Sentences with phrase «of language families»

My research has led me down many unfamiliar paths — deeper math, obscure aspects of language families, archaeology, genetic processes, and more.

Pirahãis what's called a language isolate, a linguistic orphan of sorts, and is the last surviving member of its language family.

Not exact matches

Over time others were drawn to the area by the presence of family or friends or simply by people who shared a common language and culture.

It's clear that today even the best language - parsing engines and related algorithms are no match for the old family connectivity trees built out of bright - colored Post-its tacked to the wall, or the white boards that we see every night on the tube in the police procedural shows like Law and Order.

New Canadians work hard to learn our languages, our values, and our traditions, and in turn, are welcomed as equal members of the Canadian family.

We are creating tools to make it easier for busy professionals to remember their commitments, family members from other countries to talk to each other in spite of language barriers, and multitasking smartphone users to send texts more quickly.

The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents» problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they're older.»

Apart from this, Jarvis can determine the schedule of your day, teach languages, prepare toasts, set up video conferences, play movies and also inform what are other members of the family doing.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

By respecting equally the life of the unborn child and the life of the mother, by supporting notification and consent before an abortion involving a minor, by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-life.

In fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationships.

What we really need is language that can affirm the importance of the family as biological and historical community without depriving that bond of a still greater telos.

Under pressure from powerful special interests who manipulate the language of «rights» and «freedom» in ways that contradict «the laws of Nature's God,» our atheocratic government now deems itself competent to rewrite the God - given definitions of marriage and the family.

Understood in this way, a family is something quite different from a political community, and the language of «rights» — which, in my own view, has served us well in the political sphere — is peculiarly unable to capture the texture of family life.

These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.

From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

The poems are relentless in documenting the outcome: Native children forcibly removed from their families to boarding schools, forbidden to speak their own language, subjected to a bureaucratic regime with a toxic mix of condescension and missionary zeal.

Along with this went Jesus» use of ideas and language drawn from the family.

It addressed the issue of married life and artificial contraception, describing how the latter undermines «the language of love» and calling for a new appreciation of natural family planning.

In the East, people gather around personalities that they trust — because of a connection like family ties, friend of the family, from the same village, speaks the same language, etc..

We might decide — like the Indo - Europeanists — to compare languages only within the contexts of certain geographically and historically related families.

LaHaye has written more than 60 non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects such as: family life, temperaments, sexual adjustment, Bible prophecy, the will of God, Jesus Christ, and secular humanism with over 14 million in print, some of which have been translated into 32 foreign languages.

In so doing, he has invoked the language of the Catholic Church, which recognizes the primacy of the family unit, even amid immigration controversies.

To begin with, because human beings possess highly developed faculties of reason, language, and memory, a man's sense of what is «his» is not limited to himself, his family, or even those with whom he regularly interacts.

Missions helped to preserve languages that were threatened by a rising linguafranca, extended the influence of the vernacular through careful methodical and systematic investigations in the field, and helped to establish connections within the wider family of languages.

Greek culture and language, the cultivation of the body, sex and family mores at odds with the traditions of Yahwism - Judaism, fascination with the visual arts — all of this Hellenistic world pressed in upon Judaism and Jerusalem and even infiltrated in the persons of regularly visiting Jews from communities outside Palestine.

His explicit language and content may not be «safe for the whole family,» but with each song Chance gives listeners the image of a man working his way toward God the best way he knows how.

Although many readers will be put off by her evangelical jargon — and I admit to some bewilderment at it — I found her language reassuring in its emphasis on the family as something more than the nemesis of self - actualized women.

Their Americanization notwithstanding, the Durand - Perez family retained a number of features typical of every border family I know: pride in the Mexican culture and heritage; a deep and abiding religious faith; a love for both the Spanish and English languages (with family members having different degrees of competence in each); and a special esteem for the family's youngest and oldest members.

We all know how much nonsense is being said in order to get the family on «our» side of the gossip, in any language mind you.

The use of family imagery in the New Testament is the same language used to express faith in the one God of Israel.

By means of the human voice awarenesses are shared; by means of a common language persons are bound into pairs, families, and communities.

Does this refer simply to families, such as something you might get from James Dobson at Focus on the Family, or it is figurative language for how John will call the children of Israel back into faithful obedience to God, in the same manner as their forefathers (cf. 1:16)?

For another, even languages within the same family often show a sort of lexical hypertrophy in areas that are of special importance to their users.

He also avoids the language of conversion, and speaks instead of reaching out to nonreligious Jews and intermarried families.

The gospel always comes wrapped in a particular language, particular customs and traditions and ways of doing things, particular unwritten rules about politics and religion and the family — in other words, in a particular culture.

Pat's family, in this scheme, is between a rock and a hard place, deprived of their language and left only with another white one, English; deprived of their local habitation and name.

A large portion of Budapest's population consisted of families from the non «Hungarian provinces, and as a whole the country's folkways were so exotic, with traces of oriental ancestry (and its language being indisputably Asian), that in Europe Hungary was conventionally thought of as having one foot in the West and one foot in East.

These boys, usually between the ages of 10 and 12, were then taken from their parents and given to the Turkish families in the provinces to learn Turkish language and customs, and the rules of Islam; these boys were then enrolled in Janissary training.

This dealt with how parents can help young children experience the meaning of the gospel through the «language of relationships» in the family.

The varieties can be seen as dialects of a single language - family.

They consist of two widely different families of language, and Northrop says that we need a method of correlation, or correspondence, or coordination to bring them into a single view of reality.

«Every family we've served as a kind of impromptu therapist,» says Naoum, «giving the families people to talk to who speak their language and know what's going on.»

This is the language of the culture of people who persecuted and bullied my family and me.

«Yes, the baby boomer may have had a career, two careers, has raised a family, but millenials are coming from these colleges where almost all of them have some overseas studies, almost all of them have been on some kind of volunteer mission; they speak a second language.

The extensive use of family language and metaphors found in most Protestant ritual represents the kind of symbiotic union between the church and the family that Warner considered dangerous.

Religious familism refers to the use of religious language and rituals to express and reinforce family commitments.

Michael Ignatieff expresses this sentiment well: «Human rights is the language through which individuals have created a defense of their autonomy against the oppression of religion, state, family, and group» (emphasis mine).

But there are families of language - games just as softball, Little League baseball, and professional baseball have similar rules with a few significant differences.

The Mass and the Saints by Thomas Crean, OP, Family Publications, 208 pp, # 13.50 Quoting from authors throughout the centuries who are mostly (but not exclusively) canonised saints of the Church, this book forms a continuous commentary on the various parts of the Mass as well as related questions such as the Eucharistic fast, the appropriate time for Mass to be celebrated, liturgical orientation and language.