Sentence examples for reasonably literate from inspiring English sources

And then, turning to Murray, he said, "Isn't it interesting and worth a bit of thought that from Booker T. Washington's school, which was supposed to instruct youngsters in a vocation, two reasonably literate writers emerged?

The goals were becoming a reasonably literate citizen of the world, achieving some insight into the various issues that make up literate society, and living as a person who had some intelligent understanding of the larger-than-local interests.

Though the Apples are a reasonably literate lot, citing anecdotes about presidents past and quoting lines from sources as different as Oscar Wilde and Regina Spektor, they are not speechifiers.

He repeatedly denounced what he called the decline of the liberal arts curriculum, complaining that the inability of law students to write "reasonably literate English prose" had reached "epidemic proportions".

Eventually, it is to be hoped, one of these seers may hit upon a Freakonomics of everything: a story so pithy, so compelling, so slap-your-forehead obvious when you think about it that it explains the whole universe in terms comprehensible to the average reasonably literate reader of The New Yorker.

Maybe that's why, as a reasonably literate horror fan, I've never participated in events like Zombiecon.

"I Tweet and I Facebook and am reasonably technologically literate but I thought not enough was being done in terms of regulation - even though all other areas of the media are regulated".

First, the premium for skilled workers has been falling: a surge in secondary education has increased the supply of literate, reasonably well-schooled workers, and years of steady growth have raised relative demand for the less skilled in the formal workforce, whether as construction workers or cleaners.

"I mean literally literate".

There is plenty of rain and wind for renewable-energy firms to play with, and a reasonably well-educated and scientifically literate workforce to build better batteries, turbines and nuclear-power plants.

A century ago, despite some bumps in the road, the country was prosperous and literate, in a temperate zone, economically open, had reasonably tolerable rule of law, and was progressing towards macroeconomic stability and a liberal constitutional democracy.