Sentence examples for ivory from inspiring English sources

It works like this: if you worry that you might be accused of an -ism, get your defence in first by asserting that the accuser is an envoy of an ivory tower elite and you are merely a tribune of the people.

Academics no longer live in ivory towers; short-term contracts, limited number of academic posts and funding opportunities, publish or perish attitude… and the list goes on, make it tough to progress.

For spring/summer 2015, shown on Friday morning at New York fashion week, they came in gold with looped crystals, covered in layers of ivory chiffon.

Commentators especially picked up on the idea that a coupling of this kind – ebony and ivory, living in perfect harmony, as someone else once sang – is still improbable in post-apartheid South Africa, even if Withers has said: "I'd be cautious to ever think of ourselves as a progressive band representing any sort of social change".

Related: Wildlife poaching has a huge impact on Africa, but our leaders are silent Across Africa, up to 30,000 elephants are estimated to be killed illegally each year to fuel the ivory trade.

Even ivory on pale skin can give a strobe-light effect and show through bias-cut dresses.

Are you so horribly spoilt that you don't even know your few slaves, or such a fat cat that you own more slaves than you can possibly remember?" The problem, for Seneca, is not that owning slaves is bad for the slaves, or that the rich man's wealth might be better spent feeding the hungry than buying another ivory-legged table.

Its graphic red-and-ivory cover is inescapable.

DAYS before the second world war broke out in 1939, two German scholars packed up a cache of mammoth-ivory fragments they had unearthed in a cave in the south-west of the country.

You had the plush English heritage cinema, spearheaded by Merchant-Ivory and then later modified by films such as Notting Hill.

[Russian oil company] Lukoil is now drilling three wells in the Ivory Coast, one in Ghana and one in Sierra Leone.