Sentence examples for utterance that the from inspiring English sources

Earlier this month, Democratic officials put together a rough draft of their party's platform, which touts the Democratic efforts to enact the death penalty, endorses several of President Clinton's recent social-policy placebos (school uniforms, the V-chip, a victims'-rights amendment), and repeats Clinton's utterance that "the era of big government is over".

It was, Eaves told the court, a lot like the "Don't Tell Him Pike" joke in Dad's Army – a stupid utterance that gave the game away from someone too sure of her own authority.

However, the degree of seriousness will depend on the degree of discrepancy between the utterance that was actually produced and the one that was recognized and shown by the system: the larger the deviation the more serious the error.

Our study in addition to those mentioned above however suggests that it is not only the frequency of call utterance that is affected by the degree of male monopolisation but also the social information conveyed in these calls.

The reason might be that the tap number of the impulse response was very large and the duration of the utterance (that is, a word with duration of about 0.6 s) was very short.

When this sort of rational maxim governing the communication of information is flouted, the audience will look for a non-standard interpretation of the utterance that would bring it back into conformity with the maxims (Grice 1989).

Such a situation might be an utterance that seems to change the direction of the overall discussion or, in contrast, an utterance that seems to be marginalised or ignored.

For instance, the learner could be asked to repeat an utterance that is spoken by the system, or read an utterance presented on the screen.

In so doing, he argues that the infant is encouraged to identify with the mirror image as "me" by verbal and gestural prompts issuing from the bigger other(s) holding him/her up in front of the reflective surface (for example, the utterance "That's you there!" accompanied by pointing and grinning).

And no one can tell you off! Slag! Slag heap! "Don't your mum and your sisters," you could start, knowing that you had a scholastic justification for the utterance that was about to spill from your lips, "live in a slag heap?!" The room erupted with laughter.

/ Relating to or being an utterance that performs an act by the fact that it's being uttered, as in, "I now pronounce you personal shopper and client".