Sentence examples for intellectual toll from inspiring English sources
He and Farrah just knew that something was wrong with his mind — and the intellectual toll became clearer when the Army sent him to Georgetown University to earn a graduate degree.
But milder deficiencies also take an intellectual toll.
Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year--part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.
Rather, studying under some of the world's most prominent health intellectuals, they have witnessed the epidemic's toll during summers or semesters abroad, in AIDS-ravaged nations like Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
It is a chilling thought for defenders of intellectual property rights who have already seen piracy take its toll on the music and movie industries.
Most of all, it's impossible to say -- of McCarthy, Stafford, Hardwick -- that "they managed to get published and to become famous, formidable intellectuals without challenging or offending the males who published them," given the toll on their personal lives.
Unlike acute malnutrition, which manifests in severe wasting or nutritional oedema, chronic malnutrition takes its toll over a longer period by stunting a child's physical and intellectual growth.
Although the economic crisis has taken its toll, the problem is less a lack of money than a lack of intellectual vitality.
