An analysis of the cases of teenagers dying in taverns in South Africa: Some Biblical and African considerations by Rev. Jacob Mokhutso

“…The research seeks to draw lessons from the teaching of the Bible and African indigenous knowledge system, exploring a Setswana proverb, Ngwana sejo o a tlhakanelwa, meaning a child is a food around which we all gather, implying that a child's upbringing is a communal responsibility. …”
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An analysis of the cases of teenagers dying in taverns in South Africa: Some Biblical and African considerations by Rev. Jacob Mokhutso

“…The research seeks to draw lessons from the teaching of the Bible and African indigenous knowledge system, exploring a Setswana proverb, Ngwana sejo o a tlhakanelwa, meaning a child is a food around which we all gather, implying that a child's upbringing is a communal responsibility. …”
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Wa re o Bona e Hlot�a, wa e Namet�a Thaba! Bibele, Basadi ba Maafrika ba Afrika-Borwa le HIV le AIDS by Madipoane Masenya(ngwan�a Mphahlele)

“…The present article will use the preceding proverb as a hermeneutical lens through which to analyse the reception of the Bible by African women in the HIV and AIDS context of South Africa.…”
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SEARCHING FOR 'YESTERDAY'S MAN' - CONNECTING HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND PROVERBIAL WISDOM* by Ilina Jakimovska

“…Finally, two Serbian proverbs that refer to political history of this nation are analysed.…”
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Viziunea despre lume în satul Tilişca (judeţul Sibiu) by Marin Constantin

“…The paper consists of an approach of the value orientations in the village of Tilişca (the county of Sibiu), from the perspective of the responses received to a proverb questionnaire conceived by Gheorghiţă Geană. …”
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Buru Babi: Politik Identitas Laki-laki Minangkabau by Zainal Arifin

“…Sumando is a stranger in his wife's family, as shown in the traditional proverb saying like ashes on the stump (seperti abu di atas tunggul). …”
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On Both Sides of the Portal: Gender Attitudes to the Conscription during Socialism by I. Valev

“…One widespread proverb in Bulgaria, knowing some different versions, says that: A man, who cannot passed conscription is not a man, A boy, who failed to enter military service is second-hand man, A man, who has not walked a soldier knows nothing. …”
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The means to express possibility and supposition in Spanish compared to the Russian language by M В Budiltseva, A Р Denisova

“…The authors make their conclusions on the basis of analyzing numerous examples from belles-lettres, textbooks, proverb collections, as well as their own notes of the colloquial speech. …”
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Od kiedy szewc bez butów chodzi? – tradycyjne zawody rzemieślnicze w polskiej frazeologii i paremiologii by Ewa Młynarczyk

“…On the other hand, the linguistc history of the proverb szewc bez butów chodzi illustrates the most characteristic features of craft-related idiomatic language (i.e. variants based on the similar depictions of craft works, interchangeability of trades, internationalism).…”
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Una cançó de refrany i cobles glossadores del segle XVI basada en la frase "Mal aja qui en dones fia" by Josep Romeu i Figueras

“…<span lang="EN-GB">In this paper the author studies the origin, spread and connotations of a misogyny proverb picked up from a xvi century refrain that circulated in Valencia and Catalonia as a symbiosis of popular tradition and Renaissance flavour.…”
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Discourse strategies of ecology and environment by Shamahmudova Aziza, Djalilova Sarvaroy

“…One of these lexical units is the proverb that expresses and perpetuates the wisdom and language of a people. …”
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Environmental Governance as a Model of Environmental Management by Budi Kristianto

“…Before it all too late, it is better that we keep in mind a German proverb in the beginning of this writing, which more or less, means “ we do not know what the future brings, but we know that we should act.”…”
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Citations cervantines en France by Jean-Marc Pelorson

“…I will then focus on the proverb il faut laisser le temps au temps – used at least once by President François Mitterrand – in order to argue that his debt to Cervantes can be considered an open conjecture, contrary to what Internet sources often claim.…”
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"Vanasõna ei ole varnast võtta"? by Risto Järv

“…The article focuses on the use of proverbs in modern Estonian newspaper texts. The 231 proverbs found in the two largest Estonian newspapers indicate that most proverbs were used in the Politics, Reader's Letters and Culture columns of the newspapers. …”
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BURU BABI: POLITIK IDENTITAS LAKI-LAKI MINANGKABAU by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…Sumando is a stranger in his wife's family. as shown in the traditional proverb saying like ashes on the stump (seperti abu di atas tunggul). …”

LORDS OF THE RIM / by Seagrave, Sterling, author 248260

“…"To be rich is good," runs an old Chinese proverb. On yet another level, it is a brilliant analysis of the enormous power wielded by a widely scattered group of 55 million Chinese merchants who live in self-imposed or government-ordered exile throughout Asia and, increasingly, in the U.S. and Canada. …”

Русская пословица в тексте и переводе by Endre Lendvai

“…A proverb is not just one ordinary sentence in context. …”
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To be seen, heard, and valued. Active engagement as the next frontier for global health conference equity: a view from the global South by Barnabas Alayande

“… Dear Editor, “It is the one who lives in the house who knows where the roof leaks” ~African Proverb. As a Global Surgery researcher in Rwanda, I have lived experience of the challenges to conference equity, having spent for example in one instance, 14 hours at an Embassy’s visa processing station to get to the World Health Assembly, and losing two opportunities to present at international Global Health meetings as a result of visa delays in the past one year. [...] …”
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HOW TO BE A GOOD LANGUAGE TEACHER by Saadillah Saadillah

“…To answer those questions, it should be understood that teacher is a usual creation of God. Like an English proverb says”there is no one  perfect  so, the teacher maybe will do the mistakes. …”
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Paremiologia a stylistyka by GRZEGORZ SZPILA

“… In the paper the author puts forward basie tenets of paremiostylistics - a study of the sty listic values of proverbs in literary texts. The author suggests that proverbs be analysed as stylistic devices separately from other phraseological units due to their having specific and unique features. …”
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