Sentence examples for and intellectuals in a from inspiring English sources

The ANC was founded at a meeting of black activists and intellectuals in a Bloemfontein church in 1912.

In recent months, Chinese authorities have arrested Tibetan artists and intellectuals in a wave of suppression that activists describe as the most widespread in years.

But then the suppression of artists and intellectuals in a formal democracy such as India manifests itself in many interlocking patterns.

His prose book "The Captive Mind" is not so much anti-Communist as an account of the traps, compromises, self-deceptions and suicidal hypocrisies of writers and intellectuals in a police state.

The controversy over the sculpture, which made it to the national press, underlines the difficulties faced by artists and intellectuals in a country where Islamic religious conservatism has gained much ground over the past 40 to 50 years and where powerful state religious institutions frequently expound a hard-line message, despite their claims to moderation.

A number of the other French-language films in the festival, while less pointedly backward-looking than Mr. Godard's, are similarly immersed in high culture and examine the lives of affluent artists and intellectuals in an increasingly borderless European Community.

CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi's advisers struggled Tuesday to work with a panel of politicians and intellectuals in an effort to work out last-minute proposals that might broaden support for an Islamist-backed draft constitution that is set to go before Egypt's voters on Saturday, participants said.

There the female protagonist, Lin Shan, is a poet and intellectual in a culture that suppresses women's freedoms.

At Home Works, a conference for artists and intellectuals in Beirut, he convened a panel on the cultural implications of Saadiyat Island.

Like so many other artists and intellectuals in New York, Mr. Allen seems to be a great believer in the free market, but generally only for his own business.

Set in the months after the economic collapse, it concerns a college dropout who trashes out foreclosed homes in Florida and a group of young artists and intellectuals squatting in an abandoned house in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.