Sentence examples for cultural code from inspiring English sources

"They can do what they want, but the people of Russia have their own cultural code, their own traditions.

Having been a black, big-city mayor is not an obviously useful credential among a conservative general electorate, but, in the cultural code of Texas, Dallas is no ordinary big city.

Modern historians will doubtless try to attach deeper causes to the quarrels — just as Hammurabi may have returned his shoes in a symbolic gesture of refusal, perhaps the braying hippo was a conventional cultural code for some other, economic quarrel.

My clan and sub-clan, who come from the north-west along the Djibouti border, where we rely on camel herding and sorghum farming, have a cultural code to protect themselves from others.

I really don't agree with that at all, because when you are transferring a certain kind of cultural code and symbolism, which is so utterly alien, it is unfair on the reader to make her feel, all the time, that "yes, I am reading something in high Urdu in the English form".

Orkhan Djemal, the press secretary for the Eurazes Party, a Muslim-led group that controls a small faction in Parliament, said that for Russians like him, in their 20's or 30's, Islam is "not just some cultural code," not folklore.

In encounters with Swedish society, where the participants were not familiar enough with Swedish expressions and cultural codes to the same degree as with their own culture, they interpreted the situation with reference to their understandings of their own culture.

But in a political age that hungers for cultural code-words -- from NASCAR dads to latte liberals -- organic" may take on a life of its own.

But she found that it was held back by its own stultifying cultural codes.

This is especially relevant given his brief, which requires a sensitivity to cultural codes.

Austerity has its own cultural codes: the "Generation Game" was loved precisely because it was cheap.