Sentence examples for mostly scholars from inspiring English sources

A group of around 100 people, mostly scholars but some journalists, were gathered for a conference on Afghanistan put on by the Foreign Policy Initiative, a new think tank launched by neoconservatives Bill Kristol, Fred Kagan and Dan Senor.All of the faces that terrified non-interventionist liberals and by the end of George Bush's presidency, conservatives were here.

Designers of these gardens were mostly scholars and artists, who were willing to create a small peaceful space in an urban plan where the experience of nature was celebrated (Wu 1963).

After the curacy was placed under the patronage of Christ Church, the incumbents were mostly scholars or members of the college; from 1616 to 1640 the curacy was held by Robert Burton, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, who enlarged the church.

Of interest mostly to scholars, "Trimalchio" is not radically different from "Gatsby".

As the search for his successor begins and the accolades roll in, Mr. Dodson talked about turning a research library known mostly to scholars into a multifaceted cultural center open to tourists, schoolchildren and anyone interested in black culture.

Verhoeven turns out to be a member of the Jesus Seminar, a collection mostly of scholars devoted to reconstructing the historical Jesus, and much of what he has to say is shrewd and learned.

When mostly young scholars responded to the call for research papers, Mr. Dodson said, he began to imagine the coming conference as a chance to get two generations of players in black studies into the same room to exchange ideas.

The colonial powers divided the African continent at the end of the nineteenth century, but it continues to have a lasting impact on the study of pastoral systems, as Francophone scholars mostly study West African pastoral systems (with a few notable exceptions, e.g., Tom Bassett and Matthew Turner) and Anglophone scholars mostly study East African pastoral systems.

But mostly they were scholars from places like New York University, Emory University, the University of Rochester, Union College, Long Island University, Hofstra University and the University of Arkansas.

He stayed in a splendid high-ceilinged apartment on the Upper West Side with his sister Theo and several of her friends from Oxford — mostly returning Rhodes scholars.

In the years leading up to the 2008 presidential election and the months immediately following it, a number of mostly liberal-leaning scholars proposed a theory called the "emerging Democratic majority," which pointed out that some groups that were more favorably inclined toward Democrats were becoming more plentiful as a share of the American population.