Sentence examples for seat of higher from inspiring English sources

Scientists have long known that the most forward part of the brain is the seat of higher cognition.

The cortex is the seat of higher mental functions such as language and decision-making, and contains dozens of distinct, specialised areas.

YALE — In 1716 the little Puritan "collegiate school" in Saybrook was moved to New Haven, giving the colony the seat of "higher learning" the founding fathers had wanted from the start (1638).

Women have practically given up on these three, so they open a frat house at the edge of some distinguished seat of higher learning and sign up the unlikeliest students on campus, along with a ragtag group of shapeless older men who have nothing else to do.

After Eileen Grimshaw's boy Todd dropped out of an unnamed seat of higher learning in London, the steady decline that brought him back to Weatherfield to languish behind the counter of murderous harridan Tracy Barlow's latter-day pawn shop was inevitable.

There is a network of nerve pathways in your brain, called the reticular formation, that connects the brain stem and other more basic brain functions with the seat of higher functioning, the cerebral cortex and cerebellum.

A program that puts astronomers in the back seat of high performance military-type jets is now operational.

For better or worse, it remains the city's seat of high culture, with theater, opera and symphonies at the Los Angeles Music Center and a gaggle of museums.

John was selected as Labour-Co-op candidate to fight the Derbyshire seat of High Peak in the 1964 election, losing by a narrow margin.

He was a 22-year-old mathematics student at Amirkabir University, one of Iran's most prestigious seats of higher learning.

But this is a far cry from the UK's other seats of higher education: the residents at this site include murderers, rapists and thieves.