Sentences with phrase «predominant culture»

It appears the predominant culture on Earth and its artificially designed, endlessly expanding global economy could soon have pernicious, inadvertent impacts on the Earth.

Let us consider that it could become dangerous to life as know it on Earth for the human community much longer to pursue the prized «business as usual» course of the predominant culture: unbridled overproduction, unrestrained overconsumption and unchecked overpopulation because, when these distinctly human activities are taken together, an overpowering force of nature exists that could become unsustainable on the relatively small, evident finite, noticeably frangible planet God blesses us to inhabit and steward, and surely not to overwhelm.

Depending on your location within this small country, and based on the predominant culture of an area, you'll get to see a different side of Belize.

Tutorial networks in public schools are a means to obviate a major distortion imposed on learners by the predominant culture that determines the themes that teachers and students should learn, and the times within which they should be mastered.

Although the practices of FGM have been preserved and promoted as part of a society's predominant culture and religion, it is a fact that there are not religious documents or holy books referring to any kind of obligation of a woman to be subjected to FGM (Preston D. Mitchum, 1993, p. 593).

In an allegedly pluralistic society, the predominant culture is more concerned with openness than identity.

The museum generally focuses on the predominant cultures of Curaçao.

Not exact matches

Similarly, one can not understand Russian politics without reference to Russian Orthodoxy and the influence this faith has had on the formation of the predominant worldview in Russian culture.

As a western culture, our predominant religion in this country is Christianity, but there are certainly others.

While the cohesive power of a shared culture dominated earlier societies, a predominant feature of the modern state is the tendency towards individualism.

So often as a culture we insist that our children should feel one predominant emotion — happiness — the majority of the time.

In the laboratory, they isolated and cultured mesothelial cells and fibroblasts, two of the predominant cell types found in omental tissue.

If only the streets of Houston were a modicum of that, sigh, sadly culture and the arts and artistic living aren't quite as predominant here.

I am aware of some schools even using outdoor learning as catalyst in changing the predominant teaching culture in the school.

Instead, school culture that denies students opportunities for meaningful involvement is the predominant reality today.

1492 restaurant, with a fifty - foot thatched palm ceiling is perhaps Hotel Punta Islitas most distinguishable landmark and pays tribute to the architectural style of the Chorotegas, the area's once predominant native culture.

Aspects of American popular culture and the depiction of various social milieus have provided his work's repeatedly occurring and predominant imagery, which encompasses painting, photography, sculpture, and installation.

No information is given about the nature of the exhibition, or even its predominant medium, but knowing Kulesh's work — ranging from her T.A.G. «post-digital» clothing collection to her «Glamourshotz» © ® ™ show at Lima Zulu — it's going to be full of pop culture references.

Each of these artists has devoted their practice to confronting predominant historical narratives embedded in Western culture.

Car culture remains predominant.»

Participants will create a 1 - 2 minute «elevator pitch,» a brief persuasive and informative presentation in which they will discuss the importance of social - emotional learning and school culture and climate at their school (participants may use other equivalent terminology that is more predominant in their particular school if necessary).

In terms of the beliefs about love, based on John Alan Lee's six attitudinal styles of love — Eros (erotic), Pragma (rational), Ludus (game play), Storge (friendship), Mania (passionate) and Agape (altruistic)(De Andrade & Garcia, 2014, Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986)-- studies in various cultures indicate that men tend to have a predominant outgoing and adventurous style in their romantic interactions (ludus), while women possess more rational (pragma), friendly and companion (storge), intense and uncontrolled (mania) profiles than men (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1995, 2000; Sprecher & Toro - Morn, 2002).