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Examples
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In Santa Cruz, our ballots and material are English-only, but in Santa Clara or San Francisco there are other languages.
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Despite his English-only stance, Gingrich has started both a Spanish-language twitter feed and website.
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English-only policies are actually dead common in the business world.
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While the school district claims it does not have an official English-only policy, WSOC also found that school staff members were telling parents that they could not even speak Spanish to one another on school grounds.
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I will never, as long as I live, understand or sympathize with these English-only people.
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I have yet to visit one that has an English-only policy.
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On a similar point, some of the English-only folks apparently find “anti-English-Only” to be too unwieldy, too hyphenated, too reasonable, so they just say “anti-English”.
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He was the driving force behind a special election for an English-only measure in Nashville that got voted on Thursday.
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Remember that some words in WordData are considered too obscure for DictionaryLookup, and that unlike DictionaryLookup, WordData is English-only.
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In the past, the National Education Association (NEA) has slammed English-only initiatives in schools as “government-sanctioned bigotry” that only makes it more “difficult for schools to prepare students for jobs of the future.”
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