Sentence examples for off academic from inspiring English sources

While getting that computer degree, he boasts that he was "on and off academic probation" because he "always partied".

They depict a world increasingly divided "into two categories — brain drain and brain gain," as countries with more resources siphon off academic talent from poorer countries.

For example, Michael Gove's GCSE reforms should be supplemented by resuscitating the successful Young Apprenticeships for 14 to 16 year olds – a vocational ladder for the children who switch off academic learning at that age and resort to truancy.

It's local election week in my constituency and as I struggle to finish off academic papers and honey biscuits for sports day the phone doesn't stop ringing, nor the door bell.

It takes a lot of bending and twisting just to get Hill abroad so he can profile the serial killer who is picking off academic psychologists in Germany and the Netherlands and escaping detection by wending his way along inland water routes.

He notes that new technologies developed in many schools wind up growing into businesses of their own: “Research universities spin off academic innovations into commercial enterprises.”.

If you've a mind to take this kind of thing from anybody, you'll take it from Sacks – a serious but likable broadcaster, who bounces his ideas off academics with the aim of defining the "Big Society".

Google is at the bottom of every DMCA horror story, Google spends millions in legal fees and lobbying to try to preserve their extreme position, and buys off academics and pundits to create an atmosphere for jury nullification.

HONG XU / SUSAN CHAN Since Carnegie Hall is getting increasingly tightfisted about managing its various spaces (ask the longtime residents of the hall's tower studios, who are being evicted), the generous selection of "rental gigs" in which aspiring performers, usually helped out by friends or by a far-off academic institution, get to have their own Carnegie Hall début may not go on forever.

Future assessments have been killed off by academic leaders.

The interplay of old and Modern tropes comes off as academic gamesmanship.