Sentences with phrase «general language of»

Justice Kirby did not think that these common law presumptions had been overridden by the general language of the LAA that allowed for acquisition «for any purpose whatsoever»:

Much of the basis for the court decisions on the Executive Order was the wide scope and general language of the Order.

Not exact matches

«Governor Carney redefined the office of the governor of the Bank of Canada,» said Lee, describing the general public persona of previous governors as «monks in the monastery,» speaking in an «econo - geek» language that didn't often resonate with Canadians at large.

David Nahamoo, manager of the human - languages group, says the company is focusing on specific applications, rather than the general approach taken by Mobile Technologies and Sakhr.

This is called the Homo loquens hypothesis: lateralisation in general was driven by the evolution of an upright, bipedal stance, while the rightward preference was driven, some time later, by the evolution of language.

«The UAE, among all the oil - producing countries, has become the first mover,» Adnan Amin, director general of the International Renewable Energy Association, based in Abu Dhabi, said in a recent interview with The National, an English - language newspaper based in UAE.

Ethereum seemed like a natural choice, with its popularity and its very general Solidity contract language,» said Watkinson, referring to the code behind EDCCs on Ethereum, which can be programmed to suit a number of applications.

And as the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's own 2017 National Opinion Poll: Canadian Millennial Views on Asia revealed, Canadian millennials (aged 18 - 34) are more positive about Asia in general and more engaged with the region through work, travel, language, and social networks than any generation before them.

That, in light of $ 3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present, allowing for redaction based on national security: (a) all Public Security and Anti-Terrorism annual reports submitted to the Treasury Board Secretariat; (b) all Treasury Board submissions made as part of the Initiative; (c) all departmental evaluations of the Initiative; (d) the Treasury Board corporate database established to monitor funding; that these records be provided to the House in both official languages by June 17, 2013; that the Speaker make arrangements for these records to be made available online; and that the Auditor - General be given all necessary resources to perform an in - depth forensic audit until the missing $ 3.1 billion is found and accounted for.

East Timor's Catholic bishop Carlos Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy of human rights, spoke the language of reconciliation but insisted on trials for Indonesian generals who had carried out civilian massacres.

General education, the basis of culture, should be compact of material which will enter into the habitual lives of its recipients, a doctrine which applies alike to language, literature, history, natural science, and to mathematics.

The Report also says that «assent to formularies and the use of liturgical language in public worship should be understood as signifying general acceptance without implying detailed assent to every phrase or proposition thus employed».3

Turgidity of language and argument belies its usefulness for the general reader, while its essentially descriptive character prevents the manifestation of anything profoundly new in relation to the ever - increasing corpuso f Newman studies that would require it to be essential reading for the scholar or expert.

Recently it has been divided into two departments with the general department continuing the old system and a special department which is composed of faculties of theology, jurisprudence, and the Arabic language, to each of which is attached a number of primary and secondary schools.

Specifics — whether a plain language, line - by - line explanation of budgeting or an honest conversation about how money and marriage can be challenging — instead of a general message of «doing a better job managing our resources» would have provided a balm for my soul.

There are certain general principles which apply to all translations of ancient books into modern languages.

Second, theologians must argue how the general «publicness» of all theological language is actualized into distinct but related theological disciplines.

They address general assumptions about language and human beings, and they are the source of Gwynne's success and the reason for this American edition.

This man in general is no more than an abstraction: he exists only on the strength of a misunderstanding due to the imperfection of language».

If God is going to «speak» to such occasions, our general principle about God's «speaking» suggests that he must address them in the «language» of their experiences.

This body, called culture, necessarily enters into the habitual life of the student, in part via the general curriculum of language, literature, history, natural science and mathematics.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

The principle is that in regard to the presentation of subjective aims, God has to «speak» to each actual occasion in its own «language,» that is, at its own level, in a manner harmonious with the character of the sort of data which are in general operative in the aesthetic synthesis which is the concrescence of the actual occasion in question.

There may indeed be general historical and / or structural patterns of religions as there are of languages.

Certainly one of the reasons for the neglect of both thinkers among English language philosophers has been that they have not played the role which Russell and Wittgenstein did in generating so - called analytical philosophy (a philosophical style inimical, upon the whole, to attempts to theorize about the nature of the universe in general.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

These general systems and their perceived interrelationships are examined for consistency and completeness by means of logic, which Whitehead believed was a universal language for the presentation of all mathematics.

«We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love another» wrote Jonathan Swift.4 He may be pressing his point, but it seems as if religious language is more specific articulating the role, place, needs, concerns of its own people and is if anything rather general when addressing the other as significant other.

David Pailin, Britain's foremost exponent of process - relational thought, has recently sought to avoid the traditional «aim and lure» language by speaking of divine agency as a general teleological purpose: a drive or intentional cosmic urge within the...

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

That there is in our time a language crisis, a general experience of the loss of the power of words is all too evident.

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

«Science,» she writes, «is important for exactly the same reason that the study of history or of language is important — because we are beings that need in general to understand the world in which we live, and our culture has chosen a way of life to which that understanding is central.»

In harmony with his general philosophical principles Humboldt regards language, the single word as well as connected speech, as an act, «a truly creative act of the mind.»

The ancient tongues were but a small though important province in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»

Humboldt states in his monograph on the dual that, though the study of language should be pursued for its own sake, it «resembles other branches of learning in not having its ultimate purpose in itself but that it conforms to the general purpose of interest in the human mind to help humanity to realize its true nature and its relation to everything visible and invisible around and above itself.»

To begin with the elemental ethical level, the words of Amos denouncing those who would «make the ephah small and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit» (8:5) are set in formal legal language in both D and H. 17 All three codes under discussion have general laws against the perversion of justice.18 The principle of sympathy and consideration for the weak is expressed with astonishing variety.

There is a homology between them, but nothing allows us to derive the specific feature of religious language — i.e., that its referent moves among prophecy, narration, prescription, wisdom, and psalms, coordinating these diverse and partial forms of discourse by giving them a vanishing point and an index of incompleteness — nothing, I say, allows us to derive this from the general characteristics of the poetic function.

Nevertheless, Toulmin himself must acknowledge that Newton does not consistently reflect such a view in the language he uses in the Principia, or in late additions to the Principia (for example, the «General Scholium»), or in other writings (for example, the Opticks)(see part II of Toulmin's two - part essay).

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in general.

The basic purpose, said the attorney general, was «to allow members of applicable language minority groups to be effectively informed of and participate effectively in voting - connected activities» (New York Times, April 22, 1976, p. 25).

He starts from a general discussion of «self - involving language» which expresses attitudes, feelings and commitments rather than neutral facts.17 He then asks us to consider sentences of the form «I look on x as y».

In contemporary terms, Bergson's general adherence to intuition would be seen as a paradigm case of «the myth of the given» and his specific intuition of the self as committing him to either pre-linguistic knowledge or the possibility of a private language.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

The Judeo Christian origin of the church in the eastern region of the Roman empire and beyond it to Edessa is all the more certain because the local language in general use in the region was Aramaic, the language of Judeo Christians in Jerusalem.

A new U. S. Congress does not get much done in the first two weeks, even with the advantages of a continuing organization, a body of guiding precedent, a fairly general mutual acquaintance and a single language.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA voted today in favor of changing ordination standards to remove language requiring ministers «live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness.»

There is general agreement that the chief concern of the language of faith is to convey the promise of the gospel.

... In general, We require that future priests, from the time of Seminary onward, be trained to understand and celebrate Holy Mass in Latin as well as to employ Latin texts and use Gregorian chant; nor should great effort be neglected in regard to the faithful themselves, so that they learn thoroughly the commonly known prayers in the Latin language and in an equal degree that they should learn the Gregorian chant of those parts of the liturgy which are sung.

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