Sentence examples for academic urging from inspiring English sources

Her academic urging propelled him toward English literature at Stanford, which he studied along with human biology.

TODAY'S Guardian carries a letter by various Labour-supporting wonks and academics urging Ed Miliband not to "play the next election safe".

It followed an open letter a year ago from more than 120 QUT academics urging the university – the ninth-largest in Australia with more than 45,000 students – to divest.

From time to time, he became involved in politics, signing a letter along with other academics urging the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, and advising Senator Eugene J. McCarthy on foreign policy in his presidential campaign in 1968.

The report, released last Monday by a coalition of planners, transportation groups and academics, urges the state's elected officials to figure out a way to replenish the fund by next summer.

In a letter made available to the Guardian, the academics urged Canada's natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, to consider the consequences of his support for expanding Alberta's tar sands production.

Last year, more than 200 scientists and academics urged the museum to cut its ties to board member Rebekah Mercer, a prominent donor to Donald Trump who has funded groups that deny the science of climate change.

In a survey of more than 700 people, a clear majority of those who work for the UN, and others closely associated with the organisation – including academics – urged the five permanent members of the security council to encourage more female candidates for the top job, and allow public scrutiny of candidates.

But academics urged caution.

The academic urge to unearth new paradigms and forecast bounteous levels of stock wealth seems eternal.

And he resists the academic urge to fill the page with notes in pursuit of an ersatz complexity; the writing is always radically clear.