Sentences with phrase «of culture as a whole»

The existence of culture as a whole may be so regarded.

And if the political culture is sick, that must have something to do with the state of the culture as a whole.

The emphases of the culture as a whole were influenced by secularism, scientific discoveries and technology.

Not exact matches

While our culture is one of individuality, it turns out from his research that there's a lot more to be said for happiness as part of a bigger, collective whole of family and your tribe.

And thanks to the creator of the Oasis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), there's also a whole slew of 1980s pop - culture references he loved as a kid («You can even climb a mountain with Batman,» Wade says at the beginning of the movie).

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

The story of Rasputin may almost be read as another Russian novel, written not by any single author but by the culture as a whole.

, the movie, praise the flick for its ability to maintain all the book's reverence for 80s culture, but co-opt its obsessiveness into a satirization of geek - dom as a whole.

While culture war issues make headlines galore, an exhaustive study of Americans» religious attitudes shows the public as a whole might not find the debate so enticing.

As I look back, I recognize that there was a strong culture of silencing dissent, and the group as a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular peoplAs I look back, I recognize that there was a strong culture of silencing dissent, and the group as a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular peoplas a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular people.

I think it was a reflection of what was happening as a culture as a whole.

More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding culture, lagged behind.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

The Bible as a whole is the record of man's effort to conform to, and to transform, his culture under the impact of spiritual insights conceived to be God - given.

But, most important of all, its whole culture — its use of evangelical celebrities and its media savvy — has made it that much more influential at congregational level even as it is accountable to no - one but a self - selected few.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

What natural science stimulated, industry furthered in the very mode of activity it promoted and the ethos it tended to generate within communities and within culture as a whole.

In proportion as the spiritual element recovers its natural position at the center of our culture, it will necessarily become the mainspring of our whole social activity.

However, the doctrine that humans as rational and / or spiritual beings «have ends and loyalties beyond the state», community and nation to which they belong, became part of the «civil religion» or civil culture, which gave moral reinforcement to this whole process of democratization and secularization.

We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past... (few) years.»

Whereas primitive and archaic cultures required little specialization of functions and little work beyond that required to provide food, clothing, and shelter, civilization required a high degree of specialization and a great amount of disciplined labor directed to providing wealth for the community as a whole and for a small class within it.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

It usually occurs as a gradual slipping of standards that is hard to spot — and hard to stop — until it reaches a devastating end,» If top management works to create an ethical culture, the whole barrel is unlikely to go bad even if there are a few rotten apples.

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

Though possessing many common cultural traits found also in Europe and the West, the much closer similarities between the cultures of Iran or Persia and India have led scholars to distinguish an Indo - Iranian branch of the larger whole as having early separated itself from the central or original Aryan migration, perhaps moving eastward from the, as yet, not certainly located origin of the Aryan group.

Its worship may be more varied today than it was in earlier decades, and its leadership may now be more representative of its members as a whole, but the fundamental patterns of congregational culture that most of us encountered as children will probably cloak our aging and burial.

The whole domain of Western culture, in its political, economic, intellectual and ethical aspects, is seen as ruled by ideologies which have no affinity with the Christian faith.

Just as in tribalism the destiny of the tribe is more important than that of the individual, so the destiny and well - being of humanity as a whole must now take precedence over that of any tribe, nation or regional culture.

It struck me as something that critiques the idolization of sex in pop culture as a whole.

Yet, in the culture as a whole, and as a percentage of the population, Evangelicalism is losing ground.

This culture of openness and honesty is healthy — both for individual believers and for the Church as a whole — and healthiness honors God.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

So true is this that the whole spiritual movement of Hebrew - Jewish - Christian culture might in a certain perspective be thought of as a single event and might appropriately be called by his name.

It has been created by men who are quite unconscious of the indirect consequences of their intellectual assumptions, and who as individuals would energetically oppose the extension of the authority of national culture over the whole range of life.

But such individual exceptions only emphasize more vividly the plight of the church as a whole, as it continues to domesticate itself within the national cultures.

That is, it became the basic authority for a community of faith, the Church, and through it for the culture as a whole.

But when the Blitzkrieg moved East, engulfing in its murderous maw not only millions of innocents but a whole rich, thick, various, and teeming Jewish culture — «hurling into silence,» as Harold Rosenberg once put it in an essay on Adolf Eichmann, «so many of the subtlest and most humane minds of Europe» — there would be no escape.

It may be defined as that society, with its own geographical area, which was subject to the rule of Christ, and whose culture and way of life had become so permeated and shaped by Christian beliefs and values as to form a cohesive whole.

But the discussion quickly degenerates into an exercise in semantic hairsplitting, finally concluding that «taken as a whole, the data and analyses we have examined throw serious doubt on the validity of the strong thesis that culture of poverty is a major cause of self perpetuating poverty.»

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

We experience our culture as fragmented; we live on bits of meaning and lack the overall vision that holds them together in a whole.

when the Indian Christians invited Pantaneus to preach to the Hindu philosophers and religious leaders, they were aware of their missionary responsibility to Indian culture as a whole.

I think Muslim's, as a whole, are extremely ethnocentric (more so than most cultures), uneducated (not their fault due to the fact their religion is dominated by morons), and are the most whiny and vengeful (they hold grudges forever) group of people I've ever met.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

Now it's celebrated as a sacred right that demands veneration from the whole culture, including the millions of ordinary people who see this kind of officially blessed homicide as a gravely evil act.

Scruton was speaking of the culture of the university, but he might have been speaking of contemporary culture as a whole.

Unfortunately that «Utah mormon pop culture» idea is actually more reflective of mormons as a whole than you would like to think.

My experience can be seen as typical of a whole generation in our Western culture, not least in America.

Such a picture of how to understand God tends to predominate in cultures that see human life as a cycle replicating the cycles that make the world a unified whole.

As D.S. Russell noted, «The influence of Zoroastrianism, and indeed of the whole Perso - Babylonian culture, is amply illustrated in the writings of the Jewish apocalyptists».4 There are a number of elements which the Judeo - Christian tradition and Zoroastrianism have in common, which do not appear in Judaism until after it came into contact with Zoroastrianism from 540 BCE onwards.