Sentences with phrase «public language»

Following the Civil War, when the southern agrarian economy collapsed and rural African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers were forced to migrate for survival to major population centers — particularly in and around Birmingham, Alabama, where iron and steel production created jobs — a new and more public language of quilts, funerary, and yard arts arose.

The abundance of unorthodox materials, everyday objects and unusual mediums were turned into a shared public language.

They will need, as one sympathetic Labour backbencher put it last week, «to escape the cul - de-sacs of what might be called Old New Labour thinking» if the government is to find the right public language which can build a consensus for progressive reform.

A public language that is compressed, immediate, impactful, but deprived from its tolerable power.

And they demonstrated how the primal language of the church could perform as a public language.

We should understand some of the mistakes we have made in replacing an oral prose with book, prose, a public language with a private one not written, to be read aloud.

The case arose as the public language grew vulgar.

Appleby's and Juergensmeyer's books are two of the best of the recent popularizations which inaugurate a public language about religion that is at once tolerant and informed.

These are no minor steps for the Iranian government, which despite being ideological in its public language, tends to be cooperative at a regional level, particularly in periods of crises (e.g. Afghanistan 2001; Kuwait 1990 - 91).

«Our public language is entering a decadent phase — less able to explain, less able to engage except in the purely political, more prone to exaggeration and paranoia.

The risk is that a public language and a set of institutions which were once a source of competitive advantage, as well as a guarantee of freedom — the language of democracy — may now falter»

Consequently, whoever controls the public language of a society is in a very strong position to implement its policies.

We don't have the public language — other than religiously formulated language — for dealing with some of these things.

The public language for Digital Asset's new «digital asset modeling language» (DAML) backs up this assessment, with wording specifying that not all nodes on the network will process all updates to the ledger.