Sentence examples for alma from inspiring English sources

While David Cameron's alma mater is Eton, this inner-city comprehensive is Ed Miliband's; he's returning today to talk to students and announce his plans for education under a Labour government.

I worked in information technology until 1989, when I went to Ruskin College (John Prescott's alma mater) to study history.

Hey ho! (Would it be a little smug of us, at this juncture, to bring up the fact that Badwan was educated at the prestigious boarding school Rugby, alma mater of Neville Chamberlain and the Plebgate star, Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, where the biggest insult you can apparently give someone is to call them a Tanner, meaning a day boy? It would? Oh).

By some estimates, the former Edinburgh medical student took it upon himself to preserve in alcohol and dispatch the soft tissue and bones of up to 600 people to his friend, DJ Cunningham, professor of anatomy at Ramsay Smith's alma mater.

BS: "I have to be; it's my alma mater and my bread and butter.

Like many US universities, it has long been a goal of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to engage our alumni in a culture of philanthropy to support their alma mater.

The Kazakh film industry has a proud history going back to the days of the second world war when Moscow's film makers were evacuated wholesale to the then Alma-Ata.

He was expelled from the party in 1927, was sent to Alma Ata, in Siberia, and soon afterwards was deported from the Soviet Union.

And the third member of any Hitchcock menage is present and correct: wife and collaborator Alma Reville (Imelda Staunton in The Girl, Helen Mirren in Hitchcock).

"What if someone good made a horror picture?" asks Alfred Hitchcock of his wife Alma Reville early on in Sacha Gervasi's clever and witty drama about the making of Psycho.

Contact Señor Rivas at [email protected] Kapka Kassabova's novel Villa Pacifica (Alma Books, £12.99) is set on the South American Pacific coast and is out on 1 August.