When he was growing up, his intellectual role models were French historians and philosophers of the left, rather than economists.
He plans rotating far-flung scholars to Washington to pursue fresh research and play a "catalytic" intellectual role for Congress, the primary user of the national library.
The most realistic hope one could have for leadership on Merkel's behalf is that she is an intellectual role model, argued Ulrich Speck, a senior fellow with Spain's Elcano Royal Institute and an expert in US-German relations.
Marina's father, Dr. George Raad, an ailing cardiologist and an outspoken writer on behalf of the Palestinian cause (who, in his intellectual role and in his glamour, bears a passing resemblance to Edward Said), returns to her side, attracting the eager attention of the Palestinian Authority, whose fictionalized leaders want to make political capital out of the young boy's death.
The difficulty, of course, is that their intellectual role in the schools cannot easily be separated from their "managerial" role, which would have a chilling effect on the other Fellows, who, by university standards, are already too reluctant to criticize each other's ideas and curricular units.
Gulen's articles, books, audio and video cassettes also played an important intellectual role.
According to Wallace, the intellectual role Aspasia was given by Plato may have derived from comedy.
The preference of hand-to-hand combat was intended to give a spiritual and intellectual role to the Jedi.
I would like to see the promotion of many more positive and intellectual role models like Prerna and those mentioned above.
