Sentences with phrase «of rural society»

Our initiative spread the message of Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company being committed to adhere to the social values and its commitment towards the upliftment of the rural society.

Rather than blame Fairtrade for falling short in one study, consumers need to take responsibility to pressure «companies and governments to do more to effectively tackle poverty and to achieve sustainable rural transitions of benefit to all segments of rural society, as well as protecting the environment for all our sakes» (NRI).

The show also includes the works of American painters John Singer Sargent and Frederick Edwin Church, and of course Scottish painters Francis Cadell (1883 - 1937) and Sir David Wilkie (1785 - 1841), whose masterpiece, Pitlessie Fair (1804), could keep the viewer occupied for hours enjoying the detailed painting of the activity that represents the cross-section of rural society in Wilkie's home of Fifeshire.

But it is not worth much, to be honest, for I have seen what they do to people in that place, and while I think I understand on some level why it is they feel they have to do it — the bleak categories of rural society would very quickly be disordered if people suddenly started looking attractive — that is not the same thing as wanting them to do it to me.

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At Nestlé, we have analyzed our value chain and determined that the areas of greatest potential for joint value optimization with society are Nutrition, Water and Rural Development.

In short, the Palestine of Jesus» day was a mildly stratified, largely rural, society in which are to be discerned all the familiar social forces of political and ecclesiastical dominance, religious formalism, extremes of poverty and wealth, economic insecurity, racial cleavage, an acceptance of the status quo with mixed reactions of acquiescence and revolt.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

Cf. also above, note 15; F. Ernst Johnson, Christianity and Society (Nashville, Tenn.: Arlington Press, 1935); E. W. Burgess, The Urban Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925); Robert E. Park, E. W. Burgess, and R. D. McKenzie, The City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925); Ezra Dwight Sanderson, Rural Sociology and Rural Social Organization (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1942); S. C. Kincheloe, The American City and Its Church (New York: Missionary Education Movement, 1938).

Since Christianity in the Punjab, particularly in the rural areas, has its origins in that stratum of society, my attention had been drawn to some erstwhile «Christian Associations» (Masihi Sabhas) formed to exert political pressure, and to run candidates in recent parliamentary elections.

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Thus their communication code, full of references to food, the farm, the rural landscape, human anatomy, death, the physical world, and the supernatural, contains messages and is indicative of a system of symbolic expression that validates and identifies these southern Black rural (peasant) migrants apart from a wider society» (Community in a Black Pentecostal Church, 175).

The changes which fostered, accompanied, and were produced by the industrial revolution — such as urbanism and all that it implied — put to stringent test the practices and institutional patterns of a Protestantism which had been closely identified with rural society and culture.

We can divide most of contemporary global society into two parts: rural and urban.

The gospel material, especially in the teaching of Jesus, with its use of images from nature and husbandry, is nearest to rural society and to the world of the Hebrew Scriptures; James is thought by some scholars to be addressed to the Palestinian church.

This helps the company secure supplies of agricultural raw materials it requires, as well as having a positive impact on society by supporting rural development, water conservation, and food security.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

In addition to financial support, the SEPC is honored to work with the Society of St. Andrew to provide truckloads of food to one of our other benefitting charities, RAMP in rural Appalachia, as well as donate all leftover food from Southern Exposure and Southern Innovations each year to help those who are hungry in the Southeast.

There are precious few schools following this model, but American society would benefit from more of them, and from their being more accessible to a wider socioeconomic demographic range in urban, suburban, and rural settings.»

Lead and Partner Organizations: Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada; with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses; the Canadian Association of Midwives; the Canadian Nurses Association; the College of Family Physicians of Canada; the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

An unexpectedly nuanced second act follows, leading to a muted conclusion that leaves this study of rural Russian society with a powerful message.

Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

Excavators are peeling back the layers of dirt on the village of Sanyangzhuang, which was buried by a flood on the Yellow River 2000 years ago, to reveal a unique 2000 - year - old time capsule of Chinese rural life, they reported at the Society for American Archaeology meeting.

Lead author Dr Mauricio Schneider, of the Office of Legislative Council at Câmara dos Deputados, said: «Agrarian settlements have been widely hailed by Brazilian society as a socially responsible strategy to allocate land to the rural poor.

In partnership with the Sri Lankan Wildlife Conservation Society and Australia's Newcastle University, a network of 10 trial beehive fence projects are presently being tested to see if they can reduce human - elephant conflict for rural farms in central Sri Lanka.

«Not too many people would think this is a rural health issue, but it happens here too,» says Bradley Levin, M.D., FACC, FACS, FASAM, DABAM, CMRO of York County Medical Society.

Today, high blood pressure is a condition that affects the majority of society, rich or poor, rural or urban.

The researchers looked at people living in three hunter - gatherer societies in rural parts of Africa and South America.

Popular culture of European (especially Hungarian) societies, Asian and African cultures, contemporary problems of the rural population, religious and national minorities.

Upon graduating he was given two awards, one from the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University and an award from the Society for General Microbiology for academic achievement.

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For many rural agricultural societies storing grains is common practice, and for many grains shade drying or blanching, is used prior to storage of the food source.

In a busy, hectic society when we have little time available to go out socially, if we live in a rural area with lack of access to a visible gay community and find it difficult to decipher who's gay versus straight when out on the town, social media makes for a great leveraging tool to meet other single gay men.

While Christian single interracial dating or married couples can live peacefully in most urban societies of the world, they may still be stigmatized in rural areas, and sadly even within the confines of their own church and family.

«The Station Agent» (Miramax) This Sundance Audience Award winner tells the story of a dwarf (Peter Dinklage) who retreats from society to make his home in a former train station in rural New Jersey.

The piece proceeds in the mode of cultural studies by analysing the racial discourses surrounding the film: black rural folklorism, the representation of stereotypical black comic or menial roles in film, the commodification and packaging of black culture, and what Naremore calls «a chic, upscale «Africanism», redolent of café society, Broadway theatre, and the European avant - garde.»

There is a subgenre within American independent cinema of rural Americana, films that depict a section of American society that exists between the familiar towering cityscapes of New York and Los Angeles and the empty expanse of the Western.

Working in the hills of rural Pennsylvania, Brent Green is a self - taught filmmaker, storyteller and visual artist whose films have screened, often with live musical accompaniment, at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Society, MoMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Hammer Museum, as well as at warehouses, galleries and rooftops across the globe.

Teach For America, which Mr. Steffensen cites as an example of society's desire for quick private - sector fixes in lieu of politically and fiscally costly systemic reform, is a new national teacher corps that recruits, trains, places, and supports outstanding individuals who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas suffering from persistent teacher shortages.

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They explore complex contemporary issues and problems facing education and society — including issues of community - focused leadership development for high - poverty rural schools, college access and student success, sexual violence, cross cultural counseling, community college leadership, and state and institutional policies that affect children and adult learning — with a view toward solutions that will make a real, positive difference for students, teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, and communities.

A comparison of indigenous student achievement in indigenous and rural schools, which recently earned the prestigious Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation in 2007 by the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).

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Proceedings of the National Conference of the Society for Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA), Adelaide, South Australia.

In working with the rural women, Wangari recognized that not only had the land suffered under the oppression of colonialism and neo-colonialism, but the women themselves and civil society as a whole had also been a casualty.

The Company endeavours to provide housing loans to the middle and lower income class section of society, both in the semi-urban and rural parts of India, to enable their dreams.

For two years I was Director of Operations and Shelter Vet for Prairie's Edge Humane Society, a rural open door shelter with an annual intake of about 8,000.

After founding Rural Area Veterinary Services (RAVS), he directed this program for the Humane Society of the United States for 10 years.