Sentences with phrase «very cultured as»

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«There's a very diverse culture here, and we see that as a big advantage for recruiting international talent,» Pettigrew says.

«A key component in succession planning is establishing a leadership culture very deliberately, and grooming people to that,» she says, «as opposed to allowing one or two individuals to shape it.»

«They were very transparent (a key part of our culture is transparency as well) and allowed us to «ask anything.»

To that end, LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand and independence, as well as their culture which is very much aligned with ours.

The very culture of start - ups and the myth of killer customer service breeds a «can do» attitude that treats the everyday business as a constant emergency and a fire drill.

But closer scrutiny reveals a man who managed to thrive as an exception to a corporate culture built on type - A personalities — the very kind that his predecessor embodied.

«Now as an entrepreneur, I have a very transparent culture [in which] I hope employees feel empowered to ask these questions,» he says.

If banks promote themselves as a high - tech hangout or café, and still maintain a very aggressive service culture, they risk making people feel seduced and sucker - punched by a hidden agenda.

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

Levie describes the culture as «very high energy» and also «very collaborative.»

As you build out your teams, be very thoughtful about team dynamics and culture.

As the team continues to grow, one thing I'm focused on is keeping intact the culture the early leadership team worked very hard to create.

«It's your responsibility as an employer to set your employees up for success, and making sure their values and work ethic is in line with your culture before extending an offer is the very first thing you can do for them and the rest of your workforce.»

The chain is still very optimistic about China, where it's opening lots of stores even though coffee culture isn't nearly developed as it is elsewhere.

«As I was interviewing for this role, it became very clear that Uber is taking their cultural transformation seriously and truly wants to create a culture where every single person feels proud and heard,» Lee said in a statement to TechCrunch.

«She helped me to understand Canadian business culture, she taught me a lot about Indigenous history, and gave me some very helpful advice as far as working with Peavine Métis Settlement.»

But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification of culture and our loss of a sense of the holy, art must become the void itself in order to re-establish the very idea of the sacred.

Any one who knows the long and convoluted, very human process of the integration of the «Yahweh» god, (the god of the armies), into Hebrew culture, could never for a moment take it seriously, as well as the development of the major tenets of Christianity, most of which were not spoken of by the so - called «founder» of that religion, (but instead were developed by his followers), many years later, including the long, and very interesting concoctions of his cult.

They are honestly, in my observations having been around them, being around them, as family and aquaintances, very much like I knew many of them to be as tween - agers, then teen - agers, then young adults, following a shallow pop culture of their peer group, and pop Christian happens to be where they are right now.

This has many evangelicals very worried because they view the Supreme Court as the decisive field of battle in the culture war.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

Most cultures around the world value laughter and fun very highly and as a given.

Still, we can justifiably say that human beings are naturally religious — as a matter of real, natural potentiality, capacity, and tendency — while at the same time acknowledging that very many human beings and even some cultures are not particularly religious at all.

He is the one who delights in beauty, so the very culture in our homes should be one of beauty, celebration and warmth as we live imaginative, curious lives in the faith together.

The very conservatism of traditional Lutheran culture may weaken the resolve of the current generation as it overcompensates for past shortcomings.

As I look back, I recognize that there was a strong culture of silencing dissent, and the group as a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular peoplAs I look back, I recognize that there was a strong culture of silencing dissent, and the group as a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular peoplas a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular people.

This can be said in spite of the fact that it must also be said that secularism is a very widespread phenomenon of our culture, and secularism means conformity to the world, the organization of life as if God did not exist.

I've seen both very good and very bad fruit come from organized religion — including Christianity — and prefer to think of each individual as spiritually unique rather than the sum of his or her religious culture.

But framing this as a culture war between Christians and LGBT people suggests that they have to choose and further marginalizes LGBT Christians by denying them their very identity.

There was a a great deal of cultural exchange, and it is EXTREMELY likely that the eastern philosophies, started weakening the old religions in the region, and the NT was written in responce to this, so it is very likely that what Jesus allegedly taugh WAS from the Buddha and other sources, just as the rest of the bible took from many other cultures.

Very seldom has anyone within a local church treated it as a field of study and reported out its patterns of culture because they constitute an important disclosure of the symbolic nature of the group.

Now, then, reason as part of the macrocosmic process is likewise in process, that is, it is still undergoing development as is manifested in the development of culture and civilization; the very constitution of history itself is the evolution of rational consciousness.

Babylonia, situated on a broad low plain between the rivers at their widest points, was very fertile and had developed an advanced culture as early as 3500 B.C.. From this region comes the famous Code of Hammurabi which, dating from long before the time of Moses, shows high ethical discernment regarding the establishment of justice in human relations.

What natural science stimulated, industry furthered in the very mode of activity it promoted and the ethos it tended to generate within communities and within culture as a whole.

Contemporary Islamic culture is bound to the ancient Islamic culture with very close ties, but the decline between the ancient and the modern period was so am parent that contemporary Islamic culture is looked upon as a renaissance rather than a continuing growth, a renaissance which has been shaped in many ways by modernism and westernization.

Given the neo-bourgeois uniformity of Belmont — marriage as the norm, infrequent divorce, very few illegitimate births — Murray finds this nonjudgmentalism «one of the more baffling features of the new - upper - class culture.»

The question of missionary encounter with non-Christian cultures and truth claims is also, as it is inevitably said, very complex.

Q.: Americans have always perceived their culture as very moral, idealistic, humanitarian.

Because the very meaning of representing an object with a sign in a certain respect is a function of the larger culture, one can not speak of true or false interpretations except insofar as those interpretations are embedded in some culture or other.

He has a very strong sense of the distinctiveness of Christianity as well as a deeply pessimistic view of contemporary Western culture.

It is a vast society, the widest of all societies, which lays down the obligation on everything which is that it conform to its very general sort of social order; it socializes into its extensive mold all the individuals which arise within it, just as we in our culture «Americanize» all the children born into it.

We should encourage life and encourage a culture that treats life as a miracle that can disrupt your lifestyle but you can go on and aborting should be a very last resort if it has to be.

The response of many to the term «pastoral director» is a measure of the inroads which secular culture has made upon the very language of the Church, for some said that to call the minister «director» was to capitulate to the conception of the Church as a business and the minister as its administrator.

Abortions in cases of deformity, etc., are a very small fraction of the total and, because they introduce special factors, do not cast light on the direction of our culture as do abortions of healthy pre-borns performed for convenience.

But, Aramaic and Hebrew are very similar languages and Mishnaic Hebrew of Jesus was busy absorbing many Aramaic words into their culture as also Greek words.

It can not be an accident, or a mere concurrence of countless misperceptions, if, after thousands of years, people of different epochs and cultures feel that they are somehow parts and partakers of the same integral Being — carrying within themselves a piece of the infinity of that Being — whose very relative aspects are not just categories of space and time, but of matter and consciousness as well.

It's actually been through working with Wycliffe that my perspective on Christianity and reading the Bible has been broadened as I've come in to contact with people from very different cultures, and I've realised how diverse the world is and that God is so much bigger than we often think, especially when we're in our Christian bubble...

As a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicteAs a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicteas our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicted.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

Immersed as we are in gadgetry, living a lifestyle which, in its very making, is explicable by scientific laws, our culture feels an inherent uneasiness in discussing things that can't be explained in this way.