Sentences with phrase «surrounded by the culture»

Burn says many men are surrounded by a culture that reduces women to sexualized objects, which normalizes female colleague in a less than professional manner.

We are surrounded by a culture of selfishness.

All of these are very difficult to commit to unless your surrounded by the culture of whichever faith you explore.

Kayris, not all women are as informed about breastfeeding as you are, nor are they surrounded by a culture of breastfeeding.

Surrounded by culture in the heart of Old Montreal stands Hotel William Gray.

Surrounded by the culture and history of Colonial Williamsburg, only 5 miles from Newport News / Williamsburg Intl Airport...

If you're looking for an unforgettable 2018 holiday surrounded by culture, charm, and incredible coastline, as well as delicious cuisine, Catania is the destination for you.

Here are a few reasons why it's a top place for solo travellers — or in fact anyone who wants a break surrounded by culture, history and sunshine.

Surrounded by culture and beautiful traditional Balinese landscapes of forest - covered ravines and endless Padi fields, the Duana Sari Hotel offers a real escape from reality.

Not exact matches

Successful people challenge themselves by trying new things, exposing themselves to different cultures and ideas, and surrounding themselves with people who think differently.

Just as with any other industry, Startup Land has its own unspoken etiquette that can make moving into the industry initially a little forbidding to those who didn't come up surrounded by tech culture.

Being surrounded by the right people not only drives his success, Atkins says, but helps create a culture they want to stay with as the company grows.

However, it's often even more about other things: being part of a community, being surrounded by inspiring people, and to broaden your horizon with different cultures and stories.

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

And then I went to a tiny Christian college and that's where I lost my faith, surrounded by Christians, with no influence of pop culture and not so much as one atheist in my circle of acquaintances.

To disregard this surrounding culture is to nullify much of the Bible's spiritual meaning by reading into it what is not there but is imputed to it from the thought patterns of a different day.

As a Christian church, we are being addressed on these issues by our surrounding culture.

Confusion surrounding Vatican II had led to a culture of dissent, symbolized by the widespread rejection of Humanae Vitae.

(For example, by his own standards, Webb would have to admit that Hebrew dietary laws and economic laws were more restrictive than the surrounding culture.

Within liberal circles the reaction is to blend more adequately with the surrounding culture by adapting «the new authority» to ecclesial purposes.

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.

Unlike the gods of surrounding nations, Yahweh does not appear mainly to create a sacred place, a cultic center, where human culture is protected by becoming close to unchanging divine reality.

Though water baptism is a great and wonderful symbol, it is not immediately understood by our surrounding culture as it was in New Testament times.

By appearances, the book is little more than a long, historical survey of the doctrine of the atonement, showing how various views of the atonement have been developed over time and in response to various events within the church and the surrounding culture.

But for symbols to work, they have to be immediately understood by those in our surrounding culture.

kudalk No, that much is true, but they did consider it a magical place (imagine two rings of islands, one inside the other, otherwise surrounded by water... likely they could not conceive that this is a natural formation for volcanoes), and was a center of culture and art.

In a very real way, our time and the surrounding culture may be defined by scientific and technological advances, and perhaps even more by the incoherent and confused responses to these advances.

For the symbolism of baptism to work properly, the symbolism has to be understood not only by those getting baptized, but also by those who observer the baptism, including the surrounding non-Christian culture of friends, neighbors, and coworkers who hear about it.

We live in a land that has made the accumulation of stuff a divine right AND a divine attribute surrounded by a consumer culture that has «shoved us into it's mold» while we weren't looking.

Surrounding the somewhat recalcitrant materials of community and religious culture are the far less easily mastered elements of the natural world, which in «The Island» is represented by the light, the wind and the sea.

If I am governed only by the opinions and models that I obtain from my surrounding culture then I am not really an individual.

Part of this culture of criticism surrounding singleness comes in the implicit judgment that if a person is single later in life (and by that, I mean after 25), there must be something wrong with him or her — single for a reason, as opposed to single for a season.

If we look at technology itself without its embeddedness in the culture that surrounds, creates, and is shaped by it, the relationship between technology and culture is an issue that we can answer only speculatively.

Is it being taught by the surrounding culture?

By its efficient operation and attentive care of its members, the congregation reinforced the surrounding privatized culture.

God's people are always, it seems, in danger of being overwhelmed by the larger and dominant culture surrounding them.

After moving to the United Kingdom for a few months, surrounded by a new culture and colorful accent, afternoon tea seemed like a very British tradition to experience.

In other cultures, women often spend their postpartum surrounded by family — their own mother, aunts and sisters.

Incest survivors have lived with the most terrible secrets, have constantly been told by society not to say anything (explicitly or implicitly), we generally can't share our pasts and experiences because there is still such a culture of shame surrounding us.

This is a huge assumption on my part, but I think a child that has the opportunity to be surrounded by so many different cultures will enter adulthood well - prepared.

As the Canadian underdog surrounded by Chinese culture, I'm the one who has had to be more flexible, particularly related to the Chinese tradition in which extended family comes to care for both the infant and the new parents.

Surrounded by the thousands of musicians who play on our stages, climb our steps, jam in our lobbies, we come from something larger - a rich history, an evolving tradition, a living culture of folks from around Chicago and the world coming together to create music.

In nearly every culture throughout history, women have been surrounded and cared for by other women during childbirth and the postpartum period.

She grew up surrounded by chaos and a violent culture, and chose a path of education and hard work as her way out of a violent community, as opposed to falling into violence herself.

«A deep - rooted pay - to - play culture exists that has not only diminished public trust in government but has also betrayed and diminished our election process,» said Maragos at a news conference in Mineola surrounded by supporters and employees from the comptroller's office.

But according to radiocarbon dating of burnt wood bits found in the plaster and from surrounding strata, it is by far the oldest known Mayan writing — dating from between 300 and 200 B.C., which is roughly concurrent with the earliest writings of other Mesoamerican cultures.

Although electrolyte leakage is still undesired, its danger is minimized by the use of either the normal saline solution pumped into the body in most IV treatments or a cell - culture medium that contains amino acids, sugars, and vitamins in addition to sodium ions and thus mimics the fluid that surrounds human cells.

Pilings that held weekend camps surrounded by thick marshes a decade ago stand in open water, hundreds of yards from the nearest land — mute testimony to a vanishing culture.

We are surrounded by diet culture how can we expect for these thoughts to simply disappear?!

Learning to resist fitness culture after being immersed for it in years (and continuing to be surrounded by it by virtue of the world we live in) is hard work.