Sentences with phrase «debates over the language»

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But if the emotional debate over America's newest arrivals often hints at cultural resentments — they speak another language; they have a different skin color — none of that rancor was present in our conversation.

Furthermore, nearly four million people watched the English - language leaders» debate, a roughly 26 % increase over the 2008 election.

U.S. stocks rallied after the 2:00 PM release of the Fed's September minutes, which revealed that committee members continue to debate over the timing and language of a rate hike.

«We continue to hear from many people on the debate over sexuality that our current Discipline contains language which is contradictory, unnecessarily hurtful, and inadequate for the variety of local, regional and global contexts,» the proposal said.

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.

There are hundreds of terms for the pods in languages from all over the world, so it is curious that the following terms have been debated with such passion.

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

As a trio, the lectures raise a number of serious concerns over the direction of current public debate and over the degeneration of political language.

Against ISIS's mastery of rhetoric, our language inexorably emerges as weak and ineffective, stuck as it in petty debates over whether it should be designated as «Daesh» or «Daech».

The subsequent debate over English votes for English laws also tipped into English nationalist language from some Conservative MPs.

The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

The language in its pending 2018 spending bill — approved last night by the appropriations committee for the U.S. House of Representatives — could also rekindle a smoldering debate over whether Congress should set parameters for how much NSF invests in specific disciplines.

Linguists agree that all humans must share some cognitive or linguistic structures, but there's great debate over which features of language are universal — or at least, innately human.

Gross illuminates the Catholic struggle to create an alternative school system in sober, academic language free of the hysteria surrounding much of the contemporary debate over school choice.

For the most part, the language of economics has informed the public debate over school choice.

Whether it is the current math debate in California, the 30 year debate over school prayer, or the long running debate over phonics vs. whole language — this unhealthy habit of thinking in dogmatic ways does our children little good.

The debate over teaching English - language learners must reach beyond questions of which language to use in instruction, said researchers and educators who gathered here for a recent federally sponsored conference.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

A little healthy debate over things as simple as terminology can be a huge contributor to company culture, and help improve understanding of the very concepts language exists to describe.

These definitions, and the «regular and substantive interaction» language embedded in them continue to be at the heart of debate over the financial aid eligibility of both competency - based education (CBE) and online education.

One of the difficulties faced right now by people like Judy Curry, seeking to temper the animosity of the debate, is that this sort of unprofessional language has become more deeply engrained in the debate over the past few years.

The key benefits of such injunctions were the speed with which the English courts can decide upon the issue of jurisdiction and the ability to have the debate over jurisdiction in English rather than a foreign language without the need to instruct legal advisers in another country.

(But scientists being as argumentative as they are, the debate may not be over: see the featured comment — and others chauvinistically boosterish about Indians, Arabs, Chinese, etc. etc.) There's a brief description of the method in the Economist piece, and associated with the article in Science a list of words whose cognates in other languages point to a common ancestor and to a location for that ancestor.

Turning now to language in the Blawgosphere, there has been a great debate by linguists over the use of the word «Blawg» to describe a legal blog.

Trump's language over North Korea and the media debate about it are stuck in the language of Cold War deterrence.