Sentence examples for upon a word from inspiring English sources

First, the instructor could have acknowledged the tension between PTs' and elementary children's learning, but still explicitly emphasized the importance of reasoning upon a word problem situation from the perspective of children.

When some word has acquired a signification by an impositor (= someone who bestows a meaning upon a word), then it connotes a univeral nature or essence, and acquires a natural capacity to stand for all the actual and possible individuals that share in this common nature; it owes this capacity to its significatio.

Signifying by convention is the result of an original (voluntary) imposition of a significatum upon a word, primarily conceived of as a spoken word (vox) – a modulated sound (DOS 488; see also QLIVS 42, 224).[25] A word signifies the passio mentis and the thing outside the soul (QLIVS 11, 47).

A consensus meeting finally agreed upon a wording that was compatible in both cultures and also in different social classes.

Speakers can use language to communicate because they are familiar with the kinds of similar things that words refer to, and thus upon hearing a word know what the thing referred to "is like".

Upon reading a word, participants were asked to press one of two buttons indicating whether the word was "old" or "new".

His life and works were founded upon faith in "A word wakened by lips that perish".

As a result, some letters could be pronounced in very different ways depending upon their placement in a word.

In a word, upon the existing evidence, prohibition must be regarded as a special contribution to social policy made by the majority of the English-speaking race overseas.

Job had three friends who came to console him, and in the end God took it upon Himself to offer a word of comfort.

this is deliberate emotional abuse inflicted upon kids and not a word should be spoken in its defense.