Sentences with phrase «practicing their culture as»

In the remote Yaeda Valley, you can be lulled into the sense that the land indeed stretches far past the horizon, that the Hadza can go on practicing their culture as they always have.

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Dig Deeper: Tips on Building Your Company Culture From a Blue - collar Millionaire How to Create a Company Philosophy: Practice What You Preach The principles in a company's philosophy have to come from, and be true to, the founder or CEO as a person.

Although focusing on organizational culture as a differentiator has become a more common practice in the business world, there are still many misconceptions about what culture really means and how to make it successful.

In addition, Great Place to Work scores a Culture Audit management questionnaire from each company, which reports details such as compensation and benefits, hiring practices, recognition, training, and diversity programs.

The company's seemingly ruthless business practices were well - known, but the brokenness of its internal culture came as more of a surprise.

The principles and practices captured in our corporate documents and policies, as well as the culture of integrity that can not be fully captured in them, are central to our ongoing ability to provide energy, high - quality jobs, shareholder returns and tax revenues that fund public policy.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the second major shake - up in a week, a top Uber executive has left the ride - hailing company as it comes under heavy scrutiny for its workplace culture and its business practices.

We provide a format for family meetings that is interactive and meaningful in supporting the family's culture, opportunities for multigenerational decision - making practice (such as a multi-gen investment committee), and skills development to enhance listening and communication within the family.

Based in purpose, culture, and diversity, he brings this vision and practice to the world as a partner at Epoch Pi, a values - and purpose - driven investment bank in Cleveland, OH.

Dan Denison defines workplace culture as «the underlying values, beliefs, and principles that serve as a foundation for an organization's management system as well as the practices and behaviors that both exemplify and reinforce those basic principles.»

«Each period, whether a day, a month, a year or longer, represents an infinite number of possible learning opportunities, revealing more and more about correlations, hedging, law, regulation, culture, sizing positions, trading versus holding, activism, bankruptcy law and practice, government action and political impacts on investing, organizational realities and growth, as well as the kind of personal characteristics that are required to do this job well.»

Using elements of our culture, especially movies, as discussion starters that can be led by the Holy Spirit is a practice more of us should employ.

«Our culture's sexual freedom is more accurately described as sexual addiction,» says West, who was working this out in practice during his formative university years.

All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like, say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.

The secular West puts this co-existance as absolute, and that is the problem because they leave evil cultures alone as if the evil practices must be protected.

It was Arendt's remarkable ability to face the double tradition from which she emerged with a sharp - eyed focus that characterizes much of her work: its generosity for the practice of democracy and her fierce determination to explain for herself as well as for others the failure of her former culture to endure despite its qualities.

Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.

Contemporary romantics are given to disdaining the etiquette tradition of their own modern culture, while waxing sentimental over similar practices in what they regard as more authentic cultures.

We do not advocate accommodation to culture; we regard Scripture as the sole ultimate norm for doctrine and practice.

By contrast, those responsible for ruling, the «philosopher kings,» were to be «cultured» in a way that formed in them the «philosophical virtue» that was grounded in knowledge of the Good itself and not, as were the guardians» virtues, simply trained into them by custom and practice.

More than an intellectual manifesto, the invitation pledges signers to specific spiritual practices: maintaining a vital prayer life, conducting works of mercy and engaging in a regular Friday fast «as a form of prayerful resistance to the idolatrous practices of our culture.»

Factors such as trade routes, the order of military encampment, property divisions, farming practices, building practices, economics and technology, and social stratification» not to mention a vast array of ritual processions and gatherings that might have only a tenuous connection to the type of conscious and coherent cosmology that Msgr. Mannion presupposes to have existed in these cultures» all coexisted with whichever form of religious devotion was particular to a given place and people.

I heard statements from my grandfather as far back as I could remember that homosexual practices were something the «white man» taught us and that it was a sign of weakness and weirdness in their culture.

As Niebuhr put it so well, «The effort to bring Christ and culture, God's work and man's, the temporal and the eternal, law and grace, into one system of thought and practice tends, perhaps inevitably, to the absolutizing of what is relative, the reduction of the infinite to a finite form, and the materialization of the dynamic.»

I did not realize that as a practicing Roman Catholic I was in error by supposing that our Lord was wrong when he taught us that harboring lustful thoughts and intentions (now celebrated in popular culture) is a sin.

Not all cultures have the same values, practices, and beliefs as those found in the days of Jesus and the apostles.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

Just as androcentric competition in the polis had the dark underside of classist, racist, and sexist repressions of women - slaves - children, so Greco - Roman cultures and politics came to renounce even their limited democratic ideals and practices in the pursuit of the certainties and necessities of militaristic imperialism.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

«Meditation» as a mental / emotional practice of clearing the mind is a long established practice, in virtually all religious cultures, and in psychology, neurology, medicine, etc..

As I have indicated, change and transformation will be offered from new voices and new perspective — new voices representing the pluralism within culture as a whole and within theological education, and new perspectives that allow us to speak about practices and utopian visions within these practiceAs I have indicated, change and transformation will be offered from new voices and new perspective — new voices representing the pluralism within culture as a whole and within theological education, and new perspectives that allow us to speak about practices and utopian visions within these practiceas a whole and within theological education, and new perspectives that allow us to speak about practices and utopian visions within these practices.

Yes, it is hard to be a practicing Christian in today's culture but as the Apostles said, «Lord, to whom do we go?

Sufficed to say there are many examples of cultures, more past but some present that were / are generally accepting of homosexual practices as normal and natural.

By the fourth century B.C., Athenian culture had become self - conseious about its ideal of both culture and education — or, more exactly, about education as «culturing» the young.10 At that point Plato introduced the first major modification in the idea (though, as it turned out, not the practice) of paideia.

If we understand baptism as a «full identification» then passages like Romans 6:4 can have meaning and significance for all people in all cultures at all times; not just for the segment of the world that practices burial.

Would you still require water baptism as a symbol of burial in these other cultures where such a practice is completely foreign and meaningless?

And one of the most poignant differences I noticed was in the culture of testimonies as it was practiced in these churches: Several conversations opened with the question, «So, how did you come to Christ?»

As a self - avowed, practicing member of this band, I wonder (as we flee from the wrath that is surely to come) if our work will be a harbinger of renewal in the church or another instance of nostalgia over a religious culture rapidly disappearinAs a self - avowed, practicing member of this band, I wonder (as we flee from the wrath that is surely to come) if our work will be a harbinger of renewal in the church or another instance of nostalgia over a religious culture rapidly disappearinas we flee from the wrath that is surely to come) if our work will be a harbinger of renewal in the church or another instance of nostalgia over a religious culture rapidly disappearing.

John Charlot observes in Chanting the Universe: Hawaiian Religious Culture that sacred chants were traditionally practiced on the beach so as to reproduce the modulations of wind and waves.

«Church» as practiced in America today had a valid function in the 19th century b / c it was attuned to 19th century culture.

As those cultures undergo historical change, so do practices.

Many Papua New Guineans see my culture's practice of leaving the care of the elderly to the state as a clear violation of the fifth commandment.

The practice of giving names to religious traditions is likewise a modem phenomenon, as Wilfred Cantwell Smith has pointed out, 4 and it derives from the growing awareness of other cultures and civilizations.

Alternate frameworks for collective living in India must be in the business of detecting the elements of distinctiveness (even if through difference) of Dalit and Adivasi culture and religion, which are inscribed into the communicative practices of the community, in order to represent its collective identity to itself as well as to the nation - state.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

A.E. Medlycott points out that the value of the report of Theophilus is its evidence that by the middle of the fourth century India or its adjacent territories had indigenous, worshipping congregations ministered to by local clergy, with customs such as sitting for the Gospel, that were well adapted to the Indian culture though divergent from accepted western practice.

The changes which fostered, accompanied, and were produced by the industrial revolution — such as urbanism and all that it implied — put to stringent test the practices and institutional patterns of a Protestantism which had been closely identified with rural society and culture.

In a diet - and health - obsessed culture, it is difficult to present the practice of Christian fasting as something other than another way to subdue and discipline the body.