Sentence examples for a center of learning from inspiring English sources

The occupation of Timbuktu, a center of learning for centuries, was the latest in a long historical list of conquests — by Arab nations, by the Songhai and Maasina empires, by France.

The library's main reading room, completed in 1900, is decorated with a floor mosaic at the entrance that has the emblem of the owl and the motto "Sapientia," the Latin word for wisdom, signifying the library as a center of learning.

The setting of the third and the fourth chapters of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishads were probably intended to show that Yajnavalkya of Videha defeated all the best theologians of the Kuru Panchala, thereby demonstrating the rise of Videha as a center of learning.

As a center of learning the University provides an environment where new ideas and new models of health care can be generated to meet the health worker crisis [ 4].

The onetime cathedral of commerce is to become a center of learning as well.

Jihadists have captured a city that was once a center of learning and tolerance, ruled by a strong-willed queen.

The site became a magnet for pilgrimages, and a major center of learning with a vast library of handwritten manuscripts gathered from imperial China to the east, and India and beyond to the west.

An accomplished scholar, poet and calligrapher, Kukai's life's work was to be the creation of a Buddhist center of learning in Koya-san, a high-mountain plateau in central Japan, where to this day more than 100 temples continue his teachings.

For Egypt, it would be a return to its civilizational roots as a world center of learning.

As we previously reported, it also plans to use Flipkart as a "key center of learning" for the rest of its business across the world, and that includes its home market.

Most of the self-immolations have taken place in the town of Aba, known as Ngaba in Tibetan, which is home to Kirti Monastery, an important center of learning.