Sentences with phrase «tendencies within»

Well, it turns out that our epigenetic structure has a lot to do with controlling the tendencies within our bodies.

During the late 1940's and the early 1950's, abstract expressionism established itself as a dominant movement in the US, sprouting different tendencies within its own aesthetic canon.

New Museum's Triennial tradition began in 2009, and it has focused on tracing tendencies within the field of contemporary art.

Documentary practices make up one of the most significant tendencies within art of the last two decades.

Presenting the work of a diverse selection of international artists, both emerging and established, the programme provides a snapshot of current tendencies within the medium.

Curated by artist - filmmaker Guy Sherwin, this exhibition offers the visitor a comprehensive over - view of the aesthetic, conceptual and institutional tendencies within British experimental film and expanded cinema.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s Clement Greenberg was the first art critic to suggest and identify a dichotomy between differing tendencies within the Abstract Expressionist canon.

People must be «anti-racists» which means actively being conscious of racist tendencies within ourselves and others, and promptly shutting them down.

For the socially and culturally conservative, strongly patriotic tendencies within the British Left's traditional electoral base.

It is thought that the Spanish government would be opposed to allowing any region of another EU country gaining independence and gaining membership - as this would encourage separatist tendencies within its own borders.

Pakistan's association with the Afghan jihad during his rule and with the Kashmir struggle in its aftermath further strengthened religiously radical tendencies within both the state and wider society.

I think it is possible to make some calculated guesses based upon current tendencies within the liberal church.

Echoing here the sentiments of Matthew Lamb, who spoke on the preceding day, Cobb thus cautioned fellow practitioners of process theology against uncritical universalizing tendencies within their own metaphysical orientation.

Seemingly opposite, these two tendencies within our culture both have their root in that same fundamental desire to be master of death.

He controversially brought out tendencies within Islam to relegate reason:

The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.

First, it should be acknowledged that there is a strong tendency within the ecology movement to give «survival,» understood in conservative, even elitist terms, pre-eminence in our national policies.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

«In Egypt, the State doesn't stop people from gathering but there is a tendency within some elements in the community to think Christians don't have the right to worship,» Bishop Angaelos said.

The «Playboy syndrome» reflects a special problem for women — the tendency within a male - dominated culture for many men and women to perceive and judge women first as bodies and second, if at all, as persons.

In addition to this tendency within himself he will in all likelihood be surrounded by many people who regard his new enlightenment as moonshine and will exert a day - by - day pressure to bring him back into line with «ordinary» life.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for straight, upper - middle - class, Western men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and the rest of the world should conform to it.

There is a tendency within American evangelicalism to avoid saying what the Bible really means — or even what you really mean, as Eugene Peterson's recent embarrassing flap demonstrated.

There is a tendency within British politics to put too much responsibility on individual politicians — partly because they have a high profile and because people overstate their power to control their own Departments.

Although the majority of Cameron's strategy is in fact premised on securing EU wide reforms as opposed to UK - specific arrangements, their broad decentralising thrust goes against the prevailing integrationist tendency within the EU.

Cost is a significant part of how pet owners choose their veterinarians, but there's a tendency within the industry to withhold pricing details until after the service has been completed.

It's worth noting that there's an obvious tendency within the Slow movement (and it really is a movement) to romanticise or idealise things.

I have had the fortune to live through much of gaming's great milestones, and as such, have a tendency within me to amass as much of its history as I can.

Unlike Mike Kelley or Jason Rhoades, coming out from the West Coast school of installation immersive art, Genzken came out from a firmly masculine tendency within Europe but one that wholeheartedly embraced a new public experience of art.

The Cynthia Corbett Gallery presents Young Masters at AFFORDABLE ART FAIR PREVIEW SHOW HERE An Homage to Literature This year's presentation at the London Art Fair curated by the Young Masters is a focus on a tendency within contemporary photography to reflect and draw upon literary figures and narratives.

Now considered to represent the Colour Field Painting tendency within American Abstract Expressionism, these rectangles of uniform width fill the canvas almost edge to edge; at the top and bottom the forms also press close to the perimeter.

As a result, Wainwright observes the tendency within art - focused disciplines to «isolate black British art as a special topic, disconnected from the mainland of their interests» (30).

Lyotard saw postmodernism as a latent tendency within thought throughout time and not a narrowly limited historical period.

Every visual and conceptual tendency within it is just a rambling conversation that can be picked up again at any moment, and re-imagined through the voice of each new era.

Lyrical Abstraction was not a specific school or movement, rather a tendency within Art Informel.

We saw a deeply retrogressive tendency within the arguments being made by environmentalists and politicians.

Outside France, total bans are also called into question with a clear tendency within the EU to abolish them.

There is a tendency within many who hew to zealously to personal branding strategies to make it all about ME.

Not exact matches

Some executives within RIM have encouraged Balsillie to rein in his bombastic tendencies in the past.

The tendency to hire from within is even more pronounced in small industries, she says, where it is frowned upon to poach employees from competitors, and in countries like Japan, where «leaving a job is culturally seen as treachery.»

Is someone with abusive paedophile tendencies more or less likely to put those urges into action if he (or indeed she) can indulge those fantasies within the confines of a book?

However resilient the US economy, the slowdown being experienced in Asia and Latin America may force the Fed to lower its growth outlook (in June, the central bank announced a reduction in its so - called «central tendency for growth» through 2017) and could dent confidence that inflation will accelerate toward the Fed's target within a reasonable time frame.

These policy trends, as well as the tendency of consumption to increase its share within GDP as per - capita GDP rises, suggest that mass - market consumer spending should grow materially faster than overall GDP growth.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

First there is a tendency, owing perhaps to its MacIntyrean inspiration, to conceive of this «option» primarily in practical or political terms, that is, as a kind of «communitarian» stance within an increasingly hostile public square.

Even among German Reformed ministers «Pietist tendencies seem never to have been very pronounced; soon Continental Pietism as an identifiable movement within the colonies largely disappeared into the mainstream.»

This moralistic tendency in contemporary evangelicalism also leads evangelicals to play a divisive role within the church.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

(The tendency of some parents, of course, is to blame «outside bad influence» and ignore the problems within their marriage which are disturbing the child.)

But within a thought, there will be some tendency for one thought to be followed by another again and again.