When making use of modern cultural divisions in the American Southwest, it is important to comprehend that current terms and conventions have significant limitations:

Sixteen of the schools have been affiliated with the United Nations ' UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network, which sponsors education projects that foster improved quality of education throughout the world, in particular in terms of its ethical, cultural, and international dimensions.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

Accordingly, most of these anthropologists showed less interest in comparing cultures, generalizing about human nature, or discovering universal laws of cultural development, than in understanding particular cultures in those cultures ' own terms.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

) Therefore, those who disagree with cultural relativism and / or constructivism may critique the employment of the term, cultural imperialism on those terms.

Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.

However they are today seen as symbolic narratives which must be understood in terms of their own cultural context.

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

The terms " ethnic " and " traditional " are used when it is required to emphasize the cultural roots of the dance.

Recent historical interpretations, especially those influenced by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1962 ), portray the history of science in terms of competing paradigms or conceptual systems battling for intellectual supremacy in a wider matrix that includes intellectual, cultural, economic and political themes outside pure science.

In scientific terms, Judaism is truly just ethnicity, cultural ritual and mystical spiritualism.

Examples of terms that include the adjective libre: libre software, FLOSS, libre knowledge and libre cultural works.

Drawing on Lawrence Lessig ’ s Free Culture ( published in 2002 ), the free culture movement promoted the distribution of cultural works under similar terms to those free software is distributed under.

Many of the books used cultural references: naming places, terms, describing modes of dress and other codes to isolated women.

Although social scientists such as Max Weber sought to understand and explain religion in terms of a cultural attribute, Richard Dawkins called for a re-analysis of religion in terms of the evolution of self-replicating ideas apart from any resulting biological advantages they might bestow.

Although many English speakers from outside North America regard such terms as distinct Americanisms, they are often just as ubiquitous in Canada, mainly due to the effects of heavy cross-border trade and cultural penetration by the American mass media.

" In terms of descent, the group that became politically dominant in Shewa – and Subsequently in Ethiopia – was a mixture of Amhara and Oromo ; in terms of language, religion and cultural practices, it was Amhara.

This conceptual distinction continues to operate in political science, although some political scientists, philosophers, historians and cultural anthropologists have argued that most political action in any given society occurs outside of its state, and that there are societies that are not organized into states which nevertheless must be considered in political terms.

In 1968 Ronald Melzack and Kenneth Casey described pain in terms of its three dimensions: " sensory-discriminative " ( sense of the intensity, location, quality and duration of the pain ), " affective-motivational " ( unpleasantness and urge to escape the unpleasantness ), and " cognitive-evaluative " ( cognitions such as appraisal, cultural values, distraction and hypnotic suggestion ).

By the end of the nineteenth century, all elements of artistic and cultural life had recognized and begun to come to terms with world culture as found in the West and Japan.

As a result, francophone and anglophones now borrow the French terms when discussing issues of francophone linguistic and cultural identity in English, though outside of Quebec terms such as Franco-Ontarian, acadian and Franco-Manitoban are still predominant.

The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '', which often come up in aesthetic discussion, seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry, drama, and fiction.

In early literature, before the significance of impact cratering was widely recognised, the terms cryptoexplosion or cryptovolcanic structure were often used to describe what are now recognised as impact-related features on Earth.

In terms of its value as a collector's item, a coin is generally made more or less valuable by its condition, specific historical significance, rarity, quality / beauty of the design and general popularity with collectors.

In terms of global significance, the first wheellock musket in Europe was sketched by Leonardo da Vinci around 1500 AD, although no use of metal flint for gunpowder weapons were known before that point in Europe.

From about 1967 the term was increasingly used in opposition to the term rock music, a division that gave generic significance to both terms.

At the time of the North American merger, the theological significance of these terms had expanded beyond the traditional Christian understanding.

The city, which has its origin in 800 BC, seems to have been destroyed in the 7th century BCE by the king and mukarrib of Saba Karib ' il Watar, according to a Sabaean text that reports the victory in terms that attest to its significance for the Sabaeans.

These words and terms were used because of their familiarity, but more so because in most cases there were no equivalent terms in the vernacular which could express the Jewish concepts or describe the objects of cultural significance.

However, these dimensions have fundamental significance in terms of Planck units ; when expressed in SI units, the gravitational constant is dimensionally and numerically equal to the cube of the Planck length divided by the product of the Planck mass and the square of Planck time.

* The nature of the victim both electrically and in terms of the significance of malfunction.

Previous use of similar terms are of unknown significance, although some strongly feel that they are evidence of the historical continuity of the term and the people as a linguistic unit since early times.

In the course of time, however, a shift can be observed in the temporal significance of these terms, from post-Eocene to post-Early Miocene to post-middle Pleistocene.

Most writers attach a more profound significance to his paintings than had previously been supposed, and attempt to interpret it in terms of a late medieval morality.

The Olympic Games are still the largest multi-sport event in the world in terms of worldwide interest and importance ( though no longer in participation ), but several others also have significance.

Aleardo Zanghellini suggests that the martial arts terms have special significance to a Japanese audience, as an archetype of male same-sex relationships involves that once held between samurai and their companions.

In terms of the history of the spolia opima, Marcellus holds great significance because he reinvigorated the meaning of the honored prize.

The Greensboro Historic District is a defined area of with a concentration of buildings, structures, and sites that contribute to the significance of the Borough in terms of its importance in industry, commerce, architecture, archeology, and transportation.

As Ian Condry notes, " viewing a music scene in terms of a pyramid provides a more nuanced understanding of how to interpret the significance of different levels and kinds of success.

The Western Oceanic Melanesian " diversity " of lexicostatistical studies was never of any interest in terms of attributing any special time depth or subgrouping significance to it.

The Right to Petition, granted by Edgar the Peaceful, King of England in the 10th century, antedates the Magna Carta in terms of its significance in the development of democratic institutions.

The UK Funding Councils ' 2008 Research Assessment Exercise ( or RAE ) found that over three-quarters ( 77 %) of Middlesex's research submitted for the RAE to be internationally recognised in terms of originality, significance and rigour.

It had major significance in terms of the patriotism and the changing situation in the nation at the time, and how the country was functioning without British authority.

The most recent Research Assessment Exercise ( December 2008 ) confirmed the Royal College of Art as a leading specialist art and design institution in the United Kingdom, with 40 % of its research output judged to be of quality that is World-Leading in terms of originality, significance, and rigor.

A pamphlet included in the first DVD volume of the series states that a Texan accent was determined to be the English equivalent of Kansai-ben because of the similarities shared by both districts in terms of cultural significance and portrayal in the media.