Sentence examples for controlled the discourse from inspiring English sources

Although the Republic of China was a UN member and signatory to the original UN Charter, four decades of martial law controlled the discourse of culture and politics on Taiwan.

"S/he that controls the language controls the discourse.

It channels the conversation into the framing preferred by the party seeking to control the discourse.

So often in the nebulous world of subjectivity it seems as if "the truth" is nothing more than controlling the discourse.

"He felt that even now if you control the language, you control the discourse, you control the power," said Henry Chalfant, a filmmaker and graffiti scholar who first met Rammellzee at a 1980 exhibition of graffiti work by Lee Quinones and Fred Brathwaite (better known as Fab 5 Freddy) at White Columns gallery in SoHo.

All the adults working with these children shape and control the discourse.

It appears, therefore, that what Dudley Andrew had already acknowledged at the time when "Revoir La Religieuse" was published, namely that "it is the literary critics who control the discourse about film," remains the case in the present period.

Some of it controls the discourse so much that it affords the users little opportunity to acquire the goal-setting and planning skills needed for them to become active participants in a knowledge building community.

This has to do with how the web makes us feel: The mass distribution of our opinions makes us feel omnipotent, like we can control the discourse in the same manner as a paranoid schizophrenic chooses the direction cars turn from the vantage point of his bedroom window.

The first two want to suck off the budget and deregulate when possible; the third wants money too -- and gets far more than its fair share -- but also to control the discourse and even name the officals who are part of it.

The vested interests have thus influenced or rather controlled the educational discourse, in a number of ways.