Sentences with phrase «widespread experience of»

Drawing on the authors» own innovative research, on the widespread experience of colleagues, and on vivid dialogue from survivors themselves, Naming the Shadows has important implications for our understanding of the process of coping with childhood sexual abuse.

Enhanced knowledge of the widespread experience of removal and its psychological impact, particularly on the construction of identity, has not only deepened the understanding of individual cases but has assisted in the design and delivery of more effective community programs.

A venture capital associate usually has a widespread experience of working in a business environment that helps him / her to learn the intricacies of financing a business and assessing the risk factors involved within it.

Our intellectual property (IP) lawyers have widespread experience of advising major companies on compliant, risk - managed product innovation and marketing across jurisdictions.

James also has widespread experience of corporate insolvency, both domestic and cross-border, including compulsory and voluntary liquidation, recognition of foreign proceedings and applications to court within an insolvency process.

BHA Trustee Patricia Rogers, who is an educator and internationalist with widespread experience of running international campaigning charities, also attended.

It probably even contributes to the widespread experience of ADD.

Hannah Arendt, in her illuminating book On Revolution (Viking, 1965), exalts the American Revolution as the most successful one and traces that success to the fact that «it occurred in a country that knew nothing of mass poverty and among a people who had a widespread experience of self - government;» She says that one of the blessings in the American situation was that the revolution grew out of a conflict with a limited monarchy, for «the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.»

He will begin with ordinary language, or the findings of science, or widespread experience of mankind, rather than with the special convictions of his community.

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«Silencing our stories deprives customers and potential investors from the knowledge that our horrific experiences are part of a widespread problem at Uber,» according to the letter, which was obtained by Bloomberg News from the New York law firm representing the women, Wigdor LLP.

«Silencing our stories deprives customers and potential investors from the knowledge that our horrific experiences are part of a widespread problem at Uber,» the 14 women wrote.

This phase wouldn't last long however, as the widespread consumer adoption of more sophisticated smartphones drastically altered the driving experience and in - vehicle environment.

The founders of Addison Group sought out to recruit the best candidates for the area's best companies and has since experienced widespread recognition and growth thanks to its strategic investment partner, Trilantic Capital Partners.

But neither of these hurricanes brought the kind of widespread flooding currently being experienced at the nation's largest refineries.

This means that p / c companies can't experience massive «runs» in times of widespread financial stress, a characteristic of prime importance to Berkshire that we factor into our investment decisions.»

Our comments: we were surprised the bubble response was less than 40 % given widespread commentary in that direction and the age / experience of the respondents.

Harris» campaigns for the President landed at a time Kenya was experiencing widespread media suppression and intimidation, the brutal murder of a key electoral official, and tit - for - tat accusations of hate speech by Kenyatta's team and Odinga himself.

The Africans that I met while living in Liberia experienced all of life as erotic even though there was widespread poverty and disease.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

This could be indicated by pointing to his enthusiasm for Hegel, but identification of reality with humanly experienced reality is much more widespread in the modern world than is Hegelianism.

In Whitehead's cosmology — which is, in the main, simply the most fully elaborated expression of tendencies widespread in recent philosophy — all existence is «social,» is «feeling of feeling,» forming «societies» of interlocked experiences, and societies of societies, from electronic, almost inconceivably simple and rudimentary, societies, to the universe.

Despite the criticisms, there's widespread agreement that when it comes to church planting in urban areas, the Church of England is experiencing considerable growth.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

We experience the widespread dominance of the market economy and the western (i.e. American) political system.

With all due respect, I must say that the experience of the last violent century, with its widespread faith in human reason and evolutionary progress, hardly warrants optimism about transcending selfishness on those grounds.

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Apart from this, the widespread belief in the resurrection of a representative being is a further confirmation of the way in which this belief expressed the universal experiences underlying religion.

Luke's understanding of this title and its widespread use reflect an experience of faith expressed elsewhere in the Early Church: «If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved» (Rom.

While comedians may not experience nerves in the way people expect, no gag merchant is without fear of widespread disdain or disinterest.

Since this «humility before fact» in the framework of a speculative system is distorted and endangered by the selectivity of the system, since that which is regarded as a fact varies with the systematic context, there is to add, in view of the correction of the speculative system: «The ultimate test is always widespread, recurrent experience; and the more general the rationalistic scheme [namely, and thus precisely, not only more effective, but also more forcefully endangered by «professional blindness»], the more important is this final appeal» (PR 17/25).

However, insofar as this widespread opinion accurately reflects a difference in the way many men and women presently experience the world, it is interesting to see how this opinion is reconceived when examined in terms of Whitehead's theory of perception.

If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread assumption that reason and faith belong to different realms, or represent different, even conflicting, dimensions of human experience.

In the case of a «speculative system» which fuses historically obsolete cosmologies, Whitehead's repeated and in fact passionate emphasis that the «elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6) seems not at all able to be brought into some coherent association, Whitehead's reflection that we could ask ourselves «whether the type of thought involved [in his cosmology] be not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis» (PR xiii / viii) may hit not only upon the widespread skepticism with regard to the «main doctrines of Absolute Idealism» in general, but also, in particular, upon doubts concerning their ability to be transformed «onto a realistic basis.»

Peter G. Horsfield believes that widespread interest in religious television crested in 1976 with the election of a Southern Baptist to the presidency of the United States and that this phenomenon has manifested «a marked imbalance in the presentation of American religious faith and culture,» Religious Television: The American Experience (White Plains, N ~ Y.: Longman, 1984), xiii - xiv.

What has happened to me in the intervening years is that I have participated in the widespread American experience of the loss of innocence.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Butterworth rode out the experience on - site with her sous chef and her executive pastry chef, taking care of the guests that flocked to the hotel to ride it out and avoid the widespread power outages.

It chose Atlanta for a test market, and used a combination of targeted sampling, strategic seeding, influencer gifting, and a series of pop ‐ up experiences to gain widespread social media sharing and earned media coverage that was supplemented by a trade marketing program.

First, this writer makes the basic, and solipsistic, mistake of confusing her own experience and a few anecdotes with a widespread study.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

There was widespread concern that fraud would worsen dramatically after EU enlargement in 2004, particularly with the accession of eight former Soviet bloc states and their experiences of closed government and corruption under Communism and rising gangsterism since the collapse of the USSR.

Given the problems Britain is experiencing with alienation from political elites, the rise of «anti-politics» parties like UKIP, and the widespread perception amongst the public that the governing classes are «out of touch» — is imposing a new form of government on Greater Manchester without popular consent really a good idea?

[continued from previous post] And the widespread working class experience of declining wages due to competition from immigrants was one of the motivations that led many to vote for Leave, which was what the question asked for, rather than for arguments as to whether Leave or Remain was correct overall.

«We regret the inconvenience the councilman experienced, or any voter, but this is not indicative of a widespread issue,» Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan told the Observer, noting that the agency oversaw the compiling of 5,600 registers citywide this year.

Four female senators shared personal experiences of sexual harassment in support of the #MeToo movement formed in the wake of the widespread Harvey Weinstein abuse allegations.

Ken Purchase, the former MP for Wolverhampton North East, who has died aged 77, was one of the last of what was once a widespread category of working - class Labour MPs who represented the area in which he was born, having secured election to parliament with an established experience in town - hall politics and a career working in local industry.

Professor Griffiths said: «NHS policy prompts more widespread use of digital communication to improve health care experience.

The lesser prairie - chicken has experienced widespread declines in abundance and distribution, with some estimates suggesting greater than a 90 percent decrease of the population.