Sentence examples for intellectual passing from inspiring English sources

Dogma (Melville House £9.99) by Lars Iyer is the kind of book that we are always told never gets published any more: uncompromisingly intellectual, passing strange and absurdly funny.

Then, I was sort of a closet intellectual passing as a construction worker.

On this occasion, I won't ask why Judge Sotomayor took an intellectual pass on a hard case, which is now before the Supreme Court.

Apparently security claims made in advancing a so-called free trade agreement are given the same no-look intellectual pass as the agreement itself, so enamored are most Republicans with anything with a free trade label.

The recent death of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was a sad reminder of how the public intellectual is passing from our midst.

I repeatedly watched parents hypnotised by the dubious dream of some sort of intellectual osmosis, passing accomplishment like a cold, from tutor to pupil.

In truth, black orthodoxy, as embodied both by the traditional entrenched black (male) political leadership and by the more recently emerged black (male) academics and public intellectuals, is passing into oblivion.

The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property passed its own version on Wednesday.

But in March 2005, the Indian Parliament, under pressure to bring the country into compliance with the World Trade Organization's regulations on intellectual property, passed a bill declaring it illegal to make generic copies of patented drugs.

The House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property passed the Performance Rights Act, which would reverse terrestrial radio's exemption from paying royalties to the performers of sound recordings, which satellite and Internet radio stations are required to pay.

We consider the extent to which social objectives can be attained without intellectual property protection before passing on to intellectual property right design.