Nonpolitical figures, chiefly academics, took portfolios in administrative reform, environment and energy, agricultural development and justice.
Professor Fogel, a rumpled former New Yorker by turns amiable and combative, was widely known for work that aroused objections if not open hostility in academic circles, chiefly through his pioneering use of cliometrics, which applies economic theory and statistical methods to the study of history.
In the 1980s, under literary scholar Kenneth Hope, the foundation seemed to find genius chiefly among left-leaning academics — mostly male.
Cicero called himself an Academic, but this applied chiefly to his theory of knowledge, in which he preferred to be guided by probability rather than to allege certainty; in this way, he justified contradictions in his own works (see also epistemology: Ancient Skepticism).
Yet his contacts were chiefly with the student council and the Academic Senate — moderate organizations far from the heat of revolt.
OVID is a platform that provides access to online bibliographic databases, academic journals, and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences.
The supposedly independent panel the government convened to review the report's findings was made up chiefly of bureaucrats, but one of the few academics on the panel held up the review by demanding a more thorough assessment of the project's social impact.
The principle of "shared governance" is the least well understood aspect of academic freedom, and as a result, it is honored chiefly in the breach.
But the techniques and strategies honed by such sumptuous self-love make this Stanford academic murderous when she sets about other great egos – chiefly those of her exes, her mother and Susan Sontag.
And what matters most in it, at least to Kagan, is its conclusion, a plea for the return to academic favour of the Thucydidian approach to human affairs, which is history chiefly as the record of past politics; meaning, to judge from Kagan, the opinions and machinations of Very Important Men.
More important, Littledale solicited contributions from people who had no academic expertise — "Mammas and papas are encouraged to contribute articles and they do" — chiefly to point out what rank amateurs they were.
