Sentences with phrase «with prevailing culture»

The most rebellious thing a person can do is NOT go along with prevailing culture, and by getting tattoos for no real purpose other than consanguinity with that culture is really to miss the entire point of the gospel.

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As transhumanism becomes more prevalent, as the sexual revolution identifies more perversions as «rights,» as technocracy overtakes ethical reasoning and truth is more frequently confused with power, believers will find themselves ever more frequently in the position of explaining that some realities are not contingent on the prevailing ethos of culture, or on our judgments, or on the fleeting whims of self - definition.

The church allied with the civilization in which this idolatry prevails has become entangled not only in its culture but also in its worldliness.

In previous works — all, with the exception of El Sexto, set in the highlands — the bearers of highland culture were often vanquished by costales or their minions, but their culture with its values and spirit prevailed.

Yet another example: the monetary health of denominational bureaucracies is delicately dependent on harmony with the prevailing ethos of the culture with respect to «controversial issues.»

Our first values are not invented by ourselves, but received or absorbed from others: usually, to begin with, from the home; but as time goes on also from the outside world, from our environment, from the prevailing culture.

Religion blows about with the prevailing winds of politics and culture.

Whatever course forward First Things adopts, it must begin with a sober realization of how truly heathen and hollow the prevailing culture has become.

I have seen with increasing sadness how many are not content with merely adapting the language of the gospel to our culture, but seek to change the very message itself and trim it to fit in with society's prevailing norms and appetites.

The prevailing culture in America is not okay with nudity in formal settings.

The show's prevailing vibe — good - natured spoofing of Portland's widespread open - mindedness, environmentalism, and culture (the place where the opening sketch so exhilaratingly declared «the dream of the»90s is alive»)-- even seems to be wearing off or in need of adjustment, with sketches about religion, bigots, and feminism not seeming all that good - natured or funny.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

With a prevailing and increasingly risk - averse culture in schools (as the headlines over banning leapfrog and conkers show) it poses the question why 22 per cent of school trip organisers have previously opted for the DIY approach when arranging school trips?

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

The adult culture of academic success could prevail more easily if the adults were better connected with each other by seeing each other on a regular basis at church.

It probably has to do with a prevailing sense of modesty in American culture, one that's so off - kilter that people refer to their own private parts as wee - wees and hoo - hoos, even to medical professionals.

Guerrilla Girls - an anonymous collective in existence since 1985 with an undefined number of members who always appear in public wearing gorilla masks - have concerned themselves since their inception with the feminist - inspired, witty infiltration of prevailing meaning - production in popular culture, art and advertisements, linked to blind spots in (art) institutional practice.

Now we are further challenged by our pervasive and prevailing digital culture; it is unlikely that we are done with re-defining how the body ought to be seen.

The work of 15 internationally renown contemporary African photographers juxtaposed with missionary photography presents a starting point to trace the prevailing stereotypes that percolate beneath the surface; thereby tackling the notion that — framing a culture from without the meaning of that culture becomes distorted.

Over the course of his influential four - decade career, Kelley generated a remarkably diverse oeuvre in an array of mediums, conflating high and low culture, critiquing prevailing aesthetic conventions and colliding the sacred with the profane.

At least to me, it seems that good science is ignored, countless distractions presented or else silence allowed to prevail whenever reasonable and sensible evidence comes into conflict with what culture prescribes as real and true.

Ultimately, it remains to be seen which side will prevail in this culture clash of law firms over clients: Westernized Eastern European law firms or Western European law firms with a physical presence in Eastern Europe.

A more direct obstacle to internal referrals could be the prevailing culture at Chinese law firms, where there is typically little centralized management and partners compete with each other for business more than they co-operate.

Marketing departments are being challenged to come up with creative ways to shift lawyer mindsets, given the increasingly competitive legal landscape and the change - resistant culture that prevails at most firms.

2) Personal versus Group Rights: For Westerners — with our sense of entitlement to privacy and individuality — it always come as a shock to see a culture where group rights often prevail over individual rights.

While all attempts should be made to reconcile women's individual human rights with the rights of Indigenous peoples to retain and enjoy their culture, HREOC considers that women's individual human rights must ultimately prevail.

China differs dramatically from Western cultures in its strong emphasis on collectivism and family (Lai 1995), prevailing adoption of the one - child policy and closer ties with extended family members who can provide social support for family responsibilities (Spector et al. 2007).

As a Florida statewide membership organization of Collaborative Professionals, we strive to create a culture in which the Collaborative Process is the prevailing method for the resolution of disputes beginning with family law and evolving into other areas of law, including: divorce, custody or timesharing, parenting plans, child support, alimony, paternity, equitable distribution, pre-nuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, probate disputes, guardianships, elder law, etc..