English has been a language of occupiers and imperialists, but also one of insurgents and democrats.
These ceremonies also feature a language of African derivation, likewise named Kromanti, and rare medicinal preparations.
He has created a language of uncompromising modernist integrity that embraces an intellectual spectrum from light-heartedness to profundity.
Each volunteer speaker of a language of interest is first tested with what is known as a Swadesh list.
They speak another language there a language of gestures, stares, flapping mouths, halting or skittering walks, and sometimes movements and expressions of infinite intricacy and beauty.
The big question: can the world economy in its current condition sustain the advancement of English as a language of international business in the foreseeable future?
Good knowledge of French (as a working language of the United Nations system) would be an asset.
Real estate has a succinct language of its own that serves as a defining and selling tool.
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For his films of the fifties, Kazan developed a cinematic language of his own, to tell stories that reflected his own experience.
He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.
The BBC Trust said it did not believe the BBC had intentionally misled its audience, but the problem was "essentially one of a lack of clarity" and the result of a "looseness of language".
There are scores of Chinese-language newspapers and a handful of English-language dailies.
In addition, there is a whole language of nods, head moves, eyebrow motion, and hand gestures that regulate connected conversation.
Many still do that, but as hip-hop has become a universal language of popular music, Brazilian rappers are broadening their themes, becoming more abstract and incorporating foreign musical influences.
The children kept their eyes fixed on the psychiatrist, who adopted a maternal attitude, though not for long, since she soon noticed, as she later explained to Pereda, a malevolent intention in their gaze, a mischievous plan formulated, so she felt, in a language full of consonants, shrieks, and resentment.
It's not just about a better understanding of communication over the ages, either, as the timeline of a language can also play a useful role in determining the order of pre-history events, such as the movement of populations over a continent.
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But the intolerant actions of these fundamentalists must be considered in the context of a minority language besieged by the culture of a strong neighbour.
Since Indonesia's political system is nominally presidential, though in practice a bit of a hybrid, parliament is using the language of impeachment to dump Mr Wahid in what is in some ways closer to a vote of no confidence.
Students must complete five years of a foreign language, pass six sets of exams and write a 4, 000-word essay.
Scots Gaelic, really only still spoken as a native language in a few of the Western Islands.
An unforeseeable side effect of communicating in a language foreign to both of us was that it allowed me to forget, sometimes, that she was Japanese.
Input sentences of the source language were transformed directly into output sentences of the target language, using a simple form of parsing.
There's something about rhyme, about formal patterns of accents, about parallelism in grammatical structure -- they give language a kind of magic and permanence.
Ten million was a whole lot of money in 1919 and when it attracted attention, Ponzi soon found himself with a five-year jail term and the dubious honor of adding his name to the English language for a type of fraud he hadn't even invented.
This gives an idea of the power available to anyone who wished to develop something like a translator for sign language, or a way of studying motion to develop physical therapy strategies.
We have no way of creating a new form of language to describe these things yet.
Legislation to guarantee bilingual services and the establishment of a language commissioner had helped secure the official status of Welsh, he said.
Despite their proximity and the absence of a language barrier -- Hindustani, an amalgam of Hindi and Urdu, is understood by both north Indians and Pakistanis -- only 1.2% of Pakistan's exports go to India, while the import tally is a mere 0.7%.
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