Sentence examples for popular academic from inspiring English sources

The professors started by adopting the popular academic theory of what makes stock prices move -- the Fama-French model.

The reviewer and popular academic called Dawkins's attack on the faulty logic of religion and the suffering it causes as "theologically illiterate" and accused him of treating "religion and fundamentalist religion as one and the same".

He took up that cause in the 1950s, when unions were far more prominent, Congress held high-visibility hearings about mob influence on unions, and labor law was a popular academic field.

Here's what I learned: each age gets the vampire it deserves (Auerbach); Vampire Studies is a popular academic discipline, with international conferences held around the globe each year (Holte); and if you leave pumpkins or watermelons outside during a full moon in Romania, they will turn into vampires (Beresford).

Keith Flett London  As one who was married to a policeman for more than 20 years and whose formal education ended at 17, I have often wondered what would be the effect of confining entry to the police service to graduates, including those who have studied the increasingly popular academic field of crime and policing in context.

­Accounts of the story differ, but in the late 1960s, when Rowbotham, then in her 20s, stood up at a gathering for the Ruskin History Workshop – a popular academic conference – and ­suggested that there should be a meeting about ­women, she was met with gales of laughter from the predominantly male crowd.

This reflex continues to bedevil both popular and academic thought.

History books seem to come in two guises these days: popular and academic.

Hugo is one of those rare writers who excites both popular and academic audiences alike.

This is a move that's characteristic of much of the writing on the historical Jesus, both popular and academic.

Historians, popular and academic, also turned their attention to the Quiet Revolution, the period of rapid reform in Quebec that began in the early 1960s.