Sentence examples for academic held from inspiring English sources

Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American academic held for four months in Iran's infamous Evin prison, was released and returned to the United States several weeks ago.

I suffered a few of those afflictions during and immediately after the 95 minutes I spent hostage to Ms. Murray-Smith's shrill comedy about a feminist academic held hostage by a lunatic former student.

Its top post was supposed to rotate every three months, but Bourhan Ghalioun, another exiled academic, held on to it until an outcry over his most recent re-election in May, especially from inside Syria, prompted him to step down.

Many of the day's more serious analysts were participating in the 20th Comic Arts Conference, a gathering of fantasy-oriented academics held in conjunction with Comic-Con.

Pharmaceutical companies gain more credibility for their studies if they bear the name of independent academics holding university posts even if they haven't actually written the report.

In the world of restructuring, few academics hold the stature of Edward I. Altman, the professor who created a widely used metric for predicting when a company might file for bankruptcy.

BYU placed an academic hold on Barney in March, meaning she cannot register for more classes until she completes the school's honor code review.

Academic institutions held the same grudge, so du Châtelet used her wealthy background to hire tutors in order to compete with her male contemporaries.

An American-born academic who held Israeli and American passports, Mr. Oren was best known for his landmark book on the 1967 Middle East war.

STYLE The Skin Deep column last Thursday, about achieving fuller cheeks, misidentified the academic position held by Dr. Marina I. Peredo, a dermatologist.

Responding to "some family pressure," he entered Yale Medical School, but during his psychiatry residency at Harvard, he said, he realized that clinical or academic medicine held little appeal.