Sentence examples for Intellectual declaration from inspiring English sources

Other invitations followed and on 31 August 1837, now speaking within the precincts of Harvard, Emerson gave his now-famous Phi Beta Kappa "Oration", which would become known as The American Scholar, described by Oliver Wendell Holmes as America's "intellectual declaration of independence".

He also famously nicknamed Emerson's The American Scholar as the American "intellectual Declaration of Independence".

They quickly gained members and momentum, led by Emerson, who delivered a seminal series of lectures on the subject, including his legendary Harvard Divinity School Address -- "our intellectual Declaration of Independence," as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. described it.

Others followed suit gradually, and during the short-lived "Damascus Spring" a decade ago, Syrian intellectuals signed the Declaration of the 99, a call for greater civil rights and openness.

There are intellectual precedents to the Declaration.

Publishers Weekly called the book "an ardent manifesto" and a "provocative declaration of intellectual and political independence".

The rationalising French philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries laid the intellectual ground for the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution.

It effectively raises a middle finger to the 169 signatories to the Hamburg Declaration on Intellectual Property Rights, including Dow Jones managing editor Robert Thomson and News Corp Europe CEO James Murdoch, who, facing declining revenues, protest: "Numerous providers are using the work of authors, publishers and broadcasters without paying for it".

From Robert Holtzmann Breslau XVI, 9 Ho[brec]ht Embankment, 10 July 1919 Highly esteemed Colleague, About a week to a fortnight ago a declaration by intellectual workers of all coun- tries appeared in the newspaper, which among oth[ers] you also signed and which has found much support here as well as a result of its exceptionally appeal- ing content.

Some 300 prominent intellectuals have signed a declaration protesting any attempt to expunge reference to the republic's Turkish character.

But, on the face of it, the Doha deal is still a big win for poor countries.First, they scored a coup with a declaration that intellectual-property rules should not stop poor countries gaining access to cheap medicines.