Sentence examples for intellectual role from inspiring English sources

When he was growing up, his intellectual role models were French historians and philosophers of the left, rather than economists.

He plans rotating far-flung scholars to Washington to pursue fresh research and play a "catalytic" intellectual role for Congress, the primary user of the national library.

The most realistic hope one could have for leadership on Merkel's behalf is that she is an intellectual role model, argued Ulrich Speck, a senior fellow with Spain's Elcano Royal Institute and an expert in US-German relations.

Marina's father, Dr. George Raad, an ailing cardiologist and an outspoken writer on behalf of the Palestinian cause (who, in his intellectual role and in his glamour, bears a passing resemblance to Edward Said), returns to her side, attracting the eager attention of the Palestinian Authority, whose fictionalized leaders want to make political capital out of the young boy's death.

Gulen's articles, books, audio and video cassettes also played an important intellectual role.

According to Wallace, the intellectual role Aspasia was given by Plato may have derived from comedy.

Those performances, considered audacious at the time, led to more tragic and intellectual roles rather than comedies.

He also reread David Halberstam's 1972 book "The Best and the Brightest," a withering indictment of ivory tower intellectuals' role in planning the Vietnam War.

More than one major currency would play a decisive role, intellectual property rights would be harder to enforce and yet globalisation would continue.

There were those who filled the gap between the Harlem Renaissance and the rise of the new Black renaissance who would be of significant influence and guidance, and would serve as personal as well as intellectual mentors and role models: Robert Hayden, Ralph Ellison, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin, among several others.

What Microsoft Research has set up is it gives researchers, which is essentially my role, intellectual freedom and any logistical support needed to make scientific discoveries and to have an impact.