Sentence examples for modern speaking from inspiring English sources

"I thought, 'I'm not your darling, I'm the director of the Tate Modern!'" Speaking of her own appointment, she said she was struck by how many female colleagues had urged her to go for the role – and how few senior men.

Modern spoken Arabic dialects lack many of these forms and default to the masculine versions.

It's an equation which is, in modern speak, invariant, invariant under the operation zoom.

Modern spoken French is the only major language in which the personal endings no longer serve the same function as in Latin.

All the Romance languages continue to mark plurality in nouns and adjectives morphologically, though in modern spoken French this is not done consistently.

This course continues the intensive study of modern spoken and written Chinese and includes the survey of modern cultural and social issues.

This paper introduces the next iteration of the EMU system that, although based on the core concepts of the legacy system, is a newly designed and almost entirely rewritten set of modern spoken language database management tools.

Students work on developing a strong foundation for modern spoken and written Chinese, with emphasis on the reading of contemporary Chinese dialogue.

The desire to obtain a new writing system necessarily worked hand in hand with the growing wish to develop a written language that in grammar and vocabulary approached modern spoken Chinese.

In the Christian churches one can observe the value placed by the Church of England on the formal English of the Authorized Version of the Bible and of The Book of Common Prayer, despite attempts at replacing these ritual forms of language by forms taken from modern spoken vernaculars.

Writing from a broader linguistic perspective, Wierzbicka and Harkins (2001, p. 17) have noted modern spoken English's unusual scarcity of 'active' intransitive verbs for feeling and emotion and its preference for using 'passive' adjectives instead for these.