Sentences with phrase «dominant language of»

The rise and fall of French as the dominant language of international law (and the consequences of this on legal thought and practice)

JC English is international in that it is the dominant language of the world.

Although others saw the medium as once removed from reality, she regarded it as «something real,» the «dominant language of contemporary culture.»

I will also go out on a limb and say that, after several years where abstraction has been the dominant language of painting, representational work will start to mount a comeback.

«I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture,» says Charlesworth, who is represented in the show by photographs from her first two series of newspaper appropriation works, «Modern History» (1978) and «Stills» (1977).

It was, in fact, the language of Wilson, and the dominant language of American leadership from the founding until fairly recently.

In those times, Greek (like today's English), was still the dominant language of commerce in that region and most people used it every day 3.

Not exact matches

We added a few new names to the portfolio for the quarter: Grupo Televisa, a Mexican media company and the most dominant producer of Spanish - language content in the world; SMFG (Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group), the third largest bank in Japan; and Wolseley, the world's largest traded distributor of plumbing and heating products and leading supplier of building materials based in the U.K.

The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.

Front Porcher Patrick Deneen criticizes the critics of the HHS mandate for using the «dominant privatistic language of liberalism.»

My observations are directed at the dominant language and ethos of a culture, not at the souls of individuals.

For decades, «us» vs. «them» language has been a dominant part of American politics, and because of religion's power to influence social issues, it seeped into much of the dialogue surrounding faith.

But in the democratic world that would have led to more compromise by the dominant power, eg England's support of the Scottish Assembly, the USA's recognition of some Native American «reservation» independence, or Canada's political support of French language.

The vision of the «good» life, the central values, even the corporate identity expressed by a congregation's host culture in its dominant languages will in various ways stand in tension with the congregation's own understanding of its own communal identity, its own picture of the good life, its own central values as they all are defined «in Jesus» name.»

And as such, it is a solution that can not be implemented as long as the language of rights remains the dominant framework for our discourse about health care.

Even those churches that have dissented from many aspects of the dominant culture still participate in it in many ways through sharing its language, through involvement in its economic system, through social interaction of various kinds.

But living in a world where the connection of poetry and theology has been ruptured, most of their attempts to vitalize their sermons have been limited to employing the culture's dominant language in the pulpit.

They knew Jesus was dangerous, although he never used a sword; he used language and symbols that challenged and threatened the validity of the world sustained by the dominant powers.

There is a single dominant word within the language of the Sixth which undoes compulsion upon the Individual: Impartial.

Whichever way you do the numbers, the centre - left grouping (get used to that sort of language) of Labour, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens, Respect and others is dominant.

Languages are dying as improved transport and telecommunications bring different peoples into closer contact, and speakers of minority tongues abandon them for the languages of more dominant cultures.

Young children usually show language activity in the same areas on both sides of their brain, Newport noted, and the left side becomes more dominant over time.

Most experts believe the dominant hand is a by - product of a genetically driven process of brain organization, which locates specific functions — like language — in one hemisphere of the brain or the other.

Today the two dominant orders that were represented in this study are equally frequent and account for roughly 90 percent of the world's languages.

The way in which language re-produces dominant ideologies and understanding of violence represents a particular focus.

In most people, the left side parietal lobe is thought of as dominant because of the way it structures information to allow us to read and write, make calculations, perceive objects normally, and produce language.

Dr. Chapman says that each of us has two dominant love languages of the five: physical touch, receiving gifts, acts of service, quality time, and words of affirmation.

Joined by their more esoteric sister in the holy trinity of US critics» awards, the National Society of Film Critics, the groups also share an awareness of foreign - language cinema that collectively dwarfs that of the Academy: it's regrettably easy to forget that only a year ago, French actress Yolande Moreau was the dominant critics» choice for Best Actress, while the LA crowd has recently surfed the Romanian New Wave with awards for actors Vlad Ivanov and Luminita Gheorghiu.

Leaving the language barrier aside, the accessible story is communicated clearly and briskly, with plenty of vivid, unambiguous character work; its pert challenges to dominant conventions lie in the realm of representation, not narrative or patience.

In multi-ethnic societies, including Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Guatemala, the paper shows that imposing a dominant language through a school system — while sometimes a choice of necessity — has frequently been a source of grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural inequality.

Instead of learning American Sign Language (ASL), many children who are deaf or hard of hearing are encouraged primarily to use the language of the dominant culture by learning to read lips and speak or to «fix» their inability to hear by having a cochlear implant surgically installed, which provides a sense of sound.

Rather than viewing school knowledge as objective, as something to be merely transmitted to students, radical [critical pedagogy] theorists argue that school knowledge... [represents the] dominant culture... [with its] privileged language forms, modes of reasoning, social relations, and lived experiences.

Code § 4.26, declares that Pennsylvania's local education agencies (LEA) must provide a program for each student whose dominant language is not English for the purpose of facilitating the student's achievement of English proficiency and the academic standards.

As teachers try to tailor assessments to gauge the abilities of individual students, they often find it particularly difficult to measure the skills of children who do not speak a school's dominant language.

High stakes tests often inaccurately assess English language learners — measuring their understating of English and the dominant culture rather than the subject they are being tested in.

With a growing student population of English language learners from diverse backgrounds, the Houston Independent School District offers a range of language acquisition programs to serve Spanish - dominant English Language Learners in elementary school, including bilingual programs in the form of transitional late - exit, one - way developmental, and two - way bilingual immersion.

Math and language arts, reading and writing, now make up the dominant focus of the finite instructional time.

If those students are classified as needing Special Ed services in the same proportion as those who are long - term English learners, then it is clear that the need of such services is not tied to the language they are more dominant in.)

This analysis documents the increasingly dominant force of whole language, literature - based reading and process writing in the discourse of elementary reading and language arts instruction.

Educators who see their role as adding a second language and cultural affiliation to students» repertoires are likely to empower them more than those who see their role as replacing or subtracting students» primary language and culture in the process of fostering their assimilation into the dominant culture.

Then there are examples such as Brazil, where Portuguese had a presence for 300 years but didn't become the dominant language until a gold rush in the 1790s brought swarms of new speakers.

For instance, premature birth and dystocia may injure the left hemisphere and result in a shift of language and dominant limb function to the right hemisphere.

Be aware of NOT being dominant — avoid direct eye contact, don't lean or loom over the dog, keep your body language soft and relaxed.

Unknown dogs are important because becoming social means learning to deal with, communicate properly to, and properly interpret the body language of hyper dogs, dominant dogs, fearful dogs, old dogs, young puppies, and so on.

Through the use of vocal cues, body language, and routing, you will develop a dominant relationship with your dog, establishing yourself as the «leader of the pack.»

Along with Rauschenberg, Johns resisted the dominant ideology of the Abstract Expressionists to create a complex language of signs and symbols comprised of familiar images such as targets, American flags, letters, and numerals.

In today's climate of increasingly fixed identities, Hovsepian creates an alternative path by building a vocabulary that avoids one dominant visual language.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

While James T. Green also uses language and image to critique the dominant culture, he concentrates on the perception of «the other,» often raising issues of race through familiar and accessible technologies.

Reflecting on our current climate of communication, the provocation consistent in Chun's exhibition is a decentering of English as the world's most dominant, «common» language: Could English ever become secondary?