Cultures in sentence

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We need to change planning urban design cultures, to think of the temporal, the reversible, the disassembleable.

Across cultures and time periods, there's evidence of survival cannibalism, when people living through a famine, siege or ill-fated expedition had to either eat the bodies of the dead or starve to death themselves.

But it's also been quite common for cultures to normalize some form of eating human flesh under ordinary circumstances.

Because of false accounts like Columbus's, it's difficult to say exactly how common cultural cannibalism has been— but there are still some examples of accepted cannibalistic practices from within the cultures practicing them.

And so they're important for our diet, but they're also important for our cultures.

I've been helping to figure out what sustainable management can look like for places where food security, jobs and cultures all depend on the sea.

And then, there's my love for their home, the coral reef, which was once as vibrant as Caribbean cultures, as colorful as the architecture, and as bustling as carnival.

In 1892, the US Army general Richard Henry Pratt argued that killing indigenous cultures was the only alternative to killing indigenous people.

So for people from the vast majority of cultures, globalization remains profoundly alienating.

Around the world, people are reviving ancestral languages and rebuilding their cultures.

In other words, most cultures just weren't given a chance.

One option is you help to end, to destroy and exterminate all our forests and all our cultures that go with it.

Or, we transform this crisis into an opportunity to empower indigenous people, to support indigenous people and to save the rainforest and their cultures.

For the Hollywood people in the audience, this even explains why action movies have larger budgets than comedies: it's because action movies translate easier into other languages and other cultures, so the market for those movies is larger.

I'm an anthropologist at the Rand Corporation, and while many anthropologists study ancient cultures, I focus on modern day cultures and how we're adapting to all of this change happening in the world.

Interactions that could be seen as pleasantly brisk and convenient in some cultures could be seen as horribly rude in others.

We are tethered to this resource, and we've crafted a dependency on it that defines our identities, cultures, our ways of making and our economies.

You can see how through the fermentation of grains, vegetal matter and animal products, all peoples and cultures of the world have domesticated microorganisms to make the inedible edible.

These tales illustrate the common divides that can form between generations and cultures, especially in immigrant families.

So I'm the living product of two cultures coming together.

And I think it was at that point that I decided I wanted to use photography and film to somehow bridge gaps, to bridge cultures, bring people together, cross borders.

Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.

It's been around since pretty much the beginning of time, many cultures thought that women could spoil crops or milk, or wilt flowers.

I talked to fisherwomen in coastal Vietnam, justice fighters in Fiji, new generations of leaders in the ancient cultures of the Torres Straits.

The Mediterranean cultures at the heart of the Roman Empire had large warships that controlled the sea, and cargo ships that transported goods along the waterways.

They vary between cultures, between nations, between individuals, between social classes, between education levels.

It was that hands-on iterative process which is so much like vernacular design and folk design in traditional cultures.

Some of these inscriptions also bore the influence of other cultures the Vikings interacted with— the runic inscription “love conquers all,” for example, is originally a Latin phrase from the poet Virgil.

Shifting cultures takes patience, persistence and commitment, and it is extremely slow and deep work.

She was born in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the birthplace of the first cities and high cultures.

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