Sentences with phrase «of academic interest»

I find this research fascinating as an intellectual puzzle, but of course these questions are not only of academic interest.

Many areas of academic interest are covered by aspects of the program including: constitutional and human rights law, international business and trade law and immigration and refugee law.

They tend to publish out of academic interest or to advance the knowledge of wealth management professionals who handle large retirement accounts.

Long gone are the days when international investment law may have been perceived as simply the subject of academic interest and consideration.

And they are not simply of academic interest, they cause lasting harm.

That is a few pixels less though the figure might just be of academic interest as the display would be just as vibrant and inviting to even the most discerning of users.

The question was taken up more seriously later when it lost its political significance and became a theological problem of academic interest.

Which is fine; their mission is to screen rare films that won't be found anywhere else, and it's not unusual for them to be mostly of academic interest.

It has made significant strides in the past two years, but still struggles to attract applicants and address the needs of students with a wide range of academic interests and skills.

I find it only of academic interest but not of any practical importance because I think the bible was only written by human beings who put their own thoughts down on parchment.

You must also indicate your area or areas of academic interest.

And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant past and retelling that past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus events.

A common example would be Karl Marx's theories, which aren't just of academic interest.

These issues are not merely of academic interest.

Arbuckle's research is not just a matter of academic interest.

Film literacy, as a field of academic interest, has far more to do with language education than it does with the films we see at the cinema.

Cohen's story is misguided on several levels, but the basic problem is that she claims to be writing about «the culture of poverty,» but instead writes about the revival of academic interest in the dysfunctional African - American family, the subject of a controversial 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan («The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» which can be viewed here.).

This is very useful if your book has any sort of academic interest (even if it's fiction), because that allows for better citations in homework and papers.

Good social science that analyzes and explains how the system works, if it is not strictly of academic interest within a discipline, may be perceived as threatening to the powerful — perhaps especially to the anti-intellectual know - nothings so prominent in Congress today who have influence over research appropriations.

Although the facts before the tribunals below were no longer determinative of the appellant's claim, the secretary of state declined to argue that the appeal raised issues of academic interest only.

This impression may lurk behind the lack of academic interest in it.

Fisher: Because students frequently change their subjects of academic interest, I think it's most important for students to consider the academic philosophy of the institutions to which they intend to apply.

This wasn't simply of academic interest.

When a developer or a department of transportation hires a cultural - resources management consultant, they're not doing it out of academic interest in historic sites; they want to make sure they're in compliance with the law.

The evolution of barking may be only of academic interest to most dog owners, but the fact of barking is an irritation to many and can even land an otherwise respectable pet in the slammer.

History may be of academic interest, but never of paramount importance for religion.

It may be of academic interest to know whether the virtues attributed to the redoubtable Yu can be traced so far back into history as the ancient narrative seems to carry them, but there can be no doubt that from the time of Confucius these were the virtues approved and exalted by him, and as such have played a highly significant role in Chinese life.

I mostly agree that we need to study real foods; using supplements and other forms of reductionism, however, can be useful for understanding the mechanisms of how things work, which is of academic interest to some people and is of general utility in better understanding how to restore people to health who have lost it, which might require more than mere return to a traditional diet sometimes.

Also, for the record, John Ruskin was a mediocre artist at best, and Holman Hunt is mostly, as they say, of academic interest.

What would have been (absent humans) is only of academic interest.

Instead of asking the group of coders to work for free, raise their own funds or join a corporation, Forde says academia has a responsibility to accept bitcoin development as an area of academic interest and create places for the developers to work.