Sentences with phrase «other germanic»

A teacher of German not only has the responsibility of successfully conveying the basics of the language to the student but also assess the influences on the language, its origins and its relations to other Germanic languages.

Things that would help could be sources, examples or a more in depth discussion of Fascism vs. Nazism, perhaps including wider examples of how the Falange (for example) is a Fascist movement, but not at all Nazi, or how Nazism is specific to the Allophone nations, with some plausible migration to other Germanic countries.

Other Germanic languages outside of English have separate words — in German, for example, «Fett» is the noun fat, while «dick» (yes, really) is the adjective fat.

Not exact matches

This was a landmark in the conversion of the Germanic invaders and other rulers followed Clovis» example.

Originally, Jewish people intermarried only other Jewish people, so it was an ethnicity... and definitely not Anglo Saxon, Nordic, Germanic or Caucasian.

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowship.

Through them, as through the monastic and popular, often «heretical,» movements, and through the Papacy and other ecclesiastical organizations, Christianity was being assimilated by the Germanic peoples, and these peoples were placing on it a distinctive stamp.

When we speak of Christianity, and of its importance to European cultural history, we commonly assume that Christianity belongs to European culture, that it is a part of that culture, an element among other elements: e.g., Jewish ethics, Greek democracy and philosophy, pagan sacrality, Roman law and organization, not to mention the customs of the Germanic, Slavic, and Hungarian tribes who were invaders.

The name was introduced to the British Isles by the Normans from the Germanic pet name for Ali meaning «other» or «foreign».

That was considered the start of a period when fearsome Germanic tribes such as the Vandals swept around Europe, wresting territory from Romans and others.

Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary, and legal themes and traditions; the heritage of Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Jewish, Slavic, Latin, and other ethnic and linguistic groups, as well as Christianity, which played an important part in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century.

Of course many makers of films noirs were authentically Germanic: Robert Siodmak (Phantom Lady, The Killers), Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd.), Otto Preminger (Laura, Fallen Angel, Where the Sidewalk Ends), not to mention other directors and — just as important — designers and cameramen.

Baird's direction is of a similarly heedless, knockabout nature, filching from other filmmakers with magpie abandon: Kubrick in the sweaty, distortive use of closeup, Fassbinder in an arch, unexpectedly resolved strain of Germanic camp, and Gilliam in Robertson's fantasy sessions with swollen - headed shrink Jim Broadbent — perhaps the film's least successful flight of fancy.

From my supprosings of Neanderthals talking mostly about dead animal, «Zug Zug, thag like meat good,» to the eventual emergence of Indo - European and Semetic languages, branching into Altaic, Germanic, AfroAsiatic, and others.

In some ways it makes for a refreshing departure from the Germanic norm in this class of car, but in others it a remains curiously flawed machine, even though it does fit right in amongst the streets of Monaco.

The Bimmer on the other hand is a Germanic thoroughbred with some of the richest heritage in the automotive business.

Others point to a more Germanic influence with the Teckel or Dachshund being a significant ancestor.

Switzerland's history follows a similar path to that of many other European countries in that its earliest settlers were displaced by the attentions of the Roman Empire, which prospered here in the first and second centuries AD but began to decline under pressure from Europe's Germanic tribes in the fourth century.

Others like that are Brynhildr, whose origins stem from Germanic mythology, trading in horseback for horsepower in the form of a deadly motorcycle.

Further, our competence reflects a deep understanding of the duality of the Cameroonian legal system which is based on civil law (Romano - Germanic system of law) on the one hand and the Common law system on the other hand.