Elsewhere, traditional ways of life, still beautifully and scrupulously pursued, seemed to be under threat.
The standard has helped spawn whole new business models, industries and ways of life.
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"In this moment, people are seeing the old ways of life recede, " he said.
Here, skiing and skating are less leisure pursuits than ways of life adapted to the ice-bound landscape.
An understanding of the intangible cultural heritage of different communities helps with intercultural dialogue, and encourages mutual respect for other ways of life.
Ways of life have been thrown into flux in Greenland as sea ice thaws and new shipping routes into the Arctic open up.
There are concerns that opening up Greenland's resources for exploitation may pose an additional threat to the environment and traditional ways of life.
When he and his colleagues started examining the women in question, they found that the depressed subjects had very different ways of life from the controls.
They reflect marked changes in the fauna and flora, and also the different ways of life of the populations that succeeded one another in this region of the Sahara.
Long-time observers see the Bonn meeting as a last chance to create a central authority that gives the country coherence without repression and modernises without trampling traditional ways of life.
Still, on visits, parents ask questions about the library, while visiting students wonder about the day to day ways of life, their prospective classmates, the existence of a comedy troupe and any number of other things.
That single event has illustrated just how important clean water is to the health of our communities and our economy, and how entire ways of life count on clean water and a healthy environment.
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Attentiveness to fluctuations and alterations in the natural milieu is an integral part of their ways of life, and remains of crucial cultural importance even in areas where lifestyles have been modified by colonialism and globalization.
Recent conflicts and rural to urban migration that reduced the population of the region and changes in ways of life have caused a sharp decrease in the number of performers, resulting in the loss of many archaic styles and genres of solo singing.
Lord Singh, head of the Network of Sikh Organisations, said that while "Sikhism teaches total respect for other ways of life", marriage means the union between a man and woman and they believe that civil partnerships give gays and lesbian all the rights they need.
This book might seem to tell a depressing tale, but it is enlivened by Ms Elliott's use of folklore material and regional writing to shed light on the intricate and (to the outsider) baffling ways of life and thought of the Ulster people as a whole.
The move comes after a committee was formed last August to find ways of protecting marine life without damaging the Manx fishing industry.
The ban came into affect in November after a committee was formed to find ways of protecting marine life without damaging the Manx fishing industry.
The results, released on January 17th, show that in lots of ways life changed for many Thais and did indeed get worse (see table).
The Scottish researchers argue, however, that resources could probably be better spent on other ways improving quality of life for patients such as rehabilitation, physiotherapy and alternative drug therapies.
Throughout his adult life, Pat Moynihan was part of so many different and opposing worlds that having it both ways was almost a way of life for him, for good and for ill.
Since then, residents of Newtown have been dealing with the arc of life in unimaginable ways -- of death and loss, of pain and suffering, of shock and horror, of beginning to heal.
We will provide new buildings, plant and equipment, introduce new ways of working and make life better for staff.
It is quite clear to me that the best way to improve perceptions (and frankly show off) our people, way of life and ways of doing business is person-to-person.
In this video, Edgar Morin proposes seven inseparable reforms - economic reform, social reform, political reform, ethical reform, reform of knowledge, of education, and of the way of life - in order to explore ways to reach for a new kind of society.
Because of the fee-based revenues of most life coaching practices, one of the best ways to maximize revenues considering the time restraints is by charging premium prices for exceptional expertise.
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And contrary to the old dogma that the brain is genetically fixed in form and function, he says, the new understanding of "neuroplasticity" means the brain has the ability to change in significant ways throughout life, not only as a result of experiences but also by our own mental activity.
I'm asking that no matter where you live, or what job you do, or what obstacles you face, you're always looking for ways to make service part of your life.
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"The reason many changed their way of life and adopted Western ways was because they lacked the necessary information about their religion, " they said.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
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