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    academic


    1. Two years of academic work binned because of him, and seven years’ worth of Raw Sex Object judged worthless without his even looking at it


    2. They ground their way thru breakfast and getting the kids over to the academic tutor's room


    3. due for a student in her academic years


    4. She had to say something, she’d fall back on the academic meeting protocol


    5. Belle recognized the nature of the unformed plea, intuitively acknowledging that a woman's practical interest in the modern achievement stood in contrast to a man's academic appreciation; she said, “If you don't mind, I'll just go and check that the twins aren't into any mischief


    6. Henry, once again, recounted his academic aspirations and the novel events of his journey to Clive House


    7. So it was that by the morning of their rendezvous with the impending academic challenge, they were calm and excited to begin


    8. I have also,” and she reached again into her bag and produced three unsealed envelopes and three sealed but unaddressed envelopes, “included my personal letters of recommendation of their, quite extraordinary, academic command and achievement


    9. The new Headmaster made good his open-door offer to Harry, and prior to the first day of classes they sat and outlined a course of studies which would yield the results from his academic career that would set him well prepared for his future path


    10. While Desa had her academic life, Alan opened the lower abandoned area up by repairing stairs and railings and opening up a few walled-over doorways

    11. Academic achievement also gained privileges as well as accolades such as special items of clothing, different neckties, scarves and badges


    12. Hogan and the Prof helped carry the crockery back to the kitchen and then the marine followed the academic to his laboratory


    13. An academic suited more to classrooms and civic dinners as opposed to telling a bunch of teenagers that they had to kill their fellow man in order to survive


    14. There were academic debates going on down there over the odds of outgassing asteroids coming to rest in this position while Alan still thought his parents were flesh


    15. Piishain was also a serious student in spite of her habits and helped him find his way around the academic levels of this institution


    16. Faced with academic difficulties, students tend to procrastinate in


    17. The Lyndau file was an entire academic press publication in itself – if not released under a popular science press publisher


    18. Of course, there would be a level of security; and perhaps this façade was telling visitors: this is a serious academic institution, based on millennia of teachings, a scholarly place


    19. In fact, his academic record was at best patchy; school never held much interest, there were even suggestions that he undergo ‘imprinted learning’ (a latterly illegal process of grafting knowledge onto neuron networks) such was his failure at the core subjects – even mathematics, which at the time seemed irrelevant


    20. For some time she had wanted to specialise in art, just leave those academic subjects her parents had pressured her to stick with to advance-higher level

    21. Much to his parents’ annoyance he had shunned any higher academic training and thrown himself instead into the day-to-day running of the colony


    22. But how can we be sure they don’t? Anyway it’s academic; they are marked as press and even an amateur with a camera could relay video to Earth’s press


    23. spectacles of an academic


    24. It occurs to me to wonder just how many of America"s voting public are aware that the students of so-called schools of education, whenever compared with their counterparts in any other academic field have, invariably, the lowest S


    25. Anything which is not deeds is academic cr-p


    26. He tried to kill you?” What could an academic have done to earn Hollowcrest’s ire? She almost snorted


    27. Most people do not understand this, but let me explain it in practical terms without becoming academic


    28. I now believe that's where my distaste against (male) teachers began! Who breaks a promise to a child? Also started to distrust the academic side of things from that day onwards


    29. Reducing academic standards provides a free pass to underachieving students while undermining the (potential) progress of talented students (otherwise) capable of taking ―it‖ to a higher level


    30. The Judge sentenced him to death as expected and made a few choice remarks on his lack of knowledge on what communism is in academic terms

    31. The clever academic professors tried with theories which came close to what the Nazi's said about the Jews


    32. They learned quickly that the mean streets were not the academic class rooms


    33. The hastening of scholastic mediocrity in America‘s (urban) Public School System is understood by the efforts of (its) soft-headed administrators and educators seeking to promote equality of results at the expense of its brightest students, many of whom are routinely held in check in order to allow their less talented classmates ―sufficient‖ opportunity to play catch-up; oftentimes necessitating a lowering of academic standards for the ―benefit‖ of other students who are intellectually less gifted, thereby promoting false impressions of academic achievement where performance results are (oftentimes) questionable


    34. Racial quotas and preferences are denying many promising students equal access to quality schools by promoting a ―spoils‖ system that seeks to redress ―historical‖ grievances by replacing academically gifted students with lesser scholastic talents by virtue of their race, ethnicity, gender and religion rather than academic achievement


    35. There was a time, (certainly before my time), when college professors harboring ―progressive‖ or insurgent designs, teaching in more conventionally-minded (academic) environments, had to raise ―false fronts‖; that is to say, ―operate‖ within the school‘s customary guidelines, in order to ―win‖ students over


    36. My two sons have a shelf full of little league and karate trophies and walls full of academic and other awards as a result of the sowing done by both of their parents into their lives in the early ages


    37. Addendum to the above: Higher rates of lower-paying jobs; that is to say, higher rates of ―under-employment‖ will oftentimes distort unemployment statistics in the same (inverse) manner statistics report higher achievement levels in ―formerly‖ under performing schools, especially those located in predominately urban areas, in proportion to their lowering of academic standards


    38. There are many areas of the children’s lives that require cooperation, from choosing the schools they attend and their academic progress including grades (good and bad) to their health, vacations, discipline and so on


    39. They created pseudo academic and sporting groups to explain the wicked Apartheid ways as only a true spin-doctor could


    40. To classify them into sub sections will lead to academic debates which is useless to us

    41. Honestly I think they are wrong and busy with academic cr-p by saying such things


    42. What has happened, in effect, is that a college education has devolved into a cross-generational equivalent of a high school diploma; that is to say, a contemporary college education has superseded anachronistic (academic) standards of a generation ago


    43. Therefore, erstwhile high school students are presently residing on college campuses that were once reserved for scholastically minded individuals who formerly claimed a higher academic standing


    44. This explains the difference between real life and an academic answer


    45. You need to ensure the interests of your client and the academic answer is unpractical even if correct


    46. This more of an academic nature and argument which I normally try to avoid! In real life it means nothing to you where we think it fits in


    47. The glaring academic and (civic) deficiencies of a growing number of students render it neither feasible nor desirable that any thoughtful individual should whitewash the negative impact that under-performing schools are having on our economy, not to mention the rise in anti-social behavior in general


    48. Academic standards are not necessarily established because they are considered achievable but because they represent objective performance measures perceived worthy of achievement, notwithstanding (the) student‘s ability to achieve them


    49. Perhaps the question we should all be asking ourselves is what is it that determines relevancy in school environments where most traditional subject matter seems to have lost its potency? At the present rate, unless higher academic standards (and discipline) are restored in the classroom, many schools may very well become irrelevant in their own right, if not already so!


    50. It is not my intention to marginalize the importance of classroom instruction and the vital role it plays in promoting academic achievement but to point out, rather, that the many decisions these students will eventually make in their professional careers will oftentimes override the limits of classroom instruction











































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    Synonyms for "academic"

    academic academician faculty member donnish pedantic conjectural speculative suppositional scholarly erudite learned schooled

    "academic" definitions

    an educator who works at a college or university


    associated with academia or an academy


    hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result


    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects