Sentences with phrase «own cultural influences»

they are the first to unite materialism, sustainability values and cultural influence...» Aspirationals are particularly prevalent in emerging markets such as India, China and South Korea, but are also common here in the US.

The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the woman's career (resume and runway ahead), and social and cultural influence.

Being aware of our own cultural influences and how they affect our motivations can make us more effective leaders and better decision makers.

Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

The crackdown on Internet TV, seen in this context, represents just one more step taken by the party to prevent insidious Western cultural influence from undermining the regime.

Factors ranging from absence of a sound legal system backing its activities, lack of innovative projects, cultural influences and information asymmetry have constrained its growth.

This time I think I am laughing at myself for some of the things I adhered to strongly (and can at least still be tempted to adhere to) either of my own volition or through cultural influences.

Cultural influence accompanied by institutional decline sounds like a a rather pyrrhic victory.

Hollywood, of course, is neither weak in terms of cultural influence nor particularly noted for self - mockery.

And through my travels, I discovered that Christianity in China is entering a new phase: Where it once carried thick association with Western cultural influence, it has now developed into something truly Chinese.

We recognize the force of cultural influences and individual choice on concepts of maleness and femaleness, but we affirm that sexuality is rooted in the biological designation of the two sexes» male and female.

Every great empire depends as much on its cultural influence as on its political authority and military might.

Churches tend to take on the cultural influences and traditions of its members and community, but how many predominantly white churches own a white identity and name its culture as being white?

When it is understood as a «stream of cultural influence», Christianity can be seen as something that already stretches far beyond its ecclesiastical institutions, and is likely to last longer than any of them.

depending on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.

In his own experience he may have consciously adopted them and made them his own, but because man is so dependent on the cultural influences around him, this was already largely predetermined.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

Questions of relative cultural influence are important.

Latin America has such a wealth of symbols in part because it is made up of hybrid cultures; it contains a huge patchwork of ethnic and cultural influences and traditions.

The same cultural influences that now push for inclusion of women in various ministries are the ones that «established» male supremacy in the clergy.

As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate cultural influences or ideological contexts.

The problem in many Muslim majority countries is plentiful, corruption, lack of education, poverty, cultural influences being cloaked as «Islam» when it's not.

Examining the demography and cultural influence of evangelicals, Noll and Kellstedt observe that «there may be a grain of truth to at least the first two - thirds of Michael Weisskopf's assertion in the Washington Post that the grassroots supporters of the Religious Right are «largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.

Against those who he thinks rely too complacently on Christ's promise that the gates of Hell will not prevail, Carlin points out that there is no promise that the Church in America will not fail or be reduced to a small and defensive enclave devoid of cultural influence.

In speaking to the Bundestag last 22 September Pope Benedict issued an «urgent invitation» to engage in «a public debate» on the cultural influence of...

The pieces, on loan from museums in Karachi and Lahore, highlight Pakistan's history as a crossroads of cultural influences, despite present - day associations of the country as an incubator of religious extremism, museum director Melissa Chiu said.

So if I have understood you rightly it's about learning to be comfortable with uncertainty, not holding on steadfastly to convictions that either we have come to by our own volition or by cultural influences.

I'd also point out how the Jews were influenced by Greek / Roman culture in that time period so even if they were heavily honor driven they had other cultural influences.

Hence those schooled in this tradition will be suspicious of Western cultural influence, especially when it is linked to military or economic oppression.

Whatever more Jesus was as God's Son and chosen agent of redemption and revelation, he was subject not only to historical and cultural influences but to elements of human finitude.

This ongoing «Christian» stream of cultural influence 6 is once again in a fluid state, has widened considerably, and is changing quite radically.

As the trend continues, we will see the «Nones» continue to grow and the church lose more of its traditional cultural influence.

Thus, if it is true, as has been claimed, that the idea of Christendom and the doctrines of Christian orthodoxy, were not at all what the historical Jesus had in mind when he spoke of the Kingdom of God, we should not be surprised if the continuing stream of cultural influence which he was so instrumental in re-directing should in the future manifest itself in ways very different from the conventional Christianity it later became for a period.

Christianity may be losing its top - down political and cultural influence, but Jesus spoke of His followers making an impact in a very different manner.

Television exerts a powerful cultural influence, not only by sending almost instant visual news all over the globe but also by fostering cultural change.

In speaking to the Bundestag last 22 September Pope Benedict issued an «urgent invitation» to engage in «a public debate» on the cultural influence of positivistic philosophy (see our Road from Regensburg column).

Our faith life is not measured by how materially abundant or wealthy is our life and not by how much political or cultural influence we have.

Its sheer size might insulate it against the softening cultural influences, most of them Western in provenance, that have affected smaller Asian societies.

They felt the cultural influences of all these groups.)

By the end of the first millennium, the newly emerged Christendom had extended its power and cultural influence even further than the boundaries of the former Roman Empire.

In both groups, there are a variety of personality types, cultural influences, plenty of nice and plenty of nasty people in both groups.

When the Bible is read using reason and the cultural influences are filtered out, as Jesus did, it becomes clear that God does not condemn h o m o s e x u a l i ty.

Using reason to understand the cultural influences in the Bible is what allows us to differentiate between cultural norms which no longer apply and spiritual truths which do.

Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors.

So, while it is too simple to simply claim people are «born that way» (sexuality doesn't emerge until adolescence), of the potential factors — genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences — the first three are going to be determined before birth by the genetic and chemical characteristics of the individual.

Just thought I would ask, not very religious myself although my family are all very devout Sikhs, I follow the teachings as well and consider myself Sikh but I do not partake in what I personally believe are more cultural influences on Sikhism.

Fletcher understood that cultural influence was vastly more important than political power.

Reiner picked out for intensive study cloacal exstrophy, because it would best test the idea that cultural influence plays the foremost role in producing sexual identity.

Meditation is as integral to Christianity as it is to Hinduism, but because of cultural influences Christians have been convinced that the only way to meditate is by sitting still and coaxing yourself into a trance.

The free movement of people, goods, and cultural influences between neighboring countries in peacetime can only threaten those who have abandoned belief in limited government and a market economy.