Sentence examples for scholar statesman from inspiring English sources

Sonia Gandhi, the president of the opposition Congress party, described Kalam as "one of the greatest scientific minds, a scholar statesman and a true patriot who inspired millions of young and old alike by his works and deeds".

C. 1324 Thessaloníki, Greece c. 1398 Crete, Greece Demetrius Cydones, also spelled Demetrios Kydones (born c. 1324, Thessalonica, Byzantine Empire [now in Greece] died c. 1398, Crete) Byzantine humanist scholar, statesman, and theologian who introduced the study of the Greek language and culture to the Italian Renaissance.

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In 2012, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy gave him its Scholar-Statesman Award.

He overthrew the serene Buddhist scholar-statesman, U Nu, who was the first premier of the independent Union of Burma.

While there are no extant paintings that can be positively identified as his work, his name is so esteemed that many paintings of merit have been attributed to him, including the famed portrait of Sugawara Michizane, a contemporary scholar-statesman.

Among his rivals was a celebrated and beloved scholar-statesman, Sugawara Michizane, who was falsely accused of conspiring to place his own grandson on the throne and was banished to distant Kyushu.

These culminated in the antirationalist individualism of the famed scholar-statesman Wang Yangming, who denied the external "principles" of Zhu Xi and advocated striving for wisdom through cultivation of the innate knowledge of one's own mind and attainment of "the unity of knowledge and action".

This tradition was systematized and described in the Artha-shastra (one of the oldest books in secular Sanskrit literature) by Kautilya, a clever and reputedly unscrupulous scholar-statesman who helped the young Chandragupta to overthrow Macedonian rule in northern India and to establish the Mauryan dynasty at the end of the 4th century bce.

Mr. Havel thus used Dr. Albright's presence and the reverence for Tomas G. Masaryk, the scholar-statesman who presided over the country from 1918 to 1935 and was married to an American, to urge Czechs to look to a wider world.

That may seem an unlikely accomplishment for a man who studied electrical engineering and spent most of his early career managing factories in gritty industrial cities, but it fits the Confucian scholar-statesman model of his predecessor, Mao Zedong, whom Mr. Jiang clearly emulates.