(1) A small but significant number of 11-year-olds are illiterate.

(2) A surprising percentage of the population are illiterate.

(3) People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.

(4) You must be illiterate if you've never heard of Marx.

(5) A large percentage of the rural population was illiterate.

(6) An illiterate, later he received some schooling.

(7) It was an illiterate letter(), full of mistakes.

(8) A large percentage of the population is illiterate.

(9) Illiterate and undesirable are treated as synonymous.

(10) They couldn't communicate in writing, because William was illiterate.

(11) Over 30% of the adult population were illiterate.

(12) But that did not mean that they were illiterate.

(13) It provides cheap entertainment for illiterate people and perverts.

(14) They are sometimes, especially in underdeveloped countries, illiterate.

(15) His father was an illiterate farm worker.

(16) These are the truly illiterate among us.

(17) The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.

(18) Koju was an illiterate villager who had spent his life in the desert ploughing dust with oxen.

(19) He suggested that the petitioners were illiterate and had no notion of what they were signing.

(20) If consumers are largely illiterate, then the firm's advertising, packaging and labelling will need to be adapted.

(21) Only a complete media illiterate could leap to such a conclusion.

(22) Many of the campesinos were illiterate; some spoke only their local dialects.

(23) About half the population in the country is still illiterate.

(24) I'm disturbed that so many of the students appear to be illiterate.

(25) There 50 percent or more of the population is illiterate.

(26) Is it surprising that young people who are politically illiterate do not bother to vote?

(27) The prisoners who went insane were those who were illiterate and without imagination.

(28) Vice-versa, an educated general public is likely to make better use of health services than an illiterate public.

(29) According to the 1981 census, 46.5 percent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate.

(30) Pan music, the latent harmony in metal, resurrected from debris on the wharves and refineries of Trinidad by illiterate laborers.

(1) A small but significant number of 11-year-olds are illiterate.

(2) A surprising percentage of the population are illiterate.

(3) About half the population in the country is still illiterate.

(4) People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.

(5) An illiterate, later he received some schooling.

(6) There 50 percent or more of the population is illiterate.

(31) What, then, of illiterate adults who have been persuaded that they have no expertise in either area of knowledge?

(32) Such abuse is the last resort of the political illiterate.

(33) Teaching modern production skills to those with a good basic education is simply much easier than teaching the illiterate.

(34) Choice, in almost all its facets, is diminished in the life of an illiterate adult.

(35) It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born, the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.

(36) In arduous debate, the semiliterate or illiterate juror is too readily won over by the selectivity of a persuasive reader.

(37) The gossip flows in,(http:///illiterate.html) as at all meeting-places in a largely illiterate environment.

(38) We are reaping what we have sown with a steadily more illiterate society immersed in trivia.

(39) She was illiterate, and could not understand the written details on the insurance form.

(40) He is musically illiterate.

(41) Illiterate people may be able to recognize and decipher signs.

(42) But they also can't develop if people are sick and illiterate.

(43) Most blacks were illiterate; even those who were educated were oppressed.

(44) Lack of information, in this case, seduces the illiterate to seek liaison with the single group least able to respond.

(45) Millions of illiterate Americans do not have access to the written word.

(46) To a world that was flat, static, agricultural and largely illiterate, those books were, literally, a godsend.

(47) This may not be the right criteria to apply when buying a computer, but what else is an illiterate to do?

(48) The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate.

(49) If 70% of the population is illiterate, how do people know who they are voting for?

(50) Most 11-year-olds are not being encouraged to develop advanced reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.

(51) The fatalistic apathy that this creates becomes a part of the induced passivity that I have seen in thousands of illiterate adults.

(52) Because a great many of the women are illiterate, music and drama are the best way of making an impact.

(53) These incremental gains will not be equal to the numbers of illiterate adults emerging from the public schools.

(54) Health expenditures necessitated by the inability of the illiterate adult to use preventive health care measures are not documented.

(55) During the Middle Ages, living pictures of biblical stories were used in churches to educate the illiterate masses.

(56) They were all illiterate so I had to invent my own written system for the tongue-torturing phonemes.

(57) The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate.

(58) Working families moved out of public housing, and poor, illiterate blacks from the rural South poured in.

(59) Where schools are relatively effective, the children of illiterate adults may forfeit much of what is being offered.

(60) What was I trying to do with this illiterate old lady?

(61) An illiterate young man, nineteen years of age, sits beside me in a restaurant and quietly surveys the menu.

(62) For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives.

(63) Even at the present level, direct federal allocations represent about $ 1. 65 per year for each illiterate.

(64) As an illiterate, he does not have the privilege of voting.

(65) Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. John Steinbeck 

(66) What of the illiterate who uses a forbidden pesticide in total ignorance of its potential dangers?

(67) Many were almost illiterate and spent much of their time drinking and fornicating, as did some of the nuns.

(68) To the degree that we accept such rituals without denunciation, we are colluding in the further subjugation of illiterate adults.

(69) Ninety per cent of the population is kept politically illiterate, and the government takes orders from the corporations.

(70) Word spread widely and quickly, through the networks, even through underground comic books where the illiterate could read them.

(71) Education of Negroes was almost nonexistent, and practically all of the race were illiterate.

(72) Suppose I suffered from a reading disability or, worse yet, was illiterate?

(73) In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters, she was by no means musically illiterate.

(74) Over ninety percent of the islanders here are illiterate.

(75) An illiterate factory worker won the lottery.

(76) Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

(77) The lateral é lite is literally illiterate.

(78) Only ten percent of the population here is illiterate.

(79) The most erudite person and the most illiterate person...

(80) Many senior managers are technologically illiterate.

(81) Musically illiterate . See usage Note at literate.

(82) There are still many illiterate people in our country.

(83) Broadcast medium called best for reaching poor and illiterate.

(84) Unlike in Kerala, halfof all women in Andhra Pradesh remain illiterate.

(85) An American expert said: "In the future, an illiterate person is not the one who can't recognize words but the one who can't learn."

(86) Will be used by website illiterate person so needs to be simple, similar to standard photo gallery in program.

(87) Natty , brave, kindly, and illiterate hovers between the two worlds of Indian and white man.

(88) But disreputable , illiterate and ignorant though he was, Fegelein seems to have been possessed of a simon-pure instinct for survival.

(89) In other words, someone as intelligent as Mr. Fang would prefer a stupid, illiterate woman.

(90) This report was semi - illiterate but crammed with facts.

(91) We're working on projects like a visual interface that will enable illiterate or semiliterate people to use a PC instantly, with minimal training.

(92) Up to 50% of prisoners on release cannot read or write well enough to hold down a job, and up to 85% of young offenders are functionally illiterate.

(93) A nation four-fifths peasant and two-thirds illiterate was industrialised, urbanised and educated within 30 years.

(94) The illiterate were familiarised in this way with the horror which threatened the sinners and unfaithful, and the paradisiacal ecstasy which awaited the good Christian.

(95) They can read some alphabetic script and know some rules of it. This is called "emergent reading", a big part of "emergent literacy", process from "illiterate" to "literate".

(96) One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.

(97) Mother, absolutely illiterate,() washed my low-down and madding heart with her broad love like the boundless sea.

(98) Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am.

(99) He had been to school but he had learnt nothing there, so he was now illiterate.

(100) Elimination of the illiterate person in the farmer is the mainly task of farmer's pastimecultural education.

(101) By Day Seven I realized that this technique of meditation is so simple that any child or even an illiterate person can learn and effectively practise it.

(102) Human language is an altogether inadequate vehicle to express supersensuous perception. Sri Ramakrishna was almost illiterate.

(103) About 13 percent of all 17-year- olds in the United States can be considered functionally illiterate. Functional illiteracy among minority youth may run as high as 40 percent.

(104) Lack of this, is like a tone deaf person to work as a singer, a bad man squatting stances to as a martial artist, an illiterate person to as calligrapher, the result is self-evident.

(105) EVERYBODY has his own tale of terrible translation to tell — an incomprehensible restaurant menu in Croatia, a comically illiterate warning sign on a French beach.

(106) She was born to an illiterate mother who ran her own hacienda.

(107) Even in the wealthiest countries with universal education, many people are functionally illiterate.

(108) One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer a want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.

(109) Picture cards were mainly used in the illiterate or semiliterate patients and those who did not understand Putonghua, giving a satisfaction rate of 94.25%.

(110) But she was illiterate herself. Why was she so anxious for me to study?

(111) An illiterate could be truly poetic. A commoner may know all about Zen.

(112) "Student Survival" in a book pointed out: "future illiterate person no longer will not be literate human, but will not study human.

(113) I read that beautiful Shakespearean sonnet to her, but it was pearls before swine to such an illiterate person.

(114) A recent USA TODAY article reported that 90 million Americans are functionally illiterate.

(115) He is illiterate, with failing eyesight, and had worked as an oysterman before Katrina and its accompanying oil spills.

(116) Being illiterate, he had to learn the stories by heart.

(117) A man who does not know a computer is like an illiterate person in the past.

(118) Her powers had received no aid from education: she was ignorant and illiterate.

(119) "An illiterate person is like a person without eyes or limbs," she says.

(120) Exploited by landlords, they were poor, ignorant, and, like the ltalians, were onefourtn to one - half illiterate.

(121) But even the piercing eyes of the owl to the day, in the eye rod cell has lost its power, became the authentic illiterate.

(122) The movie, Mr. Daniels explains, centers on a black, illiterate, obese, sexually abused, implacably hostile and all-but-mute girl growing up in Harlem, and will therefore be a hit.

(123) Now I am twenty - eight and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen.

(124) In the past, he has called Bush a "donkey, " US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an "illiterate" and former Mexican President Vicente Fox a "lapdog of imperialism.

(125) From this extremity of helplessness as an illiterate prisoner in a primitive, barren country, Temujin rose to become the most powerful man in the world.

(126) When he was at school he had learnt nothing, so he was now illiterate.

(127) We see so many statistics that horrify us: how many are hungry, how many are illiterate, how many are denied access to clean water and sanitation.

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(128) I was an illiterate in the old society, but now I can read.

(129) There is a cold and dark the voice sounded in my ear: what he knew, the illiterate Hazara?His life only with a charwoman in the kitchen.

(130) The Chinese in Singapore were the descendants of illiterate landless, peasants from Guangdong and Fujian.