Sentences with phrase «traditional communities rather»

NGOs became «convinced that large - scale, top - down development concentrates wealth in fewer hands, transfers power to TNC's -LCB- transnational corporations], destroys traditional communities rather than developing them, disempowers the poor, and degrades the environment.»

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The standard explanations in the legal community emphasize the fierce competition for business among law firms that began when clients started to shop around for the best deal, rather than maintaining their traditional ties with a single firm.

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

When we move in this direction, and focus on comprehensive ways of life rather than on their specifically religious features, we can recognize that, alongside the traditional communities, there are new «ways» that have emerged in recent times.

«Positive internal reforms of the traditional institution are increasingly being driven by a broad coalition of the thought leaders in the communities, such as the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), rather than a small clique of the aristocracy.»

Increasingly, reform will have to involve working in partnership with citizens and communities rather than imposing change from the top - down, cutting across the traditional paternalistic ethos of the bureaucratic Left.

Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

The President General while reporting to the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Ralph Ekpeh earlier during a courtesy call shortly before the commencement of the programme said his leadership believed that only negotiation, dialogue and sound advice, rather than arrest and imprisonment can keep youths of the community off vices.

Traditional Midwives, sometimes referred to as lay midwives or community midwives, are uncertified or unlicensed midwives who often have informal education, such as apprenticeships or self - study, rather than a formal education from accredited institutions.

And most of the 13 traditional districts remaining are in rural communities rather than in a large suburban «refuge» from urban education ills.

Alternatives to charter schools (such as the Travis Heights Elementary School, sometimes referred to as an «innovation school,» rather than as an in - district community charter school) are worth investigating as a means to forestall school districts imposing traditional charter schools on their students, teachers, and parents.

The name Beyond Textbooks does not refer to an abandonment of traditional textbooks, but rather refers to a philosophy of teaching and learning that transcends textbooks and state standards to strengthen support for communities of teachers, facilitate teaching and learning, and improve student growth and achievement.

Find an Agent — Most traditional publishers would rather deal with a community of trusted agents who know the publishing industry than wade through mountains of submissions, themselves.

Claus Sendlinger comments, «Design HotelsTM has always appealed to a community of creatives that are interested in an authentic story rather than traditional luxury.

We'd rather go the traditional route and make a final product that allows us to concentrate on alpha and closed beta stages to make sure that the game doesn't have any major problems by release and to get valuable feedback from our community.

Like its Miami counterpart, Untitled remains happily a friendly and unpretentious atmosphere to experience its rather humble arrangement of roughly forty booths brought to you by a variety art spaces, from the more traditional and well known commercial galleries like David Zwirner (New York and London) to community - oriented non-profits like Creative Growth (Oakland), academic - leaning institutions like CCA's Wattis Institute (San Francisco), or research and archival - based foundations like the David Ireland - centric, The 500 Capp Street Foundation (San Francisco).

Nicholas Faraclas, a linguistics scholar on the Houma, wrote that like other ethno - linguistic groups, the Houma tribe are a community in which «contact between groups with different languages and cultures is the norm, rather than the exception, and in many cases integrated formally into traditional marriage, trading, and ceremonial patterns.»

Rather than applying for a traditional loan through mainstream banks, Vimala — a prominent local food and media activist — appealed to her community for small loans when planning to expand from catering into a full - time restaurant.

Guidelines for family participation included: 1) families should reside in the reserve: 2) families should live in the seringal, or forest area, of the community (one exception was made); 3) families could not be acting as marreteiros, or intermediaries, in the selling process, but rather would be traditional extractivist families; 4) families should live within approximately two hours hiking distance from the community center, and; 5) preference would be given to families that indicated experience of household use of at least one of the three palm fruits being studied.

The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.

But in order to do that, says Durand, there has to be some understanding and cultural awareness of how business on traditional lands will impact those communities — rather than just writing a cheque.

DCG is one of the blockchain industry's most influential investment firms, an anomaly because it emerged from the bitcoin community itself rather than a traditional VC jumping on the new trend.

Participatory planning requires that traditional owners determine the goals for social and economic development, rather than assisting in the development of objectives set outside the community.47 Participatory planning:

Consideration needs to be given to how benefits accruing to traditional owners out of economic development opportunities from native title will impact on the broader community they are part of, and how these benefits can work in a beneficial way rather than creating or increasing inequities between community members.

Fifty - five percent of households in a smart - growth study NAR commissioned in late 2004 say they prefer to live in what was described as a smart - growth community — public transit options, sidewalks, mixed - housing styles, among other things — rather than a traditional suburban setting far out from the metropolitan core.

Hanchette says Lennar doesn't expect to build entire communities of Next Gen homes, but rather to have them mixed in with more traditional plans.