Sentence examples for academic rather than from inspiring English sources

Their discussions tended to be academic rather than practical.

In any case, he contemplated an academic, rather than hands-on, approach.

Halakha became a scholastic discipline that developed in academic rather than judicial settings, more and more issues remaining unresolved.

Moses's dominance is more remarkable when you consider that in school he had been an academic, rather than an athlete.

Isn't there a case for outsourcing more of them to good good conference organisers who 'get' the special challenges of academic (rather than, say, corporate) events?

Always ask - if you are planning to go away for the summer - if you can take the house for the academic rather than the full year.

I think it's definitely worthwhile [but] I suspect the sales will be more to academics rather than popular audiences.

But he would prefer to see it done by a team of academics rather than individuals who might claim patents.

"We can detect no advance in children's social development when attending preschools that stress academics, rather than learning through less structured play," said Fuller.

The 74 | A recent by economists David Deming of Harvard University and Christopher Walters of the University of California, Berkeley, has found that students benefit far more when schools spend to improve their academics rather than lower their prices.

In keeping with this philosophy, the party's famously cheap fund-raisers -- a $125 ticket buys pretzels and a cash bar -- attract academics rather than movie stars, labor organizers rather than high-paid consultants, and phone company workers rather than Wall Street bankers.