Sentences with phrase «on culture issues»

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But if they ignore some of these things, like the quality issues, how they might adapt the culture, bringing in better practices — I don't know why they would ignore those things — but if they do, it could really blow up on them.»

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By allowing a «bathroom bill» in the special session of the most powerful Republican - controlled state, Abbott has placed a focus on Texas on an issue that has been a flashpoint in U.S. culture wars, analysts said.

Secretary of State for Culture Karen Bradley, who is responsible for media issues, said Tuesday she had written to media watchdog Ofcom for more information on its views on Fox's bid for London - listed Sky Plc, the biggest pay - tv operator in the U.K.

Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

In addition to suffering May's upstaging, on Wednesday, the U.K.'s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) issued a report on «Corporate Culture and the Role of Boards.»

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«Sarbanes - Oxley did a lot to codify protections for whistleblowers, but it didn't really change the general culture or behavior at companies,» says Andrew Sherman, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, a Washington - based law firm focused on small - business issues.

Leaving aside any potential issues with our hiring policies or company culture, what sort of questions / puzzles / brainteasers can I ask in our online application form or phone interview that can potentially screen those candidates who are motivated by providing great work and service, rather than those who want a «cool» name on their resume?

BlackRock will continue to contribute to the debate on these and other important issues, but we will do so in ways that are consistent with our culture and values.

For the March / April 2018 The New Brewer, we present the Culture of Craft issue, focusing on tenets that make craft brewers unique.

If your CEO (or a member of your Board, or another member of the C - Suite) decides to codify or enforce their stance on an issue as part of company rules or culture, you might have a budding Activist CEO on your hands.

Even after the former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, who'd been hired by the board to investigate, issued a scathing report on Uber's culture, Kalanick and his directors initially decided that vague promises of coaching, the hiring of a chief operating officer, and a slap - on - the - wrist «leave of absence» for the CEO were sufficient remedies.

Honestly, this is strictly a company culture issue that we expect experienced people to pick up on, but interns aren't experienced.

Open discussions with China on these issues would help reassure the public and demonstrate Ottawa's efforts to protect Canadian values and culture.

While these scandals expose the harmful reality of venture capital's male - dominated culture on women entrepreneurs, they have helped highlight an equally important issue — the extreme lack of gender diversity in all aspects of venture capital.

The Berkshire culture to never sell a subsidiary, to centralize capital allocation, allow subsidiaries to use their own unique business systems with zero interference from HQ, fair management compensation plans, treating shareholders like partners, to act quickly on ever deal, to pass up back deals, to have the Rock of Gibraltar balance sheet with available cash to invest when the market crashes, to pay cash for quality businesses instead of issuing stock and to attract a unique set of business owners who would only sell to Berkshire.

In 2017, The ESOP Association had over 11,000 persons attend its seminars and conferences which are focused on the entire spectrum of ESOP and employee ownership issues — from the most technical issues to human behavior issues and ownership culture.

(Brian Orme) Richard, in your new book Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport, you take a scene from the movie Hardcore to expound on the issues of Calvinism and culture; do...

Brazil is a very se xual culture and a majority have rejected the RCC stance on these issues (based on a study of their actual behavior).

(Brian Orme) Richard, in your new book Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport, you take a scene from the movie Hardcore to expound on the issues of Calvinism and culture; do you think that the Calvinistic beliefs inherent in the TULIP are relevant for today's world?

Regardless of the impact, hocus pocus or any other terms people use, forcing your beliefs on someone elses culture is how many «issues» have started throughout history.

That this has had the most profound impact on our politics is obvious: The American culture war, which is one of the preeminent issues - beneath - the - issues, shapes the public discourse on both domestic and foreign - policy questions every day.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

I think the larger focus should be on the issue of how to dismantle a toxic culture that operates very similar to Mars Hill.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

As a Christian church, we are being addressed on these issues by our surrounding culture.

«Churches can be the most powerful impetus for justice in our culture on the issue of race if we will humble ourselves before God and one another, if we will repent and pray and work together for justice in a way that brings great glory to our God.»

If I were harrassed by these hypocritical, war - promoting anti-abortionista's, I'd merely sue them on «relgious - hate - crimes» grounds, as my pagan belief leaves ALL failed culture war issues up to me!

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

As an expert on various religious cultures, and with a knowledge of the role of religion in personality structure and function, the specialist is in a position to offer relevant insight for psychodynamic diagnosis, for evaluation of the manner in which religious issues should be dealt with in treatment, and the means by which religious resources may be used in rehabilitation.

The renewed vigor with which Southern Baptists are engaging issues of public policy also draws on a distinctively Reformed critique of culture.

In response to growing cries «for retribution, retaliation and revenge,» a number of Quaker organizations issued a Call for Peace on September 29, «challenging those whose hearts and minds seem closed to the possibility of peaceful resolution,» and pleading for «people of goodwill the world over [to] commit to the building of a culture of peace.»

This article focuses on clothing, meat, and holidays which from the standpoint of contextualizing the Gospel for a different culture is a good thing to do but the real issues a Muslim will have, or should have, are not being addressed.

1) most people haven't given serious thought to these issues and are just giving their «feeling»... it would not be hard for person with well - thought out positions (on either side of the issue) to expose the lack of logic in their position and get them to change their mind... most people just reflect their culture.

We misunderstand even the practical / pastoral thrust of the Bible whenever we compare or equate it with the pastoral concerns of an established religion - with the maintenance of the life of parish and clan in a society where there are no longer any challenges being addressed to the powers that be, no longer any new believers coming in across the boundaries of nation and culture, and no longer any new threatening issues needing to be wrestled with on the missionary frontier.

Our culture has been watching and continues to watch the church at large on the issue of how the church is handling «the gay issue».

It is easy for Christians, for example, to get stuck on abstract issues, such as whether the believing community ought to be — in terms borrowed from H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ - and - culture typology — «above» the political order, «in tension» with it, «transforming» it, «of» it or «against» it.

In an interview during the initial rise of his popularity, the media seemed poised to railroad Lentz with one - dimensional, yes - or - no questions on some of the most divisive issues in our culture.

But their ability to carry the day has been limited by broader cleavages in the culture that put them against religious liberals on all these issues.

Since 1993, UNESCO has held several conferences addressing the role of religion in conflict situations and at the 1994 conference in Barcelona issued a «Declaration on the Role of Religion in the Promotion of a Culture of Peace».

Like Colson, Neuhaus believed that ECT was a powerful weapon in our common witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, capable of challenging a culture which had gone badly astray on fundamental issues, abandoning both the gospel and, indeed, clear thinking itself.

The need for a new synthesis is not an academic issue, the future of the Church in the West depends on it, our debased secular culture is crying out for it.

Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty of Christians, forcing them to support practices offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the name «the right to die with dignity.»

I've been saying this for a while now, but on the most contentious issues of the culture war, namely homosexuality and same - sex marriage, it is conservative Christians that deserve credit for being the most reasonable and peaceable combatants.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

I got interviewed yesterday by Ken Briggs who is writing a book for Eerdman's on the connection (or actually, the DISconnection) between the message of the church and the needs and issues of our culture.

I also don't think we're doing ourselves any favors in the culture by being so rigid on nonessential issues.