Sentences with phrase «about language as»

For someone who is as enthusiastic about language as I am, it only made sense to take it up as a career, and share the wealth of information that I currently possess.

The ideas you offer are very pertinent to Alan Gouk's discussion about language as well as to the Hoyland quote.

c) They resented the footnotes, which aimed at giving Spanish readers the chance to read / laugh about languages as complicated as Dutch.

Not exact matches

When businesses post jobs on the platform, Toptal identifies available developers proficient in the software languages necessary to handle the task at hand, then contacts the client to learn more about the job and the company as a whole before interviewing programmer candidates to make sure their skills and personalities are properly attuned.

As a writer, I encounter a lot of people who are seriously uptight about the use of the English language.

Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

As Etsy has expanded internationally, adding foreign languages and currencies, so have complaints about low - cost knockoffs.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

Spearheaded by more than two dozen lenders and small business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand terms.

But over the years, employers have reached differing conclusions about how the Act's language should be interpreted — specifically the line that says employers must treat pregnant women the same as «other persons not so affected [by pregnancy] but similar in their ability or inability to work.»

«The «feel good» language about mutually beneficial cooperation is intended to benefit autocratic states at the expense of people whose human rights and fundamental freedoms we are all obligated as states to respect,» Mack said.

Porter raised additional concerns about language used in posting tools that allows users to post about «suspicious activity,» a category she views as overly broad, as opposed to restricting reports to notifications of specific crimes that were witnessed.

That said, deadlines should be included, as well as some language about the schedule and method of payment (including how the contractor should bill for the hours or flat rate) should come next.

Appearance is just about as important as body language, so make sure that you're dressed for the occasion.

My vice-president of HR, David Heather, does as many customer appointments as I do, because he speaks the language of the HR leader in any company — he has the same challenges, and he goes and talks about what we do as a company.

Greater attention to treating children with language disorders, such as stuttering, also drives demand for these professionals, about half of whom are employed by schools, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Change the language as needed, add in a few extra services you normally would not offer, and do whatever you can to get the client excited about working with you.

And as the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's own 2017 National Opinion Poll: Canadian Millennial Views on Asia revealed, Canadian millennials (aged 18 - 34) are more positive about Asia in general and more engaged with the region through work, travel, language, and social networks than any generation before them.

This could help us to think about the language we use in out Facebook adverts as well as the story we tell.

In September, Roskomnadzor warned CNN International over alleged violations of Russian media law.101 In October, the Ministry of Justice warned Radio Svoboda and Nastoyashcheye Vremya — the Russian - language outlets of U.S. - funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL)-- about the possibility of being designated as foreign agents.102 These warnings were apparently aimed at preparing a legal basis for countermeasures if the United States required Kremlin mouthpieces RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

You can also add in some reminder language on the report about when it should be turned in, such as, «Please submit this report to accounting within 30 days of purchase.»

As you're doing this, reposition the content and create a landing page that caters to that persona's individual needs, problems, and interests; adjust the offer's formatting, depth, and length; modify language and tone; and incorporate industry / persona - specific examples — all of which we elaborate on in this very post about how to tailor offer content to suit individual personas.

Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.

Christian Arno, in his article «Parlez - vous Pay Per Click (PPC),» estimates that only about 1/4 of all web users use English as their online language.

He points out that if social media is to achieve its real potential in India, then the industry needs to bridge the regional language barrier and add to the English - speaking market, which as he rightly points out is limited at about 200 million.

Twitter Analytics provides you with a ton of information about your audience — including their gender, location, interests, and language, as well as other companies and people they follow.

This is perhaps more critical than ever when you factor in that the buyer's «digital body language», as Steve Woods from Eloqua has written about, continues to evolve and it's alphabet grows at an exponential rate.

I did find reference to the disclosure about the blocker as early as February 5th, though there was more implied language of it much earlier in the prospectus, which was available back in December.

  As I recently blogged about here,  the methodologies used in global university rankings typically advantage English - language universities.

And in some instances, it has been Scalia and Thomas who have done so more than those who may think of themselves less as originalists (in one recent case in particular Scalia and Thomas dissented from the majority which held that convicted child molesters could be indefinitely imprisoned despite having fully served their sentences based on subtle shifts of language and the over-application of prior case law — no one wants a child molester free and about, but such results focused outcomes are always dangerous).

I assume the «lost in translation» comment is meant as a joke about the fact that some hispanics speak a different language?

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Canon law has about as much credence as a person claiming pig latin as a second language.

As Kerry Egan said, we don't have to use the language of theology to teach and talk about God.

Here, the spiritually and politically minded speakers talk to RELEVANT about the economy, helping the poor and how the apocalypse - type language going on now can be seen as a good thing.

Furthermore, by removing language about an «unacceptable pregnancy,» «past Christian teaching» (which seems to be used as a cover for what follows in the sentence), and what may «warrant» abortion, some of the paragraph's more pro-choice references have been removed.

During that time, I often had to speak what I refer to as «Christian code language» in order to communicate with those in my life whom I had grown up with... including my mother; otherwise, these people would have no idea what I was talking about.

The problem with this kind of interpretation is that these interpreters were mistaking phenomenological language, which describes appearances, with ontological language, which tells us about things as they really are.

I always try to be cautious though about using language such as, «Now you guys have got it right!

«You can continue teaching Semitic languages which you enjoy, or you can act on what you know — that we have saved your life over the years, and we can save the lives of others as well if you chose to teach them about us.»

And I try to learn as much as I can about language, customs, traditions and other aspects that can lead to a better understanding of a text.

If one accepts that metaphors (and all language about God) are principally adverbial, having to do with how we relate to God rather than defining the nature of God, then no metaphors or models can be reified, petrified, or expanded so as to exclude all others.

Thus, metaphors and models of God are understood to be discovered as well as created, to relate to God's reality not in the sense of being literally in correspondence with it, but as versions or hypotheses of it that the community (in this case, the church) accepts as relatively adequate.16 Hence, models of God are not simply heuristic fictions; the critical realist does not accept the Feuerbachian critique that language about God is nothing but human projection.

However, the presenters are unashamed about their Christian faith, and say that part of the podcast's appeal to young people and non-Christians is because they don't pretend to be anything they are not, as they avoid the trap of speaking a «weird Christian - ese language».

The language of rights might be viewed as a developing grammar that makes possible a truly universal dialogue about our common human future.

There certainly are for those who regard all language about an act of God or of a decisive, eschatological event as mythological.

This morning, The Today Show's Savannah Guthrie asked DeVos about the remarks, saying, «I wonder, as the education secretary, who's in charge of what our kids learn, what do you think of that kind of language?»

Clearly, all of this language about God must be understood as analogical discourse.

And they were able to read it in language written so that anyone, even, as Tyndale wrote, «the boy who driveth the plow,» could understand it.1 The Word became, as Ong says, silent.2 That silence has had profound influence on the way we think about religious language, but it is well to remember that when those translations into the vernacular were made, they were not written down in the language of print.

Too often the church goes to the social scientists who can describe communities and who may be very helpful to Christians as they think about society but who, because of their analytic language, can not create or reinforce community.