Sentences with phrase «grouped by language»

French and Mandarin are spoken here, too, though after - school classes are grouped by language, and children in the daycare and preschool programs each choose one target language.

Not exact matches

The advisory group, in a report submitted to Congress and the U.S. trade representative in late June, suggested the USTR borrow exact language pertaining to the agricultural sector and suggested using the Asiawide trade deal as the basis for text on environmental and labor regulation, with «additional strengthening of measures beyond what was in TPP,» according to a copy of the June 30 letter obtained by CNBC.

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.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

In tough language, the letter contends that such a policy undermines the entire life sciences community and sends a devastating message to immigrants who would otherwise bring their talents to the United States, and was signed by some heavy hitters, including Alnylam CEO John Maraganore and Ron Cohen, the chairman of biotech's biggest trade group and lobbying arm.

The religious holidays of all ethnic groups were celebrated, and even small local - language newspapers and TV channels were financially supported by the state.

The Saxo Bank Group shall not be bound by, or liable to any recipient for, an incomplete or inaccurate translation of an original English text to another language.

On the latter point, some group members favored language suggested by the Insured Retirement Institute.

On June 9, an international group of scholars produced a petition, which was subsequently translated by volunteers into twelve languages and in less than two days received the support of more than one thousand Orthodox scholars from all over the world.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

At the same time it was estimated that there yet remained five hundred to a thousand other language groups spoken by substantial numbers of people into which translations should be made, and many of them will be.

Remember that the congregation is idiomatic; it constitutes itself by a very distinctive language whose indicative aspect identifies a world in some ways allied with metaphors widely employed in the culture but in other ways peculiar to that group alone.

In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

Belgium includes different ethnic groups divided by language.

To secure a place within the hierarchy, they abandoned the non-believing community, developed their own in - group language, established a code of acceptable life - style, and read the Bible verse by verse or topic by topic without questioning and without dialog.

This essay draws on some language and ideas generated by the author and others in the advisory work group on ethics for the White House task force on health care reform.

The church also voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the language about marriage in the church constitution to «two persons» from a «man and a woman,» according to More Light Presbyterians, a group that supports gay rights.

Foot's language was also used by Dr. Bob's wife Anne Smith in her journal, and by long - time Oxford Group activist James D. Newton in his biographical Uncommon Friends title.

One can imagine the comparative results of an experiment where a group of children were removed from their parents and taught the language only by teachers.

The Christian call to peacemaking has been co-opted, the group said, when «a «theology of war» is emanating from the highest circles of American government; the language of «righteous empire» is employed... [and] the roles of God, church and nation are confused by talk of an American «mission» and «divine appointment» to «rid the world of evil.»»

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

As participant in that culture, a congregation will be as deeply shaped by those «languages as is any other group in the culture.

One husband in this group (Sanjay, an Indian immigrant) did portray secular marriage counseling in a negative light, using very similar language to that used by New Jersey husbands: «I have talked to [Hindu] priests.

«I find if offensive, insulting, irrelevant and positively cretinous to be told — sometimes by people who can barely speak a foreign language — that I belong to a group of small - minded xenophobes; because the truth is it is Brexit that is now the great project of European liberalism, and I am afraid that it is the European Union — for all the high ideals with which it began, that now represents the ancien regime.»

His statement yesterday denigrating gays and lesbians is a continuation of his thoughtless and harmful language aimed at certain groups of our state's citizens,» Duffy said in a statement forwarded by Cuomo's campaign.

In language that seems calibrated to knock at Cuomo's soft spots for economic development and government accountability, the group writes that the economy of the state is being hurt by the delay and claim that member companies are now «exhausted» when it comes to trusting the state.

Maffei was also among 43 members of the New Democrat Coalition, a group of business - friendly House moderates, who signed a letter opposing the derivatives language approved by the Senate.

In such a town a sensitive nature feels more acutely than elsewhere the misery caused by language division and sees at every step that the diversity of languages is the first, or at least the most influential, basis for the separation of the human family into groups of enemies.

Quinn asked for specific provisions to the new rules including the automatic renewal of licenses for gardening groups that are fully compliant with Parks Department rules, the translation of relevant public notices into all languages necessary for the communities supporting them, and a mechanism that would allow GreenThumb — a Parks Department group charged with overseeing community gardens — a 180 - day grace period to find and license new patrons for gardens abandoned by the groups operating them.

Buffalo Public Schools posted opt - out rates that fell from 9 percent to 7.7 percent in English language arts and from 15 percent to 8 percent on the math tests, preliminary numbers compiled by the opt - out advocacy group United to Counter the Core show.

«The report also rightly identifies the significant risk to federal revenues, which is why the budget includes prudent language — long supported by rating agencies and good governance groups — to help the State manage mid-year deficits.»

We would, therefore, like to use this medium to call on all women groups, the minister of Gender and Social Protection, Mrs Oye Lithur, the speaker of parliament, women's wing in parliament, all women of all political parties, Women Rev. ministers, Queen mothers and all women including that of Kennedy Agyapong, stakeholders concern to condemned in no uncertain terms the excessive use of language by the honorable member of parliament against the woman.

«If you think you are in this middle group, policies and language aimed at «the poor» by definition exclude you,» he said.

The advisory group is the direct result of a Jan. 23 meeting, organized by UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus, which gathered together 40 teachers from the UFT's English language learner focus group to discuss their concerns with top city and state officials.

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

«We demand an immediate and full apology from Mr. Wike for his gutter language against our people,» the group said in the statement signed by its chairman, Dayo Ogunjebe.

Kita suggests that this could have had an evolutionary advantage, helping to reinforce linguistic bonds by making it more difficult for those who grew up outside of a social group to learn its language.

Residents of Los Angeles grouped together to form the giant «Solar eagle», accompanied by a word that means «well - being» in the Inuit language Inuktitut.

«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»

«The language style used by climate change skeptics suggests that the arguments put forth by these groups may be less credible in that they are relatively less focused upon the propagation of evidence and more intent on refuting the opposing perspective,» said Pennycook.

The term San is a linguistic label: the San and Khoekhoe — formerly Hottentot — languages make up the Khoisan group of many related languages and dialects, characterized by click sounds.

Unlike the earlier House proposal, the bill does not contain language opposed by research groups that would have required NIH to support a specific number of new grants at a minimum funding level.

The Senate language contains controversial provisions, decried by most environmental groups, that would take some powers away from the states.

Characterized by simple grammar, phonetic pronunciations, and a vocabulary of words primarily from Western European languages, Esperanto was so easy to learn that it quickly attracted a small but loyal group of speakers.

The only linguistic data available for Carabayo, a language spoken by an indigenous group that lives in voluntary isolation, is a set of about 50 words.

The results of the Yale study provide an detailed history of color terms across a large language sample, say the researchers, and show that there is broad support for the color terms defined by the Berlin and Kay theory, which maintains that the world's languages share all or part of a common group of color names, and that terms for these concepts evolve in a specific order.

A research group led by Jonathan Aldrich, associate professor in the Institute for Software Research (ISR), is developing a programming language called Wyvern that makes it possible to construct programs using a variety of targeted, domain - specific languages, such as SQL for querying databases or HTML for constructing Web pages, as sublanguages, rather than writing the entire program using a general purpose language.

We're all familiar with how easily we can distinguish groups among speakers of our own language by accent or dialect, and we often make associations based on those distinctions.

DR ANDREW WAKEFIELD: Well this work started just over a year ago when we were contacted by a group of mothers who complained that their children had been developing perfectly normally until they had encountered an environmental insult, in many cases they claimed it was the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and then had lost their... all their acquired skills, such as speech, language, developmental milestones.

To add clarity to the language used by oncologists and basic scientists within the context of precision medicine, the ESMO Translational Research and Personalised Medicine Working Group has developed a standardised glossary of relevant terms.