Sentences with phrase «rather than the written word»

Christians often argue that, as in human life the most adequate form of communication is by personal meeting rather than the written word, so God's fullest revelation also needed to be a human life.

Now throw in a system that recognizes speech — also statistically driven, except it deals with chunks of phonemes, or spoken sounds, rather than written words — and add the sort of text - to - speech function that has been annoying us for years in our various talking devices, and you've got a complete system for translating a spoken language on the fly.

For example, rather than doing 100 rote - work math problems, your child could do 10 more difficult or challenging problems, rather than write each word ten times or write simple sentences using spelling words for homework, your child write a short story or a poem using the words.

I'm afraid I won't be able to cover it live, as I'll be in class long before it even starts; but I'm sure you'd rather hear any announcement directly from Iwata's mouth rather than my written words, anyway.

Tribal courts are much more tolerant of this because most tribes have an oral tradition which placed much more of a premium on the spoken, rather than the written word.

Not exact matches

In other words, while the substance remains largely the same, the presentation has been given a considerable makeover: the new policy is considerably shorter, written in English rather than legalese, and reformatted (more space and color) for an easier reading experience.

While this kind of writing and speaking doesn't result in anything you'd actually use in a business discussion, the mental effort of oversimplifying accustoms your brain to reach for the small words rather than the overly complex ones.

You need to write to the length that allows you tell your story successfully rather than to a predetermined format or word count.

I tend to prefer the ones that give platform to the professionals, or high quality researchers, rather than the ones who are basically professional speakers who found a niche, put what we already know into their own words, and wrote a book.

«Rather than paying rent (in other words, putting your money towards your landlord's mortgage), you are investing money in an asset that builds equity,» Scorgie writes in her book.

Show me where they are rather than just using words and quoting a book written by man (the bible) /

Dictionaries are written as descriptive uses of language (they find out what the majority of people use words to mean, and write it down), rather than prescriptive uses of language (ie some governing board or king or ruler deciding what a word means and telling us how we have to use it).

It allows the Word of God to remain alive rather than shrouding it in the binder of the most read, but yet the most misinterpreted book ever written — because many of those who read it, read it through the eyes and mind of an ancient civilization that was only beginning to understand the mysteries of creation.

I doubt whether any latter - day evangelicals ever deserved to be called bibliolaters, worshipers of the written Word of the Lord rather than the living Lord of the World.

I know this will upset the legalists who have posted here, but I think God (I use this English word which comes from the German word Gott — rather than Yahweh since I am writing to English readers as opposed to Israelis) is not going to damn any believer who knowingly sins and later regrets doing so and repents (changes their mind / heart).

For this reason, as I am writing in English, I prefer to use the word God rather than Allah, to emphasize that there is one Divine Reality of whom we as Christians or Muslims are both speaking, just as I dislike the use of the word «Yahweh» for God in some modern translations of the Bible.

I prefer to think that Paul knew this word was tricky, and wanted to give some divine authority to the written word, and so his kai in 3:16 between theopneustos and ophelimos is a comparative kai rather than contrasting.

In fairness to Girard, I must say that he realizes very clearly that the key to the whole problem is found in the Prologue of John, but he writes in the genre of sociological theory rather than the genre of theology, which prevents him from speaking as freely as he might of the Incarnation of the Word of God in human history.

When I wrote this post, I did not have access to the Hebrew, and so made a guess that the Hebrew word being used was «lo» rather than «ayin.»

And... IF my community members show the need for the second site (TLS), that is, the willingness to actually engage in a real exchange of communication, the willingness to listen, and to write with a careful choice of words... to heal rather than to take advantage of the wounded... then, I may consider recommending the TLS site.

Rabbi Eliezer wrote in the first century that, «Rather should the words of the Torah be burned than entrusted to a woman... Whoever teaches his daughter the Torah is like one who teaches her obscenity.»

Rather than write a bunch of words about the dire problem of human trafficking and forced prostitution, I decided to just post some pictures and infographics.

I'm better writing out what I'm feeling rather than trying to put it into spoken words.

So, rather than write 100,000 words, I drew over 100 cartoons to illustrate the struggle and have been sharing them on my blog and all over social media.

Now that we can see light at the end of the tunnel, I am calling all Arsenal fans to change tact while criticizing our coveted club, manager and players by substituting «satanic words» of «F» and «S» characters into words that can add value into the club's vein and steel, write more articles that can encourage Arsenal players rather than kill their morale, unite and dissolve abuses coming from rival club fans and club enemies like Jose Mourinho.

Great review - I definitely prefer written reviews over videos, because I process better when I see the words on the screen rather than spoken!

It's not that I'm not creative; its just that I am more expressive with the written word, rather than icing and sprinkles:

Technically I wrote for that episode but I don't think a single word that any of us wrote went out because he was so determined to do it the Neil Kinnock way rather than the HIGNFY way.

The researchers assessed how quickly and accurately students performed an addition and subtraction test and a test that asked for the color of a written word, rather than the word itself.

The book is packed with hundreds of illustrations, almost all in colour, but this is one book where design serves its proper purpose of enhancing the written word rather than competing with it.

Early in, I realized that although I loosely follow pattern directions, I am more inclined to look at the images that accompany the written words, rather than the text itself.

This post has been a long time coming, but I really needed to find the time to sit down and write a more thoughtful post rather than just spitting words out onto my screen.

I recently read a post by a gal who really inspires me: Geneva from A Pair and a Spare wrote about creating a focus word for the year rather than a resolution.

I should like to put my colours in one place and actually see the colours rather than have the words written down.

Before Valentine's Day, Grammarly also published some data on the importance of grammar, finding some titbits such as men who write «women» rather than «girls» are 28 % more successful, and women who used the words «divorce», «separate» or «my ex» get 4 % fewer messages.

But rather than posting a list of highly - specific and inflexible demands, try writing a simple statement that begins with two words: «I believe...»

Are you referring to the fact you've proofread, edited, published and repeated your comment, seeing as you made an error by writing «proofread» as two words rather than one?

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Written and recorded principally on viola, rather than the home - made instruments of the Micachu & The Shapes records, and influenced by Iannis Xenaxis, John Cage, and, in her words, «strip - club music and euphoric dance» it's astonishing stuff: otherworldly and strangely alluring, like the film itself.

The enduring and healing power of love, the strength of the human will, living for the moment — these are a few of the themes Cameron covers, but instead of coming off as blatantly preachy (which, in some of his previous films, he comes dangerously close to), he addresses these issues with careful subtlety, expressing them mostly through the characters and their actions rather than explicitly written dialogue (with the exception of a few words of wisdom dispensed by Jack).

I'd also call him a film critic and a screenwriter, though his criticism, like much of Godard's and Rivette's, is made up of sounds and images rather than words and his screenwriting is always built on the writing of others.

Finally, rather than write about the latest Star Wars (which hardly needs promotion), I'd rather say a few words about another of the outstanding cash - burners of 2017, which is now winning awards: Jordan Peele's indelible horror movie, Get Out.

My writing certainly won't do justice to the greatness of them, so rather than struggle with superlatives and words that won't satisfy me in the way the film does, I'll pass almost altogether on reviewing The Lion King.

Rather than write that, I've been working on the Tsui Hark chapter, which is somewhere over 25,000 words long.

The second part of that advice might seem obvious and unnecessary, but we all know those students who fail to carefully read the question or prompt and then too quickly write about a vaguely related topic; or those who believe essays are graded on word count and prefer to write a lot about a topic they know well — or everything they know about a variety of topics — rather than risk writing too little about a less familiar, though assigned, topic.

Rather than have students write a 2000 word essay after researching on a topic, where several of them would simply copy and paste paragraphs without necessarily understanding the content, lecturers could ask students to research and create a 5 minutes or less video or audio recording of what they had researched about.

The sheet includes: Literacy section with key words and definitions Write on the sheet starter Lesson objective (The above a set in a box to allow pupils to cut out and stick these into their book) Three sets of questions to aid differentiation by task rather than outcome A set of extension questions Plenary questions to check understanding Homework questions (differentiated) Additional info on how to check if answers are correct and where this skill would be used in real life.

Rather than introducing vocabulary through word lists and sentence writing, some literacy experts are now saying the best way to teach new words is by teaching students about the world.

I give them the paragraph to enable them to identify the sequencing words in the text to encourage them to think about how they can sequence their own activities rather than just write a list of activities they did using first of all, then etc..

However, rather than scaffolding and having them complete the formative practice sentence completion activities, I have them answer the written response question in the unit using vocabulary words and underlining when they use context clues.