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- noun Plural form of
lifeway .
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Examples
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Enter people whose lifeways are different, sometimes significantly so.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Convinced they knew what was best for Indians, the do-gooders had no compunction about dictating new lifeways.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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There is yet a core of common decency built into our lifeways and even some of our institutions that has thwarted, so far, the sketchier aspects of this government's agenda.
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Rather, we should just keep up a minimal trickle of support to allow the continuance of traditional lifeways.
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Whether the crimes are identified with a specific world religion or (as I would argue) with backwoods patriarchal cultural lifeways doesn't seem to matter to the Usual Suspects.
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Cultural relativism is about understanding other lifeways (I don't like the word "culture" much, as I indicate below): it is an epistemological approach, not a moral one.
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I can see it now …. dioramas and lifeways display of different cultures eating different types of doughy pockets.
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Convinced they knew what was best for Indians, the do-gooders had no compunction about dictating new lifeways.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Briefly stated, it is an attempt to understand other lifeways on their own terms, rather than through the lens of our own.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Obviously it is important to understand the significance of honour killings; how such a notion arises, and why, in the lifeways of groups of people.
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