Sentences with phrase «in ivory towers»

We are too far gone, thanks to the powers - that - be in their ivory towers who have their concepts of what we should be doing locked - in from fifty years ago.

Naw... I think that there is already too much guessing going on in the ivory towers these days.

People who work in administration roles may not be making big decisions in ivory towers, but without admin staff no business would be able to function.

Those brilliant academics in their ivory towers may not have known much about the every - day practice of law, but some of them were certainly fun to listen to in class.

«After I graduated, I practised as a solicitor for eight years and it was only when I began working closely with barristers on cases that I discovered the majority of them weren't throwbacks to the 17th century locked away in ivory towers, but were actually friendly and relatively normal.

In the meantime though we've got to work on the problem of global warming alarmists being paid by the rest of us to do nothing more than gnash their teeth in the ivory towers.

It's the reason academics are often derided for living in ivory towers, when to an extent that is what's required to pursue the work without the pressures and distractions of the demands of policy and other intrusions of the real world.

The IPCC report is largely authored by unknown academics isolated in their ivory towers and lab technicians toiling over a hot Bunsen burner.

They will not be portrayed as white - coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

«scientists... will not be portrayed as white coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

They will not be portrayed as white coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

This is not an academic exercise on the leading edge of discovery — it could well stay in ivory towers»

This is not an academic exercise on the leading edge of discovery — it could well stay in ivory towers, and I suspect Tomas would be happy to remain there (as I would be in my little hydrological world), if not for the critical message that it has for the world.

Universities in the developed world seeking a place (and a business model) in a century in which knowledge is no longer cached in ivory towers would do well to find ways to «educate for the other 90 percent.»

Or will we scientists continue to sit in our ivory towers playing with our equations?

The most talented kids in the country aren't waiting around for the grownups in the ivory towers to get their act together.

In today's context, this means focusing on what's happening on the ground around you, not in the ivory towers.

Even after years and years of saying, «You don't make your gross income, you and the tax man make your gross income,» no one in the ivory towers has woken up to this reality.

And the real ones being hurt by this hard headed approach by the Big Five aren't the suits in their ivory towers but the authors and their readers.

Instead I'm stonewalled and ignored by aloof «professionals» who'd rather stay in their ivory towers intellectualizing and complaining about the state of the publishing world things instead of making them better for everyone.»

It is time for those in their ivory towers of publishing to pull their heads out of the sand.

The medium can take information that is too often stuck in ivory towers and project it into hearts and minds everywhere.

I commented at the forum that this broad - based alliance is essential, sinces separately we are accused of «fronting for the teachers» union» (parents), «not wanting to be held accountable» (teachers), «goofing off in school» (students) or «being out of touch in their ivory towers» (researchers)!

Artificial Intelligence isn't locked away in ivory towers; it's available in programs that we can use in our working lives today.

Artificial Intelligence isn't locked away in ivory towers; it's available in programs that we can use in our working lives...

«The information we know in the education policy world gets stuck in ivory towers.

On another track, Addica, dominating a feature - length commentary he recorded with Marsh, pulls a Wayne Kramer, accusing critics of living in ivory towers whilst pretentiously likening the film's slow - burn intensity to that of A Clockwork Orange, Badlands, and Le Samourai.

We all know that Roman Abramovich has free reign of all things Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, but who are the suited men sitting high in their ivory towers overseeing the trials and tribulations of United this season?

I don't get why these celebrities / athletes that are living in their ivory towers thing their opinions on our lives are more valid than their own.

Some NGOs sit in their ivory towers thinking they are doing good, but how many of them give people the dignity of attention and choice?»

We won't change our theologies locked up in our ivory towers, isolated from life, ghettoized in our agreeable clusters.

«Between the pure science in an academic model, in the ivory tower, so to speak, and the ultra-cutthroat laser focus of a biotech, we have to somehow bridge those two worlds in order to get [therapies] to patients» faster, Parker says.

But when you're not in the ivory tower anymore, you've got to get real, fast.»

I try to train my students to consider what matters — it's so easy to get lost in the ivory tower.

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 % -10 % return going forward... If he wants to argue against that, and talk about Dow 5000 and bear and bull markets, then he's welcome to, but he's pushing at windmills in my opinion, and he belongs back in his ivory tower.

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 some pastors can afford to live and work in an ivory tower, missionaries must get down and dirty.

Also, I thought that the RCC were a museum, well - stocked with sour - faced elderly men in long flowing robes and eggshells on their heads, who lived in an ivory tower of contempt toward everyone who sought to enjoy life [No, that's NOT the whole truth.

The apocalyptist is a student or theologian shut up in his ivory tower with no chance of being called to put his visions into concrete social and political action.

Recently, a former pastor wrote to me, concerned that I had disdain for him «as if he lived in an ivory tower».

Screw all students because a man in his ivory tower has a problem with contraception!

Perhaps being ensconced in the ivory tower of academia has made my sensibilities too delicate.

They can't just be in their ivory tower,» agreed Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn.

«I haven't been stuck in an ivory tower and because I can talk to people, I've been able to lead them.»

David, if you read Lewis Minkin's latest book you will see that on several occasions Angela was the non Blairite candidate or office holder in several positions You may want perfection in your ivory tower but the Labour Party is rarely like that

David, if you think talk of ivory towers is «abuse», then you have been in an ivory tower!!

We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.

Rather, I'm picking up as much experience as I can in my chosen field, science communication, while still ensconced in the ivory tower.

And it wasn't just a case of sitting in the ivory tower and ignoring the rest of the world: We had regular visits to chemical plants in the area.

Is it any wonder that scientists have such a bad reputation among the taxpayers who pay them to play in their ivory tower sandboxes?