Sentences with phrase «largely illiterate»

A hindi version of the MMSE: the development of a cognitive screening instrument for a largely illiterate rural elderly population in india

Photography and photo - graphics — a substantial selection of picture newspapers and magazines, designed with a largely illiterate population in mind, is included — increasingly became restricted to Soviet propaganda purposes.

Her goal is to help bring Dr. Seuss, Homer, Tom Sawyer, and Hemingway to a largely illiterate and semi-nomadic populace.

Historic Protestantism in Latin America, says David Martin (1990:230), «provided a vehicle of autonomy and advancement for some sections of the middle class, conspicuously so in Brazil... This Protestant seed came with its flowerpot - «the world view, the ethos and the ideology of the... expanding capitalist countries»... The whole Protestant style remained remote from the largely illiterate millions.»

Our culture may be largely illiterate when it comes to the Bible, but many people are still familiar with those words from 1 Corinthians 13, used in what feels like every wedding service.

At the time of independence in 1950, much of its population was very poor and largely illiterate.

The rapid growth of the Baptists and the Methodists in the early 19th century was fueled by itinerant lay ministers with little or no training and who were sometimes largely illiterate.

Yes, the United States is largely illiterate when it comes to managing their personal finances due to a confluence of overspending and underinvesting.

Not exact matches

A scientifically illiterate document largely containing opinion masquerading as fact.