Sentence examples for academies close from inspiring English sources

Lucky Jim made Amis's reputation, encouraging him gradually to loosen his ties with academies close to home (Oxford, Cambridge, Swansea), to travel (to Portugal and America - where he continued to teach), and to spend a great deal of time in London making new friends, accepting commissions for articles and drinking.

It is not simply that she became a highly successful artist in an age when guilds and academies closed their doors to women.

Even as they pledged support for the United States' deeply strained alliance with Pakistan, several top American officials said it was difficult to believe that Bin Laden could have spent years in a town populated by current and former Pakistani military officers — with a Pakistani military academy close by — without the complicity of some in the country's government.

Before the Mount Vernon academy closed last month, it served 260 students from age 4 through adult.

The influence of string theorists was growing at the time, and Lisi felt the academy closing in on him.

For two weeks this past summer, travelling on a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant through the prairie province of Saskatchewan, where the last academy closed in 1996, Zalcman photographed forty-five survivors and recorded their stories, then created haunting double-exposure portraits overlaid with images of objects or places relevant to their experiences.

The academy closed in 2015 after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but it quickly reopened after a nonprofit entity led by a Chinese investor, Vincent Mo, bought it at a bankruptcy auction and said it would pay off the school's $16 million debt.

We also held smaller mini-YES Academies for close to a week in both Baghdad and Kirkuk -- the latter of which I ran as well.

The League's founders were acting in response to a rumour that financial problems might cause the academy to close its doors, but they also were dissatisfied with the academy's conservative and traditional bent and wanted to create a school that allowed more freedom of expression.

The exploding world of free online courses from great academies is closed to those who lack a digital pathway.

Instead, Mr. Peterson resigned in early October, and his successors recently announced that the academy would close in January.