Sentences with phrase «struggle against the culture»

This is a cultural struggle against the culture of violence and death of the Roman Empire.

The movement of Jesus for the Reign of God is a combined struggle against the culture of the Roman and Greek imperial powers and principalities, and against the encroaching cultural pollution in the life of God's people.

Simplifying for me is an endless struggle against a culture and a marketplace that urge Discontent.

Not exact matches

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

Gramsci claimed many workers before the war «had seen in futurism the elements of a struggle against the old academic culture of Italy, mummified and alien to the popular masses.

This cultural struggle of the people of God is the same as their struggle for the culture of their covenant with God against the culture of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

The House of Lords last night voted against the government order on casinos, leaving culture secretary Tessa Jowell struggling to claim plans are «very much alive».

It was not a battle of cultures, not a struggle against Islam, but a chaotic confrontation of warlords and princes.

His films are about people struggling within, and against, the confines of their culture, their industry, their expectations, and either busting through those walls or watching as the walls close in on them.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

A writer named Shahriar — the author's fictional alter ego — has struggled for years against the all - powerful censor at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

The Djerzinski half - brothers, Bruno, a failed academic and sexual obsessive, and Michel, an asexual, lonely molecular biologist, struggle to survive in this broadside against the decadent 1960s, which strives to show that a permissive culture leads to loneliness and misery.

Each embarks on adventures that reveal a world in turmoil as the faithful await the Messiah, Indians struggle to preserve their cultures, women fight for equal rights, and the industrialized assault against nature begins.

Its achievements expressed a culture's limits, struggled against those limits, and also gained meaning from them.

For some Muslims, Western secular culture and the conspicuous consumption that often goes along with it are seen as undermining their faith; others acknowledge the democratic systems of the West but struggle to balance that appreciation against a religion that they feel leaves little room for liberal values.

Jackson Pollock and Sid Vicious both, consciously or otherwise, mobilized the conventional signs of a (still) romanticized countercultural artist - as - rebel struggling against the strictures of consumer culture.

U.S.'s First Official Climate Refugees Race Against Time A Native American tribe struggles to hold on to their culture while their land slips into the Gulf of Mexico.

Law firms struggling with their millennial lawyers are all coming up against the same fundamental problem: The millennial personality is a poor match for traditional law firm culture.