Sentence examples for torch of learning from inspiring English sources

An AFHU board member and recipient of American Friends' Torch of Learning award, Boris supported faculty research and provided student scholarships through the Faculty of Law.

He was the recipient of The Torch of Learning Award from The American Friends of the Hebrew University, and received an honorary Doctorate Degree from Long Island University, while serving as a Trustee of both Long Island University and The Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

During the Middle Ages, while Europe was plunged into darkness, the torch of learning was kept alive by Arab and Jewish scholars living in Spain, Mesopotamia, and Persia.

Kaiser says his title was inspired by Thomas Cahill's "How the Irish Saved Civilization," and he has a similar aim: to show, with a healthy dose of irony, how another "unlikely group of underdogs and castaways kept the torch of learning aflame".

Now his A-levels are over, his text books torched and his brain cleared of the rubble of learning, he is ready for experience.

While Europe entered the dark ages after the fall of the Roman empire, Arabic carried the torch of classical learning, and much that we know today in the realms of chemistry, medicine, astronomy and other branches of scientific endeavour would have been lost, were it not for the achievements of Arab scholars and translators.

They've held a torch for the world to see, the torch of freedom and hope and opportunity.

But then we learned that the Lib Dems carry "the torch of progress now", and we were back once more in the past, borne back ceaselessly into the future.

They carried the torch of new writing.

We carry the torch of progress now".

Pass the torch of obsession!