Second, the ICF provides occupational therapists with a global language to describe their expertise to the larger international health care community.

The ICF uses a positive, holistic language emphasizing skills, capacities, and strengths of an individual rather than focusing on one ’ s deficits and disabilities.

The language used in the ICF helps facilitate better communication between these groups of people.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.

For this reason, too, their language is more forthright and earthy.

Jazz is the musical language of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm ; ;

Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.

But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.

This is going to be a language lesson, and you can master it in a few minutes.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.

Here again, in the written language it is possible to help the reader get his stresses right by using underlining or italics, but much of the time there is simply reliance on his understanding in the light of context.

It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.

In the first of these sentences if by is the complement of come and Tuesday is an adjunct of time equivalent to on Tuesday, there will be strong stress on by in the spoken language ; ;

Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that transcends nationality and would foster peace and international understanding between people with different regional and / or national languages.

It speaks of the achievement of world peace, " sacred harmony " and " eternal blessing " on the basis of a neutral language.

Ancient Greek tended to be verb-final, while neutral word order in the modern language is VSO or SVO.

Norwegian has two standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk, the choice between which is subject to controversy: Each Norwegian municipality can declare one of the two its official language, or it can remain " language neutral ".

Teachers and learners of English as a second language also find it an attractive idea — both often concerned that their English should be neutral, without American or British or Canadian or Australian coloring.

Analytic, or ' clarificatory ', jurisprudence means the use of a neutral point of view and descriptive language when referring to the aspects of legal systems.

If such a language existed, Zamenhof postulated, it could play the role of a neutral communication tool between people of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.

In addressing the linguistic problem of naming, Edna Andrews says that using " inclusive " and " neutral " language is based upon the concept that " language represents thought, and may even control thought.

It is a division that has been strongly associated with Enlightenment thinking about language, which attempted to make language a neutral, transparent medium.

This involves looking at whether the writer or speaker has a neutral attitude, which can be seen through the use of positive or negative language.

Laws of this type later used racially neutral language to survive legal challenge, but were expected to be enforced against blacks rather than whites.

Since a jury is intended to be an impartial panel capable of reaching a verdict, there are often procedures and requirements, for instance, fluent understanding of the language, or the ability to test jurors or otherwise exclude jurors who might be perceived as less than neutral or more partial to hear one side or the other.

Their marriage was the occasion for the jointly-issued " Edict of Milan " that reissued Galerius ' previous edict allowing Christianity to be professed in the Empire, with additional dispositions that restored confiscated properties to Christian congregations and exempted Christian clergy from municipal civic duties. The redaction of the edict as reproduced by Lactantius-who follows the text affixed by Licinius in Nicomedia on June 14 313, after Maximinus ' defeat-uses a neutral language, expressing a will to propitiate " any Divinity whatsoever in the seat of the heavens ".

The wording of this statement from a policy manual is typical: " All documents, publications or presentations developed by all constituencies … shall be written in gender neutral and / or gender inclusive language.

In the Eastern dialects of Catalan, including the standard language variety, based in the dialect spoken in and around Barcelona, an unstressed " a " or " e " is pronounced as a schwa ( called " vocal neutra ", " neutral vowel ").

Esperanto was chosen rather than a major national language such as English because it is nationally neutral and relatively easy to master, while still backed and proven by an existing infrastructure — over a century of Esperanto culture -- and its surface similarities to major European languages facilitate the learning of regional and world languages such as English, Spanish, or Russian.

Above all, although it was couched in neutral language, in reality it favoured the Greek position.

* a neutral, unavoidable consequence of language acquisition and empathy:

The nationality of the language has been a hotly debated topic, and its users and proponents have generally not been fond of the implied association with Danish ( hence the neutral names Riksmål and Bokmål, meaning national language and book language respectively ).

Sometime during this period, he took up the study of, and advocated the use of, the neutral international language, Esperanto.