Sentence examples for of widespread literacy from inspiring English sources

Ms. Quinn laments the loss of widespread literacy in poetry.

Almost as soon as the country had achieved the goal of widespread literacy, men emerged who intuitively understood that we would pay to be reassured by having our flesh made to creep.

"The number of people reading and listening to and writing poetry has grown steadily," he said, "back as far at least as the advent of widespread literacy a couple of hundred years ago, right on through the 20th century to the slam poets and Web poets of this minute".

And the standard of living for everyone improved with the achievement of widespread literacy and numeracy.

Ever since the advent of widespread literacy in the English-speaking world (starting around the middle of the eighteenth century), writers have been dealing with an unpleasant reality: there are usually more competent-to-excellent writers than readership to support all of them.

Later in the century Jan Hus contributed significantly to the standardization of Czech orthography, advocated for widespread literacy among Czech commoners (particularly in religion) and made early efforts to model written Czech after the spoken language.

With the mass production of books came widespread literacy and the ability to inhabit the minds of others.

Photograph by Sebastian Liste / NOOR for The New Yorker Tunisia has many advantages over other Arab states: no deep ethnic or sectarian divisions; no oil wealth that distorts the economy and draws foreign interference; a tradition of moderate Islam; widespread literacy; a small, apolitical army.

Such a climate of widespread practical literacy is important to the effectiveness of schooling.

These developments in Iraq were made possible by widespread literacy and also by the availability of paper as an everyday writing material.

Its Roma were marginalised and neglected under authoritarian rule; now a mixture of good policy and generous EU funding has brought widespread literacy, better housing and integration in the labour market.