Sentences with phrase «own dominant language»

In those times, Greek (like today's English), was still the dominant language of commerce in that region and most people used it every day 3.

My observations are directed at the dominant language and ethos of a culture, not at the souls of individuals.

It was, in fact, the language of Wilson, and the dominant language of American leadership from the founding until fairly recently.

The vision of the «good» life, the central values, even the corporate identity expressed by a congregation's host culture in its dominant languages will in various ways stand in tension with the congregation's own understanding of its own communal identity, its own picture of the good life, its own central values as they all are defined «in Jesus» name.»

But living in a world where the connection of poetry and theology has been ruptured, most of their attempts to vitalize their sermons have been limited to employing the culture's dominant language in the pulpit.

If you're using the OPOL method, one language will always be dominant, typically your community's dominant language.

Luckily, your lab is in the United States, so in time English will likely become the dominant language; otherwise the lab will become isolated, scientifically and socially.

These new findings challenge the idea that bilinguals always have one dominant language.

«If you learn a second language later in life, you usually have a dominant language and then you try to use that sounds system for the other language, which is why you end up having an accent,» he said.

It's well known that economic growth or the desire to achieve it can drive language loss, he notes — dominant languages such as Mandarin Chinese and English are often required for upward mobility in education and business, and economic assistance often encourages recipients to speak dominant languages.

Many scammers looking for victims on dating sites are from countries where English is not the dominant language.

Or a child can become bilingual when he or she speaks the community's dominant language at home but attends an immersion program at school.

The research refers to children raised with a language at home that differs from the dominant language outside the home, such as in school.

In multi-ethnic societies, including Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Guatemala, the paper shows that imposing a dominant language through a school system — while sometimes a choice of necessity — has frequently been a source of grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural inequality.

English may be the world's dominant language but as we face political separation, it's likely we will also feel this socially.

Code § 4.26, declares that Pennsylvania's local education agencies (LEA) must provide a program for each student whose dominant language is not English for the purpose of facilitating the student's achievement of English proficiency and the academic standards.

As teachers try to tailor assessments to gauge the abilities of individual students, they often find it particularly difficult to measure the skills of children who do not speak a school's dominant language.

Then there are examples such as Brazil, where Portuguese had a presence for 300 years but didn't become the dominant language until a gold rush in the 1790s brought swarms of new speakers.

Language shifts — when the dominant language is interrupted by a word or phrase in another language — should be tagged in the markup so a reading engine knows to access its dictionary, if one is installed.

and both Portuguese and Cantonese are the dominant languages.

«I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture,» says Charlesworth, who is represented in the show by photographs from her first two series of newspaper appropriation works, «Modern History» (1978) and «Stills» (1977).

I will also go out on a limb and say that, after several years where abstraction has been the dominant language of painting, representational work will start to mount a comeback.

Although others saw the medium as once removed from reality, she regarded it as «something real,» the «dominant language of contemporary culture.»

JC English is international in that it is the dominant language of the world.

Stott's dominant theme is that environmentalism is a «hegemonic myth» promulgated in the media by reporters who are subconsiously controlled by the dominant language («words of magic»).

The rise and fall of French as the dominant language of international law (and the consequences of this on legal thought and practice)

Experts at the University of Texas El Paso speculate that part of the problem is communication, as English is not necessarily the dominant language in all parts of this large border city.

Pierre Noizat writes: «France and more generally, southern European countries seem to lag behind Northern European countries and behind countries where English is a dominant language.

The consensus is that future dominant languages will be English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Children attend educational institutions with locals, where they are subjected to the dominant language and culture.

Cultural information — Some homebuyers want to know dominant language, ethnicity and religions in an area that they are considering buying in.

Not exact matches

We added a few new names to the portfolio for the quarter: Grupo Televisa, a Mexican media company and the most dominant producer of Spanish - language content in the world; SMFG (Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group), the third largest bank in Japan; and Wolseley, the world's largest traded distributor of plumbing and heating products and leading supplier of building materials based in the U.K.

At the same time, it is also implausible that the entire language should be entertained in dominant occasions at a single moment.

The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.

Unless the church reclaims its distinctive message, its distinctive language, and its distinctive practices, it will merge into the general culture, sanctioning whatever positions and ideas are currently dominant.

Front Porcher Patrick Deneen criticizes the critics of the HHS mandate for using the «dominant privatistic language of liberalism.»

And in Revelation, the New Testament book which in highly imaginative and poetic language portrays the heavenly city, we find once again that worship is the dominant theme.

For decades, «us» vs. «them» language has been a dominant part of American politics, and because of religion's power to influence social issues, it seeped into much of the dialogue surrounding faith.

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.

So if we put the hyperbolic language aside, Scot and I agree that this «soul - sort» narrative has been dominant in the Christian faith for a long time (I'd say since the fourth century, and not so much in Eastern Orthodoxy).

Rather he is simply adopting a language to juxtapose that which we see as duties shaped by Christian commitment and the dominant culture.

And as such, it is a solution that can not be implemented as long as the language of rights remains the dominant framework for our discourse about health care.

The Arab world, where the Arabic language and culture is dominant, includes more than 60,000,000 Muslims.

Even those churches that have dissented from many aspects of the dominant culture still participate in it in many ways through sharing its language, through involvement in its economic system, through social interaction of various kinds.

They knew Jesus was dangerous, although he never used a sword; he used language and symbols that challenged and threatened the validity of the world sustained by the dominant powers.

Not a specific criticism to you, but when did the language lose the word «dominant» and replace it with dominate?

There is a single dominant word within the language of the Sixth which undoes compulsion upon the Individual: Impartial.

Whichever way you do the numbers, the centre - left grouping (get used to that sort of language) of Labour, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens, Respect and others is dominant.

Languages are dying as improved transport and telecommunications bring different peoples into closer contact, and speakers of minority tongues abandon them for the languages of more dominant cultures.

P: We're losing languages because there are a few languages that are associated with cultures that are economically and politically dominant, so everybody starts speaking them.