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  • Father and son both worked on their French, Adams reading a bilingual edition of Moliere's Amphitryon, one of several books he had brought from home.†   (source)
  • If people don't understand English, they will be motivated to learn, he believes, because some Hispanics are "impeded" from learning by U.S. government policies, such as the translation of documents, bilingual education, and bilingual election ballots.†   (source)
  • What had begun as a story of local interest in McAllen, Texas, written by a woman who wasn't even a sports columnist, had now blossomed into bilingual coverage that spanned Fort Worth to Monterrey.†   (source)
  • She took him to an odd little store, full of old-looking lamps and furniture but with a rack of shelves of old books, where together they found a bilingual copy of Le Petit Prince.†   (source)
  • I am extremely grateful to the kind (and bilingual) staff of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam; they even allowed me to work there when it was supposed to be closed.†   (source)
  • So Esperanza is bilingual.†   (source)
  • The information lady is bilingual and answers back quickly in Spanish, pointing to the other window.†   (source)
  • Already the mayor was feeling the heat; you could tell, because his surrogates on the council and the boards of Estimate and Education had begun quietly assailing Kwang for his interest in providing tax vouchers for bilingual education, to have English Only in the schools but subsidize native language study outside.†   (source)
  • He also knew—we all knew—that many of the panels that judged the manuscripts did not have readers who could read Spanish or bilingual manuscripts.†   (source)
  • In Leamas' case this happened to be unfair, since he was bilingual in German and English and his Dutch was admirable; he also disliked cricket.†   (source)
  • It made special sense, since Jan had been reared bilingual in Polish and German, like herself.†   (source)
  • My best poetry is bilingual, it reflects our reality, it's the way we speak, the way we are.†   (source)
  • When he thought about it a bit more, Steve Harvey said, "Well, you know, you do have to be bilingual in this country.†   (source)
  • The bilingual one with nice hands?†   (source)
  • "You know," he told me, "if they can't read my bilingual poetry, next time I apply I'm sending them only poems I write in English.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles school authorities know that their minority students will need to be, in effect, bilingual.†   (source)
  • Already, other than Stanford we'd discussed waterskiing (he was terrible, but addicted), the fact that he was bilingual (Spanish-his grandmother was Venezuelan), and the fact that once summer was over, he'd head back to school, where he was a brother at Sigma Nu, majored in psychology, and managed what he described as the "all heart, no skills" men's basketball team.†   (source)
  • Critics felt, in the words of John Baugh, that the Oakland School Board "was trying to abscond with the limited bilingual education funding available for students for whom English is not native."†   (source)
  • Rodriguez's city is San Francisco, but his observation is just as true in New York, whose subway riders might have been amused by the reference to cockroaches, cucarachas, as they read bilingual ads about how to fight the ultimate New York survivor with the Roach Motel.†   (source)
  • The movement sees efforts at bilingual education in schools and government concessions to non-English speakers, such as election ballots in foreign languages, as wrongheaded, because they slow the acquisition of English and hence assimilation.†   (source)
  • In his study of the history of immigration and language, The English-Only Question, Dennis Baron wrote: Settled Americans have been reluctant to accept newcomers, regarding them as socially, economically, and racially inferior, more insistent on special concessions like bilingual ballots, and on government handouts, and less willing to assimilate than earlier generations had been.†   (source)
  • At any rate, although for several years she had labored on various weekends typing out much of his bilingual correspondence having to do with patents (sometimes using a British-made Dictaphone which she hated for the spookily faraway and tinnily sinister sound it gave to his voice), she had never, until the Christmas season of 1938, been called upon to deal with any of his many essays; these had been handled until then by his assistants at the university.†   (source)
  • She could not be sure, but she even thought she detected a trace of warmth in his voice now as if he were suddenly speaking to her, an identifiable human being, rather than to a slave laborer, eine schmutzige Polin, plucked out of the swarm of diseased and dying ants through incredible luck (or by the grace of God, she sometimes devoutly reflected) and by virtue of the fact that she was doubtless one of the very few prisoners, if not the only one, who, bilingual in Polish and German, was also proficient on the typewriter in both languages and knew Gabelsberger shorthand.†   (source)
  • She would never visit Asirgarh or the other untouched places; neither Delhi nor Agra nor the Rajputana cities nor Kashmir, nor the obscurer marvels that had sometimes shone through men's speech: the bilingual rock of Girnar, the statue of Shri Belgola, the ruins of Mandu and Hampi, temples of Khajraha, gardens of Shalimar.†   (source)
  • The exigencies of my vocation make me almost completely bilingual; I can write English, as in this clause, quite as readily as American, as in this here one.†   (source)
  • Thus the study of the language he is [Pg004] supposed to use, to the average American, takes on a sort of bilingual character.†   (source)
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