Sentences with phrase «act of speech»

All these recent episodes demonstrate that every act of speech and every act of silence opens up a space for interpretation and misinterpretation leading to further speech and further silence.

Georgie Grace's video works address the idea of the conscious mind and the act of speech.

As in my previous explorations with three - dimensional word balloons, I wanted to explore how the act of speech has the capacity to carry a significant intellectual and emotional weight.

The types of human research that we can do — such as brain scans — aren't detailed enough for identifying words, using grammar, and the act of speech.

Proclamation, which implies interpretation, is an act of speech, with a historicity of transmission and hermeneutical activ - ity.

Many of the psalms foreground the act of speech or song — the activity of utterance itself — as the chief end of everything that has breath.

Many of the psalms foreground the act of speech or song — the activity of utterance itself — as the chief...

The origins of structuralism lie in the work of the early 20th - century linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who attempted to analyze the system of relationships within a language that makes acts of speech possible.

Parole, the title of this installation, refers to the term used by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure to distinguish individual acts of speech (parole) from a larger system of language (langue).

How we use our individual and collective acts of speech and silence to negotiate common (global, national, local) goals relating to the world we live in and want to live in, still remains a deep democratic conundrum.

These acts of speech and silence also open up spaces for power struggles over who should speak (for whom), who has the right to speak (about what), how to deliberate about science and politics, what the outcomes of these deliberations should be, and so on.

Not exact matches

But acting confident enough to get on stage and give a speech to a packed room, even when your hands are violently shaking, is necessary to learning the art of public speaking.

«Next year's Commission should consider acting quickly to reverse any damaging policies put into place over the last eight years and in the last few weeks of this Administration,» O'Rielly said in a speech last month.

Pai, in his speech last month, took the opposite view and specifically critiqued the net neutrality rules, which rely on laws in Title II of the federal Communications Act.

What's more, the speech — along with the entire March on Washington — led to important policy changes, most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In a persuasive speech before a joint session of Congress last night, President Barack Obama revealed his American Jobs Act, which he hopes will improve unemployment and get Americans working again.

In 2002, while still president and CEO of the IDA, Oliver gave a speech to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce in which he praised the American Sarbanes - Oxley Act (commonly referred to as SOX), which put in place a sweeping set of regulations for securities markets in the U.S. SOX came in the wake of several corporate malfeasance disasters, including the demise of Enron.

«Given the significant consequences of acting as an unregistered broker - dealer and the increased attention being given to this issue by the SEC staff, private - fund advisers should consider reviewing their practices to determine whether any activities that may be approaching or crossing the line would require broker - dealer registration,» David Blass, the chief counsel of the SEC's division of trading and markets, suggested in a speech last April.

Notably, seven provinces opposed to the legislation, which, «in its drafting, if not in its intent, had serious and, in the view of the vast majority of witnesses, fatal flaws as to the constitutional violation of sections 92 and 91 of the British North America Act, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, freedom of speech, expression and association as protected by that very Charter of Rights and Freedoms,» Segal said.

He was referring to comments made by President Barack Obama in a Feb. 23 speech at AARP endorsing the Department of Labor's redraft of its rule to amend the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Germany at the start of the year began enforcing a new hate speech law that gives social networks just 24 hours to act on hate speech, fake news, and illegal material.

This week, President Obama made a speech in which he vocally supported the Department of Labor's new proposed fiduciary rule, which sets new uniform rules to ensure financial advisers always act with their clients» best interest in mind.

The U.S. decision to launch trade investigations is a unilateral act of protectionism, the Chinese commerce ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, citing a speech by Wang in New Delhi.

Sedition acts have been held unconst - itutional and certain forms of political and religious speech have received heightened protection (e.g. Citizen's United, Hobby Lobby).

The Public Order Act Last month, we published English barrister Paul Diamond's report on official bigotry against Christianity in England, which uses the Public Order Act and its outlawing of speech that is «threatening, abusive, or insulting» as an excuse.

I argue that the availability of the Greek language as a whole during acts of speaking or writing it would have to involve a high degree of conceptual entertainment; otherwise, speech would be an impossible foraging operation among physical memory traces.

In the case above, we see a loss of conceptual initiative resulting in a decline to a lower level of organization of the supportive nexus, in this case to one which allows for no novel speech - acts.

But we can not either reduce God's speech to scripture alone, or for that matter ignore the fact that «speech» must itself be thought of in terms of «speech - acts,» the deeds which are performed by the fact of speaking at all...»:

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

Lord Alton of Liverpool marked the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Act with a speech outside parliament on Friday.

To take just his first example, Stephans says that «Shakespeare teaches in Julius Caesar that there is a time to act quickly and boldly to gain one's dreams» and quotes Brutus» «There is a tide in the affairs of men» speech.

But this is just what John Paul II provided: his public speeches confronted the ideology of those with whom diplomatic negotiations were simultaneously under way, and as a result countered the acts of his diplomats even without halting them.

I love free speech but, those in positions of authority who advocate hate, bigotry and acts of violence against others should be held criminally accountable for what they say.

The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.

The First Amendment Defense Act can and should protect the free exercise of religion without ignoring the freedom of speech, press and assembly for the non-observant as well as the devout.

But he says this symbolism is «adherent,, rather than being a true act of language (a true act of language being, for example, the metaphor, which is a free invention of speech).

Eight acts of divine speech schematically represent the untold multiplicity of divine urgings whereby God shaped this world, originally without form and void, into that which we may celebrate as a fit habitation for man.

And yet let him center upon preaching as a learned act and the measure of his mastery of speech arts will be the measure of his arrogance.

Every one of these acts is a direct result of China's systematic assault on the Tibetan people's way of life, their movements, their speech, their religion, and their identity.

The enactment, however, must still at some point include a «speech act» pointing out the meaning of the action, and here once more Shakespeare is able to exploit the resources of folk wisdom, to turn it into music, and to place it in the mouth of one of his characters, who at that moment becomes the chorus commenting on the meaning of the play.

In harmony with his general philosophical principles Humboldt regards language, the single word as well as connected speech, as an act, «a truly creative act of the mind.»

It is only secondarily in speech inasmuch as this history itself is brought to language in the speech - act of narration.

In modes of both response and assertion, interpretation is an imaginative act which articulates reality in a new way that had not been possible until the moment of speech.

There are no tools that can replace [the master's tools], nor are any needed, because when the oppressed feel a need to authorize speech, they are acting on feelings that are a function of their oppression.

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The viscus enters into action; it acts upon them, and soon it emits [renvoie] them metamorphosed into ideas, to which the language of physiognomy or gesture, or the signs of speech and writing, give an outward expression.

We can not help but act out what is in our hearts and what I am saying is our speech, our body language and even our dress could reflect our sinful hearts showing a lack of reverence and respect for God, or could even show proper awe and respect.

«While it may not be a violation of the law - it may be an act of free speech - it certainly violates our sense of decency,» she added about the Florida event.

And then it says that for the demonstration of this message to our world, not merely in speech but in act, the Church is, under God, the principal and indispensable instrument.39

Our speech acts go out from us and return back to us, and we can only establish our bearings within language contextually, like the sailor must establish the position of his boat at sea by a system of cross bearings.