But surely real diversity involves listening as well as talking, translating as well as writing.
We compared two ideas: information gain, i.e., political talk translates into action when people receive information about activities and organizations; and social influence, i.e., political talk translates into action when people perceive their friends as politically active.
Findings from this study provided support to the idea that political talk translates into political action under the condition of social influence and for people who are particularly susceptible to social conformity.
For me, right now, at 36 weeks pregnant and counting, walking my talk translates as devoting myself wholly to giving birth and only giving birth.
Introductions and small talk — as translated by Aki (which, we later learned, means "Autumn") — lasted twenty minutes.
Though some Labour MPs, including former government ministers, talked of replacing him or persuading him to resign prior to the election to give Labour a better chance of winning under a new leader, talk never translated into effective action.
The Government and Locog say it was always at the heart of the London bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and pretty soon we'll start to see if all the talk is translated into money and action.
Hollande, for his part, made the mistake in a chat with journalists of referring to the president as "un sale mec" — street talk roughly translated as "a creepy guy".
"In the Arduino Mega, on one of the counters in there, you can actually set three different match registers," Mr. Busek said, speaking in a jargon-filled programmer talk that, translated for the lay person, meant, "This project is super cool".
At the World Cup his team-talks were translated by the man normally employed as a driver at the Cameroon embassy in Moscow, and by various accounts freely disregarded by the players.
