Sentences with phrase «number of new languages»

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While the new language won over some conservative holdouts, a number of moderate Republicans remain opposed.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The number of NGOs allowed to receive foreign funding was slashed by a third, from more than 33,000 to 20,000, reported the English - language newspaper based in New Delhi.

A handful of new signs at a time is a more manageable number to tackle than a whole language.

Mr. Espaillat cited a number of what he described as «irregularities» on Election Day, including an unusual lack of bilingual inspectors, the absence mailed notifications alerting voters to the new Election Day date this year, and Spanish language speakers being handed affidavit ballots instead of regular ones.

«When there have been significant numbers of new people arriving in neighbourhoods, perhaps not able to speak the same language as those living there, on occasions not really wanting or even willing to integrate - that has created a kind of discomfort and disjointedness in some neighbourhoods,» he said.

New York City leads the nation in the number of languages spoken at home: a remarkable 192 or more, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a report this week.

Although the number of fluent Seneca language speakers is diminishing and the language is considered at - risk, there are language programs at the Seneca Nation in place to help protect, preserve and develop a new generation of Seneca language speakers to keep the Seneca language alive.

That's why, when there have been significant numbers of new people arriving in neighbourhoods — perhaps not able to speak the same language as those living there, on occasions not really wanting or even willing to integrate — that has created a kind of discomfort and disjointedness in some neighbourhoods.

A number of support programs have been initiated, from internationally focused degree programs and Graduiertenkollegs (specialized research groups for Ph.D. candidates and postdocs) to a new standardized test of German as foreign language.

The English language Wikipedia has grown to almost 3 million articles since it was launched in 2001, but the number of new articles added every month peaked at 60,000 in 2006 and has declined by about a third since then.

They share an impressive track record of increasing the number of overseas researchers and students, improving international collaborations, introducing English language courses for students, training administration staff to produce bilingual documents, and introducing new salary scales to commensurate with institutes in Western countries.

Unlike the earlier House proposal, the bill does not contain language opposed by research groups that would have required NIH to support a specific number of new grants at a minimum funding level.

Just as a computer programming language, even if originally designed to help solve one kind of problem, can support an unlimited number of other programs, so the brain may have been selected with a cognitive tool kit that can be applied to endless new challenges.

John can currently be seen in the revisionist thriller «The Raven» as American poet Edgar Allen Poe, and has a number of other projects in the works, including the black - ops thriller «The Numbers Station,» the Spanish - language comedy «No somos animales,» the true crime thriller «The Frozen Ground,» and two new films from director Lee Daniels: «The Paperboy» and as Richard Nixon in the star - studded «The Butler.»

Unfortunately, charter schools and regular public schools have some information recorded differently in the New York City database, and these differences cause charter schools» numbers of special education and English language learner students to be understated.

The introduction of the new English Baccalaureate (eBac) stemmed from the government's concern that there had been a «dramatic collapse» in the number of pupils taking GCSEs in traditional academic subjects including English, maths, science, foreign language and humanities.

Last month, The New York Times reported something that Latin teachers everywhere already know: This supposedly «dead language» is attracting increasing numbers of students who recognize the good things it does to their minds.

launching of serious new scholarship focusing on the most effective approaches to effective education and race relations in schools with three or more racial groups present in significant numbers and two or more languages strongly represented;

Full half term's worth of work Range of PPTs and Worksheets topics included: * expectations * classroom instructions / language * target language * pronunciation, alphabet and phonics * stationary / negatives / inductive numbers 1 - 10 * plurals * possessive adjectives * TENER / how to conjugate verbs * Classroom items * traffic light self - assessment lesson Some extension worksheets All lessons have been developed in line with the new GCSE

Our turnaround efforts have nearly tripled the number of students passing the New York State math test and more than doubled those passing the English language arts exam.

Teachers in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants — often find themselves dealing with a host of unexpected issues: immigrant students» unique socio - emotional needs, community conflict, a wider range of skills in English, lack of a common language for communication with parents, and more.

The new data show that U.S. students are graduating at record numbers for the fifth year in a row, with improvements for students of different racial and language backgrounds,...

The plan's five main objectives, to be delivered by 2021, are: to develop a new Welsh language; to increase opportunities for children and young people to use their Welsh in various contexts and embed their language use patterns from an early age; to support leaders and practitioners in Wales to continue to develop their Welsh language skills and have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the curriculum through the medium of Welsh and Welsh as a subject; to increase the number of learners in Welsh - medium settings; and to ensure that all learners can have equal access to Welsh - medium education and experience the best opportunities to develop their language skills.

Recently, the Core Knowledge Foundation has been piloting precisely such a language - arts program in a small number of schools in New York City and elsewhere.

A number of short blogs on the topic of marriage, followed by (i) reading comprehension questions in English (ii) a «Find the phrase» exercise (iii) manipulation of sentences in the blogs to create (slightly) new language.

The regulator said at the time that the rise «stemmed principally from an increase in the number of successful review requests in new and legacy versions of GCSE English language and English literature».

At the time, Ofqual said the rise was largely due to an increase in the number of successful review requests in both the new and legacy versions of GCSE English language and English literature.

The proposed bill removes barriers currently preventing charters in New York from serving higher numbers of students with disabilities (SWD) and English language learners (ELL).

The Common Core is designed to increase the number of students prepared for college and career, but some parents and teachers say the new English language arts and math standards aren't as strong as what Indiana had before.

As schools and districts work to improve the academic success for a growing number of English language learner and bilingual students, a new study provides insights...

A new report in the Wall Street Journal reveals that a charter school run by the United Federation of Teachers in Brooklyn serves a disproportionately small number of English - language learners and students with special needs.

In New Jersey, however, a growing number of districts are trying the dual - language system in the early grades that is showing promise in Long Branch.

Findings from a large number of correlational studies on language have shown that frequency of exposure strongly predicts word learning and seems to have long - range consequences for later language and reading levels.35 Although this finding is often mentioned in the literature, what is new is that we may have underestimated the frequency required to learn words.

The Bargaining Team is expected to share new details about proposed contract language which includes a number of victories for teachers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, and students.

«We chose these new schools based on the number of English language learners there are at the school,» James - Cervantes said.

However, students are not randomly assigned to teachers — and statistical models can not fully adjust for the fact that some teachers will have a disproportionate number of students who have greater challenges (students with poor attendance, who are homeless, who have severe problems at home, etc.) and those whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning (e.g. those who have special education needs or who are new English language learners).

According to early childhood psychologists, the formative years of kindergarten through fifth grade are especially crucial to teaching new languages and core concepts like numbers and spatial reasoning associated with early - level geometry.

In a system with a growing number of English - language learners and children from low - income families, the new funding will steer more resources to high - needs schools, beef up math and literacy efforts, and add more than 300 teachers to help reduce class sizes.

The school was founded as a Focus School in 1994 to meet the needs of the growing number of students in this city who needed special instruction in English as a new language.

Computing and languages not only appear to have the greatest numbers considering leaving teaching, but these subjects also have some of the greatest shortfalls in new teachers being recruited (just 70 and 87 percent of the target, according to provisional figures for 2015/16).

A number of objectives provided the direction for the Fusion design team, including silhouette innovation, refined surface language and a new fascia, Hamilton says.

To fit within the latest design language from Mercedes - Benz, the 2016 Mercedes - Benz GLC in Chicago IL features a more fluid exterior, with elements borrowed from a number of new Mercedes - Benz models, including the larger GLE - Class SUV.

Introduced to the BMW design language via the i8 concept car and the new 3 Series in production terms, in the 7 Series, the lamps boast a number of dynamic features.

This might be useful to someone who is learning a new language, or if a particular book has a number of idioms.

Today the company released a new version of their app that boosts the number of supported languages significantly.

He has also written and edited a number of books, including Radical Underworld (2001); Gold: Lost Histories and Forgotten Objects of Australia (2001); his acclaimed The Romantic Age: An Oxford Companion to British Culture, 1776 - 1832; and The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason (Harper Collins, New York, 2003), which has been translated into twelve languages.

With Amazon, we can assume a few challenges have been met: 1) the testing of Wi - Fi / 3G connection with the new Kindles has been completed; 2) Japanese - language functionality with Mobi / KF -8 have been verified; and 3) the availability of a certain number of Japanese titles has been assured.

- Fix 1480735: Add ability to change languages using the options dialog - Fix 1488715: Crash when editing first stock investment using «edit» button - Disable Right click menu for budget years - Add wizard for adding new database - Add wizard for adding new account - Fix problem where stock investments summary only showed balance from first stock investment - Allow fractional number of shares for stocks - Change column alignment for stocks panel - Add total amount for stocks panel - Add ability to launch webpage (hard coded to Google's website for US stocks) for stock symbol

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginnnew achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginnnew, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginnNew font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning