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If the Hispanic community was more involved with the police and fire programs, it would be better. But in a lot of cases, the cultural barriers are stronger than the language barrier.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur

He is employed by the Holland Group, which provides staffing for our substitute teachers, ... He apparently used some inappropriate language and called a student 'heathen.'

. . . He works in a public craft. He works in the most middle class and family friendly of all American sports. He works in a realm where that kind of language is never tolerated.

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

He's a throwback kid. He has consideration for others, respect for others and is caring. He's not going to use foul language around adults. He'll be the first to help with the luggage. I look at him as an old-school guy.

There is a language barrier. My Korean workers do not speak Spanish or English. My Latino workers do not speak English or Korean.

What makes these people dangerous is that their violent language is transformed into violent action.

Whatever agreement we come to, if we do come to one, if it doesn't change business as usual in predatory lending practices and doesn't have real practical effect in reducing or eliminating these predatory loans, we're going to come back next year with very strong language to improve it.

Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in '48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad, has set a pattern. This will be the case, even if the rhetoric of lifetime jobs guarantees outstrip the language.

He came out immaculately attired in a well-dressed street suit and he tap-danced, ... As he danced, he told little jokes in between. He was so clean in his language and was lacking in any drawl, he just inspired me. I wanted to do that.

He loved language and found a medium to have to express himself with. That was one of best things. Whenever we would go visit my family, almost every occasion I would ask dad what his latest poems were. A lot of times he would have a work in progress and read it and sometimes ask for comment on it.

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

Many evangelicals have very positive views toward Jews, and evangelicals support Israel. And it's interesting that in the protests of these cartoons, the language quickly turned anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. That sends up a red flag for evangelical Christians.

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

Look at Benito Santiago. When he first signed, there was definitely a language barrier. But he could throw, and if you can do that and block the balls in the dirt, that speaks volumes.

Some of the conversations in the book go on for days. Whereas I like the idea of using repetition. I've always wanted to do The Castle, but I started breaking it down and removing the language and everything changed completely. The heart of The Castle is there, but there's nothing explicit in it that's left.

that a lot of the language he was using about Kim and North Korea would be counterproductive to getting them back to six-party talks.

I researched every milieu. If I were to do a movie tomorrow about a fashion designer, say, I would have to spend some time to find out what language they spoke. Because I would never be satisfied with my dialogue, I want something that gives you the color of that character right away.

Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became the language of political opposition because it was the only language that could not be censored. This pattern, of dictators using religious groups to destroy the secular opposition, has played out in virtually every Arab country.

Steve's early work had a lasting effect on me. The density and the gravity of the sound was so great it prevents recollection. The power of Steve's music has to do with its sound. Tempo counts, and language is pushed to the breaking point, where the meaning of the word is obliterated and lets the music out.

Suddenly, they were asking for dozens of redactions of the exact same language they'd cleared before.

PHP as a language isn't isolated and people are going to be building SOA types of applications using XML and SOAP,

Our position is pretty singular. We think ... that the law enforcement aspect of city government should be first and foremost. We can craft contract language that's constructive to meet the goals of the city, the citizens and the police officers themselves.

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup kitchen, to letting someone stay a night, to giving someone water. A prosecutor could use that language to come after you.

People living on some of the islands of the Pacific don't describe much lightning in their language.

I think both the president and the government understand that nobody will agree to the language of ultimatums.

Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish,

Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

Language arts come alive with students vying with one another for the chance to put their work on the SMART Board. Learning should be fun, and technology helps me make it so.

Language barriers are the main reason. That causes troubles for those wanting to assimilate and adapt to new environments.

Language doesn't so much cause divisions as it symbolizes them. I don't think using 'evacuee' or 'refugee' will change people's minds, but it will signal differences about how we think about class that has always been there.

Language is a barrier, especially in health care. We see a big problem in families relying on their 10 to 12-year-old son to translate.

Language is a complex beast. At best, machine translation is a reasonable alternative to zero translation.

Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Language is clumsy, understanding is subjective, religion is obstructive. We must rise above these obstacles to achieve complete being.

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world: Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Language moves so fast and people are so clever at inventing new terms, it takes an army to keep up. Suggestions from correspondents are always a good starting point-they give us something to investigate.

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).

People are just beginning to understand what is possible with enterprise search. First, there was the basic keyword-type search. That was like starting a car with a crank. What we're seeing now is next-generation technology that understands language context.

People are definitely expecting (the Jan. 31 minutes) to show similar language to the previous meeting, which is they are coming toward the end but they are not there yet.

Jaromir really cares about this kid. He's helped him with his language; he talks to him all the time in English.

My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

Jim Nussle has said that a clean budget is one of his top priorities, and he has proven that today by keeping dicey policy language that has no budgetary consequence, namely drilling in the Arctic refuge, out of the budget.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.

I think (Mamet) seduces people in the first act into thinking that it's a comedy, in a sense, ... But then it turns around and becomes very dangerous. He's created a language here that appears to be natural but is much more heightened. It's realism in the best sense.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

I think the barbarity of the English language currently used in the liturgy is cause enough for sorrow without further fiddling in terms of feminist inclusiveness.

I think the concerns about free speech in areas where the president is speaking long pre-date Bush. They were an issue in the Clinton administration, the first Bush administration and began as an issue during Reagan. I do think the ACLU has legitimate concerns about the breadth of the new language and how it could be applied.

I think the fans could see in his face and body language that he was bothered when things didn't go well. They appreciate work ethic and even empathize with him from time to time. But it's probably not a good thing to do it in back-to-back seasons.

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Last year in the English Language Arts (portion of the test), Athens was one point away from getting an A,

It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.

I think they have a comfort zone in terms of personalities, where they understand each other and there's no friction ever. Sometimes I think they're disagreeing with one another too much and they say, 'Coach, that's OK. We've done this for years.' I have to back off. They have their own little language how they deal with each other.

I think there's a sense that as the next hurricane season approaches quickly, there needs to be some good, solid language in place so we can maximize the local contractors.

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

Our achievement has really contributed to us winning this award. Particularly with our English As A Second Language (ESL) students, their achievement is tremendous.

Our class has been working since January reading and studying the process of Shakespeare's work trying to understand the language and the scripts. It's challenging. I told my students that trying to learn Shakespeare is a double handicap. Memorizing the lines is the easy part because the emotion behind Shakespeare's language can be tough to learn.

Over the past month or so Fed governors have been quite hawkish in their language, ... I think they've pretty much prepared the market for continued rising rates.

Our team has made some progress with being proactive on defense. There's a certain mentality where I wanted us to be. ... Forget statistics, forget about how many points we're giving up, field goal percentage, all that stuff - I think our body language is moving in a way that we're trying to be a little more proactive defensively.

Our friends' weak language has stumbled and fallen.

Our goal in creating Interpret is to fill a void in this marketplace by building a company that follows consumers' leads in breaking down content silos, and to help media, content and technology companies realize the true value of their brands. The key to success in the digital future is developing a common, consumer-driven language for technology developers, content companies and advertisers and Interpret is structured to fit those needs.

I think he's sharpened his language a lot today. Obviously, things haven't been flowing in his direction lately.

I think Cisco's body language is going to be positive. In general, IT spending is expected to get better. I like where the economy is headed and that's going to benefit tech companies like Cisco.

I think if they take out the language about inflation, as well as leave in the 'measured' (at future meetings), that will calm the market a bit.

I worked as hard as I could. I'm not fluent but I felt like I made real headway. The language is beautiful.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I think, overall, we're seeing some friendly economic data that helped the market out. That said, there's not a lot of catalysts out there that could take us much higher, unless oil drops $5 a barrel or the Fed comes out with amazingly clear language in its take on the economy, and neither of those are likely.

I think she has stepped it up. She plays with leadership on the floor. Her body language leads this team.

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.

I think that if the Fed goes back to normal language about 'measured pace' (of rate hikes), it becomes a secondary story, ... It is only becoming a big story because of the uncertainty about what they were going to do. The equity markets will be looking for language here again. If it talks too harshly about inflationary pressures, it could be unfriendly for stocks.

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.

I think the language to open it up to 'him' or 'her' language is important to do to keep the charter up to date.

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.

I think the main reason for our success is that PHP has always been focused on Web development and it has always been developed by Web developers. Unlike other languages, which are general purpose language and then adopted to work on the Web, PHP is only meant for the Web.

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

I think that not only will an engineering program be good for Marshall, but Marshall will be good for engineering. With the strong liberal arts programs offered at the University in fields like language and science, I think that our program will produce students ready to compete in a global job market.

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

I thought our seniors kind of helped with a poised demeanor. I thought Torin and Chris' body language and how they talked in huddles, they were rocks out there that the guys on the floor could rely on.

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

It is 99.9 percent of the actual language that was presented in the 1938 radio play. I really believe we have preserved the essential element of the radio play, that you have to bring your imagination into it. You never see the monsters. You see the actors seeing the monsters.

We (Northwest flight attendants) have been going across the Pacific for 70 years and offering excellent service. Our (plane) loads are full. We continue to have the highest loads because of excellent flight attendant service,which includes cultural sensitivity and language skills.