Sentence examples for conventional academy from inspiring English sources

As the governors admit, foundation school status would give them more control over the land than they would have if the school became a conventional academy – there are large playing fields, a swimming pool and nine tennis courts which campaigners say would be of huge value to property developers.

Given that the conventional academy has existed over centuries and withstood the travails of time, there is no reason to believe that "digital schools" would overturn the conventional face-to-face schooling system in the near future, but will undoubtedly serve to compliment it.

Last year featured a wealth of award-level performances from women in films that don't fit the conventional Academy model, from Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin to Jenny Slate in Obvious Child.

Ms. Bening has been nominated twice before in this category — for "American Beauty" and "Being Julia" — but never won, so by conventional Academy wisdom, she should get the overdue vote.

But work by Mr. Autor and two colleagues — David Dorn, a visiting professor at Harvard, and Gordon Hanson of the University of California, San Diego — is starting to untangle the two forces that both the conventional wisdom and the academy agree are probably responsible for a lot of what is happening to the middle class.

Fawning over the founders is hardly a 21st-century phenomenon, but it does constitute a challenge to the conventional wisdom in the academy, where historians have visited upon the founding fathers the sins of the sons: the bloody Civil War, the disenfranchisement of women, the follies of empire.

There are four academies in the City Sheffield Springsgs Academy, Sheffield Park Academy, Firth Park Academy and Parkwood Academy.

As a child, his Roman Catholic parents let him attend both a conventional Italian school and a Jewish academy.

Prof Attwell credited the academy for looking beyond conventional political morality in endorsing oblique, idiosyncratic writing which had been at the centre of a race row.

But then, Xavier Niel's new technology academy hardly aims to be conventional.

But even with such measures, explosions larger than about a kiloton -- equivalent to 1,000 pounds of conventional explosive -- could be detected, the academy panel found.