Sentences with word «patrimony»

The word "patrimony" refers to a person's or family's inherited wealth, assets, or cultural heritage that has been passed down from previous generations. It can include various types of property, traditions, or values that are part of a person's heritage. Full definition
Even if investigating in a recognizable artistic and cultural patrimony of forms and dimensions, the artist brings the attention on the absence, on the power of individual imagination, on the concept of identity, disconnected from the rampant need of a social recognition and lastly upon the necessity to construct a one's own iconography, not conditioned by the continuous visual incitements of the consumerism.
I think so, because depletion of such exotica — from scaly slow - moving mammals to rare turtles to tigers — erodes the basic biological patrimony of the planet for the sake of supplying consumers with an utter indulgence.
The senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly Senator Dino Melaye has accused Governor Yahaya Bello of financial recklessness stating that he has stolen the common patrimony of the State.
Many want to get back as quickly as possible to the early church to reclaim a common patrimony for all Christians in the fathers and mothers of the church of the first few centuries.
This is why museums throughout the United States are filled with many of Europe's — and the world's greatest art treasures — and why many countries now have national patrimony laws preventing the further transfer of such treasures.
This formidable move in response to requests over the course of twenty years from Anglican bishops, priests, and laity offers a way for Anglicans and other Protestants as well as unconfirmed Catholics to be received into the full communion of the unified Catholic Church while retaining and developing the Anglican patrimony of liturgy, music, patristic theology, and pastoral care.
Murgel was amongst the winning artists of the award Honra ao Merito de Arte e Patrimonio, of the Institute for the Historic and National Artistic Patrimony.
I had not heard of the Haiti Legal Patrimony Project before, but it's very gratifying to see librarians from around the world move quickly to meet a pressing need for the Haitian legal system.
The family home is part of the family patrimony for couples who are married, it must therefore be shared equally between the spouses.
Sadly, the Republican Party, nodding to the far right, has been trying to erode protection and funding for some of those lands, as Nick Kristof noted in a recent column celebrating this environmental patrimony: Read more...
Transmitting the ancient patrimony of Christian values, he implanted in the German peoples a new style of life that was more human, thanks to which the inalienable rights of the person were better respected.
The researcher notes «in the light of the recent killings of elephants in the state for ivory trade and during conflicts, Sabahans must realise that it is their natural patrimony that is targeted, they need to stand for their wildlife and condemn those who kill those magnificent creatures.
With cultural patrimony laws changing and their new proximity to New York, they began collecting more from dealers, and continued to do so for decades.
But Bolivia will face the need to weigh the value of its biological patrimony against that of the fossil energy down below.
Although various pressures led to the watering down of the text on relations with the Jews, it affirmed the great «spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews» and expressed the Council's wish to foster mutual understanding.
Perhaps diversity is losing its power to legitimate, just as three generations ago WASP patrimony lost its power to legitimate.
The church has really squandered its moral patrimony by its sexual phobia.
This saving patrimony, he observed with broad Petrine understatement, «is not well received by all.»
A President who won't sell our collective patrimony while the rest of the country is sleeping.
Tradition is no longer a taboo word and traditional forms of prayer are once more being rediscovered and recognised as a treasure store and a priceless patrimony handed on to us by the saints of God across the ages.
If Coronel elected to leave the entry for «Father» on the birth certificates blank, it was not because of any dispute over patrimony.
Porto is rich in history and architectural patrimony and boasts numerous tourist attractions, restaurants, boat tours, and a lively nightlife.
Land is not understood as real estate but as a divine patrimony that can not be bought and sold according to the rules of the market.
In the current patrimony of Russia — whether cultural, historical, social, philosophical, or religious — there is only one tradition that is being passed on to the next generation.
We take money away from our children yet at the same time reserve for them, as our heirs, the whole patrimony.
Only if young people learn to employ language gracefully and with discrimination can they hope to enter into the full measure of their humane patrimony.
This confidence is the cultural patrimony bequeathed them by generations of believers.
We have our own patrimony and traditions and we need neither to explain nor to apologise for this.
But, unlike Murray, he does not believe this can be done politically without mining a distinctively Catholic theological patrimony, one that runs deeper than the Church's current defence of natural law.
Because of this cosmic patrimony, «the Son gives life to whom he will» (John 5:21).
The émigrés were challenged by the American ideal of rugged individualism but, true to their Ignatian training, adjusted without sacrificing their cultural and religious patrimony.
«It does not take into account the fact that in Italy the display of the crucifix in public places is in line with the recognition of the principles of the Catholicism as «part of the historical patrimony of the Italian people,» as stated in the Vatican / Italy agreement of 1984,» the bishops said in a written statement.
At the same time, the monuments of their crimes, whether cathedrals or pyramids, are enlisted as elements of a «global patrimony.
There are three modules of ownership of public institutions, the extreme end, only government owned institution, the hybrid are mixture of government and private people, the extreme end, the outright privatization and you sell government patrimony to private sector people who are in need of money, you can do it in other institutions not the Post because it remains a social obligation.
I believe our international patrimony must be respected ahead of political and economic interests.
This new company was established to handle the Rosia Montana project and manage its afferent patrimony — consisting of the company's package of shares in the mining project and the liabilities resulting from loans it has taken in order to participate in the project.
The party further pleads with Wike to, «leave Buhari alone so that he can concentrate on how to find solutions to how Wike and his colleagues looted and milked our common patrimony dry particularly now that he (Wike) has lost direction on how to govern a complex State like Rivers State.
«Even those people like (Col. Sambo) Dasuki (retd,) and all those who helped themselves to our collective patrimony during the President Jonathan era, who are standing trial for corruption, may be set free by this judiciary, but we must never give up.
After dinner, the man in charge of the community treasures, a middle - aged herder named Huber Brañes Mateo, brought over a colonial chest containing the khipus, along with goat - hide packets of 17th - and 18th - century manuscripts — the secret patrimony of the village.

Phrases with «patrimony»

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