Sentences with phrase «more world languages»
The ISSN includes 34 schools that integrate global perspectives and give students the opportunity to study one or more world languages.
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«We find the best people in the world and either bring them to Canada to have them work for us in Nova Scotia — we speak more than 10 languages in our facility here — or we base them throughout the world to represent our company in all the countries in which we operate,» says Deveau.
Since my last Sino - Saturday edition, much has happened on the trade front: Donald Trump announced plans to impose tariffs of as much as $ 60 billion on imports from China; China fired back with tariffs of $ 3 billion against imports from the US, a promise to challenge US penalties at the World Trade Organization and some tough language threatening more painful countermeasures to come; global markets took a nosedive.
The country produces more movies than any other in the world — more than 900 (in more than 20 different languages) in 2011, according to Ernst & Young.
He was determined that the R. Kelly the world would know — the one who would sell more than 30 million albums, have 36 Billboard Hot 100 hits, invent his own strange musical language, write hits for countless others, and conceive one of the weirdest syntheses of video and music of all time, Trapped in the Closet — would be someone else.
The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.
Jack is the author and co-author of more than 150 books (66 are bestsellers) with more than 100 million copies in print in 47 languages around the world.
The president's tweets on Thursday had far more formal and legalistic language than his typical morning messages to the world, which often include words in all capital letters and are punctuated with exclamation points.
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.
Since 2001, more than 3.5 million copies of Mere Christianity have been sold in English alone, with many more translated into most of the world's languages, including Chinese.
The psalmists were poets and I began to absorb beauty, the sounds and repetitions, and became a contemplative — realising that language was not just telling me something but inviting me into a world of language that was more about what you couldn't see than what you could.
SIL's Language and Culture Archives houses over 60,000 works of various kinds, including scholarly publications, Bible translations, and vernacular literacy materials in addition to SIL's flagship publication, the Ethnologue — an online database of the world's more than 7,000 living languages.
One possibility is that we are simply using this current language to speak of the importance of the church's developing its doctrine of nature more fully and in ways appropriate to our new understanding of the relation between human beings and the natural world.
The bible is one of the most well known books in the world, has been translated into more languages than any other book, and has been studied extensively.
The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.
By using this technical Whiteheadian language, the basic idea may seem more complex than it is: in fact, what is being said here was discussed earlier in relation to Dominic Crossan's idea that stories can either form world (myth) or transform world (parable).
Finally, the language of worship needs to incorporate more modern images relevant to a large population of unchurched younger people who do not have world views like our own.
The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.
It can be called world brotherhood, or world fellowship, or in more formal language «an international ethos.»
It would be more in accord with the spirit of myth to regard man as just one element in an infinite universe — even the New Testament does so in clear and classical language; it says, not «God so loved mankind», but «God so loved the world».
Since for the primitive mentality the world of symbolization was far more inclusive than that of practical adjustment to the environment, it would be surprising if so pervasive a factor as language were not a part and product of it.
Most people, in the West or anywhere else, find the fact that there are so many languages in the world no more interesting than I would find a list of all the makes of Toyota.
How in the world are we supposed to understand any people of another part of the world if we can't do more to understand a group right here in the USA who speak our language and who are open for dialog.
But it is past time to ask ourselves whether, challenged by Islam and the Jihadists who would define Islam, our monothematic language about «freedom» and «democracy» when describing America's role in the world is not inadvertently contributing to the defeat of the more decent and peaceful world for which we hope.
Boys rely more on physical movement and spatial perception in engaging the world than on language skills.
And the financial aspect can not be ignored: According to a 1987 handbook, A New View of the World: A Handbook to the World Map: Peters Projection, written by Ward L. Kaiser (the leading American proponent of the Peters Projection) and published by the Friendship Press of the National Council of Churches, the «Peters Projection map has reached a worldwide distribution of more than 16 million copies in six languages.»
These figures of speech are much more than decorative flowers that brighten the garden of language; for the use of a metaphor or image can evoke the power of the world view to make it legitimate or illegitimate.
There is no one religious symbol or concept from the past which it is essential to retain for the spirituality of the global society, any more than the language of the whole world ought to be English, Arabic, Chinese or Latin.
Our English translations are far superior (more accurate to the original) to nearly any other language in the world, and yet people overseas do not seem to have a problem living by faith... but we do!
Once again, it must be made clear that talk of enrichment is not meant to suggest that God becomes any more «God» than he always has been; what is intended by such language is simply that, because God is supremely related to all occasions, these various occurrences provide material for his fuller expression in relationship with creation and at the same time bring about an enhancement of the divine joy as well as a participation through «suffering» (or sharing as participation) in all that takes place in the world.
But in the democratic world that would have led to more compromise by the dominant power, eg England's support of the Scottish Assembly, the USA's recognition of some Native American «reservation» independence, or Canada's political support of French language.
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.»
We speak of the living God to stress what in more philosophical language is called a personal God — one who loves and cares, who thinks and wills, who created the world and who continuously acts within it.
If by the latter we mean the description of familiar objects of perception or of the objects which science defines by its methods of observation and measurement, then the reference of poetic language projects «ahead» of itself a world in which the reader is invited to dwell, thus finding a more authentic situation in being.
It is grounded in a religious vision, and this ground is in fundamental continuity with Mahayana Buddhism and more in continuity with Buddhism than with any religious language in the Christian world.
It engages people of different races, cultures and languages, from a wide variety of backgrounds, all committed to bringing about a world in which there is more solidarity and greater harmony.
The program director for World Vision's work in South Sudan, Perry Mansfield, said: «When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry.»
The world was more black and white to me then, and in that world a good Christian didn't allow people to chant over them in a language they didn't understand and tie strings to their wrists.
... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.
The Church's defence of a moral reasoning based on the natural law is grounded on her conviction that this law is not a threat to our freedom, but rather a «language» which enables us to understand ourselves and the truth of our being, and so to shape a more just and humane world.
problem which already pushes toward abolishing the unquestioned privilege of «concepts of the material world» formulated in mathematical language, in order to pave the way for a more adequate and at the same time more comprehensive conception of the world.
however i will add that because the latin speaking world was controled by laws of language usage, i don; t know if you have ever studied latin but it has more laws then any other spoken tongue i have ever heard of.
The Arab world, where the Arabic language and culture is dominant, includes more than 60,000,000 Muslims.
Because the ordinary Spaniards of that period of time were mostly illiterate and came from the medieval world which was so rich in imagery and the native world of the Americas communicated mainly through an image - language, it was much more at the level of the image - word than of the alphabetic spoken word that the new synthesis of Iberian Catholicism and the native religions took place and continues to take place today.
And last but not least, Suchocki expressly states that God's consequent nature is not prehended, while Whitehead not only claims in the last page of Process and Reality that «the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (PR 351), but also speaks in more exact language of» [t] he objective immortality of his [God's] consequent nature» (PR 32).
Though, through multiple opportunities to visit wine countries around the world, I knew that somehow I needed to be more closely connected with the land, the language and the winemakers.
Then some Scottish bloke mentions something about the World Cup and single malt whisky (you think that's what he said becauase that accent is thicker than pea soup) and more single malt whisky and you find yourself beside yourself with laughter drunk and half watching a cracking game and half watching some kilted excitable hurl language that would make a pimp blush as Scotland endure glorious failure again.
If the long - since discredited language of «shake it off»» and «getting dinged» persists; if players aren't willing to self - report concussion symptoms; and, when on rare occasion they actually do, the coaches and medical personnel on the sideline don't take a lot more cautious approach in concussion management and pay more than lip service to the mantra of «When in doubt, sit them out,» well, then, football may be in for a world of hurt.
Fluency in more than one language can open many doors, especially in the professional world.
Your child's understanding of language is more progressed than their understanding of the world around them, so it's important to introduce new concepts in a way that is easy for them to manage.