Sentences with phrase «than a language used»

This is because the language of school will almost always be far more developed than a language used around the dinner table.

Not exact matches

Getting it right is more than just a tech fix, success extends to the very language you use.

With a network of 40,000 artists from more than 120 countries, Bucketfeet empowers artists to share their stories and perspectives using the universal language of art and the shoe as their canvas.

It turns out, lost deals actually have a 12.8 percent higher sentiment score (in other words, the buyer uses more positive and less negative language, generating an overall higher «score) than closed - won deals, across all calls that span the sales cycle.

The company has raised more than $ 230 million in venture capital since its founding, from investors such as Sigma West and Ignition Partners, and is using that money to rapidly expand its business outside the U.S.. It's well on its way: DocuSign is available in 43 languages.

-- Ankit Somani, co-founder of AllyO, an artificial intelligence recruiting platform founded in 2016 by engineers from Google and MIT that's used by more than 50 large enterprises in more than 10 industries and available in multiple languages and countries

For example, rather than using terse, negative language in an email about project scheduling because you're sick of the software you have to use to schedule meetings, you might come out and say, «This scheduling system is frustrating to me, but it looks like we can meet on Friday...»

-- Take a look at your employee handbook policies and benefits offerings and make sure they use gender - neutral language, rather than gender - specific terms.

What it does mean, is that once kids are old enough to understand the finer points of language (and according to Bergen, that's probably younger than you imagine), there's no cause for guilt if you use (and they pick up) some less - than - demure language.

Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

Kao used a technique known as natural language processing, or NLP, to scan more than 22 million comments submitted to the FCC's website.

Launched in 2013 by founders Ali and Hadi Partovi, Code.org offers courses in more than 30 languages and its intro class has been used by more than 1.5 million students worldwide.

Well, according to the report, female crowdfunders generally use more emotional and inclusive language in their videos and pitch descriptions than men, which is also to their benefit.

The blurring of language — retailers» using «Black Friday» to describe deals that happen on days other than the day after Thanksgiving — makes Black Friday less about one day of the year and more about a deal's perceived value.

You'd never know from the fighting language used by the B.C. premier that the pipeline has been safely transporting oil through the province for more than 60 years.

By forward guidance I mean more than simple boilerplate language a central bank might use to indicate the expected direction of the next interest rate move.

Zuckerberg quickly articulated that he would be in favor of regulation, using much the same language he would return to later in his response to Senator Sullivan, but the implication of Graham's line of questioning was more profound than that: perhaps the real problem is the monopolistic nature of the company, because the normal checks that come from competition were missing.

Second, it is very easy for a vendor to claim, «We use natural language processing», and you will never know whether it really works, or is better than another vendor's NLP.

He is author of two books: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead and Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs, which is in its seventh printing, has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into nine languages, and peaked at # 17 overall on the Amazon bestseller list.

As former head of the Fed, I know you know how to use more obscure language than that.

Apple's Siri does support 30 languages, but Samsung is looking to use Bixby for more than just phones.

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

But an examination of the language they use may show that it implies more than we might suppose.

The Chief of our Clinical Psychology Department, Dr. Thomas Kiresuk, has noted that once he lets his patients know that he is interested in their religious concerns, his patients frequently will be more expressive in using religious language than when using the language they think he wants to hear.

As well, it drives me crazy when sincere people veer away from sincere «church talk» and out of habit or influence, start using the buzz words and «churchy» talk... I want to shake them and remind them they are better than that... to go back to their most sincere and honest use of language.

Ideally they also learn and practice other languages than their own; their holidays are used to gather knowledge and understanding of art and other cultures, rather than just sunning on a beach.

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).

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

By using this technical Whiteheadian language, the basic idea may seem more complex than it is: in fact, what is being said here was discussed earlier in relation to Dominic Crossan's idea that stories can either form world (myth) or transform world (parable).

(It is because of specific difficulty attached to learning how to use the moral expressions of a language that we find novels more helpful than explicit ethical reflection in teaching us how to live morally.)

The translators use translations of the Greek / Hebrew Bible as primary sources rather than the original language texts.

It is also apparent that the recent evidence for self - consciousness in primates and cetaceans, based on their capacity for language use and deception, requires us to acknowledge that nonhuman capacities are somewhat closer to human capacities than Whitehead asserted.

Those who use language to express themselves — rather than to communicate something of value to others — are not concerned with either the situation in which they speak or the persons to whom they speak.

There was initial rote memorization of the words that, in their various inflections, were the elements of the language — usually more of them than any ancient speaker ever used, or ever knew.

This would be unsettling enough if language were simply a tool we use rather than the very medium in which we live.

He did use some strong language in the video, so the fallout may have more to do with his choice of words than with his actual position.

Dallas M. High uses a narrower view of self - involving language than does Evans.

Bishop Paulose became a «secular theologian» as he described himself, by using such liberating and redeeming language, listened to and understood perhaps by more outside the church than inside.

Is it possible that the exclusionary language Jesus uses, the rejection He speaks of, is about something other than eternal damnation?

Here's a question: Is it possible that the exclusionary language Jesus uses, the rejection He speaks of, is about something other than eternal damnation?

«Lincoln was less specific about his own experience and, while he used biblical language, it was less distinctively Christian or conversionistic than many of the evangelical preachers thought it should be,» Leonard says.

These figures of speech are much more than decorative flowers that brighten the garden of language; for the use of a metaphor or image can evoke the power of the world view to make it legitimate or illegitimate.

Rather than commit itself to any particular worldview, Christian theology should use or appropriate as many worldviews and forms of language as are necessary to explicate the truth of God's Word.

My hypothesis about the «two languages» receives some confirmation from the fact that Catholics in prayer use expressions closer to the Lutheran than to the Tridentine.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

His specific stands received less attention than his brilliant use of «compassionate conservative» language to take the hard edges off his views.

My dad used to say if it doesn't hurt anyone and is not hugely distorting scripture but makes them feel closer to God, don't knock it as it is better than them being in the world and maybe using foul language and going to hell.

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

Buchler often uses language to evoke a rich texture of meanings, rather than to offer a single precise definition for any concept or idea.16 (This style is more prevalent in the works on human process than in MNC.)