Sentences with phrase «by speaking the language»

And one of the surest ways to convince people to invest in you is by speaking their language.

How can we free ourselves from set definitions enforced by spoken language's power structures?

Not exact matches

The results suggest that by simply skipping impersonal business speak and allowing your language to imply your personal commitment to your company or team, you'll be more likely to create a positive impression of warmth and competence — and more likely to persuade others of whatever you're saying.

I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

«Bands always, always hire by values first and once the person looks right, feels right, speaks the same language, then he's allowed to get up and jam with the band,» he says.

Sure, it's backed by science and engineering, but effective leadership emerges from empathy with those you want to lead and speaking their language.

It was geek - speak basically, the English language as spoken by people who had four screens of computer code open at once.

Burnett: Every Emirates flight has English and up to 14 other languages spoken by professional, customer service dedicated staff.

If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili... We're designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language.

Companies with foreign customers, take note: the city is very diverse, with more than 80 different languages spoken by residents.

The Medel Valley is part of a small region of Switzerland in which people speak Romansch, a language descended from the Latin brought by the Roman legions who conquered the region 2,000 years ago.

Speaking at conference hosted by Morgan Stanley and broadcast online, JPMorgan Chairman & CEO Jamie DImon used strong language to emphasize his defense of the bank's disclosures in the wake of the London Whale losses.

THERE is an increasing interest in the fascinating foods of the great sub-continent of India, where almost half a billion people speak over a dozen major languages which are localised by more than 1500 dialects.

They were littered with poor grammar, obviously written by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, stuffed with unnecessary over-use of keywords, and provided no useful or insightful information.

For example, the amended bill requires specific disclosures to be provided to customers in English and any other language spoken by a majority of customers, and it requires businesses to provide customers with receipts containing specified information for each transaction.

The Bible is a book by which God speaks to us in various ways, historical narrative, poetry, instruction, prophecy, figurative language... etc..

Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.

We become ourselves, as infants, by learning to love and to speak, and we have language in particular as a gift from other people.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

Perhaps Paul Tillich will prove to be the last theologian who could speak in this manner, and he did so only by employing the language of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.

At the same time it was estimated that there yet remained five hundred to a thousand other language groups spoken by substantial numbers of people into which translations should be made, and many of them will be.

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

For this view Fuchs appeals to the parables, which were often spoken in the setting of the eschatological meals: «Jesus supplied his disciples with the interpretation of his parabolic language by an act of goodness.»

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

Christianly speaking, one grows conceptually by having one's abilities and capacities in relation to language — and therewith to ritual action, normative patterns of behavior, exemplary persons, music, art, etc. disciplined by just these biblical narratives.

by John Dominic Crossan, Richard G. Watts 1999 ISBN 0664258425 pages 28 - 29 [19] James Barr, Which language did Jesus speak, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1970; 53 (1) pages 9 - 29 [1][20] Handbook to exegesis of the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter 1997 ISBN 90 -04-09921-2 pages 110 - 112 [21] Discovering the language of Jesus by Douglas Hamp 2005 ISBN 1 -59751-017-3 page 3 - 4 ^ Jesus in history and myth by R. Joseph Hoffmann 1986 ISBN 0 -87975-332-3 page 98

In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

The elaborate narratives of Matthew and Luke may be the result of legendary or literary development; but that Jesus could speak of his own inner experiences in figurative or perhaps visionary language is shown later by his exclamation when the disciples reported their success in casting out demons (Lk 10:18): «I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.»

European religion is phony actors inside big Ugly goofy buildings built by retard Gentile European who think king David was a red headed European who spoke Latin as his birth language in the middle east.European religious people are like a 400 pound anchor dragging in the sand wanting the 12 Hebrew Isrealite Tribes to all sing kombiyah at their lame hang another picture up cannonized a lame Gentile fake leader of a has been lame their whole life

The whole reason Humanity is plagued by tribalism is because once upon a time, we all spoke the same language and worked together to build a city with a tower for the world.

Speaking on this subject, the reformed theologian Alain Blancy says that the world offers a revolution in communication, that» (it) tends to replace the privileged language of the word, i.e. of discourse, by the image, the picture, that is, of representation.»

If by language you mean languages other than English, then you are correct, I only speak one.

Accounts tell of her being able to speak languages of which she had no previous knowledge and demonstrating clairvoyance by revealing the most intimate secrets and transgression of people with whom she had no contact.

Infants learn their native language by hearing words spoken over and over again.

The Spanish and Portuguese languages have been looked down upon by the largely monolingual English - speaking world.

Unless they have repented of their sins, been baptised in the name of Jesus, and filled with the Holy Spirit as evidenced by speaking in another language (tongues) as stated by Peter on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:38), they are not born again.

This statement, albeit in somewhat different language, could have been made by Karl Barth, or Rudolf Bultmann, or Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Suzanne de Dietrich or any number of others who have spoken to us of these matters during the century.

«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience, by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.

By speaking of three «ways» you are trying to steer clear of the language of «persons» in the Godhead.

I am not speaking here of what church people usually mean by faith; I am referring to the history of philosophical concepts and language.

Even the language by which we speak of the higher expressions of religion is inevitably dialectical.

The Christian proceeds, but he can do so only by faith, and he can speak about the eternal nature of hope only in the language of faith.

The project has two subjects, Koko and Michael, who have learned to use American Sign Language (Ameslan), to understand spoken English, and to read printed words.10 Koko's instruction, begun in 1973, is the longest ongoing language study of an ape, and the only one with continuous instruction by the same teacher.

He spoke a biblical and democratic language that could rally the nation to look beyond the anger and suffering brought on by civil war.

She speaks the language of love and compassion and her act of love is not motivated by selfish gain.

Our Russian and Latino members and friends can listen to the service translated into their language by headset if they don't speak English.

Or, rather, would it be by using the pronunciation and spelling that are common in our language, while speaking well of its Owner and conducting ourselves as his worshipers in a manner that honors him?

David Pailin, Britain's foremost exponent of process - relational thought, has recently sought to avoid the traditional «aim and lure» language by speaking of divine agency as a general teleological purpose: a drive or intentional cosmic urge within the...

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Bishop Paulose was one of the few church leaders who spoke in a language that was understood by all.