Sentences with phrase «up against the culture»

The truths contained in the Bible are constantly bucking up against the cultures of its day and the cultures of this day.

If a company isn't a nice place to be for people your age, you'll be up against the culture at some point.

Not exact matches

Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat, said Wells Fargo had a «culture of being fined and losing money for the bank» and held up a chart showing all of the fines and judgments that had gone against the bank since Stumpf became CEO.

The now - canceled panel, «Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games,» was to feature «experts on online harassment in gaming and geek culture,» including activist Randi Harper, and discuss «how to combat it, how to design against it, and how to create online communities that are moving away from harassment.»

Christians, compelled by the love of Christ, must not only be the best kind of friends; we must also become the best kind of enemies — forgiving when injured, praying for and blessing those who speak against and ridicule and say untrue things about us, and refusing to get caught up in a culture of outrage.

Because it's a heck of a lot easier to dish it out than it is to eat it up, let me tell you, and I think sometimes we inadvertently perpetuate celebrity culture by railing so loudly against it, by feeding into the caricatures with our derision.

However, although Hall is clearly sympathetic to much in the «gnostic sensibility» as thus characterized (cf. UP 336 - 46), and although, as we have seen, he regards modern technology as the manifestation of a tendency in Western thought and culture of which he is highly critical, he does not himself recommend «a revolt against contemporary forms of technology,» at least as that phrase would ordinarily be understood.

One could say, as Fowler does in somewhat different terms, that effective churches seek the sacred and the transcendent; they want their liberal culture's confinements thrown up against and opened by the scope of eternity.

So far it has been debated only in the Lords: but what has so far been said gives no confidence that what has surely to be seen as a major step towards the radical de-Christianisation of English culture will come up against any opposition that has a chance of success.

The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

We live in a society of busy - ness, with so mich expected of parents and so much to get on and do and so much pressure, that a EC is an inconvenience of having to go against the perceived norm, having to pay much more intimate attention to our babies, having to deal with bodily functions, having to wake ourselves up a bit to what our culture has conditioned us to and having to go against the grain — all of which take effort and all of which take time and / or energy away from other mummy efforts that bring more obvious and societally rewarded benefits.

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

Now I have my own children and like any other parent, I hope and pray they will never have to live through the experience of physical abuse, but I also hope that if they ever do, I'll have provided them the right kind of tools and language for them to feel confident in stepping forward and standing up against rape culture.

Crucially, this bombastic political culture did not arise overnight, but emerged gradually over the course of many decades — in Parliamentary posturing against the European Commission, and in paranoia over immigration whipped up by the less scrupulous sections of the tabloid press.

They make an odd pairing, the serious interviewer up against the often facetious and occasionally ridiculous darling of popular culture.

As far as La Academie Francaise, it is for guarding foreign words used within French, not guarding against any use of English (and many French have come over to the role of English, even while not wishing to give up their own culture).

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

But it also runs up against established science and scientific culture.

«Before, you could in principle test chemical compounds of interest against hundreds of cell lines, but it would require a lab member going to a freezer, taking out hundreds of vials — one for each cell line — and setting up hundreds of tissue culture plates.

Online dating has been accused of ruining romance, fueling hook - up culture, spreading STDs, promoting superficiality, undermining marriage, eroding traditional values, and that's just a scratch in the surface of the critiques levied against modern matchmaking.

Not only is it a wonder of access — the entire cast are non-actors and all dialogue is in Yiddish — but, even more impressively, it manages to be a generous - spirited examination of how practicality can rub up against tradition and culture while never reaching for low - hanging and melodramatic narrative fruit.

Filling the seats at the first three Ultra Culture Cinema events was no walk in the park: we were up against competing previews, a World Cup semi-final and the general public's general disinterest in Harmony...

As usual the game tries to mix things up with a range of deranged human opponents and boss - like «psychos» but the culture shock of coming up against an enemy that actually presents a challenge is often jarring, and humans encountered elsewhere on the map seem as curiously resistant to damage as the zombies are prone to it.

[Chicago Sun - Times] • Noah Forrest stands up for Megan Fox against a weird culture of hatred toward the actress.

Culture of fear of reprisal develops in which teachers, principals, staff, even parents feel afraid to speak up against the policies of the district or the superintendent.

That's what our kids are up against,» said Wilson, who decided to move Ascend away from the «no excuses» charter school model, in which students are punished for even minor infractions under strict discipline codes, in favor of a school culture that embraces social and emotional learning.

Set against the promise implicit in the launching of Apollo, her touching recollection of her youth and teenage years — her strange, unhappy parents, her difficulties fitting into a new school, and her first love — speaks to universal concerns about growing up and resurrects a pivotal episode of American history and culture for a new generation.

The project space began as a pop - up exhibition that also played so well against the neighborhood's retail culture.

Primitivism and pop culture, abstraction and figuration, flatness and depth all rub up against one another in a rich, allusive brew.

«As women in the art world rise up against abuse from collectors and others, will the culture that's protected predators shift?»

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The exhibition features Raymond Pettibon as a mythologist who takes up and subverts the distinctive narratives of American culture, from Woodstock to the presidencies and the war against terrorism.

A world where we take up arms against throw - away culture.

Law firms struggling with their millennial lawyers are all coming up against the same fundamental problem: The millennial personality is a poor match for traditional law firm culture.

As a native of China, Wu's public persona has been impacted by bitcoin's east - west culture clash, one that has pitted Western bitcoin developers brought up in a democracy, against bitcoin's miners, often business people, hailing from one of the world's few powerful communist regimes.

«cents initiated the first inter-departmental forum on quality standards against a mood of indifference from the management team and then championed all the advantages of learning, knowledge management, sales reactiveness and customer service quality to the point where a major culture shift became possible and showed up on the balance sheet cents»