Sentences with phrase «own language and culture»

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.

Ola's shift from focusing entirely on winning in India — a huge and complex market with hundreds of languages and cultures — to expanding globally is a big move.

I learned in those days that differences in language and culture are no match for humility.

This reduces indigenous literacy, forcing some non-Arab Muslims to study Arabic language and culture, and the rest to listen to the preaching and scriptural interpretation of an Arabic Imam.

They're going to hear the gospel much clearer from Tyson Fury, someone they can identify with, and has behaviour, language and culture closer to theirs, and who is willing to very loudly and boldly proclaim that he loves and needs Jesus.

But he underestimates both the language and the ethnic barriers, since so much of the Pietist influence came in Dutch and German packaging — languages and cultures that did not count for much among those of English descent.

It seems fairly arrogant to so diverge from three centuries of native language interpretation in favor of that which was learned in a classroom separated from the real use of language and culture by millennia.

All that we can say with confidence, however, is that our earliest knowledge of humankind takes us back only to the point where humans were already scattered into groups, living a tribal existence, each with its own language and culture.

Reuters: German Catholics wary about major Luther festivities planned for 2017 German Protestants are planning jubilee celebrations in 2017 to mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's launching of the Reformation, a major event in the history of Christianity, of Europe and of the German nation, language and culture.

We advocate the learning and appropriate utilization of language and culture.

The rural Lutheran communities of the Saginaw Valley in central Michigan where they had spent their childhoods were so thoroughly German in language and culture that they might as well still have been located in the Franconia (now part of Bavaria) from which they had sprung.

A translator can not neglect the role of language in the process of translation, especially in a pluralistic society like India, which includes different religious and political ideologies, languages and culture.

The most influential offensive against Hispanic languages and culture in the hemisphere has been U.S. consumerism.

I didn't realize being knowledgeable and literate in different languages and cultures was «jus» the devil spinnin» lies» these days.

It would be foolish to predict so far into the future, but it seems unlikely that any will equal the King James Version not only in terms of longevity, but in its capacity to shape the language and culture of the English - speaking peoples.

Meanwhile, she'd been accepted into a local Christian community of a different ethnicity, language and culture, that encouraged her to dress differently (remove her head covering), eat differently (try some pork!)

EB: Yes, but Romania is Latin in language and culture.

The parish tends to be close - knit because it shares a common first language and a culture drawn from a homeland far removed.

That contention is that literacy is a function of a national culture — a point he seeks to demonstrate by citing relationships between foreign languages and the cultures they serve.

Each language and culture not only shapes persons within it in distinctive ways; it also creates the very «world» we perceive.

This process took place over millions of years, as language and culture evolved.

In the pages that follow, therefore, the two words feminine and masculine will appear in quotation marks in recognition of the limitations of our language and culture.

Christianity has become a genuinely multicultural world religion, thriving profusely in the idioms of other languages and cultures, marked by a lively cross-cultural and interreligious sensibility, unburdened by the heavy artillery of doctors and councils, and otherwise undaunted by the scandalous paucity of money, trained leadership, infrastructure and resources.

The» church can not be satisfied with a middle - class norm but must reach the working man in his language and culture.

We have an entire branch of government devoted to interpreting the Consttution and laws passed by Congress, and those are written in English and only a couple hundred years old at the most, not thousands of years ago from a different language and culture.

And we must note this salient, consistent feature of their work — namely, that they confidently adopted the language and culture of others as the irreplaceable vehicle for the transmission of the message.

Levi - Strauss later explores «the fact that both language and culture are products of activities which are basically similar» (71).

The appalling rule of the Romanovs, the grotesque privileges of the aristocrats, the obscurantism of the church, the harshness of the courts, the systematic attempts to wipe out other languages and cultures — none of that seems very encouraging.

Territoriality and regionalism are not human sins, but rather assurances — along with local languages and cultures — that humans will remain individuals.

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.

We often think that for the sake of unity we need uniform structures, the same doctrine, the same language and culture, and all should become of one race and color.

Because it is education that must proceed indirectly by way of the examination of texts and practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and practices employ ordinary languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant languages and cultures.

This «unveiling» is expressed through the Scriptures, the human authors of which are inspired to write what God wishes while employing their own faculties and doing so in the language and culture of their time.

We could say that when missionaries adopted the specificity of vernacular languages and cultures as vehicles for the gospel, they were extending the principle of Jewish particularity, the paradigm by which God has chosen to instruct the world in righteousness.

So everyone has their view and position on a traditional «habit» that has spanned thousands of years, languages and cultures.

Back in the»60s, we who are now «old timers» thought of ourselves as a new breed of missionaries, well trained in the language and culture of the host country and determined to help its church leaders dismantle the structures of dependency and paternalism.

And this in turn would undercut Derrida's claim that our language and culture lacks any normative connection to nature and history.

Government and universities could co-operate in training men for such work, including study of foreign languages and cultures.

It isn't even a single book — but rather an ancient collection of letters and laws, prophecies and proverbs, stories and songs, spanning thousands of years and written in languages and cultures far removed from my own.

In spite of the vast differences in languages and cultures among group members and between them and us as leaders, remarkable things happened.

Although faith is a large part of the story, so is language and culture and a group of people suffering.

This view asked that we look at Christianity (and all religion) as a language and a culture.

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

If anyone is really interested in understanding the view on women or slavery, you need to search the right websites that don't mock the Bible but that actually study the Hebrew languages and their cultures.

With characteristic wit and aplomb, Hitchens reports on the language and culture of «Tumorville,» the futility of prayer, the error of Nietzsche's claim that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and, most movingly, the loss of his voice.

Interestingly Zondervan (I believe) are publishing a brand new NIV study Bible which relates notes from the original language and culture underpinning the stories.

For me, people who have studied the languages and cultures of the Bible can shed light underneath some of the stories and bring them to life as I see how what is written fits into the life back then.

The Prussian education reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt insisted that Greek language and culture represented an «ideal of that which we should like to be and produce.»

We visited a small Korean restaurant, a stone's throw from the high school where we both fell in love with foreign languages and culture.

He's a lover of language and culture.