What is the difference between these 2 words? Let’s look at an example:

• The company was indicated as a high riser in the stock market.
• The company was indicted for artificially raising their stock price.

What do each of these sentences mean? What kind of person would indicate and what kind of person would indict?
The first sentence is a good meaning one in which the company will be showing good results. A stock broker would use the word indicate.
The second sentence describes a charge or accusation against someone or something; in essence blaming someone or something for having done something wrong. A lawyer for the government, and in this case one who works for the Securities and Exchange Commission, would use the word indict.

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Prepositions in the English language can be difficult to understand for a non-native English speaker. Take for example the following quote from the Symfony web site:

You will have to enclose the field names between double quotes ” ” and change square brackets [ ] by curly brackets { }.

The word with should be used in place of the word by. Use the word with when you want to show replacement or movement of an object. Use the word by when you want to show measurement, express time or indicate a person is doing something. Here is the corrected sentence:

You will have to enclose the field names between double quotes ” ” and change square brackets [ ] by yourself.

Although that is grammatically correct, we wouldn’t say it this way. The correct version of the sentence is

You will have to enclose the field names between double quotes ” ” and change square brackets [ ] with curly brackets { }.

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Today I am writing about illiteracy in support of “Stop the Abuse” an effort to unite bloggers to blog about something related to stopping abuse. I am lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to pursue not just a basic eduction but one in which I could learn about other languages and cultures. Although my current focus is on Japanese language and culture, I have studied Hebrew and Spanish and have travelled a great deal through out the world. So I am always amazed at why illiteracy still plagues this world.

According to a study produced by the United Nations, world illiteracy had dropped to 16% in 1998, but at the same time, a study publishedin 1998 by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) predicted illiteracy in the world would rise in the 21st century. So what could cause this? It seems that with all the available technology, every child should have the opportunity to gain the skills to read and write. But perhaps the technology that we have is only useful to those who are already literate.

It seems that the more technology we develop to help us in our daily lives, the more we are seperated from the basic things that allow us be what we are: human. This period of video games and television deprive children of the human aspect of growing up. When I was a school child, teachers forbid me and my classmates from a using a calculator because it would rob us of our basic ability to do simple math. In Japan, word processors have given way to speedily writing letters and emails, but at the cost of forgetting how to write even simple characters.

It would seem that we are lacking the discipline as parents and eductors to raise our children to become productive members of society. Even in America and Japan, two of the most advanced nations in the world, communities are suprisingly seeing their school children performing worse on tests and in fact becoming less and less competitive with the rest of the world. Outcries from parents are surfacing, and eductors argue over the best way to tackle this situation, but are we just missing the fundamental reason for this? Perhaps as parents, if we took responsibility for our children’s education instead of relying on the academic system, our children and perhaps the rest of the world’s children would overcome these challenges.

I believe the world can overcome the challenge of illiteracy, but only if we cooperate and continue to toil through the hard work required to achieve such a goal. Ask yourself how you would feel if someone denied you the right to learn. Or better, ask yourself how you would feel if you know someone else was being denied the right to learn.

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The expression my hands are tied means you can not do anything to correct a situation. It is often used in a working situation to describe that you want to do something to correct a problem but you can not. Here is an example:

Bill: Why don’t you go down town and file a claim about your work situation?
John: I want to file a claim but my hands are tied. If I file the claim now, I will lose all my benefits.

In this example, if John chooses to file a claim, he will lose many things, which he clearly does not want to lose. So even though he has choice, he really does not have a choice, because filing the claim is worse than not filing the claim.

Another situation would be a case in which your boss insists you to do something in a way that you know is not correct, but because he is your boss, you have not choice but to do it that way.

In Japanese, the phrases te ga tsukerarenai 手が付けられない（てがつけられない） and shiyo ga nai 仕様がない（しようがない）.

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Although it can be a hassle to haggle the words mean different things. haggle means to negotiate and hassle refers to trouble. The word hassle is often used by American stores in their return policy like “No hassle return policy”. This means that you can return the product for whatever reason, even if you do not like it.

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