Sentences with phrase «in ordinary speech»

Testing the limits of vocal ingenuity, throat - singers can create sounds unlike anything in ordinary speech and song — carrying two musical lines simultaneously, say, or harmonizing with a waterfall

Process thought uses its key words not unfamiliar in ordinary speech - words such as «event,» «process, organism,» «sentience» and «internal relations.»

Of course, the word «information,» as it is used in ordinary speech, often has some implication that the information will be useful as a guide to action.

There is some evidence in our ordinary speech in favor of this view.

Allusion is actually quite common; in ordinary speech and conversation, we can not do without it, for if everything mentioned were immediately glossed, a single page of text would stretch into hundreds of pages and assertion would be forever deferred.

The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.

Scientific language («The temperature was -5 degrees Fahrenheit») seeks language that has a certain kind of precision lacking in our ordinary speech — a precision that we can quantify and test, that can be used to settle disputes about how cold it actually is.

For Whitehead, religious language is a legitimate mode of discourse precisely because it points to the metaphysical background implicit in ordinary speech and experience.

It is acceptable in ordinary speech to simplify complexities and use a language that is least encumbered by intricacies.

Not exact matches

Instead, he would essentially sanction the complete turnover of the shareowner's proxy to managers to facilitate their own entrenchment, with the possible exception that some rights to submit proxy proposals might still be maintained by hedge funds, the only shareowners recognized in Gallagher's speech as representing the rights of «ordinary» investors.»

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

Readers of Solzhenitsyn's «Repentance and Self - Limitation in the Life of Nations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Invictus.

In the ordinary language of educated people logos might mean speech, narrative, pronouncement, report, teaching, call, sense.

111 While it may not be a «speech decoration» as Ricoeur stresses, it helps in the process of making comprehensible that which is beyond ordinary perception.

The theological work which will be most useful in the years ahead will be that which works out its motifs in correlation with the whole range of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences, and does so in language which has the widest possible touch with ordinary modes of speech common to all educated persons.

Albee mobilizes our attention to the terror of this environment by inviting us to sit in their home for twelve hours and listen to ordinary speech composed of banalities and trivialities — the ultimate reduction of speech to the most primitive needs of consciousness: survival, taunts, grunts, mimicry, and hate.

These Chinese spies also logon to various English news cites pretending to a ordinary news readers and then try to mislead people on issues like Tibet, Uyghur people, Tiananmen Square, free speech in China.

Figurative speech communicates literal truth in a more precise and powerful way than ordinary language can on its own.

There's a sense in which figurative speech drives an author's meaning home in ways that words taken in the ordinary way could never do.

But ordinary speech, though wise, is without a doctrine of wisdom, and in spite of Wittgenstein I see a role for doctrinal wisdom.

Aristocratic gentlemen and gentlewomen are also trained in arts of speech and behavior that serve to mark them as superior to ordinary people.

It is exactly the same message as that seen in Clegg's speech to his party's autumn conference in Glasgow: only the Liberal Democrats can be trusted to both provide fairness to ordinary people and deliver on economic trustworthiness.

In his latest speech, Smith also risked the wrath of centrist Labour members as he took a swipe at Tony Blair, saying that under his leadership the party had lost touch with ordinary members.

In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama's community organizer background at her speech at the RNC, the Obama campaign has already sent out a mass fundraising email using her remarks as a hook: «Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?

In her speech, she compared the ordinary people who campaigned for the Welsh language at times when it had not been fashionable to do so as civil rights activists «in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks»In her speech, she compared the ordinary people who campaigned for the Welsh language at times when it had not been fashionable to do so as civil rights activists «in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks»in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks».

I simply can not envisage that the Labour Party will have anything credible by 2020 to say to the «ordinary working people» the PM referred to in her speech.

«We are not trying to criminalize ordinary politics,» Mr. Bharara said in a speech at New York Law School in 2015.

In a speech to SNP activists, she said a party that «frightens the life out of the Westminster establishment» was «good news for ordinary people in Scotland and right across these islands»In a speech to SNP activists, she said a party that «frightens the life out of the Westminster establishment» was «good news for ordinary people in Scotland and right across these islands»in Scotland and right across these islands».

Dignam's screenplay doesn't illuminate anything else about these people, despite the movie's big, closing speech being on the subject of seeing refugees as ordinary people, who happen to find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

The education secretary Justine Greening will today defend grammar schools in a major speech, claiming that selective schools already benefit young people from «ordinary working class backgrounds».

He was the first in that day, so the echoing room, where even ordinary speech was magnified to a shout, was quiet except for the sound of filling baths.

Over more than 45 years of practice, Sirkin has consistently defended the free speech and constitutional rights of countless individuals and businesses, including adult entertainment establishments, museums, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens in all types of cases.

The artist — a Chicago native who today divides his time between New York City and Marfa, Texas — is perhaps best known for his paintings of large stenciled letters, which he uses to form words or phrases, often abbreviated or arranged in run - on configurations that disrupt ordinary patterns of perception and speech.

But it's a perfectly ordinary short cut in speech.

In varying degrees, legal language has always differed from ordinary speech.

The Coalition's Legal Hotline service provides free one - on - one legal consultations to journalists, bloggers, ethnic media, community activists and ordinary citizens experiencing frustration and government resistance in the exercise of their free speech and open - government rights.

«At a time of life when many people are content to enjoy the benefits of retirement, Fred has continued his work; travelling, talking, delivering speeches and above all else listening to the concerns of ordinary Australians, black and white, and fighting to ensure that their voices are heard in the corridors of power.»

With positive signs against corruption and inefficiency emerging in the early days of Ramaphosa's presidency, his SONA speech might sum it up best: «We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard - earned savings of ordinary people.»