Sentences with phrase «who preserve a culture»

It's beyond clueless to compare that to holding kids hostage to get $ 10,000 more a year from fellow citizens who preserve a culture that opposes terrorist tyranny.

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Despite some changes, the country has preserved much of its traditional Buddhist culture, a big draw for the tourists who come from around the world to explore its majestic mountains and centuries - old monasteries.

«He's highly regarded as a leader who can grow enormously successful teams while preserving their culture and values.

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

Those who have followed the debate over same - sex marriage understand very clearly that law and culture ought to work together to promote and preserve families and communities; we should apply the same vigor to strengthening economic policies that make it easier for people not to sin.

Being a Christian, a follower of a God who will preserve diversity in heaven with worshippers of «all tribes, tongues and nations,» means I have to wrestle with the ways the Church sought to eradicate indigenous cultures in systematic, institutionalized, ways up until the «90s.

Whether in the foreseeable future these renewed traditions will become the culture - wide possession of many or the preserved treasure of a marginal few, Timeless Cities is a good introduction for anyone who wants to begin thinking about the complexity of the task.

And it was only the early, nonwriting prophets, such as Elijah, Elisha and Micaiah ben Imia, who preserved the nature of the Mosaic covenant faith before the threat of total corruption by pagan religion and culture.

is anyone who wishes to preserve their own, non-English-speaking culture.

With the Prime Minister attempting to draw a line under the affair and preserve one of the few female members of his Cabinet, some 78 % of voters taking part in the poll said that Mrs Miller should be sacked as Culture Secretary, against just 10 % who said she should stay.

I was interested in learning about the forest people now living here, who had preserved their dynamic culture and plant knowledge — in a secret, underground way — despite several centuries of contact with the modern world.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

The isolated people who once preserved traditional knowledge of Amazonian plants as well as a rich diversity of cultures and languages face new threats.

But when native populations all over the world «preserve» foods using cultures, the human beings who eat those foods, later, get the benefit of billions of living, «probiotic» microorganisms that are protective against pathogenic bacteria that could make them ill.

Let's hear it for all the Mrs. Clauses who host garden tea parties and preserve social graces and culture (and especially to those who hoard back vintage gardening tools and lovely tea cups to pass on to younger generations!)

The men who were sent overseas to protect valuable art from Hitler's vile grasp at the end of World War II were fighting to preserve «a culture» and «a way of life.»

Invite a speaker from your community who is actively working to preserve African - American history and culture.

Meanwhile a Meru is a temple with three storey roof top as media to worship for the glory of Danghyang Nirartha who preserve and develop the culture and Hinduism.

Balinese are familiar with a famous name of Ida Bagus Mantra; a man who had done so many things in order to preserve Balinese art and culture during 1978 - 1988.

Home to the Kuna people, who run the islands as an autonomous province with minimal interference from the national government, it's one of the best - preserved native cultures in the Americas.

Sonja Hunter, chief executive, Samoa Tourism Authority, said: «Samoa welcomes the partnership, especially from a global brand who identifies Samoa's unique selling point and respects and preserves its culture and unique identity.

The Garifuna are resilient people who have survived many years of extreme hardships and are the only black people in the Americas to have preserved their native Afro - Caribbean culture due to the fact that their ancestors were never slaves.

In the case of Belize in 1969, the presence of the Black Caribs just 36 miles south of Belize City, a people who had succeeded in preserving African culture and religion, gave the Creole leaders of UBAD an opportunity to reconnect with their African ancestral roots.

The group is comprised of art collectors from around the world who share a commitment to the museum's mission, which includes acquiring and preserving a collection that reflects the most important aesthetic achievements of 20th - and 21st - century visual culture.

His choice puts the spotlight on some unique figures from the 1960s to the present day, artists who have managed to preserve their independence, or stayed on the margins of mainstream culture and whose work today deserves both to be reinterpreted and enjoy greater visibility.

Best place for gay culture, Time Out New York: New York's Best 2012 The Leslie - Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first and only dedicated LGBT art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBT art, and foster the artists who create it.

Shows in Chelsea, Downtown, Brooklyn and Queens galleries highlight artists pushing the boundaries with art that deals with urban displacement through sculpture and installations, preserving marginalized culture and the processes of painting and art making, creating identity for those who can not, and creating conceptual art about contemporary communication.