Sentences with phrase «history than language»

Few things have been more important to our evolutionary history than language.

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Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

Chesterton's book The Everlasting Man was a response to H.G. Wells, whose book The Outline of History sold more than two million copies and has been translated into multiple languages.

«To dismiss the attention due the Church's written instruction as listening to a dusty document, Mankowski writes, «is more the language of a high school manifesto than an episcopal council, and is especially perverse given the purpose and history of the magisterial office.»

Thus, language, law, science, art, manners, customs, history, and tradition are elaborations of the human spirit no less than is religion.

The acknowledgment of the role of language (and thereby history) in all understanding combined with the awareness of the large role unconscious factors play in all conscious rationality have made those theologically necessary transcendental forms of reflection not impossible, but far, far more difficult to formulate adequately than modern theology (including my own) once believed.

On the other hand, there is in the history of science more continuity than one would expect from Feyerabend or from Kuhn's earlier work, in which truth is entirely relative to a succession of self - contained language systems dominated by diverse paradigms.

The United States, after all, is a country whose history, calendar, language, and, more than occasionally, law reflect the Christian piety and purpose that framed so much of the American colonial and national experience.

The return of conservative Christians to political activism in the «70s and «80s informs Harding's work, but the author is less concerned with history as such than with the language comprising and creating that history.

Smith explained in a statement how they've managed to progress global access to God's Word: «New strategies, methods, tools, and resources are empowering the local church and Christians to translate God's Word into more languages than at any time in world history.»

Because he had left himself no room for any kind of language of analogy, which might have allowed him to say how transcendent being shows itself in immanent existence while still preserving its transcendence, and because, moreover, he had decided in advance that one can not speak of being in other than temporal terms, he really could not escape lapsing into a certain fatalism regarding the history he described.

In a cultural context, kente is more important than just a cloth and it is a visual representation of history and also a form of written language through weaving.

United by monarchy, history, language, heritage and political tradition, we have much more in common with, say, a Canberran or a Torontonian than we do with an Athenian or a Roman.

«As a city where more than 300 languages are spoken, London has a proud history of tolerance and diversity and to suggest there are areas where police officers can not go because of radicalisation is simply ridiculous... Crime has been falling steadily both in London and in New York - the only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump»

His genre - defining book, A Brief History of Time, has sold more than 10 million copies since its publication in 1988, and has been translated into more than 35 languages.

Their computer analysis automatically considered and evaluated the likelihood (without the potentially biased input of humans) that more than 70 regular sound changes had occurred throughout the 2000 - year history of the Turkic languages.

Culture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other species.

Another of the authors, Stephen Levinson, comments, «This is a bit of an unexpected finding, since many have thought that grammar might give us deeper insight into the linguistic past than vocabulary, but there is still some reason for caution: we compared highly conservative vocabulary with an unfiltered range of grammar variables, and the language family is unusual for the way it diversified during colonization of successive islands, But what is clear is that grammar and vocabulary changes are not closely coupled, even within branches of a family, so looking at them both significantly advances our ability to reconstruct linguistic history.»

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, have discovered that a language's grammatical structures change more quickly over time than vocabulary, overturning a long - held assumption in the field.

Most people are eating increasing levels of processed and denatured carbs, fats and animal based proteins than ever before in history in English speaking (as first language) nations.

It's a fascinating history lesson about one of the few incidences where the language of advertising and selling was utilised to achieve a grander goal than the promotion of soft drinks.

Garland's screenplay is equally impressive, weaving references to mythology, history, physics, and visual art into casual conversations, in ways that demonstrate that Garland understands what he's talking about while simultaneously going to the trouble to explain more abstract concepts in plain language, to entice rather than alienate casual filmgoers.

One of the biggest bestsellers in history — a book that's been translated into more than 250 languages worldwide — would seem to require little tinkering, no «fixing.»

Despite the fact that Jackson and his co-screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens (This time joined by Guillermo del Toro) have already secured their vision of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings with a massive and exceptionally executed three - part adaptation, Tolkien's first story to take place in the realm of Middle - earth is a different beast entirely — far less concerned with history, politics, and language than its literary sequel.

of the five basic academic subjects (English, foreign language, mathematics, science, and history) enrolled more students than

There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most teachers have responsibility for no more than 50 students (this on a per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).

District 2 also spent less per pupil on average for core courses (math, science, English / literature, and social studies / history / economics) than for noncore courses, which include electives and foreign language.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

When the Progress 8 measure for schools was implemented in 2016, we saw an increase of more than 10 percentage points in the proportion of pupils entered for four of the EBacc subjects (English, maths, science, languages, computing science, history and geography).

The Milner School, where more than 40 percent of its students go home to households that don't use English as their primary language, will be turned over to a charter school company that has no non-English speaking students and absolutely no history, what so ever, in running English as a Second Language or English Language Learner programs.

c. Students who are either (i) enrolled in a nonpublic school or (ii) receiving home instruction pursuant to § 22.1 - 254.1 and who are enrolled in a public school on less than a full - time basis in any mathematics, science, English, history, social science, vocational education, health education or physical education, fine arts or foreign language course, or receiving special education services required by a student's individualized education plan, shall be counted in the funded fall membership and March 31 ADM of the responsible school division.

The AAPI community is also the fastest - growing racial group in the United States — representing more than 48 ethnicities, over 300 spoken languages, varied socioeconomic status, and distinctions across immigration history, generational status, culture, and religion.»

Animals — Less than 1 % Less than 1/5 Concepts — 8 % 5 % Holidays / festivals / religion — 9 % 3 % History / sports / people / places — 10 % 5 % Education / reference / language — 15 % 10 % Games / activities / hobbies — 20 % 18 % Biographies / autobiographies — 28 % 12 % Social situation / family / health — 22 % 65 % Does this mean that the sales go to traditional publishers because their books are better illustrated and published?

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt — above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

In an open letter published this week by the Guardian, more than 100 artists based in the United Kingdom spoke out against the new English baccalaureate, a government - mandated set of courses — including science, math, foreign languages, and history — that now excludes the arts.

The addition of bronze to de Jong's sculptural language represents an engagement with mortality, monumentality and world history that is more nuanced and less visceral than the use of modern synthetic compounds that defined the first 15 years of the artist's practice.

Groys has written more than 150 articles on modern and contemporary art, philosophy, and intellectual history in several languages.

The political weight of these viruses rubs against the formally expressive character of the final works, which seem to engage more with the history of abstraction and the cool, detached vocabulary of formalism than the language of computer code.

On any given week, more than a dozen free workshops are hosted at the project's storefront on Roosevelt Avenue, including dance, nutrition, childcare, bicycle maintenance, construction safety, classical music, English language through art history, Spanish for Mandarin speakers, computer literacy, screen printing, immigration law, and counseling for women who are victims of domestic violence.

«It is neither a «style» nor an «epoch» in art history, but merely a new means of expression, a different human language — one which is more direct than that of earlier painting.»

In this world where night rarely falls, art, science, language and knowledge are recognizable, yet play utterly different histories and roles than in our own society.

The history of the world by Zipora Fried would probably look something like the black and white avant - garde films of the Dadaist canon: morphing, jagged, and driven by a language that is neither recognizable nor familiar, emphasizing everyday objects as agents of intellect rather than simple extensions of the hand.

In addition to a collection of over 60,000 books, the Library holds more than 800 English - language journals in education and related fields; the complete ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) microfiche collection; archives of official print and electronic documents published by the U.S. Department of Education; and histories and documentation of education legislation passed by the Congress.

Is imposing language and knowledge of history requirements on their parents and grandparents more important than that?

For two nations sharing a language and legal history, the contrast in the visions at play in the legal systems of the United States and United Kingdom is more than striking.

The relevant constitutional language, purposes, history, traditions, context, and case law, taken together, make it likely that, where confinement of the noncitizens before us is prolonged (presumptively longer than six months), bail proceedings are constitutionally required.

Can there be a greater joy than listening to the superb advocate, analysing the evidence, eloquently drawing upon history and literature and law, commanding the power of the English language, exercising the art of persuasion?

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