Sentences with phrase «play culture by»

In a statement, Barb Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters said, «the legislature has left Albany following its «Watergate moment» by avoiding the most critical reforms such as closure of the LLC loophole, increased disclosure of discretionary funding and removing the pay to play culture by lowering contribution limits.

They say they will step up efforts to close campaign donation loopholes that benefit politicians and companies, and will press for more independent government ethics monitors and tighter restrictions on Albany's long pay - to - play culture by individuals, groups and corporations with business before the governor or Legislature.

Not exact matches

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

According to a 2013 survey of more than 22,000 business executives by the Katzenbach Center at Strategy &, most leaders understand the key point I just mentioned — that culture plays a critical role in achieving great financial performance - and successfully leading and managing change.

A specific character on that show, Abed (played by Danny Pudi) has a strong obsession with pop culture, and specifically Easter eggs.

And that is driven in part by a shareholder - value / activism / whatever culture that Icahn has played a part in promoting.

Limited partners play a critical role in shaping culture at firms by way of their capital allocation processes and influence.

Officers and directors of Canadian corporations should invest in ensuring the existence of an ethical corporate culture as they will be expected to «play by the rules» in their international ventures.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love And Play When No One Has The Time, spoke at WorkHuman about the stress caused by a culture that glorifies constant busy - ness.

GFI believes these presentations played a key role in the firms investing more than $ 15 million into cultured meat.37 Another notable accomplishment was the development of plant - based meat and fish courses at UC Berkeley.38 The courses were popular enough that UC Berkeley decided to introduce a permanent «Program for Meat Alternatives» course, co-designed by GFI and which GFI plans to replicate nationally.39

By this Huizinga does not mean to equate culture and play but only to suggest that «in its earliest phases culture has the play - character, that it proceeds in the shape and mold of play.

As more and more people began to gather for worship at the Banks House, United Pursuit played Christian music festivals and had its music covered by the internationally recognized worship band Jesus Culture.

The culture war that America has exported to Ireland played itself out quietly in two talks delivered on the margins of the music and dancing: one by the writer Frank McCourt, the other by the priest Father Charlie Coen.

By resting much of his case on the unproven assumption that schools in the past played the role he wishes they would play today, Hirsch detracts from his generally plausible argument that more could be done today to help children know and understand their culture.

Margaret Mead notes that «within traditional American culture... there runs a persistent belief that all leisure [play] must be earned by work and good works... [and] second, while it is enjoyed it must be seen in a context of future work and good works.

The recent sex scandals play a relatively small part in the story and are represented as indicative of larger dynamics created by the mistakes in implementing Vatican II at a time when newly affluent and confident Catholics were engaging a culture that was in the process of self - destructing.

Of course, taboos played a large role in all three cultures, but in the axial period they were understood differently by each culture.

The last suggestively argues that dominant notions of «religious freedom» in our political culture have been shaped by Protestant individualism rather than by ecclesial Christianity, with the result of playing into the hands of secularist delusions about the autonomous self.

Altizer's position represents his attempt to grasp the inner logic of the Incarnation, though he is fully conscious of the fact that the profanity of contemporary culture plays an essential role in his formulation of a radically immanental interpretation of Christ.31 He presents a telling case against attempts in Christian theology to conceive God as an immutable Absolute wholly unaffected by the contingencies of history.

An appreciation of the role of the Turks in Islamic culture requires some understanding of the part played by the different Turkish empires during these centuries.

; I think understanding our philosophical presuppositions is important when addressing Christian Theology, but at the same time I think it's time Christian's stopped playing by culture's philosophical rules.

It is something like interpreting current culture while having the television on blaring out a rap number on M TV, while a devotional song by M. S. Subbalakshmi plays on the tape recorder, and while the radio is tuned to the 9 o'clock news!

Citing books by Al Gore and Bill McKibben to support his critique of our consumer - oriented culture, French emphasizes the crucial role churches can and should play in sensitizing us to the need for sacrifice if we are to reverse the destruction.

Meanwhile, our postmodern culture plays footsie with dark powers it imagines to be light pleasures, harmless fantasies, or old bogies now neutered by cool analysis.

Even though the creators of the National Curriculum are keen to emphasise the importance of what they call «the English literary heritage», by which they mean «authors with an enduring appeal that transcends the period in which they were writing, and who have played a significant role in the development of literature in English» [Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 2007, 71), their choice of recommended authors reveals a set of post-Protestant secular assumptions which need to be challenged if Catholic culture is to flourish in Catholic schools.

The structures of the Christian church may have little or no part to play in the years ahead, but the world we live in will remain deeply influenced by Christianity, its beliefs, customs, and culture.

It's the culture at the club and it starts with the owner... you got to held people accountable & be about winning not about turning around profit (which by the way if you win gets bigger as you attract more commercial deals & bigger players that wants to win / play for the best)!!

Fabregas has certainly played under some true managerial greats in his career, with Wenger and Mourinho joined by Pep Guardiola, Vicente del Bosque and Antonio Conte in taking turns to coach the cultured playmaker.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The Brazilian internationalists, two - time World Cup winners, bring their samba culture into the game, with relaxed, uninhibited play marked by dashing runs by their brilliant forwards Garrincha and Pelé.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

He responded with a stinging attack directed at the pair, mentioning the «culture» of Manchester United which it was implied the pair had damaged by refusing to play when not at 100 %.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

When Scott Bearby, General Counsel for the NCAA, was asked by yours truly at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio last week about who holds the athletic trainers and medical staff accountible about return - to - play decisions for student athletes, it opened the door to an interesting observation about the culture of concussions.

As a culture, it's easy to get bombarded and let open - ended play time for our children slip by as we worry about whether they're reading by age three, holding a pencil correctly by age two, and counting to 100 by age four or even involved in dance, music, and t - ball each and every week.

Surrounded by the thousands of musicians who play on our stages, climb our steps, jam in our lobbies, we come from something larger - a rich history, an evolving tradition, a living culture of folks from around Chicago and the world coming together to create music.

Whereas Senator Sheldon Silver has refused to take up legislative action that would eliminate the «Pay for Play» culture that allows for our legislators to be used as bought and paid for commodities by outside business concerns, as your Governor I must fully investigate the Assembly and Senates ties to Business and the Lobbyists who curry favor with our legislators to gain undo advantage for those businesses at the peoples expense.

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

Today, the New York Times used vivid details to show New Yorkers that Albany remains awash in money and utterly dominated by a cynical, pay to play culture that exploits every possible legal loophole, and often seems bereft of basic ethics.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

Congresswoman Kathleen Rice says it created pressure to hold people accountable and will be recognized by history for helping change the pay - to - play culture.

Nojay, a freshman Assemblyman from the Rochester region, says he, too is «appalled» by Albany's pay to play culture, but he has a different solution for curbing corruption.

The push for public financing of campaigns comes as a study by the New York Public Interest Research Group finds more evidence of Albany's pay - to - play culture.

For the past four months, the people of Manhattan have grappled with accusations of their District Attorney cultivating a pay - to - play culture in which the rich and powerful skate by serious criminal charges — if their lawyers contribute sizable donations to DA Vance's campaign.

Free publicity isn't easy to come by in a pay - for - play culture such as ours.

«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» says the report, which was released today at 6:05 p.m. by the Cuomo - appointed Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» the executive summary says.

The push for public financing of campaigns comes as a study by the New York Public Interest Research Group finds more evidence of Albany's pay to play culture.