Sentences with phrase «taken from culture»

Both artists in their works use references taken from culture, religion and everyday life.

And now, at one Canadian university, a yoga class designed to include disabled students has been canceled after concerns the practice was taken from a culture that «experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy,» according to the group that once sponsored it.

Given the extraordinary success that Amazon seems to be having in the e-reader market, and the possibility that it will start deploying even more open source soon, now would be an an excellent time for Jeff Bezos to commit publicly to giving to as well as taking from the culture that is making all that possible.

Not exact matches

Just as I might take a closer look when I see something in the world I like (from artwork to stylized writing to a company culture): When I run across people I like, I talk to them.

Meddling in the wrong ways or too often can either produce a culture where people don't like to take actions because they know you'll eventually just step in anyways, or — equally badly — the company gets unfocused from the constant interventions.

From equipping employees with the tools to be successful to providing career paths, here are a few pieces of advice on what it takes to have a high - performance culture.

Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.

When Eric Gales emigrated to Canada from the U.K. in 2006 to take the job of VP Microsoft Canada he brought with him not just self - made management skills, but the kind of risk - taking attitude sorely lacking in Canadian business culture.

Take a page from the Google book of company culture and create a casual co-working space to encourage collaboration and inspire creativity.

There's a depth of reporting here that suggests he took this assignment personally, and he makes a compelling argument that the interests of a publicly traded corporation and a Wall Street culture hell - bent on wringing every last efficiency from a business aren't compatible with the stock in trade of the journalism industry — reporting that earns and safeguards the public trust.

To build a great team, make sure that you take a step back from resumes and candidates» pre-determined interview responses to look for individuals that will fit your company culture and are eager to l...

The mode has completely taken over video game culture, with everyone from celebrities to major game streamers to your kids playing either «Fortnite» or «PUBG.»

These bananas are sterile and dependent on propagation via cloning, either by using suckers and cuttings taken from the underground stem or through modern tissue culture.

Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

Many immigrant women come from cultures where they are raised to take on a secondary or caregiver role.

In tailoring new experiences to a traveler's needs, many hotels are taking their cues from the broader gaming culture.

Like many others, I took my cues from pop culture, which treats the profession with condescension - laced amusement.

I'm sensitive to people taking stories without any reciprocation to the cultures they're taking from.

The best business owners take pains to stand out from the crowd through a culture of innovation.

Increasingly, the office of the future communicates a company's culture and values, taking a page from the hospitality industry — from cafe spaces that host collaboration and conferencing to dedicated respite areas for employees.

Leslie Miley, a Silicon Valley veteran who is on a leave from his position as director of engineering at Slack, said he absolutely took what he called Uber's «a — hole culture» into account in hiring decisions.

The culture of innovation is all about taking risks and learning from mistakes, trial and error.

After World War I, with ears across Europe still ringing from explosions, the transnational culture war against noise really took off.

Jon Salas, 28, recently took a big pay cut to leave the «cardboard dry culture» at a multinational human resources consulting firm where he felt isolated from bosses and colleagues.

To keep your office culture from turning toxic you need to take action when it is merely unpleasant.

It takes a commitment, an understanding and an authenticity to truly have a culture that stands out from the crowd.

Eventually, your culture will need to shift from something you actively teach and enforce to something your whole team takes part in.

And then follow your apology up with what you'll do to correct and learn from the mistake, because that turns an error into a course correction — and creates a culture where taking risks is not just accepted but expected.

A workplace rich in culture is what separates the leaders from the rest, recognizing that it takes a multitude of different points of view to fully comprehend the complexity of business challenges.

SAN FRANCISCO — In Uber's continuing attempt to repair its reputation over a series of scandals stemming from its bad - boy culture, its co-founder Travis Kalanick said he would take a leave of absence as chief executive.

Based on the belief that there's no point investing into fast growth startups without a culture in which they could grow, we served as both fund and catalyst to stimulate a lot more risk taking from both entrepreneurs and investors.

CEO Jack Griffin's 18 - month redo, post - Tribune split from its mothership, Tribune Company, in mid-2014 was only the latest twist since Sam Zell took control of the company in late December, 2007, performing a clean sweep of top Tribune management, installing his own people and then entering the famed five - year bankruptcy from hell (David Carr's 2010 nail - in - the - coffin column: «At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture»).

But she's also no stranger to merging technology and culture, having taken a company — Tribold — from inception to acquisition (by Sigma in 2013), and she continues to advise service providers on how to drive their own transformations.

«I met people from so many different cultures and backgrounds, and these experiences really opened me up and took me outside of the «safe box» I'd been living in.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

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Our work - driven culture encourages us to take the entrepreneurial bait, but how can you know whether being an entrepreneur will end as a dream come true or a nightmare from which you can not awake?

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

Plant - based milk is already showing a tendency to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in one category growing as sales in another category decline.21 It seems plausible that cultured and plant - based meat will similarly take market share from the sales of conventional meat, especially as it becomes more cost - competitive, widely available, and harder to distinguish from conventional meat in taste and texture.

If and when cultured meat becomes commercially available, it may take market shares from plant - based meat, but that does not necessarily eliminate the value of developing better plant - based meat technology.

Plant - based dairy products such as milk continue to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in the former category growing as sales in the latter category decline.45 It seems likely that cultured meat products will have similar effects, sometimes replacing plant - based products, but also replacing products of animal agriculture — particularly because they will likely be harder to distinguish by taste and texture than current substitutes.

(Brian Orme) Richard, in your new book Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport, you take a scene from the movie Hardcore to expound on the issues of Calvinism and culture; do...

(Brian Orme) Richard, in your new book Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport, you take a scene from the movie Hardcore to expound on the issues of Calvinism and culture; do you think that the Calvinistic beliefs inherent in the TULIP are relevant for today's world?

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

A future Billy Graham will take cues, then, from the Apostle Paul and his outreach to ancient pagan culture.

What I'd like us all to take from «wm» is a conviction that conservative pop culture studies have to attend to the impact of the medium as well as of the message, or better said, since McLuhan can't be fully right, that we must grapple with the popularity as well as the culture of pop culture.

The moment that I set myself up as the «victim» of «journalism shaming,» not only do I take something away from people who have truly been victimized, but I add to the momentum of false victimhood culture while ignoring the words of Jesus about turning the other cheek.

From what i have read about the culture, it would be perfectly normal for Jesus to take a wife.

On the other hand, the younger set takes their sexual cues from the resurrection (preferring not to think about the so - called «order of creation») while using Genesis to highlight their culture - making activities and their environmental concerns.

The lesson many of them took from Of Grammatology was that the tradition didn't have the authority their older teachers claimed for it, and that «textuality» leveled culture to a single plane of production and interpretation.