Sentences with phrase «past cultures in»

Petersen had called the soil a gift from the past; he believed that studying it would reveal the region's past cultures in a new, much more complex light.

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«I will also be taking steps to create a culture of lifelong learning, helping people develop the skills they need at every stage of their life to succeed in the new economy,» hinted Morneau this past week.

The Dragons» Den argument speaks to something of a mission Kopke has embarked on in the past few years to affect change in Canada's business culture.

Although «stuffed with fluff,» Pooh Bear might have had a larger impact on American pop culture, but it's The Richest Man in Babylon that has made a massive financial impact on untold millions of readers, myself included, over the past 89 years.

«In the past we've probably made some casting mistakes in the U.S. and in our culture it takes a little bit longer to correct those,» he saiIn the past we've probably made some casting mistakes in the U.S. and in our culture it takes a little bit longer to correct those,» he saiin the U.S. and in our culture it takes a little bit longer to correct those,» he saiin our culture it takes a little bit longer to correct those,» he said.

I've spent the past decade building a company that is now the largest patient - physician platform in the U.S., and I believe one of the reasons why it was so successful was because of the company culture we put in place from the day the company was founded.

While even his critics, who launched the #NotNolan hashtag on Twitter, note that Bushnell played a huge role in starting the video game industry, they feel the timing is wrong to honor him, given the corporate culture he encouraged and the importance of the #MeToo movement over the past year.

Every aspect of business has changed in the past decade, and that is especially true when it comes workplace culture.

Although the first five months were very difficult and then you get past that and you really build a family and kind of feel rooted in the culture and you get that base, but the initial beginning was hard.

«We are totally committed to healing wounds of the past and building a better workplace culture for everyone,» said Uber's Chief Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey in a statement to Business Insider.

Over the past the year, I've learned four valuable lessons about scaling culture in a high - growth business.

«After talking with him a bit longer, I learned of his recent focused efforts in creating a «servant leadership» environment, aka culture, that I concluded WAS the reason for high attrition in the past several months,» says Brown.

The phrase went viral, sparking a pop culture phenomenon akin to «Wassup» and «I Love You, Man» phrases from commercials of years past — printed on T - shirts and used in memes online.

«Implementing these recommendations will improve our culture, promote fairness and accountability, and establish processes and systems to ensure the mistakes of the past will not be repeated,» Liane Hornsey, Uber's chief of human resources, said in a statement on Tuesday.

Khosrowshahi, who took the helm in August after former CEO Travis Kalanick was asked to step down amid a litany of regulatory problems, driver and consumer scandals and court cases, pledged to make a clean break with past practices that have lead to accusations of a toxic work culture.

We have worked with the management team at Ziegler in the past and we are excited to add not only a growing and profitable business to our platform but one whose culture of integrity and putting the client first is very similar to our own.»

The arrival of 1.7 million Asian immigrants in the past 20 years has made the styles and cultures of Asia part of the environment of our major cities.

Specifically, over the past year, the largest East Coast technology hub saw a 10 - place increase in availability of skilled tech talent and a 10 - place increase in startup culture.

«Implementing these recommendations will improve our culture, promote fairness and accountability, and establish processes and systems to ensure the mistakes of the past will not be repeated,» she wrote in a statement.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

-- Two top public affairs officers at FEMA have resigned in the past month, with one woman describing the office culture as a «boy's club» and saying she was excluded from meetings because of her gender.

«I loved the life I had,» says retired expat Brian Gruber, «but it was time for fresh exploration and experience, and I have little interest in returning to my past cycle of high stress, high expenses, in an intensely money - focused culture.»

Past participants - both in the U.S. and from work cultures all over the world - have experienced dramatic performance improvement in sales calls, consulting engagements, technical projects, strategy sessions and crucial business meetings.

How a platform positions and markets its own diligence; how it educates investors, particularly those without past experience, and shephards them in making smart, informed decisions; how it thoughtfully manages its own investor community; and how it fosters a culture of accountability that deeply understands the relationship between risk and reward.

It can not focus on the quality of its team, or its platform, or the platform of the other parties, or the future, because its past, its toxic culture, and its undemocratic nature keep getting in the way.

«Our investment in Indiana is possible because of the positive business climate created by current and past leaders, access to amazing talent created by our leading universities, and a vibrant, innovative culture,» McCorkle said.

GFI argues that though it is true that plant - based products already exist, there may be significant room for the improvement of plant - based technology, and improving plant - based technology may yield shorter - term traction, i.e., greater market share, than the cultured foods.119 Recently developed plant - based products already seem to seem to represent improvements from past products; for example, the Impossible Burger, released in 2016, has received favorable reviews from vegans and omnivores alike.120 GFI's fostering and promotion of the development of similarly popular plant - based products could cause a significant reduction in the demand for animal products, particularly if they focus on plant - based chicken and fish and if they convince institutions to serve the plant - based products rather than animal products.121

They have argued, with some reason, that Jewish organizations actually foster anti-Semitism in the general American public by «crying wolf» at any tiny incident in what in past decades has been a remarkably tolerant culture.

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In fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationshipIn fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationshipin the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationships.

Schickel's work» represented here by 175 full - color photographs» brings us face - to - face with the concerns of our own culture war, especially as it is manifested in clashes between traditionalists and liberals in the Church over the past three decades.

In worship, art, architecture, literature, communal life, language, beliefs, moral values, models of a virtuous life, views of the past, the persistence of an aristocratic culture» in all of these aspects of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some of theIn worship, art, architecture, literature, communal life, language, beliefs, moral values, models of a virtuous life, views of the past, the persistence of an aristocratic culture» in all of these aspects of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some of thein all of these aspects of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from greater attention to at least some of them.

Despite profound skepticism on the part of many in the curia, John Paul pressed forward at the eve of the new millennium with plans for a series of reflections that might allow the world «to draw lessons from the past,» so as to choose life in what had become a culture of darkness.

As human culture advances, there are always those who stay mired in the past.

These focused on changes that had occurred over the past three decades in culture, church and educational practices.

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

What does it look like to really imitate Christ in this culture, during these wars, amidst all of this wealth and privilege, despite all of our past failures?

Or must we as in the past go on permitting an intellectual vacuum to exist at the point of the Judeo - Christian heritage which has done more than anything else to shape our culture?

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

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

In a world and a culture, sometimes in families and pasts and contexts, rife with lies about our very created and called selves, Almighty One, sweep the entanglements of our sin and those lies from our soulIn a world and a culture, sometimes in families and pasts and contexts, rife with lies about our very created and called selves, Almighty One, sweep the entanglements of our sin and those lies from our soulin families and pasts and contexts, rife with lies about our very created and called selves, Almighty One, sweep the entanglements of our sin and those lies from our souls.

Every culture in the past has had a religious dimension, which motivates the culture and supplies it with its values and goals.

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

* Because the mind does not need continually to be focussing on the past in order to preserve memory, literate cultures are freed to be forward - looking rather than backward - looking, and sequential in thought rather than redundant or back - looping.

In my past culture Buddhist would offer food to the spirits, the spirits can consume the essence of the food but can never be satisfied.

He seems to assume that Christian culture and politics in other parts of the world can be understood through categories derived from the past 200 years of Western liberal democracy and misses the fact that these communities have histories of their own.

The new manifesto urges humanity to «leave behind the magical thinking and myth - making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature,» notes that religions «have their origins in pre-urban nomadic and agricultural societies of the past» and are irrelevant to the «postindustrial global information culture that is emerging,» and calls for a World Parliament.

If I look to my past I may say that I belong to nature, or to my race, or to the culture in which I have been born and bred.