Sentences with phrase «of academic meetings»

The narrative reminded me of academic meetings when I listened while avant garde philosophers writhed almost in agony as they struggled to give birth to thoughts they evidently considered so deep as to defy expression in everyday language.

The vast majority of academic meetings I have attended could have achieved their goals (given that anyone could agree what they were beforehand) in half the time.

Not exact matches

Each attempt was met with the same response from professors: «This is not a subject of academic caliber.»

After all, it's not an academic exercise; there's a bonus check for each employee at the end of every four - week game that meets profitability guidelines.

She has been meeting with a 19 - member committee made up of business people and academics to find ways to put more heat on B.C..

Two new deputy governors made their debut at the latest BOJ meeting, according to Reuters — Masayoshi Amamiya, a career central banker, and former academic Masazumi Wakatabe, a vocal advocate of aggressive easing.

The crowd was largely restrained, applauding at the end of the address as is typical for the meeting of world leaders, corporate executives, and academics.

A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

There are regular meetings of finance ministry officials, numerous bilateral contacts, and of course meetings of the more academic variety, as you are having here today.

Reports are marked by faculty and must be completed satisfactorily to meet the University of Calgary's academic requirement to graduate with a Co-op designation.

In August, Mr. Flaherty met with his advisory panel as well as selected business representatives and academics to discuss key issues facing Canada and «to shape the policies and initiatives of the next phase of Canada's Economic Action Plan».

A common thread of the meeting's analysis was that real estate operates in different ways from that depicted by the usual academic analysis of investment in manufacturing.

All in all, it was a great experience to meet people of various age groups and diverse academic backgrounds come together under one platform to understand and relate with a simple and holistic approach to money, life and ofcourse, investing.

Gerecht was essentially with (see his 2012 essay «Living with Islam») certain voices in the Obama State Dept., or among the academic supporters of the Revolution at a site like The Arabist, which for a time held that the Revolution presented a chance to split the broad Islamic constituency represented by the Brotherhood, to separate the Brothers ready to meet democratic secularists half - way, from the rest, and to let the latter earn the scorn of the populace through their own policies, actions, etc..

This meeting brought together women members of academic societies in religion to initiate the Women's Caucus: Religious Studies.

If this doctrine of the triunity of God were merely intellectual speculation or an intellectual answer to an intellectual problem, it might be interesting to academic minds; it might be a way of meeting a difficult question and providing a better or worse solution to that question.

In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and conversations short and long, I have heard God mentioned rarely, and when he is mentioned he is never talked of in a way that assumes his reality.

Third, a sermon is neither an academic term paper nor a paper to be read at the annual meeting of some learned society.

With the exception of one or two academics, I have yet to meet anyone who responds, «European.»

I'm sorry that her academic credentials do not meet your standards, but may I also remind you that our current, sitting president had test scores that were far inferior to his other Harvard peers which begs the question of why he was admitted at all?

There I met luminaries such as Avery Cardinal Dulles, leaders in the fight for the cause of life, and any number of academic and literary types who seemed drawn to Richard's table.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

This is not an academic question, for the two orders of reality meet in our own human nature.

With the year 2000 getting closer, this previously obscure subject is becoming increasingly topical, and we were meeting to talk about several of the academic projects that are in the works in connection with the upcoming turn of the millennium.

In: Book of Abstracts of the 67th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Wageningen Academic Publisher, The Netherlands, Book of abstracts, no. 22, p. 307.

So I've met with public health people, I've met with nutritionists, I've met with academics who've been working on things like the glycaemic index, the National Heart Foundation, and of course I've met with industry as well.

It will feature an indoor / outdoor specialty restaurant and bar, a state - of - the - art fitness center, 2,300 square feet of meeting space, and intimate public areas, making it an ideal spot to connect for business, academic or leisure pursuits.

Under its original provisions, which many NCAA members labeled unfair and racist, Prop 42 would have denied scholarship aid to «partial qualifiers» who met some but not all of the NCAA's academic requirements for freshman athletes.

After it became academic that his chances of winning at Troon had been blown away in the wind, a frustrated Spieth met the media and had clearly had enough.

(A partial qualifier is a prospective athlete who meets only one of two minimum academic requirements — grade point average or standardized test score.

Other standards UNC didn't meet: Operation of academic support services, the faculty's role in governance & handling of financial aid.

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).

Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, D.C. May 6, 2013.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

Academics are important, but we want assurance that they will have a strong foundation to meet the future successfully in these times of global change.

Through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human being and on the integration of art and academics, our children learn to meet the world with clear and creative thinking, compassion and moral strength, and with the courage and freedom to act.

Dr. Jerry's popular speeches, lectures and seminars have presented assemblies of students, teachers, parents and administrators with practical approaches on how today's teens can overcome the trials and tribulations of growing up, from coping with bullying to meeting parental academic expectations to walking away from drugs and other self - destructive behaviors.

If student athletes do not meet these academic requirements, no matter what scholarship they've been offered, they will not be able to put that uniform on the first day of practice; unless they have made it through the NCAA academic portion of the NCAA Eligibility Center.

The academic program provides both rigor and flexibility to meet the diverse needs of middle school students as they transition from Lower to High School.

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

Through a rich curriculum integrating the academic, artistic, and practical, the Waldorf School of Princeton guides children toward self - knowledge, to meet the world by awakening within them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.

Dr. Bergeron also serves on the academic advisory board for the International Olympic Committee's postgraduate diploma program in sports medicine, and he recently co-chaired the IOC Consensus Meeting on youth athletic development which will be highlighted in a special edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine in July 2015.

Waldorf education recognizes and meets the need for strong development of the intellect, and is committed to excellence in all academic areas.

The researchers present their findings May 3 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, in Baltimore.

We want to make sure that we haven't made any mistakes, that we've been really transparent in how we've calculated our numbers, and that it meets the standard of rigorous peer - review for an academic journal.

The teacher should have the best idea of whether the child can meet social and academic expectations.

«We were really surprised and disappointed because we had hoped that limiting pacifiers would improve breast - feeding rates,» says Dr. Carrie Phillipi, an associate professor of pediatrics at OHSU and co-author of the study, which was presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Boston.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is set to hold a crucial meeting with the President and executive members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja to resolve the strike action currently being embarked upon by the union.

This shadowy gathering of world leaders - academics, bankers, company bosses and politicians - has been meeting annually since 1954 for cosy off - the - record chit - chats about the affairs that affect us all.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday turned down the meeting with the Federal Government.