Language strengthens our ability to communicate, contribute and connect as global citizens.
Learning a second language strengthens mental flexibility, an aspect of self-control, because the languages interfere with each other and because children must determine which language the listener will understand.
This slight change in language strengthens the likelihood that the needs of people with disabilities will be part of ongoing disaster risk reduction processes spearheaded by governments committed to the implementation of the SFDRR.
In addition to citing the Dakota Access pipeline, the ordinance includes language strengthening policies on "socially responsible banking" that are intended to address Wells Fargo's fraudulent banking practices that have been well-publicized over the last year.
Teens develop greater abstract thinking, learn how to make choices and use good judgment, develop interpersonal skills, construct a new mastery of language, strengthen their sense of self and identity, and are highly inventive as they use their increasing cognitive abilities and empathic capacities.
Access to heritage languages strengthens identity, belonging, and access to traditional wisdom.
Esther's fluent English divides her from her father, who distrusts the language, and strengthens her bond to people like Jim, a young evacuee she and her father have taken in, as well as to the British soldier.
He has been clarifying, sharpening the definition, fining down the language, tightening, strengthening, deepening until he has got about as near to pure form as need be.
The Yiddishist movement, dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the language, was strengthened by the proliferation of Yiddish belles lettres.
Modern belief in the Greekness of the Macedonian language was strengthened by the publication in 1994 of an important curse tablet from Pella that appears provisionally to indicate that the Macedonian language was a form of northwest Greek.
Mr. Romney mentions his high school sweetheart and wife of nearly 40 years, Ann, their five sons and 10 grandchildren almost without fail on campaign stops, often just before plunging into language about strengthening the American family and the importance of "family values".
