Sentences with phrase «power structures»

Oliver Lyttleton, The Playlist «There is a vein of dark humour running through Lanthimos» earlier films, but «The Lobster» embraces it wholeheartedly: the film's a blend of the works of Charlie Kaufman and Luis Buñuel, an uproarious yet deadpan satire concerning societal constructs, dating mores and power structures that also manages to be a surprisingly moving, gloriously weird love story.»

Coates has taken the time to build his characters, so whether it's a revealing meeting between Ramonda and the philosopher Changamire or Tetu's attempt at an alliance with the renegade Dora Milaje, there's a constant sense of human struggle within the confines of their socio - political power structures.

Alternating between melancholic and aggressive string compositions by Beethoven and Shostakovich respectively, he conveys David's turbulent inner life and his growing sense of helplessness against power structures that want to strip him of his humanity.

As he and partner Della try to uncover the killer's identity, McCaffrey steps into a cover - up that threatens to shake the nation's power structures.

First, by focusing on Graham and her Post rather than the actions of Daniel Ellsberg (played here by Matthew Rhys), who leaked the Pentagon Papers, or the New York Times, which initially published them, the film opens itself up to dissect gender roles in the power structures of that time.

The results show that individuals who accept hierarchical power structures tend to a larger extent deny the problem.

The question is, would we rather have this development happen in reasonably well - regulated environments where authorities are at least somewhat accountable to the public, or are we happy to let countries with more questionable human rights records and even more opaque power structures take the lead?

In society at large, however, novators were treated with suspicion; subject to life imprisonment (or worse)-- their ideas seen to undermine existing social, political and religious power structures.

«This study joins several others in alluding to a link between traditions in heterosexual romantic relationships and power structures favoring men,» says Robnett.

The goal, McCracken says, is to «turn the usual power structures upside - down» to make kids feel comfortable talking to experts about science.

When county organizations are reluctant to embrace technology or lack a web presence, it suggests that they are more focussed on maintaining old power structures that have existed for decades than engaging with the public, according to Kaehny.

It is vital that all of them get a chance to compete because a) the health of a democracy is tied to our right to challenge power structures and b) the Red Sox and Yankees are going to be super-awful this year so we can't count on them for amusement.

Any potential speaker must balance the geographic power structures and identity politics to be elected, according to Jerry Kremer, a former assemblyman who once bid, unsuccessfully, for the job.

The Lib Dems love presenting themselves as the insurgents within the system, poised always to demolish Westminster's old power structures, etc., etc..

And that aversion to objective truth is eating away at the left as well, with a whole generation now convinced of the despairing nihilism of Michel Foucault's philosophy — basically that our only truths are personal ones dependent on our place in time and power structures.

While much of this discrepancy can be explained with reference to society's established power structures and imbalances, we'd like to see more of an effort made on the Committee side to bring about, where possible, a greater degree of gender and regional parity.

Its campaigns in the by - elections later in 2012, particularly the potentially sticky contest in Rotherham, have been much more successful and aware of the pitfalls of entrenched local power structures in «safe seats».

The power structures in Central New York remained from the first day I started running at the end of 2005 to today.

Right - wing ideologies favour power structures that are top - down.

I guess we have to consolidate all the fragmented power structures into one area to make it more efficient for the corporations to apply their powers, eh?

Such, in effect, triple hierarchisation — where territory, institutional power structures and discourse of identity and belonging (communality) sit in parallel hierarchical arrangements — is now being challenged by a growing urban / metropolitan voice stepping out of the seemingly homogenous sonority of a national discursive «backcloth».

Gulf rulers are terrified at the prospect of home - grown Islamists using elections to venture their way into political power — and thereby do away with the traditional monarchical power structures.

Attitudes and power structures that permit male dominance over women's breasts, has reached such excess in North American society that breastfeeding can be considered «obscene», spawning US state legislation that expressly excludes breastfeeding women from obscenity laws.

Together, these studies point to the importance of formative research about local gender norms and power structures to inform interventions.

Kids often punish each other for being different, and power structures like schools and other institutions use whatever behavioral control possible to keep kids «in line.»

While technological advance, agricultural and industrial development and modernization of social structures are necessary, they accentuate the pathological exploitative characteristics of traditional society while destroying their traditional humanizing aspects, if the traditional power structures and the social institutions in which they are embodied remain unchanged.26

Women are able to connect with one another, share their stories, build platforms, and garner followings — with or without the permission of the power structures that would otherwise regulate their voices.

In doing so, the magic of story - telling will bind us together, so much so that we take on the perspectives and burdens of the oppressed, subvert the unjust power structures within evangelical America and extend the kingdom of God.

Jesus was in the business of turning hierarchies and power structures on their head, so why does he resort to conventional social structures to make this point to the disciples?

By participating in an evangelical world that mirrors the inequitable power structures of mainstream America, we undermine our Christian witness.

No one in the power structures of education seems to be working effectively to find an appropriate place for religion.

Systems of belief and their supporting arguments are not taken at face value, but instead analysed as rationalisations for oppression and existing power structures, or as manifestations of psychological impulses.

To that extent, a biblical view of communication challenges and confronts not only the content, but also the power structures, methods and motives of mass communication, even our «Christian» mass communication.

It's the power structures which need to be small.

In the early Christian resistance, martyrdom did not directly involve opposition to the social or power structures.

However, the information itself lends us to a significant shift in power structures where those who have power in cyberspace are those who are most able to control the information flow itself.

The rejection of sin is not merely an opposition to personal sins, but also to its structural forms, namely, the unjust power structures that keep millions enslaved, hungry, and impoverished, that oppress, alienate and dehumanise God's children on earth.

Women are grossly underrepresented in political power structures in the United States and around the world, and even in the most «advanced» nations, the vote for women is a relatively recent achievement.

Moreover, new power structures and established institutions invariably come to replace the old ones, and any initial glow of inchoate democracy can easily be undermined by the rising centers of symbolic power.

To accept even the right of self «defense, as the Pope does, is to accept the all «too «human logic of worldly power structures and to ignore the decisive victory of the Lamb.

He accuses the author of being «ignorant of abuse» for critiquing SCCL, supporting power structures that this person has been known to rail against, and the David ends with which word?

«If there is any lesson to be learned from Vashti's experience, «she writes, «it would seem to be that women who directly oppose the male power structures will simply be banished, with no opportunity for further influence on those structures.

When it was explained why this is * not okay *, David refused to listen and insisted that this person was too absorbed in power structures to care.

You shouldn't care more about building up OR tearing down power structures than people.

God's power is of an altogether different order than the power structures of this world.

In a letter to the Guardian, Jayne Ozanne, a senior member of the general synod for the diocese of Oxford, said: «Abuse of power, particularly in relation to sexual misdemeanours, will never be dealt with by those within the same said power structures.

In God's good time, the gospel takes the world by storm, and there comes a tipping point when the power structures become ours by sheer weight of numbers, as once happened in Europe.

The report stated it is not only societal power structures that can obscure the confession of Christ.

Some of the most impressive evangelism and justice ministry is being carried out by ecumenical groups outside of denominational affiliation and power structures.

A good read that has been helpful to me is Why Not Women by Bruce Hamilton and Loren Cunningham which deals with the modern church backwardness toward women and their use of scripture to try and maintain male power structures and eliminate feminine influence.