illiterateness

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• The courts place the burden of proof on the people accused of being foreigners, many of whom are poor and illiterate, unable to navigate a convoluted system or afford legal representation.

• In his autobiography, Vartan recalled how his beloved illiterate grandmother used to tell him that character was everything, possessions ephemeral, reputation enduring.

• More than 90 percent of the formerly enslaved were illiterate, and education was seen as a source of power and independence, and as a tool for having control over their own lives.

• For my technologically illiterate mother, the idea of paying bills online provokes as much anxiety as throwing something away.

• Her mother was illiterate, but she secured a tutor for both her sons and her daughters, and Juana could read by the age of 3.

• “At first I was happy to be learning to read,” explains the hapless adult illiterate Office Barbrady in an early episode.

• An ICRW survey in Afghanistan in 2010 found that 71 percent of parents who married off their daughters were illiterate.

• Libya was then the poorest country in the world and nearly illiterate.

• The second step taken arose from the necessity of making this speech of the illiterate capable of elevated expression.

• But at a period more piously illiterate, things of this shadowy nature were linked very closely to objects of a material kind.

• Illiterate but romantic, she was swept off her feet at the first touch of passion, and the flattery of being recognized!

• It accordingly searches out illiterate children of school age, or persons smitten with infectious disease.

• The final d is also omitted by illiterate speakers; Usted is pronounced Uste, and even de becomes e. B and v are interchangeable.