Sentences with phrase «of lost cultures»

That's indicative of a losing culture, that's what a coach who can motivate his guys should actively prevent against.

The event also re-created part of the tomb complex that preserved her, along with hundreds of other members of a lost culture, for 4,000 years.

She was found in a tomb complex in western China, along with the remains of hundreds of other members of her lost culture.

But fears of losing a culture war can stoke «apocalyptic» feelings on the right.

Not exact matches

A former employee gave the company three stars and wrote on April 28: «Employees are in constant fear of losing their jobs for saying or doing something that proves to management that they aren't a «culture fit.»»

Dig Deeper: Nolan Bushnell on Games and Parties in Company Culture How to Create a Company Philosophy: Fixing a Broken Company Culture As a company grows, it's possible for the leadership or the employees to lose sight of the founding values.

Change is critical — even if it means losing top performers — because the world has changed and what happens in the culture of a company affects business metrics, said Huffington, who founded media website HuffPost.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat, said Wells Fargo had a «culture of being fined and losing money for the bank» and held up a chart showing all of the fines and judgments that had gone against the bank since Stumpf became CEO.

The culture of new startups popping up and eating the big boys» lunch is a Darwinian circle of life that even some of the big players with the most to lose grew from.

Bernstein's Monteyne pointed to the risks of bringing together companies with different cultures, noting that Morrisons - Safeway lost 28 percent of their sales through a combination of store sales, integration problems and culture clash during the last big UK grocery merger over a decade ago.

Today's businesses no longer operate on a top - down processing model, and absentee management is a surefire way to lose your culture of innovation.

It was because the leaders made sure — at the start of their tenures — that ownership understood reversing a losing culture was a long - term process.

There are a number of lessons that can be drawn from the death of Grantland, the high - profile but money - losing sports and culture site that ESPN shut down suddenly last week.

Though you may need more guidelines and procedures as your company grows, you don't want to stymie creativity or lose your appeal to top talent, which are real dangers of overly corporate cultures.

The answer was yes — across cultures, and regardless of whether an athlete had ever seen other athletes with their own eyes, the behavior of winning and losing was identical.

«I've seen so much solidarity in our communities — something I think we had lost as a culture with the craziness of everyday life,» Aquino said.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

She also provides a reality - check of sorts; it can be easy to get lost in the world and culture of your institution and not realize that what you are experiencing is abnormal, unhealthy, or unfair, and having someone to help me sort all that out has been really helpful.

The ride - hail company is not only going through a complete overhaul of its culture and governance, it's also navigating a major self - driving lawsuit brought against it by Alphabet, and it lost more than $ 700 million last quarter — though that's down from more than $ 900 million.

Add to that an ignorance of the culture and the times of the speaker... and the difficulties of translating any language to another without losing something....

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

When doing what is «right» becomes an act of heroism it shows just how lost a culture becomes when hate and fear takes control.

Four of the six chapters in Losing Our Virtue constitute the heart of the book and are devoted to themes liberally treated in Wells» first two volumes» materialistic consumption, image and style over substance, the therapeutic culture, the lack of civic virtue, and, not least, society's aversion to truth, truth - telling, guilt, and moral accountability.

An ethicist and theologian by background, Moore is also an ordained Southern Baptist minister and the author of several books including Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel.

We also lost the culture of fellowship that provided a network of friendships that could be renewed and renegotiated every week.

Contemporary cultures had lost a vital understanding of the foundations of human dignity and were increasingly marked both by disillusion and by a mechanical and instrumental account of the human person.

Christianity becomes cultural Christianity when the faith is dominated by a culture to the point that it loses much or most of its authenticity.

And then I went to a tiny Christian college and that's where I lost my faith, surrounded by Christians, with no influence of pop culture and not so much as one atheist in my circle of acquaintances.

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.

Although country legend Johnny Cash's most famous album was recorded for a captive crowd at Folsom Prison in 1968, simultaneously signaling his pop culture comeback after years lost in addiction and the rise of the live album as a serious piece of art, Live from San Quentin is a stronger album.

If we manage not to lose sight of Scripture, if we remember that our relationship to Christ must take precedent, and if we recognize messages that are extraneous or contrary to Scripture for what they are, engaging with otherwise worthwhile media that has morally questionable content can be an acceptable — indeed, inescapable — part of inhabiting culture.

The main point of this critique is that Fundamentalism goes too far in creating a segregated community and has lost its ability to communicate effectively to the culture.

The remaining ecumenical contribution is what we ought to call «Lutheran culture,» one filled with blessed pieties, a love of Jesus Christ and Sacred Scripture, a sense of being a company of saints that is often lost in Roman Catholic parishes, and other collateral graces stemming from the passions of the Reformation.

During the past few decades, our culture has become increasingly invested in avoiding the reality of losing.

He may also inspire American Christians at the losing end of our decades - long culture war.

Yes, Phoebe is embedded deeply enough in the culture around her to want to lose weight, but she is a sparkling and animated young woman who mostly enjoys her life and refuses to be so controlled by her diet, or the social norms around her, that she won't defiantly consume a bag of buttery popcorn now and then.

American fundamentalists indeed retreated into the wilderness by the end of the «20s, keenly aware of their lost influence and their status as outsiders in a culture their forebears had done so much to shape.

Corporate life loses its vigor and appeal, traditional symbols are emptied of their meaning, and confusion and anxiety arrest social advance and condemn the culture to stagnation and decay.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

They successfully created a world - against - the - world or world - within - a-world, a cradle - to - grave, dusk - to - dawn, Sunday - to - Saturday envelope of meaning, thus shaping a market that the mainline lost when it urged churches to blur and blend with the best of secular culture.

Yet the novel does suggest, in curious and even captivating terms, that today the religious frame of reference has lost its controlling power across much of Western culture, but it hasn't quite disappeared.

Without some doctrinal constraints, any message will sooner or later decay into a chaotic vagueness or indefiniteness and thereby lose its challenging and critical edge vis - à - vis the rest of culture.

Those cultures in prolonged, intimate contact with it gradually lose the effectiveness of their sacred violence to act as an immunity to profane violence.

Since the revelation of the Cross, those cultures and religions in closest proximity to it gradually lose the effectiveness of divine justifications.

Fighters of the culture wars always lose.

If we think we need to accommodate every special interest and every possible belief, then we lose the sense of community we have from the shared culture and without culture, society can not function well together.

There are many ways to formulate the problem our culture has created for itself, but one of the simplest is to say that we have lost the capacity for embarrassment.

And through all this came the emergence of the idea of a new Kerygma, a new way of proclaiming the Gospel to people who, living in a culture formed by centuries of Christianity, had nevertheless lost all effective contact with the Church.

What a culture gains in therapy it may lose in its grasp of soul.

«Okie,» like «Mama Tried,» was a symbol of what Haggard himself, not just «the culture,» had lost.