Sentence examples for language imposes from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, low linguistic proximity between origin and destination language imposes larger wage penalties to the university-educated, and significantly affects the status of the jobs they hold.

Second, this instinct to formalise a genre of comedy we accept as inherently informal is not indivisible from the limitations the German language imposes on conventional British comedy structures.

They argue that this language imposes a " 'self-executing' limitation on the effect of a discharge order" that renders the order legally unenforceable, and thus void, if it is not satisfied.

In the case of the Hopi, the claim was that their language imposes a conception of time very different from that of the speakers of the Indo-European languages.

The draft would also delete language imposing a potential limit on that detention authority: that the person must have been "captured in the course of hostilities".

You can't hide behind a pretty sentence, and the limitations I have with the language impose a different aesthetic than the one I might have in English.

Oscan, the language imposed by the Samnites on the Osci of Campania, is known from over 200 inscriptions dated between 400 and 89 bc.

His first novel, The Voice (1964), is a remarkable linguistic experiment in which Okara translated directly from the Ijo (Ijaw) language, imposing Ijo syntax onto English in order to give literal expression to African ideas and imagery.

French, he says, was the "language imposed on Haitians, whereas it's what Quebecers want to preserve as the core of their identity … It showed it's not the language that's the problem.

Offerings are brought to the god Osiris and an inscription in golden capitals urges in Greek — the language imposed on Egypt after Alexander's conquest in the fourth century B.C. — "Drink and may you live [long]." The cartoon-like humor makes one wonder whether this might be of Meroitic rather than Egyptian make.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's piece on the consequences of an alien language imposed by a colonial power ('We spoke English to set ourselves apart', 14 March) must find echoes across all those countries that suffered such an injustice, regardless of the language of the coloniser.