Biblical scholars turned their noses up, calling it hysteria, theatrics, a faith of the illiterate.
He is as illiterate in that subject as he is erudite in the other.
Once renowned for its thriving cultural and literary traditions, Afghanistan was now 70 percent illiterate.
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Camus's mother, Catherine, an illiterate, deaf widow, became for him the representative French Algerian.
Out of the total 5, 759, 000 adults who are illiterate, 69 per cent are women.
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She was illiterate, and after years in America still kept her blunt and thrifty Mancunian ways.
He was eloquent proof that not everyone in his generation is illiterate, destructive, and materialistic.
She's worked there for more than 30 years, has nine children and is illiterate.
We wanted to convey a message to poor and illiterate families in despair: searching for family?
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Slave owners were often illiterate and so, unlike in America, did not keep diaries.
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Even today over four out of ten Pakistan's are illiterate according to official figures.
Accordingly, it is estimated that only about 50% of rural women are functionally illiterate.
Earlier this year he airdropped tablets into two illiterate remote villages in Ethiopia.
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The challenge is daunting: 508 million of the 792 million illiterate adults worldwide are women.
In principle therefore, two-thirds of the 15 million illiterate people in Indonesia are women.
Women and girls make up nearly two thirds of the illiterate adult and youth population.
Such pervasive mercantilism is as economically illiterate now as it was in Adam Smith's day.
New police recruits now have to have some education, unlike in the past when most were illiterate.
Around 80% are illiterate, even if more than half of Pardhi children may now be in school.
India has a lot of unutilised human capital, since over 30% of the adult population is illiterate.
At the time she was Jane Burden, the poor daughter of an uneducated stable-hand and illiterate mother.
That meant that many people who were illiterate had to find their way around a seven-page ballot paper.
Abusive coaches are the products of emotionally illiterate and physically and psychologically violent, coercive and under-informed coaching environments.
The report notes that half the women in the Arab world are illiterate, compared to one-third of men.
Duckworth was taken aback by the women's plight: 98% lack formal papers or citizenship and 79% are illiterate.
Women with post-primary education are five times more likely than illiterate women to be educated on HIV prevention.
They have nixed heart-rending solicitations with shorter-term goals, like sheltering battered women, educating the illiterate, feeding hungry children.
Today, only 500.000 are enrolled in adult literacy classes, which is equivalent to 1 out of 80 illiterate.
Of the 1 083 935 illiterate people, 688 803 were women and 760 432 lived in rural areas.
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It also helps to ameliorate the social stigma and incapacity to function independently that illiterate people often face.
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