Sentence examples for critical languages from inspiring English sources

In times of political crisis, we routinely deplore the lack of speakers competent to function in the critical languages of the moment.

American training of its own personnel in critical languages remains under-done, years after numerous reports by America's own watchdogs have found terrifying shortages.

Many government agencies face a severe shortage of skilled linguists for "critical languages," those deemed important for defense and intelligence activities.

The State Department has paid for a smaller program — the Teachers of Critical Languages Program — to bring Chinese teachers to schools here, with each staying for a year.

The intelligence community is literally incapable of understanding the enemy, because substantial security barriers have been placed in the path of Americans who are native speakers of Arabic and other critical languages.

Last year, Mr. Holt introduced the National Security Language Act, which would have put at least $75 million into encouraging study of critical languages from primary school through the graduate level and culling skilled speakers from ethnic and immigrant communities.

Grossman suggested that how well a novel is written doesn't matter much anymore, and that a critic like Wood, preoccupied as he is with "literary analysis," lacks "the critical language you need to praise a book like The Goldfinch".

It was, to borrow the art critical language of the time, a colour field.

We would also get recruits with critical language and cultural skills we are lacking.

Deep and daring, Rylance's performance defied the tropes of critical language.

Rylance's deep and daring performance, which he premièred in London, in 2009, defies the tropes of critical language.