Sentence examples for academics held from inspiring English sources

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.

A survey of 17 academics held in 2013, regarding which filmmakers had been referenced the most in essays and dissertations marked over the last five years, showed that Nolan was the second-most studied director in the UK after Quentin Tarantino and ahead of Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.

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.

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.

For years, finance academics have held the cynical view that it doesn't matter which party wins the White House.

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.