Sentences with phrase «only modern language»

Pupils at Abertillery Comprehensive have the option of learning Spanish as the only modern language on offer, with French and German no longer available.

Not exact matches

Another tells us that the modern Western reader can not easily recapture the Semitic mind's comfort with extremist language, that we must learn to know that Jesus is here talking only about preferences and priorities.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

Yet there are many modern language translations that are faithful inspired pieces of work — though I do shy away from the «KJV is the Only Version!»

Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.

Indeed the modern Cartesian ego has collided with its own language use only to awaken and not know who, or what, it is.

While positive thinking no doubt has its benefits — from the placebo effect to good old self - confidence — The Secret tries to justify itself not only in the language of pop psychology but in that of modern physics.

Already, researchers have traced the accelerating evolution of the English language, mapped the rise and fall of various people, and uncovered patterns of censorship and suppression in Soviet Russia, modern China, and 1950s America — and that's only a beginning.

Most of the evidence Atkinson provides of its existence is circumstantial or highly speculative, the only exception being the positive correlation between modern population sizes and number of phonemes in modern languages.

The researchers also reported that brain networks specialised for language in modern humans were only activated during Acheulian tool production when participants learned to make tools in the verbal instruction condition.

Last year's results in modern foreign languages were very stable, with only small changes in the proportions achieving each grade compared to the previous year.

By the time death squads are cruising the streets and babies are being raffled for charity, Samson's dry, plain language has tricked us into accepting her reality, painting a picture of the modern American hellscape where we're only too eager to put our birthright on the auction block to make a quick buck.

In House of Names, Colm Tóibín brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it.

Perkins loans began as National Defense Student Loans (NDSLs) in the 1950s and were originally available only to financially needy students planning to study mathematics, engineering or a modern foreign language, or who wished to teach.

The word has nearly vanished in modern language, having survived only in Nichts — nothing, (or no - thing), which was formed out of the two words in (meaning no) and icht (any such thing) as in - icht.

«William McDonough has not only created the language we use when we talk about sustainability, he is single handedly responsible for setting the modern green building movement in motion — from designing the first «green office» for the Environmental Defense Fund, serving as the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, establishing the Cradle to Cradle Certified ™ Products Program, and most recently, helping the World Economic Forum make sustainability a primary focus for their agenda,» said Michael J. Hanley, president of the Hanley Foundation.

The only thing distinguishing the modern English era from the previous ones is the military domination and physical and cultural genocide that was used to forcibly spread the English language to every corner of the globe.

However, it is incorrect to think that the issue of language only became important at this point in Quebec's modern history.