Sentences with phrase «common language at»

This Stella work includes use of the French curve, a tool that became part of the artist's common language at mid-career.

Not exact matches

«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.

In fact, according to a refreshing recent Quartz article by Oxford University professor William MacAskill and his partner, PhD philosophy student Amanda MacAskill, lots of common «mistakes» language snobs like to lord over the common man aren't even mistakes at all, including these:

Though they differ widely in language and social sentiment, these ridings are bound together by at least one common value: Residents of these ridings spend a lot of time behind the wheel.

Where financial systems were previously clunky, slow, and expensive to use, bitcoin provides a common language that computers can use to transfer money quickly and securely, and at a potentially much lower cost because it is a system with no intermediaries or banks.

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

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.

So anyway, while I do think the Roman road system and common language helped the spread of the Gospel, I don't think we can say that this was why Jesus came at the time and place that He did.

When we use such a vocabulary, we find ourselves thinking about the world in different ways — and sometimes, at least, we may find common ground with other Christians from whom we were divided when our only language was that of contemporary politics.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

We are using a special language to get at the situation which common sense acknowledges without knowing why.

And these good ladies had items in the newspapers and on the internet, the Daily Telegraph announcing that: «Hilary Cotton, chair of Women And The Church (Watch), the group which led the campaign for female bishops, said the shift away from the traditional patriarchal language of the Book of Common Prayer in already at an «advanced» stage in some quarters».

Although bound by a common religious past, their languages and dialects were as diverse as those heard at Ellis Island in the early 1900s.

It would seem at first glance that homileticians and practitioners of performance studies are developing a common language and method.

On the strictest biblical terms there must be something in common between the words we use to speak about God's being and about our being, otherwise it is impossible to see how language about God the Father, and God the Son can be meaningful at all.

Luke 14:26» = > Jesus used this language which was common at the time to make a point.

In the fourth century St. Jerome translated the entire Bible into Latin, which was then the Vulgate or common language of the western world.54 This served the church for centuries and at the Council of Trent was decreed to be the official version of the scriptures for the Roman Catholic Church.

Choosing the best foreign language instruction for your child Trends As families and communities become more diverse, foreign language instruction is becoming more common for kids at young ages.

For a meeting of chance and at first not even speaking a common language, we were determined to figure out a way to make things work.

The Italian regions of South - Tyrol and Aosta Valley have in common that although they're both part of modern Italy, they are, at least historically, places where the language spoken was not Italian.

We think that Miller's «ordinary military equipment» language must be read in tandem with what comes after:» [O] rdinarily when called for [militia] service [able - bodied] men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.»

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

The controversial Common Core State Standards Initiative, which highlights what students should know in English language arts and mathematics at the end of each grade from kindergarten through 12th grade, is currently authorized in New York state until 2022.

Aran constitutes in Catalonia a national reality with its own personality and differentiated, based in the fact that the Aranese community has a common, shared and common language and culture with the rest of Occitania, and, at the same time, an ancient tradition of self - government firmly defended by the Aranese over time.

However the EU itself seems to be doing absolutely nothing to support a common language and instead tries to operate in 26 languages at the same time.

At a public meeting arranged by the Kingston Common Council, Wilber pointed to language in the original 1929 agreement that created the Cooper Lake reservoir that indicated Woodstock maintained the right to draw from the watershed.

«The most common problem we see in everyday medicine is one of understanding and care due to language barriers,» says Anita Rieder, Head of the Centre for Public Health at the MedUni Vienna.

By comparing these two genomes they have also found that there is a common «language» that the cells use at the molecular level but which, at the same time, is tremendously flexible and has varied greatly throughout evolution.

Roy, an engineer by training, plans to put his enormous data set through the wringer in an attempt to identify patterns in the way he, his wife (Rupal Patel, a professor of speech language pathology at Northeastern University in Boston) and the young one speak as common concepts are taught and lessons are learned.

A team of researchers at Access, a research centre associated with the Technical University of Aachen in Germany, has developed a «common language» for modelling and simulation tools used in studying the microstructures of materials.

The common language, or set of descriptors, developed by the team can only describe the microstructure of a material at a given instant in time.

In a separate study, a team at the University of Reading in England reviewed cognates (similar sounding words in different languages for the same object or meaning, such as «water» and the German «wasser») to determine how all Indo - European tongues progressed from a common ancestor that existed between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.

«You have parallel data for common language pairs like French - English, but for rare or uncommon language pairs it's very difficult to find bilingual sources,» explains Sujith Ravi, a computer scientist at the University of Southern California in Marina Del Rey, who is trying a new approach to the problem.

To encourage and develop vocabulary in accordance with Common Core standards for English language arts (Vocabulary acquisition and use grades 6 — 12 *), we provide Power Words at the end of each article on the site.

«The authors themselves are understandably cautious in drawing strong conclusions, but I think that their work clearly supports the contention that speech and language is an old feature of our lineage going back at least to the last common ancestor that we shared with the Neanderthals,» Dr Dediu told BBC News.

The required German language skills should be equivalent at least to level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

(True, a great many languages mingle in the polyglot screenplay, but Yiddish — the common language of the Jewish inmates at Auschwitz — predominates.)

For as long as I can remember, and long before I set foot in America for the first time at age 24, I have been intrigued by America — the «idea» of it, conjured up through music, and, as it turned out, the reality — and the common language which -LRB-...

At first glance, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín's Neruda seems to have a lot in common with his English - language debut, Jackie (which opened only two weeks ago and is still rolling out in limited release).

At Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, where I teach, we adopted common language to help us unify our writing instruction.

For instance, you may have very concise medical or scientific information that needs to be consumed by your learners, and you may have the core aspects on screen; but your narration needs to be of a little more common language or at least easier for a narrator both to speak and be heard.

At the same time that thousands of school districts nationwide are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts, many also face new state reading policies for the early grades that call for the identification of struggling readers, require interventions to help them, and, in some instances, mandate the retention of 3rd graders who lack adequate reading skills.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

The sweet spot that Common Core tries to get at are «Tier - two» words like analysis, evaluate, and negligent that are common to sophisticated adult speech and writing, but which we perceive as ordinary, not specialized lanCommon Core tries to get at are «Tier - two» words like analysis, evaluate, and negligent that are common to sophisticated adult speech and writing, but which we perceive as ordinary, not specialized lancommon to sophisticated adult speech and writing, but which we perceive as ordinary, not specialized language.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

Howard - Jones, Professor of Neuroscience and Education at the University of Bristol's Graduate School of Education in the UK, says differences in language and terminology used by neuroscientists and educators has led to the perpetuation of common neuromyths.

Even if you accept the argument that geometry in general, and proofs in particular, are unnecessary for students to learn, at least algebra should be taught properly, since algebra is the common language of, and gateway to, all of higher math.

«Inappropriate language was prevalent in hallways, commons areas, and at co-curricular events.

As Porter et al. note, «Whether these differences between Common Core and Massachusetts mean that Common Core represents a better curriculum is difficult to judge, although at least at grade 7 in [English language arts], there is a shift in the Common Core standards toward greater emphasis on higher cognitive demand.»

We also had a common language and referred to a common repertoire of books, articles and blog posts — some written by presenters at the conference.