Sentence examples for pieces of language from inspiring English sources

Cryptic clues are typically unpredictable pieces of language, seemingly unconnected to anything in the rest of the paper, possibly the rest of the world.

But the biggest teachers' union disputes the findings, saying that the NFER counted 'bits and pieces of language provision cobbled together'.

While she attends, with tact and precision, to sensual details, the pieces of language Robinson cherishes most are the kind of sturdy, everyday abstractions you might ponder in church.

One would maintain that modal operators (and associated pieces of language like essential predication, counterfactual conditionals, and perhaps other things like assignments of probabilities) lacked literal application: that all statements prefixed with a modal operator were either uniformly literally truthvalueless or uniformly literally false.

I imagine him sitting there dreaming in the manner of poets, one image shifting into another, pieces of language made song growing out of one another like a fine crochet.

Yet it represents not a thought but the word, a piece of language.

For those who monitor human rights, a key piece of language is Article 51 of the first additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions.

"That's a little piece of language with a big impact on foreign aid," said Gordon Adams, a White House budget official in the Clinton administration.

Mr. Kuhlman, in turn, brought his pencil to the same point, to the piece of language that formed their human bond.

Rather, the problem is that, as a piece of language, "libertarian paternalism" renders difficult the ability to conceive of a principled distinction between policy that respects and policy that violates individual autonomy.

If you are, then you might, just, however tenuously, understand the collective embarrassment the rest of us feel when you used the "n word" – although nowhere near the hurt that some will feel at such a loaded piece of language.