported Republicans in congressional contests, while secular Perot voters supported Democrats for the House and Senate.

The global market process is strongly supported by the cultural process of communication and information through hi - tech multimedia.

Mocked and derided across the cultural spectrum, the message of «health and wealth» enjoys wider support than one might imagine.

That having been said, anybody who truly studies the bible and understands the literary, cultural, and theological nuances within the scriptures can easily creates very cogent argument in support of gay marriage.

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They got the support of the secular politicians because freedom to propagate religion was considered by them as part of the freedom to propagate cultural and political ideas.

This rising tide of cultural domination can be turned back in two ways: through the support of efforts in the third world to achieve local communication that reflects local needs; and through reform of the media in the first world — which we will consider in some detail in Chapter 11, «What We Can Do.»

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

As a matter of ethnic identity and pride, most Indians support the ongoing effort to recover and reconstitute their cultural heritage.

It is against such a background that government support of ethnicity and concessions to particular ethnic requests, claims and demands become all too similar to the paternalistic actions of colonial powers, who gave cultural cake rather than economic bread to those they wanted to placate and control.

The diversity of religious rituals and beliefs has been taken as support for historical and cultural relativism.

This means that many of the cultural assumptions that support and are built into the narratives are lost to us forever.

Besides the ways Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference supports feminist attempts to purge cultural symbols from their sexist and patriarchal connotations, it seems clear from the following passage that Whitehead would applaud feminist hopes of producing symbols more faithful to women's experience.

His theory of symbolism then, is not only compatible with feminist goals of revising and renewing cultural symbols, but also provides a systematic analysis which gives philosophical support and impetus to these goals.

«We urgently appeal to those in positions of social and economic, as well as political and cultural, responsibility to hear the cry of the Earth and to attend to the needs of the marginalised, but above all to respond to the plea of millions and support the consensus of the world for the healing of our wounded creation,» they wrote.