Sentences with phrase «from speaking their language»

They were discouraged from speaking their language, from connecting with their culture, and were subject to acts of violence.

«Sign language has a structure, and even if you examine it at the phonological level, where you would expect it to be completely different from spoken language, you can still find similarities.

Before going to school, children learn new words from the spoken language around them and as they learn to read words and texts, oral vocabulary knowledge makes important contributions to reading comprehension.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were discouraged from speaking their languages and made to feel ashamed of using them in public.

Up until the 1970s, Australian government policies and practices banned and discouraged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from speaking our languages.

Decades of Australian government policies and practices have banned and discouraged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from speaking our languages during the assimilation years.

Not exact matches

A global HR report from SHRM details that 57 percent of English - speaking workers in Asian countries have a moderate to high proficiency in the language.

An acronym for impact reporting and investment standards, Iris helps impact investors speak the same language so they can compare social returns from one investment to the next.

«I have also gotten lessons from people who speak his [Yoruba] language.»

As a host based in the United States, if you're fluent in French, for example, and promote this within your profile, travelers visiting from France may be more inclined to stay with you because you speak their language.

Through a series of experiments, researchers from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley discovered that spoken language most clearly reveals a person's thinking ability.

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.»

Toronto's Centennial College will also begin offering instruction in Islamic finance this fall, partly due to interest from one of the Big Five banks in helping their staff speak the same language as clients with different financial backgrounds.

In some countries this policy is not always possible, and ISS needs to manage a workforce from different parts of the world: Its British employees, for example, speak 187 languages combined.

Foster Innovation Different practices that arise from having lived in a foreign country or speaking a foreign language or practicing a certain religion can lead to innovative products like Nike's new «Pro Hijab», a lightweight, breathable headcover for female Muslim athletes.

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

The company's employees speak about 12 different languages, «but other than that, we leave the language specialties to professional linguists who offer over 180 different dialects of services from over 4,000 linguists globally,» says Buckstein.

I don't mean this literally: The «from» line might still be your company's name, but the content should feel as if it comes from a human being, speaking in the first person (using «I» or «we» and addressing the recipient as «you»), with natural - sounding language.

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.

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.

Cohen, who believes there is no place for disfluency in our everyday language, finds filler words «impede our ability to speak with power» and «become interrupters that detract from our message.»

When your report is done, you'll see a bunch of graphs to tell you more about where your followers are from, what language they speak and how many followers they have.

The best way to learn something is from someone who speaks your language.

He holds a Ph.D in Economics from Sofia University in Bulgaria and speaks seven languages including English, French and Dutch.

An «explanation» from confused innocent people regarding terrorists they've never met from a country they've never visited speaking a language they don't understand?

It's speaking as it reviews its methods of ensuring people suffering from the disease, which can include a loss of memory, reasoning or language skills, are fully included in services.

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

I'm latino (which also includes Italians, Romanians, Portuguese and every that speaks a language that came from Latin), and my family came from Spain, and here where I live I'm not considered white because I also speak Spanish, even though I have white skin, light brown hair and blue eyes.

The poems are relentless in documenting the outcome: Native children forcibly removed from their families to boarding schools, forbidden to speak their own language, subjected to a bureaucratic regime with a toxic mix of condescension and missionary zeal.

If the work of creation is seen as an evolutionary process, then existence of matter is the necessary precondition for the appearance, on earth, of spirit: elsewhere Pere Teilhard de Chardin speaks of matter in more exact language as the «matrix of spirit»: that in which life emerges and is supported, not the active principle from which it takes its rise.

But on 22 October 1978 the new Pope - «from a far country» as he described himself - spoke directly to the crowd, saying that he hoped he made himself understood «in your - in our - Italian language» adding, to huge cheer, «if I make a mistake, correct me!»

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.»

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

Everyone knows that serpents speak languages and you can create a full woman from a man's rib.

In the same way, as the culture around us changes, the Church must learn the language and speak it, at the same time offering a «counter-cultural culture» that is different from the culture of the mileu (but not so different as to be inaccessible).

Although he does not speak specifically of prototaxic, parataxic, and syntaxic modes of experience, the same sequential patterns are reflected in his description of the first cycle of intellectual progress, which runs «from the achievement of perception to the acquirement of language, and from the acquirement of language to classified thought and keener perception» (AE 31).

In the East, people gather around personalities that they trust — because of a connection like family ties, friend of the family, from the same village, speaks the same language, etc..

Mays refuses to use the language of actual entities (except in direct quotes from Whitehead) but instead speaks of «events» and «event particles.»

It was once again in the Gospel of John, despite the hostility of some of its language about Jews, that Jesus, speaking as a Jew to a non-Jew, was described as saying: «We [Jews] worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews» (John 4:22).

Before the word is spoken to man in human language, it is spoken to him in another language, from which he has to translate it into human language.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

This manifests itself not only in the way in which Aristotelian notions of the «unmoved mover» or neo-Platonic ideas of «being - subsisting from - itself» have been taken to be the proper definition of what is meant when we speak of «God», but also in liturgical language where all too often the basic concept implied or (as most often seems to be the case) affirmed is the utter immutability of deity, along with the rigidly legalistic moralism which it is suggested should mark those who claim to «obey» the divine mandates.

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.

The mystery of the Kingdom as an intimation of ultimacy in the midst of our immediacies, speaks a language consonant with this new epoch of relational thinking issuing from field theory and the complexity of any description of events that begins with relatedness.

Some like John Jay tried all at once the strategies of ignoring, overwhelming and inventing when he claimed that the emerging republic was «one connected country» and «one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in manners and customs.»

They all spoke 4 languages, Hebrew 1st if they came from the Galilee, Greek 2nd, Latin 3rd and to a certain extent Aramaic depending on if they dealt with the Jews or merchants from the East towards Babylon or North up into Damascus.

Speaking from the other side of the fence as a (former) seminary instructor, what you're saying is the exact same thing we hear from * every * student that didn't master one or both languages.

I noticed that my cousins spoke English with a distinct German accent and that in moments of excitement they would often unconsciously switch from English to German - though, noticing my bafflement and out of deference to my odd inability to speak or understand the language, they would quickly switch back to English.

- sometimes we (the Church) don't really understand how to practically speak to friends apart from God in a language that is both relevant and encouraging.

Their children would be Americans, and they did not teach us the German that had been their own first language but which they now spoke only when they wanted to keep things from us.