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Ryan also began to couch his language, saying that «average households at every income level see a tax cut.»

«When you write out an idea from start to finish in simple language that a child can understand (tip: use only the most common words), you force yourself to understand the concept at a deeper level and simplify relationships and connections between ideas.

With Musk, I've been consistently impressed with how much the language of science, technology, and rational inquiry is woven into his conversation, often at a granular level.

If you keep your voice at a level volume when speaking normally, you will likely blend in much better than if you are calling in a foreign language down the street for someone else.

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.

The buyer insights enabled our marketing and selling teams to anticipate buyers» needs and decision process at their level, using their language and terminology.

There is the fact noted above that the language of political correctness and the language of pastoral Christianity overlap only at the level of phonetics.

Step by step I have been forced to realize how very patriarchal indeed our tradition has been, at levels far deeper than language, and to how great an extent my own thinking had been unconsciously shaped by masculine biases.

But the fact that the patient retains his use of language at all illustrates that a certain organizational level persists within the «nonsocial» nexus.

We have found that at European level we have and we can quite easily find a common language.

Instruction in Islam is given in local languages at the lower levels, but for higher studies a good knowledge of Arabic is necessary and mastery of Persian and Turkish is required for any extensive research.

If ecumenical dialogue is to take place and to mean anything, it can not operate simply at the level of a quest to find common language and a few shared but isolated concepts.

And Paul is making claims about «all flesh» and «every person» and about the «power of the gospel to save» that go beyond the specific cultural conditions of Jews and gentiles in the first century — his language demands to be engaged with at the anthropological / theological level.

John Paul uses the strongest language possible: Suffering in Christ «unleashes» love — again, both in the sufferer, who is united with Christ at the most intimate level, and in the one who ministers to him in imitation of Christ.

The principle is that in regard to the presentation of subjective aims, God has to «speak» to each actual occasion in its own «language,» that is, at its own level, in a manner harmonious with the character of the sort of data which are in general operative in the aesthetic synthesis which is the concrescence of the actual occasion in question.

Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.

So the principle that God uses language to tell us things is at once established; and the claim that Scripture is a further case in point - a claim, be it said, that is irremoveably embedded at foundation level in Jesus» teaching about his Messiahship and God's righteousness (1)-- presents no new conceptual problem.

In the extreme, they become moods and motivations operating at the level of internalized values instead of observable features of discourse, language, or institutions.

At subatomic levels we find particles that are more functions than things, and I am not committed to saying that functions are subject to metaphysical divisibility, and I would point out that our language about these «forces» is highly metaphorical.

At this point, we need to make distinctions between language that can be supported by historical data and language which operates on other levels.

The adult Christian, no matter what the degree of his psychological or spiritual maturity and commitment, needs education in terms of increased understanding and strengthened performatives at and beyond the level of language.

Without language, consciousness would remain at a relatively crude level governed by patterns developed in its association with material movement.

As you might have guessed, I'm fascinated by how a culture and language affects interpretation at a societal level.

The use of a nickname, the humorous situation that «breaks the ice» at a stuffy party, swearing which offends the pious because it is close to the logic of the language about God, the use of words with a specialized meaning and enclosed in quotation marks or inverted commas, the discovery of someone's name after an encounter on an impersonal level are incidents which may lead to discernment.

He notes that Marxists share with conservative philosophers a disdain for concerns about the meaning of language, but he observes that it is exactly at the level of language that the moral inadequacies and corruptions of our age are evident.

Let's look briefly at Northrup's types: Ordinary speech is the language of the level of consciousness.

At every level, leadership slots are filled according to gender, race, language, and ethnicity (the push for including «sexual preference» has not gotten very far, as yet).

In more advanced education at the university level, there must necessarily be specialization — in one of the sciences, in literature, in philosophy, in the languages, and in much else.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

In lay language, she broke her neck at the fifth cervical level.

The metaphors and jokes allow audiences to cheer language that, at another level, expresses destructive aggression against the «enemies»: Marxists, homosexuals, the hungry poor.

It is unclear to me, however, why an entity that has the influence that God has at the level of creativity - characterization could never be said to have the capacity to coerce another entity Sureh; through granting and withholding novel forms, through organizing the network of inclusion and exclusion of past characteristics in the provision of the new entity» with its actual world, and through shaping the very purposes of the new entity; God can sometimes act in ways that in ordinary language we would consider to be coercive.36 But these considerations do not stem from any of my revisions.

To put this into different language, we may say that, in contrast to the level of creativity - esse, there is, at least potentially, a «zero - sum game» in relation to creativity - characterization.

At a human level, creativity is the «prius» of all our feeling, acting, thinking, and hoping, of our reality as language - speakers and as conscious deciders.

Political models should be: (1) relevant — they should reflect the empirical system they attempt to symbolize; (2) economical — they should simplify that which is being modeled; (3) rigorous — they should apply the same operating rules and assumptions of the scheme at every level of the system; (4) combinatorially rich — they should be able to generate webs of relationships or patterns throughout the system; (5) powerful organizers — they should have relevance or correspondence to processes beyond the range of their initial concern; (6) original — they should give insights beyond the highly probable visions of everyday language and experience.

Because the ordinary Spaniards of that period of time were mostly illiterate and came from the medieval world which was so rich in imagery and the native world of the Americas communicated mainly through an image - language, it was much more at the level of the image - word than of the alphabetic spoken word that the new synthesis of Iberian Catholicism and the native religions took place and continues to take place today.

I don't think it's fair to pick on the christians for it, and at base language and understanding work on the very principles of metaphor at a neurological level, so it's something we don't want to argue to abandon.

One of the criticisms leveled at traditional churches by the «emergent / emerging» crowd is that they use too much technical language, theological terms, and Christian jargon that nobody understands.

He also said: «First of all you have to look at the level of education of the player because they have to learn the language.»

What used to be something you had to search for in foreign languages, on video - cassette, in hard - to - find European magazines, through penpals... was now something everyone of a certain educational level was expected to be at least conversant in.

He told arsenal.com: «First of all you have to look at the level of education of the player because they have to learn the language.»

The district is gauging parent interest for their students to learn another language, starting at what grade level and what language.

But the intonations, sounds, and vocabulary are being absorbed and processed at the baby's level and those are the building blocks for language.

The structure provided by attending classes at a language school once or twice a week takes language learning to another level.

Model 1 adjusted for covariates in model 0 plus gestational age and birth weight z score.18 Model 2 adjusted for covariates in model 1 plus child race / ethnicity and maternal age, parity, smoking status, depression at 6 months» post partum, and employment and child care at age 6 months, as well as primary language, annual household income, and parental educational level and marital status.

Estimates are adjusted for child age, sex, fetal growth, gestational age, race / ethnicity, and primary language and for maternal age, parity, smoking status, IQ, depression, employment, and child care at 6 months» post partum, as well as for parental education level, annual household income, and Home Observation Measurement of the Environment short form score.

Other studies have linked insufficient levels of vitamin D during pregnancy with language impairment in children at 5 and 10 years of age.

These are no minor steps for the Iranian government, which despite being ideological in its public language, tends to be cooperative at a regional level, particularly in periods of crises (e.g. Afghanistan 2001; Kuwait 1990 - 91).

A better way of legitimating the necessary revival of sovereign political action to face current social and economic challenges — whether at the national or European level — would be to use the language of interests rather than that of identity.