Sentence examples for flying academic from inspiring English sources

A few years ago I had quite a high flying academic career, a PhD and a government job, and I quit it all to get involved in New Dawn Traders – to jump on a zero carbon motorless ship and sail to the Caribbean and back to trade rum, chocolate and spices.

Kuenning said he's feeling like United doesn't value his business, even after spending a couple of thousand dollars with the airline last year flying to academic conferences.

We argue that the time has come for micro and nano-satellites (with mass smaller than 100 kg and 2 3 year development times) designed, built, tested and flown by academic departments, for coordinated observations with robotic assets in situ.

LEAVES OF GRASS Edward Norton plays identical twins, one a high-flying academic and the other a professional marijuana farmer, in a comedy written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson.

During his lifetime he was perceived as a high-flying academic, a widely admired business executive, a ruthless killer of innocent women and children, and the man who did most to alleviate the developing world's chronic poverty.

Doctors who take both MRCGP and MRCP UK) may well not be representative of those taking either exam in general, with aspirationally 'high-flying academic GPs' perhaps wishing to pass MRCP UK) before entering general practice training, and this latter group they may have taken all three parts of MRCP UK).

Often results that determine league-table placing are a self-fulfilling prophesy; for example, if the school is selective by ability, it will fly high in academic league tables.

More Australian schools — including the University of South Australia, Griffith University, Swinburne University of Technology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Edith Cowan University — are now offering flight training as graduate diplomas, or offering academic credits for flying lessons as part of a degree.

The Commission was designed to find young aviation enthusiasts with the right physical and academic qualities to become flying officers.

Most of Canada's top academics flew in for the annual gathering of learned societies.

After all, only the most successful academics fly around the world, attending conferences, participating in workshops and giving lectures.