Sentences with phrase «on ivory towers»

If Niblett's purpose was solely focused on ivory towers and navel - gazing Chatham House wouldn't get far.

If Francis has the common touch, the story goes, Benedict was firmly out of touch, perched on an ivory tower far inside the Vatican.

The postdoc who wanted to secure a position on the ivory tower — but who found that tenure - track jobs are very difficult to land after 7 years in postdoc positions.

Not exact matches

The idea of building an ivory tower on a corporate campus goes back decades with the best - known — and oldest — run by General Electric.

Arguments about baptism might ramble on in seminaries and ivory towers.

An atheist is like a tick on the ass of a miscoscopic leech with it's head buried in a tick turd, living inside of the intestines of a ivory tower educator, standing up on his tiny little soap box and pretending that people don't exist.

There is no room in God's church for the unapproachable, ivory tower personality who stands on a pedestal to deliver a message from God and then retreats back to his chambers in order to avoid mingling with the masses.

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.

Unfortunately, the old «time ivory tower economists have brainwashed our politicians on the subject.

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.

On the whole, both of these projects represent laudable efforts to transplant humanitarian ethics from the inner chambers of the ivory tower to humanitarian crises and military armouries.

He's got the unions on his side, and he knows that's worth more than whatever the 800 ivory tower liberals in New York think about him.»

At a news conference on Wednesday at the auditorium of the NDU in Amassoma, Bayelsa State, the Chairman of NDU ASUU, Dr. Stanley Ogoun, said though the strike was painful, the prevailing conditions in the nation's ivory tower had made the industrial action an unavoidable option.

On a different track (but related to the remark above about cooperation between ivory - tower scientists and economic - value scientists), having a reputable pure mathematics department attracts students and fellow researchers.

Under the «progressive» failures DeBlasio Dinkins we had 1990 anti-Asian anti-Korean Boycotts, the 1991 anti-Jewish riots in Brooklyn (which Gov Cuomos Girgenti report called the worst in NYC history, directed at Jews), the 1992 riots that tore apart Washington heights, and the crazy mugging and murder rates in the inner city brought on by the ivory tower left wing progressives who inflict criminals on all of us law abiding citizens of all races.

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

Her ivory - tower vision and distorted views on energy would destroy small businesses and property owners who are hanging on by thread,» Faso said.

«This is not a time, if you care about the fate of the planet or of our republic, to retreat to the ivory tower,» said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, who also participated in the hour - long session hosted by AAAS on Jan. 26.

Many blame the lack of minority S&E professors on what the Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) February 2004 report, A Bridge for All: Higher Education Design Principles to Broaden Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, calls an «ivory tower» mentality: the tendency of colleges to pursue developed excellence instead of seeking out and nurturing talent.

Then, as now, the site focused on careers outside the ivory tower — that first feature was on careers in science journalism.

Others, like Tom Burke, founding director of U.K. - based environmental group E3G, dismissed the Nature piece as «an ivory - tower view of life» that focuses on what is being said in academic literature rather than what is happening on the ground as countries slowly but surely buckle to international pressure to take on climate responsibly.

But drawing on AWIS research, Leboy notes that many women who earned science PhDs have ended up outside the ivory tower.

«Scientist have to leave the ivory tower to impact on society, but to do so credibly, advice must be based on sound, ethical and humane science.

No one measures up to their expectations, so they get to be thoroughly fabulous, in the isolated ivory tower, looking down on a sea of flawed people, dating no one... (also not sexy...)

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're in an ivory tower; we don't have impact on legislation — it's very hard to do,» Gardner says.

«For any educator, it's extremely important to not just be in the ivory tower of the district office, but to actually be visible on campus.»

The issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake of the report by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social mobility, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt's latest speech.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

I wrote my own rebuttal to LL Barkat's piece on my blog a few weeks ago http://bit.ly/11ZlMay I stressed the importance of not walling yourself into an ivory tower and pointed out that Hugh Howey says his blog is one of the major things that contributed to his success.

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

I gave up the academic ivory tower and recently started to explore my passion for archaeology on the road.

It was not simply a statement against an ivory towered «high art» but an effort to shed light on the relationship between art and life, an investigation of our daily experience of the world.1 In Kounellis's «objects,» the convergence of two - and three - dimensional materials engages the senses, imagination and emotion.

Because I was academically trained and having that kind of background can be a kind of ivory - towered, siloed feeling at times, I didn't really think about painting in that way until later, in contrast to seeing that the world was happening, seeing what artists were actually doing, and experiencing all of the crossover that was going on.

One can speculate about what's been going on with her, but it may simply be that venturing outside the ivory tower was too much of a stretch for her.

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.

Some ivory tower pederast wants to tell me about my moral obligation based on simulations?

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.

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

But Mann is very afraid to debate, and he hides out in his ivory tower rather than allow his CAGW story to be ripped to shreds, like it is here on a daily basis on the internet's Best Science site.

Pruitt's proposal — first mooted to Joel Pollak on Breitbart's Sirius FM show — has naturally caused massive upset among the ivory towers of climate science academe.

I read that as saying that unless someone has lived on the island of ivory towers, they don't know enough to make a definitive statement about scientific malfeasance done by those that do live there.

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.

This requires a rethinking of what it is the «expert» is really doing for the public — and the best kind of expert is the one who helps you understand how they came to their conclusions, not the one who delivers said conclusions from on high in the ivory tower, with no questions allowed.

World Leaders Bombarded With Wake Up Calls Being inside the ivory tower or other equally secluded events, I actually missed most of the public happenings so far, but Jason Mogus over at TckTckTck points out that over 2578 «Wake Up Call» events happened yesterday are the world... From Rio de Janiero to Japan, from Kenya to Canada, from India to Congo, the message sent to leaders around the world was clear: We need strong action on climate change and we need it now.

,:: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),:: BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,:: How To Talk to a Climate Skeptic,:: NASA: Global Temperature Trends: 2005 Summation,:: DeSmogBlog,:: David Suzuki: Climate Science,:: Global Warming 101: Human Fingerprints (Union of Concerned Scientists)

«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.

The extreme views of partisans are generally well - known in this arena, but I am eager to hear what others in the ivory tower make of all the lethal injection goings - on.

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.

This is a hands on, «roll your sleeves» up managerial role and would not suit an «ivory tower» manager.