Sentences with phrase «common languages from»

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Here is Gates's summary of this entertaining book: «The brain behind XKCD explains various subjects — from how smartphones work to what the U.S. Constitution says — using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language and blueprint - style diagrams.»

Start by brainstorming common words and build from those, pushing farther out to the fringes of the English language to uncover uncommon words that evoke the feeling and tone that you're striving for.

«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.

Similarly, the British are «very comfortable» trading with former colonies like Kenya, Bhatia said, citing «common language, common culture, established trading links and knowledge of the market from both sides» when explaining why the ties between colonizers and colonized remained strong.

Cryptocurrency is the money that brings buyers and sellers from different parts of the world a common payment language without expensive and time consuming third - party conversion and transfer institutions.

It extended as far north as the Slavic world and created its own Greco - Roman world that distinguished itself from the Latin Europe of the West by introducing variants in the liturgy and in the ecclesiastical constitution, adopting a different script, and renouncing the use of Latin as the common language.

«Each language has a palette with a finite amount of colors, which have evolved from the cultural memories and common experience of its users.

People of every nation, color, language, belief, and condition are now known to possess in their body cells trait factors drawn by an inconceivably complex sequence of intercombinations from a common «gene pool.»

The parish tends to be close - knit because it shares a common first language and a culture drawn from a homeland far removed.

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.

We are gulfs apart from having a common language, or a single purpose for Him these days.

However, when we use our gifts and talents in a relevant manner and «to the glory of God,» guarding ourselves from our own estranging tendencies, we can welcome the community of non-believers in a common language, on a common ground and with the power of God's pursuit of each one of their lives.

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

Language drawn from eating and drinking is probably as common in religious literature as is language drawn from the sexual life.

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».

Such language makes sense only if we assume that «the original principles in human nature» are seen to be good, that traces of a «common humanity» remain, that humans have genuine free will, and that intentional deviation by individuals from what is natural is culpable.

Evangelicals come from many churches, languages, and cultures, but we hold in common a shared understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ, of the church's mission, and of the Christian commitment to evangelism.»

Taking inspiration from a passage in the second - century Letter to Diognetus --- which says that Christians «have a common table, but not a common bed» --- Mitchell argues that «hospitality is a radical alternative to both the language and practice of culture wars.»

Islamic caliphates, linked by vigorous trade, various political relationships, a common language and a common religion, stretched from India to northern Africa and Spain.

In its extreme form this ethos can tend to alienate the common life and familiar language of a theological school from the ordinary language and patterns of common life of the churches, giving rise to complaints that theological schooling is «irrelevant» to the «real life» of actual congregations.

The common language of the empire was Greek, as we learn from inscriptions and papyri, though in border lands native languages such as Celtic, Punic and Aramaic continued to be employed.

There are hundreds if not thousands of common terms for the pods in languages from all over the world, so it is curious that the following ones have been debated with such passion.

Giovinco and Auro were patrolling that right flank continously and they seem to have already assembled a common language between them from which Altidore, Tosaint Ricketts, Jordan Hamilton or whoever plays upfront on his own will benefit.

Consequently, constructing a common progressive vision requires a shift from the language of identity towards that of interest.

Updated: Common Cause's Susan Lerner takes a different view, noting the recent court ruling that removed the word «independent» from the ballot language before voters when it came to describing the new redistricting commission.

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.

Very interesting and well put - I don't feel able to comment in detail, but I am always a bit worried when people talk about «our power as consumers» - language originating from the eighties but now so common it is unchallenged.

Flaws in many students» test booklets during the English language arts exam last week spurred complaints from frustrated school officials, who say the errors further undermine confidence in the Common Core assessments — already repudiated by Long Island parents pulling their children from the exams in record numbers.

The court found that working class residents shared a common language, lived in similar types of housing, used the same subway lines and health clinics, and got their news from Chinese - language media.

Analyzing more than 300 wars and disputes from 1820 to 1929, he finds that, in the main, common language did not predict either increased or decreased bellicosity among warring parties (pp. 223 - 30).

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.

Given these similarities, linguists would expect the languages to share many cognates, or words derived from a common ancestor.

Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame, used the comparative method to show how Germanic languages developed from a common ancestor.

Using methods from evolutionary biology, the duo compared common words in 87 Indo - European languages, such as «mother», «hunt» and «sky», to figure out how language «species» were related to one another.

They also presented the young technologies that would make this vision come true: a common language for representing data that could be understood by all kinds of software agents; ontologies — sets of statements — that translate information from disparate databases into common terms; and rules that allow software agents to reason about the information described in those terms.

According to their data, Twitter users in major cities thousands of miles apart, like Quito in Ecuador and San Diego in California, tend to have more language in common with each other than with a person tweeting from the nearby countryside, probably due to the influence of mass media.

Plants and animals had common names, which varied from one location and language to the next, and scientific «phrase names,» cumbersome Latin descriptions that could run several paragraphs.

Students from abroad — much more common in graduate school — also must deal with language and cultural issues, Guthman says.

Austronesians, who share a common ancestral language, originated in Taiwan and fanned outward across the Indian and Pacific oceans, from Madagascar to Easter Island and as far south as New Zealand.

For example, the modern languages of English and Latin descended from a common predecessor called proto - Indoeuropean.

«Computers so far have mainly used the presence or absence of words with a common origin in various languages to stitch together trees that describe the descent of the various languages from a common ancestor,» say Bhattacharya.

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.

It taps into the common science - fiction theme of alien tongues; not only the communication barrier they might present, but the unusual ways they could differ from human language.

April 26, 2006 «Uniquely human» component of language found in gregarious birds Although linguists have argued that certain patterns of language organization are the exclusive province of humans — perhaps the only uniquely human component of language — researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego have discovered the same capacity to recognize such patterns and distinguish between them in Sturnus vulgaris, the common European starling.

It provides researchers with convenient access to a comprehensive collection of pathways from multiple sources represented in a common language (BioPAX).

While Sanskrit language, mandalas, and prayer mudras might be so common in our lives that we don't perceive them as anything out of the ordinary, we need to be mindful of the fact that it is practically guaranteed that school community members, including parents, will have experiences that are different from ours.

We love how even the names of the shawls have a common theme, but have been adapted from different languages.

Just imagine, people hardly speaking each other's language, living so far from each other, being so different because of belonging to divers societies and environments suddenly find each other on the pages of online dating service and understand that in spite of everything they have so much in common that they feel mutual attraction.

However, the «language of love» is sure to help even the greatest of complexities from causing too much of a barrier between you and your Russian mail order bride and below are some tips on how to find a common language with Russian ladies.

No word on what the tone of the film will be as of yet, although from the sound of things it'll share quite a bit in common with the rest of his work; a combination of morbid and absurdist comedy with the occasional heavy dramatic element... and plenty of foul language.