Sentences with phrase «traditional middle of»

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In fact, the company that has played a staring role in the Dow's outperformance does not actually employ a lot of traditional middle - class Americans: Goldman Sachs (gs).

China is stuck in the middle as it is a traditional ally of North Korea, is its largest trading partner and would not like to see regime change in North Korea.

To many bankers and others in the industry, SBAExpress occupies the middle ground between a conventional bank loan and traditional 7 (a) credit — trotted out when a borrower is «just a little bit of a stretch beyond the normal credit limits,» according to Joel Pruis, portfolio management analyst at the Indianapolis consulting firm Baker Hill.

«The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining,» he wrote in The Guardian.

Vice has said it wants to expand into offering more traditional types of programming in more than 80 countries this year, and has signed a number of deals with media companies and telecom providers in the Middle East and Asia for distribution.

On our traditional breakdown, the expanded portfolio, we had a reduction of 1.3 %, basically driven by the corporate and middle - market operations, especially in the corporate segment.

When it comes to risk, they're somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, between common stocks (more risky) and traditional bonds (less risky).

As marketers start treating their business blogs as in - house news publications — and as they start to optimize for its other use cases in the middle and bottom of the funnel, they'll realize the limitations of traditional blog performance indicators like traffic and inbound links.

Instead of traditional venture capital firms investing in startups from PowerPoint to IPO, there are angel investors and seed rounds on one end and traditional public market investors investing in private unicorn rounds on the other, with venture capital firms somewhere in the middle.

That comment angered Canadians of Arab and Muslim descent, and was widely viewed by analysts as marking a significant shift away from Canada's traditional role as an honest broker in the Middle East.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

I point to the callous way in which upper - middle - class deconstructions of traditional morality have made marriage into a luxury good.

How were these 1960s revolutionaries rearing their own children, far removed from the traditional middle - class values of an older generation's «Jewish mothers»?

David, perhaps if you «had a charismatic personality, was a motivational speaker, kept the ship running tightly, was orthodox, held to traditional morality and adhered to the middle road of evangelical conservativism» you'd have a vibrant and growing congregation.

One can instead take the middle position (the Church's traditional position) that there is a presumption in favor of executing those who merit it, but that this presumption can be overridden.

The late Max Stackhouse, a preeminent authority on faith in the age of globalization, pointed out that «one can not imagine trying to understand the politics of China or India without reference to Confucianism or Hinduism, or the systems of government in Southeast Asia or the Middle East without understanding Buddhism or Islam, or what is going on in the EU without reference to the legacy of traditional Christendom.

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, and so on.7

They opted for a middle way, clinging to a watered down version of the traditional dogmas.

Williams's first major work is God's Grace and Man's Hope.40 In it he seeks a theological stance occupying a middle ground between the unrealistic optimism of traditional liberalism and the equally unrealistic pessimism of the neo-orthodox reaction to liberalism.

It represents the inevitable confusion of middle - class intellectualism which imagines that political changes are achieved by the united efforts of good people who bring pressure to bear upon traditional political parties.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

Meanwhile the less alien varieties — that is, fundamentalist or ecstatic forms of our own traditional faiths — abound amid the non-intellectual portions of our cultural life, in «Middle America.»

But before we can see this, we must let go our hold of that traditional picture of Jesus which Christian thought and devotion has built up over the centuries and which reached its climax in the Christian mythology of the Middle Ages.

Partly due to first - wave feminism, which critiqued the traditional gender roles of the big wedding, and partly due to an emerging middle - class aesthetic that valued restraint over gaudy expenditure, a trend toward simple weddings soldiered on for a decade or so.

Here, as in other places of the world, the educational fruits of the 19th - century missionary movement produced an energetic middle class that was new to traditional societies.

That is why, we are told, the Democratic presidential candidates are pitching to the middle class and avoiding the party's traditional themes of helping the disadvantaged.

Putin's cynical pose as a defender of traditional Christian values and persecuted Christians in the Middle East is part and parcel of this new, cooler Cold War attack on the cognitive security of the West — and too many Christian conservatives have swallowed that noxious bait.

To the extent that one approves of the traditional middle - class values (by and large, I did), one will not necessarily be offended by their being religiously legitimated.

Traditional Christianity understood not primarily as a system of ideas but as a shared way of life with caritas at its center, and the historical effects of the manifold failures to enact caritas from the Middle Ages to the present, is one of the book's major themes.

It was he who assigned the now traditional seven deacons to seven diaconal regions of the city to carry out, from recognized bases, their diaconal ministry and administration.100 We are fortunate in having from the period just before and just after the pontificate of Fabian in Rome and that of Cyprian in Carthage, three other important descriptions of the corporate ministry of the churches around the middle of the third century: a factual account, a legal codification (the Syrian Didascalia), and a vivid metaphor.

Feminists claimed that Niebuhr's thought was profoundly mysoginist: his delineation of the sin of sensuality was a rehash of the traditional denial of bodiliness, associated with the oppression of women, and the sin of pride, historically, was not a sin of women but of white middle class males; the sin of women was the lack of self - affirmation, the sin of «hiding» (in the kitchen).

Having said that it's my Birthday tomorrow and I'm in the middle of making a raw vegan and Paleo red velvet layer cake using my dehydrator so if it turns out well then next year I'll have some raw Christmas cakes and puddings for those of you that like the more traditional type of Christmas treat.

This cornbread falls somewhere in the middle of the sweet - savory spectrum; sweet enough for breakfast or a light snack, but also pairs nicely with savory dishes, especially alongside hearty soups or chili, and of course on a traditional holiday table.

Being of Middle Eastern descent and coming from a family that loved food, he had a great knowledge and respect for traditional Middle Eastern food and I flooded him with questions and requests for recipes daily.

Upholding its prestigious reputation in the world of fragrances makes the Middle East one of the most traditional markets in the industry regarding premium and luxury packaging and chemical resistance.

This adaptation of a traditional Middle Eastern salad has a great combination of flavors and textures.

A definitive, fresh and approachable collection of 150 traditional recipes from an authoritative voice on Middle Eastern home cooking, Salma Hage's new book is in line with the current Western trends of consciously reducing meat, and the ancient Middle Eastern culture of largely vegetarian, mezze style dining.

Stuffed peppers are a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern staple, with many traditional variations of the dish.

Even some of the dregs of the traditional fruit salad bowl (hello, melon) are getting a thoughtful recasting, like in this cantaloupe and cucumber salad from Portland, OR's Middle Eastern - inspired Tusk.

The Lodge and Spa at Callaway Gardens, an elegant interpretation of a traditional mountain lodge in the heart of Middle Georgia, is proud to welcome Henry Hamor as the new executive chef.

Elizabeth Pantley's No - Cry Sleep Solution falls somewhere in the middle of straight - up attachment parenting and traditional sleep training.

They report three times the marital contentment of the next happiest group — working - and middle - class families who favor a traditional division of labor and have only one breadwinner.

Because Addison can be thought of as a male or female name, you might want to consider a traditional girl's middle name for your daughter, such as Rose or Elizabeth.

Now the traditional way to check to see if you have diastasis is to take two fingers and see if they can fit between a splitting or opening in the middle of your core muscles.

The AAP has issued warnings for this traditional form of body art, which dates back to the Bronze Age in the Middle East.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

For the Left, Thatcherism was a toxic composite of stifling nationalism, the engine of repression, poujadisme middle - class parochialism, traditional family values and the themes of a revived neo-liberalism: self - interest, selfishness, competitive individualism, anti-statism and a cult of greed.

While Harlem is one of the most reliable bases for Democratic votes in Manhattan, it's also a very traditional middle class community.

The story that needs to be told, therefore, is not necessarily one of the super-wealthy stealing our rights and liberty, but rather one of the traditional middle - classes increasingly joining the ranks of the poor and discovering what it really means to live without the financial security that affords effective civic participation.