Sentences with phrase «strong cultural pressure»

If you consider the strong cultural pressure (now it just shows you are even MORE wealthy) combined with the sense that due to high price it's a good investment (it is also treated almost like money), then we might not expect much of a change.

Men and women are called to serve each other in various ways, and women who refuse to pornify themselves, especially in the face of strong cultural pressures and incentives to do so, honor themselves and others of their sex while also honoring those of us of the opposite sex.

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In India, the pressure on the word «dating» is strong, considering our cultural and societal conditioning.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).