Sentence examples for previous scholars from inspiring English sources

Previous scholars had seen Jacksonian democracy as a sectional conflict with frontier values triumphant.

It is just that this hunch, as Mr Kono shows, is more difficult to prove than previous scholars had thought.

Previous scholars hypothesized that regional strife or a foreign invasion led to its unraveling, while others suggested that environmental factors may have been to blame.

Perhaps because so many previous scholars have focused on Lincoln's best known writings as president, Mr. Kaplan devotes most of his attention to his subject's earlier years, spending only one chapter on his time as commander in chief.

Previous scholars "tended to cherry-pick anecdotes without having a sense that it was possible to measure all of that text and treat the whole archive as a single unit," he said.

I also point out in retrospect that on certain issues, such as the Truman administration's handling of the cold war in China and Korea, Taft, McCarthy and their ideological allies may have had more of a point than previous scholars, including Hamby, have been prepared to admit.

Carretta has done great service to the study of the African diaspora, unearthing more documentation on Equiano than any previous scholar, even locating the gravestone of Equiano's daughter, Joanna, in Abney Park Cemetery, North London.

An afterword quotes the key to Updike's unsweet prince, from William Kerrigan's "Hamlet's Perfection," summing up the unfashionable judgment of a previous scholar: "Putting aside the murder being covered up, Claudius seems a capable king, Gertrude a noble queen, Ophelia a treasure of sweetness, Polonius a tedious but not evil counselor, Laertes a generic young man.

In a historic perspective, admission to a medical school in Portugal has been dominated by young school-leavers, typically aged 18 19 years, and selection is based solely on their previous scholar achievement.

This latest frontier is about method, they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized materials that previous humanities scholars did not have.

Moreover, as we have shown in the previous section, scholars in business ethics that have played an active part in a Delphi process think that, apart from being useful in general, Delphi will contribute to business ethics research questions.