Sentences with phrase «many illiterate»

As Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch was testifying before three congressional committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, fielding questions from a succession of irate and mostly tech - illiterate legislators, his boss was preparing to break it to investors that curbing Russian information operations and other forms of abuse on his platform will be expensive.

Gao's wife, Yan Wenli, says he's computer illiterate.

Most people are economically illiterate.

Former Hewlett - Packard chief Carly Fiorina and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are both technological illiterates.

While about two - thirds of the world's illiterate adults are female, research shows that educated mothers are more likely to participate in the labor force.

«There was a point, he told me, where after spending nearly $ 200,000, he felt like, «I am completely illiterate in something that I have so many ideas in, in an area that is the future, and in an area where if I want to continue building things then I need to be able to speak the language,»» Poonawala said.

Still, Williams attributes his success in large part to an unusual mentor: an alcoholic, illiterate janitor named Willie Turner, whom Williams worked with at Leonard's Department Store in Burbank, Calif., when he was a teenager.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

«We know people are very financially illiterate so they tend to take what the employer puts in as the default, as advice,» she said.

The bank's opponents are «in some cases economically illiterate,» said John Engler, the president of the Business Roundtable and a former Republican governor of Michigan.

The coverage of Bitcoin has become so expansive that I'm being questioned about the currency by my otherwise tech illiterate friends.

You make a couple of hundred dollars a month, well above the standard of living for the genuinely poor, illiterate people from a despised ethnicity who live on dirt floors and cook over indoor fires.

The problem of course is that Coyne's piece relies heavily on commentary from local civically illiterate crank and guaranteed quote machine Duff Conacher, for whom everything is evil and wrong, and why he hasn't yet been labelled a vexatious litigant by the courts is beyond me.

Tech - illiterate lawmakers asking him clueless questions.

According to this survey, 57 % of US adults are financially illiterate.

The more computer - illiterate governments (likely the same ones that thought they could stop the internet) will likely attempt to ban it.

«Most people that would be affected by cryptocurrency are illiterate and don't have access to technology to link them up to the Internet.»

Considering the FN's mercantilistic and economically illiterate economic policies, this is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire — as we mentioned above, society at large is bound to draw the short stick in any case.

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

, Jesus wasn't illiterate just because you want to post your flawed reasoning.

Well, you can choose to side with an iron age mythical character created by scientifically ignorant nearly illiterate nomads.

It is well known how biblically illiterate so many christians are.

Poltergeist You're functionally illiterate It's China's, not Chinas.

But let me comment saying if this is literacy to you then I say thank GOD we are of the illiterates...!

Rico, you are either illiterate or delusional.

Christ was illiterate and homeless and a drunk (his people were thirsty and he gave them wine... which dehydrates the body).

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple, dirty (a new book), sometimes sick (the same book) preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma - mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

Its amazing that the United States have so many religious morons in it, who worship a bronze - age, middle - eastern, genocidal diety (Yahweh) and his illiterate «son» Jesus.

As for your logic, that would mean any executive that uses assistants to write for them has to be illiterate too.

Probably because he was illiterate.

You know someone's really illiterate when the corrections list is larger than the original content.

Says the illiterate nut - job who doesn't know that «American's» is a possessive.

99.999 % of the population at the time were illiterate.

Let's also remember that the vast majority of early Christians (and civilization at the time) was ILLITERATE.

Islams prophet was no more then a illiterate pedophile warlord who invented his own religion in order to control all the people he conquered.

So why do we really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, preacher man would like or dislike, bless or curse, do or not do?

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

John Adams (our second President and one of the Founding Fathers for you historically illiterate) stated it best in article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli: «The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.»

Biblically illiterate people believe the bible is factual.

Well, illiterate dolt, CNN DOES cover those stories.

Why are so many christians, eg Converted, such illiterate boobs that they wonder why atheists come to a blog where questions of belief are explored?

Spirit moves through all, including an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations.

I love how the illiterate name calling ALWAYS follows your posts.

Yes — you're right — you would all be Muslim you historically illiterate jack ***.

Have the vesper pottages of amassed humanisms become complacently illiterate nowadays?

Those priests took advantage of that ignorance, would NOT read from the Scriptures to the illiterates.

Those scientifically illiterate, like yourself, are prone to such.

The entire religion is based on mistakes from people too illiterate to remember the origin of their religion... and even today we see the church evolving on that same path, rewriting and reinterpreting it's rulebook to try and fit a modern society it can never catch up to.

In SPRING BREAKERS, the characters are so illiterate they repeat phrases over and over again like mantras — «It's like a dream, it's like a dream.»

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.