Sentences with phrase «from ivory towers»

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

It is really about time that climate modellers who are posting on this blog came down from their ivory towers and had a look at the real world.

Sociologists from their ivory towers tell us that by giving beggars money we will be causing them more harm than good.

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

I'm happy that publishers are finally descending from their ivory towers to seize their companies» destinies in their own hands.

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

Rumour has it that Britain's universities are jam - packed full of bright ideas struggling to escape from those ivory towers.

Labour is two - faced: sometimes it's the trade union rep from the factory, others it's the intellectual bourgeois from the ivory towers.

The professor's views come directly from the ivory towers of the academic elite — far outside the mainstream views of 19th district voters.

Perhaps they should come down from their ivory towers.

unt, so anything we can do to make them feel our frustration from their ivory towers is welcome in my book, especially with an owner like silent Stan Kroenke who has all the warmth and charm of a week old kipper.

It must speak not merely from ivory towers, but from the marketplace.

Come down from the ivory towers and mingle with the masses, listen to them, you will be surprised how much you may learn about what works and what doesn't.»

WAPO financial gurus in general have a handicap; It's very difficult to see deprivation from an ivory tower, whether at a once famous newspaper or in the extravagantly decorated White House.

Living our faith isn't something done from an ivory tower.

Without practical powerful local communicators, i.e. pastors, our faith would never venture from the ivory tower upon that shore.

But what makes Wright more than just another crusty professor debating doctrine from an ivory tower is his ability to translate complicated theology into accessible literature for ordinary Christians.

Extract yourself from the ivory tower with its clinical reading of scripture and immerse yourself in real life and things start to look a lot different.

How do you know what works best if you impose one approach from the ivory tower of Washington?

The ideological underpinnings of the North Korean citizen, are often reduced to mere speculation from an ivory tower perspective, yet the true — often «hidden» — meaning can only emerge as knowledge of (North) Korean culture, and language, accumulates.

«He should come down from his ivory tower or from his sweet area of White Plains and see what it takes to make a corn field into jobs,» Mathes said.

In response, some have accused Schneiderman of prescribing fixes from an ivory tower.

Because the work is very science - based, many of my new colleagues are also refugees from the ivory tower.

This is it... After months of increasing discontent with her research career, Kat Arney is finally breaking free from the ivory tower.

A Steven Rose or a Richard Dawkins, coming down from the ivory tower to explain things to lesser mortals, is, other things being equal, a more likely contender for this particular prize than a journalist such as Nigel Henbest or Roger Highfield, devoting themselves full - time to the art of communication.

If you are considering jumping from the ivory tower of academic research to a career in the pharmaceutical industry, my experience may lend you some insight.

Candyman deals with transgression: the interracial romance; the intrusion of the white woman from the ivory tower into the ghetto of poor, inner - city blacks in their industrial oubliette; and eventually the invasion of institutions of economic and social privilege by a vengeful wraith from America's colonialist past.

It's rare that an idea goes from the ivory tower to think tanks to actual implementation by a democratically elected body to helping citizens.

Instead of bringing ideas from the ivory tower to the schools, we began to work together to define needs and to propose ways to meet the needs.

Your comments (and subsequent others) seem to come from the ivory tower, whereas I have seen actual results.

The view must be nice from your ivory tower.

He will also participate in the roundtable event with a presentation called «What I wish I knew about clinical pathology when I was in practice: Tips, tricks, and pitfalls from the ivory tower to the trenches.»

He correctly points out, later in his letter, that the power of games seems to lie in discussion; in the two - way conversation of creator and player rather than the broadcasting of ham - handed rhetoric from an ivory tower.

Gillick is renowned as an artist of context; his life's works have strayed from the ivory tower of autonomy and made the assertion that everything is part of something.

I find it sort of funny to see so many comments which jump from ivory tower science to economic models and skip over the critical items.

Maybe one of the folks here from the ivory tower can peek behind the paywall.

The Brussel Declaration strikes me as an impractical pronouncement from the ivory tower.

We will call this new category of posts — of course to be taken with a grain of salt — Neues aus dem Elfenbeinturm, news from the ivory tower.

The response from the ivory tower has been to tout their luxury services and encourage an increased focus on rankings, which necessarily reflect the initial distribution of prestige and are a conservative (backwards looking) hierarchy - perpetuating force.

I've been providing opinions and advice about the marketplace — not from some ivory tower but from being actively engaged with buyers and sellers on a day - to - day basis.

Not exact matches

Far from being an ivory - tower exercise, Moore's proposal includes a proposed structure, staffing and organizational plan, and a five - year budget that would be shared across the federal and provincial governments.

A movement that brings back investing to the masses, taking it off from the restricted and secluded VC ivory towers.

With regard to the Fed as an institution, there was a fair bit of criticism about their extremely academic and PhD / ivory tower viewpoint (again, echoing themes from «Fed Up»).

Evangelicals may roll their eyes — of course an ivory - tower liberal from Yale believes that Muslims and Christians worship the same God!

Sitting in my ivory tower at college, having all the information to hand for grateful admirers to receive from my superiour position to impart or so I thought at the time.

While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

Engagement and active calling is the regular thing and all ivory tower theorist or academicians benefit from having some of it in their life, at the very least.

Perhaps Richard John Neuhaus has been in the New York ivory tower too long and could benefit from a stint in a parish ministry.

Added to these worries are the perennial complaints of bishops, denominational executives and prominent pastors that faculty live in academic ivory towers, preoccupied with guild concerns and insulated or even alienated from church life.