Sentence examples for intellectual hold from inspiring English sources

Pessimism has a strong intellectual hold among many political activists, and 60% of the respondents in the Huffington Post poll about my book "Rebound: Why America Will Emerge Stronger from the Financial Crisis" think I must have my head in the sand if I think that our economy is going to be rebound any time soon.

Unlike many of his predecessors, Mr. Rudenstine did not establish himself as a kind of public intellectual, holding sway on the issues of the day.

"To achieve success in philosophy would be, to use a contemporary turn of phrase, to 'know one's way around' …, not in that unreflective way in which the centipede of the story knew its way around before it faced the question, 'how do I walk?', but in that reflective way which means that no intellectual holds are barred" (loc.

Sallal had to defeat a fellow revolutionary, Al-Baidani, an intellectual holding a doctorate degree, who did not share in Nasser's vision.

Why social movements should ignore social media Evgeny Morozov | New Republic | 5 February 2013 Infatuated media intellectuals hold the virtues of the internet to be self-evident: "decentralization beats centralization, networks are superior to hierarchies, crowds outperform experts".

Both Hughes and the contributions to the book collection by a world-class group of policy-makers, presidents, tenured and adjunct faculty, staff, students, community and labor organizers, and public intellectuals hold in tension the challenges of the world as it is and the possibilities of the world as it should be.

After the end of the party's leadership transition last November, liberal intellectuals held a meeting at a hotel in Beijing to strategize on how to push for reform; constitutionalism was a major topic of discussion.

"I thought that the French didn't understand a thing about what was happening in Algeria," he said, "in large part because the intellectuals holding forth on the issue didn't know anything about it".

When a group of intellectuals held a news conference today -- an editor, an economist, an artist, a scholar and a human rights worker -- they issued a statement that began, "Welcome back, Gus Dur, as our colleague in the people's movement".

The committee is a peculiar debating society where politeness rules, politics is scorned, and intellectual arguments hold great sway.

Barely any intellectual glue holds the show together.