Sentences with phrase «which language we speak»

Human languages offer several examples of this kind, and this indicates that in forming words we tend to prefer certain sound combinations to others, irrespective of which language we speak.

How «easy» a destination is will depend on your background and experience, such as which languages you speak fluently.

You should see the changes no matter which country you're from, or which languages you speak.

Not exact matches

«We find the best people in the world and either bring them to Canada to have them work for us in Nova Scotia — we speak more than 10 languages in our facility here — or we base them throughout the world to represent our company in all the countries in which we operate,» says Deveau.

Hometeam, which operates across New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, has a proprietary algorithm that matches aides with patients, considering factors such as the language spoken, personal hobbies, and the skill set required to tend to specific medical conditions.

Say you speak another language (which does not use the standard Roman alphabet), but you can't write it very well.

Chao spoke of learning to speak the language of the brain — which he contended was better done with electrical impulses than chemical compounds.

The restrictions — which currently apply to English - speaking countries — will be rolled out in more than 150 languages in the next six months.

The Medel Valley is part of a small region of Switzerland in which people speak Romansch, a language descended from the Latin brought by the Roman legions who conquered the region 2,000 years ago.

THERE is an increasing interest in the fascinating foods of the great sub-continent of India, where almost half a billion people speak over a dozen major languages which are localised by more than 1500 dialects.

And I recently came across new research showing that people speak with more fluency in a foreign language when they've been drinking, which is a bit more counterintuitive, since speaking in a nonnative tongue obviously requires focus.

He points out that if social media is to achieve its real potential in India, then the industry needs to bridge the regional language barrier and add to the English - speaking market, which as he rightly points out is limited at about 200 million.

So it's really a matter of thinking about it, who is this customer, what do they know, what do they want to know and which language do they speak, so that you can have a real conversation with them.

The Bible is a book by which God speaks to us in various ways, historical narrative, poetry, instruction, prophecy, figurative language... etc..

Any time a modern tells us what something is, we are told more about language and its speaker than about the thing of which that speaker speaks, and we ought to recognize the speaker's hunger for power and desire for domination.

It's speaking as it reviews its methods of ensuring people suffering from the disease, which can include a loss of memory, reasoning or language skills, are fully included in services.

In any case, I will do you the honor of assuming that you are interested in hearing what those who speak such a language have to say, and I will also suppose that a faith which seeks understanding may sometimes find it.

«We speak four languages at home: Spanish, Dutch, German and English (which is the language we prefer to speak as a couple).

I'm latino (which also includes Italians, Romanians, Portuguese and every that speaks a language that came from Latin), and my family came from Spain, and here where I live I'm not considered white because I also speak Spanish, even though I have white skin, light brown hair and blue eyes.

But now I admit to be speaking in the language of natural philosophy, that old - fashioned way of understanding reality which quickly faded into the intellectual shadows after the arrival of the new knowledge of Galileo and Newton.

For a long time, thinking he is the same as other men, he will try to see as they do, to speak their language, to find contentment in the joys with which they are satisfied.

For the over-all result of the great reaction has been a sophistication of the true simplicity of the gospel, the use of a jargon which the common man (and the intelligent one, too, often enough) can not understand, and a tendency to assume that the biblical and creedal language as it stands need only be spoken, and enough then has been done to state and communicate the point of the Christian proclamation.

At the same time it was estimated that there yet remained five hundred to a thousand other language groups spoken by substantial numbers of people into which translations should be made, and many of them will be.

For this view Fuchs appeals to the parables, which were often spoken in the setting of the eschatological meals: «Jesus supplied his disciples with the interpretation of his parabolic language by an act of goodness.»

If the work of creation is seen as an evolutionary process, then existence of matter is the necessary precondition for the appearance, on earth, of spirit: elsewhere Pere Teilhard de Chardin speaks of matter in more exact language as the «matrix of spirit»: that in which life emerges and is supported, not the active principle from which it takes its rise.

And just as that kingly grief of which we have spoken can be found only in a kingly soul, and is not even named in the language of the multitude of men, so the entire human language is so selfish that it refuses even to suspect the existence of such a grief.

Whoever wants to be understood is constrained to speak in accordance with the practices of the language community to which he belongs.

Thus the search for belonging becomes in large measure a search for language which will open the way to speaking and hearing.

Those «oral residues,» as Ong calls them, are to be seen in the techniques of syntax and image which abound in Elizabethan prose.3 They are naturally in the King James Version of the Bible — until this generation the language of worship throughout the English - speaking world.

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

by John Dominic Crossan, Richard G. Watts 1999 ISBN 0664258425 pages 28 - 29 [19] James Barr, Which language did Jesus speak, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1970; 53 (1) pages 9 - 29 [1][20] Handbook to exegesis of the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter 1997 ISBN 90 -04-09921-2 pages 110 - 112 [21] Discovering the language of Jesus by Douglas Hamp 2005 ISBN 1 -59751-017-3 page 3 - 4 ^ Jesus in history and myth by R. Joseph Hoffmann 1986 ISBN 0 -87975-332-3 page 98

In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

The alien thoughts of which the Baal - Shem speaks are in our language fantasy, says Buber.

Early Pentecostals further believed that the gift of tongues which had been restored to the church bestowed actual languages which would enable them to speak in the languages of the nations.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

None the less, he is prepared to allow the legitimacy of the language which speaks of Jesus as «in some sense» divine, provided we «remember that in some sense or degree every man» may also be said to be divine.

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.

Accounts tell of her being able to speak languages of which she had no previous knowledge and demonstrating clairvoyance by revealing the most intimate secrets and transgression of people with whom she had no contact.

Traditional India had been a land in which peoples and communal groups who followed different religions, lived according to different cultural values and social patterns and spoke different languages, coexisted.

Accusing our culture of using Christianity's language without its substance, she does the same, speaking of judgment and forgiveness only in terms of societal judgment and forgiveness, which, indeed have passed away in this guilt - erasing culture.

Although he does not speak specifically of prototaxic, parataxic, and syntaxic modes of experience, the same sequential patterns are reflected in his description of the first cycle of intellectual progress, which runs «from the achievement of perception to the acquirement of language, and from the acquirement of language to classified thought and keener perception» (AE 31).

Bultmann's project of demythologizing, he thinks, didn't go far enough, for he still spoke of an «other side» or «other world» to which mythological language, however inadequately, points.

«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience, by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.

Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way of understanding the whole world and a language in which to speak about that world.

The principle is that in regard to the presentation of subjective aims, God has to «speak» to each actual occasion in its own «language,» that is, at its own level, in a manner harmonious with the character of the sort of data which are in general operative in the aesthetic synthesis which is the concrescence of the actual occasion in question.

And so, if we moderns are to share in the blessings of which the New Testament speaks, we need the help of someone who understands the language of mythology and can translate it into a language with which the modern world is familiar.

Many since Kant have doubted whether God, who gave us language, actually uses language to communicate with uswhether, that is, God's «speaking» to people is a cognitive event for them as my speaking to you would be, or whether this «speaking» is a metaphor for some non-cognitive way in which we are made aware of his presence.

Even the language by which we speak of the higher expressions of religion is inevitably dialectical.

As it becomes aware of the specific form in which ultimate human problems present themselves in our own time, the ministry, and therewith the schools that prepare men for it, begin to understand more sharply what the pastoral function is, in what language the gospel speaks to this need, and what form the Church must take in serving such men in such a time.

Within the Jewish - Christian tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.