Sentence examples for academic now that from inspiring English sources

Of course, all of this is somewhat academic now that the protean MetroCard has fully supplanted the inflexible token.

The Metropolitan Police argued that the evidence of against them had been limited, the courts should not "micromanage" the police, and the hearing was "academic" now that Operation Weeting had begun.

For now, that is academic.

Now that former academic economists run central banks in many countries, this will probably change.

That's all academic now, however, as the 33-year-old has won the coveted role.

All of which is academic now, of course, given that the new owner of Nokia's device division, Microsoft, has decided to ditch the strategy in favour of focusing its efforts on its Windows Phone OS.

But even that seems academic now -- little noted in the wake of the bombing, two other Israelis were killed in the West Bank on Thursday.

What women like Ms Al-Ali, an activist as well as an academic, now fear (and fight) is that these laws will be seriously revised by Islamist conservatives in the new "liberated" set-up, resulting in a diminution of what are usually thought of as women's rights.

Now, that point is specific to academics.

That all seems academic now.

But Stuart Tannock, a Canadian-born, Stanford-educated academic now teaching at the University of Cardiff, worries that the global competition for talent still "works as a glorified form of poaching: states seek to secure the labor of educated individuals for whose education they have not had to pay.