Sentence examples for language equals from inspiring English sources

Language is the biggest Kurdish demand because language equals identity.

If silence equals death, he taught us, then art equals language equals life.

To these educators, as long as there is the need, learning a third language (in this case a foreign language that is not in widespread use in minority regions) should be as simple as the sum: two (minority home language and standard Chinese) plus one (a foreign language) equals three (sanyu jiantong).

It demotes Arabic from its erstwhile status as an official language equal to Hebrew.

It also seems to have made possible the development of a pictorial, two-dimensional language equal to but different from the sculptural tradition already in place.

In April 1897 he issued a famous language ordinance that introduced Czech as a language equal to German even in the "inner service"—i.e., for communications within government departments.

The 450-deputy Verkhovna Rada, as Parliament is called in Ukraine, was debating a measure that would elevate the status of Russian to a second language, equal to Ukrainian, in about half the regions of the country, including Kiev.

He was the outstanding figure in the struggle for the preservation and extension of the Irish language from 1893, when he founded the Gaelic League (a nationalistic organization of Roman Catholics and Protestants), until 1922, when the founding of the Irish Free State accorded the Irish language equal status with English.

Her best novel feels finally like a daughter's offering of love and solidarity to her father — you see, I am like you, I've achieved a language equal to yours, superior to yours — which is also, of course, an offering of white-hot competitive hatred.

As Canada's prime minister, Trudeau created a federation in which French is ensconced as an official language equal with English (even though it is the mother tongue of only 22% of the population), and in which most Canadian prime ministers have hailed from Quebec.

Members of the Rada were debating a bill that would give the Russian language equal status to Ukrainian in some parts of the country when the brawl broke out.