Fourth, when you outlaw reasonable views, only outlaws will have reasonable views. Many reasonable people who hold those cancellable views in private may just step away and do other things rather than express them. The people left to engage in debate will be the unrepentant bigots, and non-bi...
It a disease of the soul for which God initiates Christ’s redemption, restoration, and salvation. The Great Physician has come to seek and to save all those who are lost, not IF they repent . . . we often forget that God kindness leads to repentance, not the reverse (Romans 2)....
Call Out: the sender initiates an exchange by issuing a request or question Check Back: the receiver acknowledges receipt of the message and communicates understanding back to the sender Close Loop: the sender closes the exchange and initiates action (if applicable) Figure 1: Closed-loop dialogue...
Since it’s clear that China can’t be a good faith mediator, Xi has a different gambit disguised under his pose as a potential mediator. He is positioning China in Putin’s corner so that, at some future point, he can come to the center of the ring as counterpart and interlocutor wit...
“Interlocutors,” she said vaguely, “like to say ‘organizing, organizing, it’s grassroots,’ as a way to shift people away from action.” She went on: “And in this moment, this is one of the first times in my life that I felt like I had to take the reins because the groups...
Producing output is a way of testing a hypothesis about comprehensibility or linguistic well-formedness of their inter-language against feedback obtained from the interlocutors. This function of output relates directly to the notion of comprehensible output proposed by Swain. By producing output, ...
As this passage implies, Medina should hear but also feel ('sientas') his experience, hence creating the intimate rhetorical situation of writer and reader in which the author-persona must arouse the emotions of his interlocutor. In this way he "invites" Medina to identify with his interior ...
In a usual voice call, it means that there may be one side (Network or MS) that transmits null frames as there is usually one interlocutor that listens to the other. However, it is not possible to predict precisely which FN will be used to encrypt those messages. In our experiments, ...
When the speaker has not fulfilled an existing obligation and the interlocutor shows an understanding that the action is not likely to happen in the future, the speaker initiates a promise with stressed huì to reassure their commitment to performing the future action. In the following Ex 19 (th...