Sentences with phrase «with cultural decline»

Growing populations are associated with progress; shrinkage has often correlated with cultural decline.

Not exact matches

Following shortly after her much acclaimed On Looking Into the Abyss, Prof. Himmelfarb gives us with this book a most useful historical referent by which to evaluate the indicators of cultural decline in our society.

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

Black and colleagues write that the CI eruption approximately coincided with the final decline of Neanderthals as well as with dramatic territorial and cultural advances among anatomically modern humans.

The Russian cultural paradigm is that a woman should be married, with children, and an unmarried woman is declined a respectable social status.

Key cultural elements keep declining, too; with Manager Effectiveness and Feeling Valued showing the biggest decline.

Participants will be asked to engage with issues such as declining physical book sales, the place of ebooks, the cultural importance of bookshops and author events, the specialist knowledge of booksellers, and how bookshops can provide customers with a place to buy books, however they decide to read them.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is proud to announce its program during Art Basel - Miami 2010, Urban Alchemists — a group exhibition and public mural project presented in association with Tony Goldman, art patron and leader in the restoration and transformation of declining historic districts into thriving cultural destinations.

But his willingness to call out what he saw as complacency within the contemporary art elite, his exacting knowledge of art history, and his witty approach to writing and speaking about art, marked him out, winning him a wide audience in an age obsessed with cultural criticism's supposed decline.

On this point, the court declined to admit the evidence and further held that: «[i] t would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Statute of Frauds and with the valid public policy need for certainty in real property transactions to imply a term or condition into the Deed of Gift based on a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.»

Cultural and linguist decline between generations hollows out a people — like having one's viscera removed under local anaesthetic — leaving the people conscious that great riches are being lost and replaced with emptiness.