The umbrellas and those carrying them had obstructed the stage and thus deleted.

That is the challenge facing American public intellectuals today.

The first educated artists from European academies appeared with the beginning of the 20th century.

Moreover, some secular intellectuals demonized the Brotherhood.

Activists in Syria await the release of all political and intellectual prisoners.

In 1948, Wrocław organized the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace.

According to Robert D. Kaplan, eyeglasses were as deadly as the yellow star as they were seen as a sign of intellectualism.

The propaganda war continue, and public institutions worked to purge religious views from intellectuals and academia.

For some time many Russian liberals had been dissatisfied by what they regarded as the empty discussions of the intelligentsia.

They recognize that India has the most economically literate leadership in the world. They expect reforms to continue, albeit at a rather gentler pace.

This was a gathering which was attended by a lot of intellectuals, journalists and activists among which we note the presence of prominent Lebanese composer and singer Marcel Khalife.

A powerful intellectual force of the time was anti Catholicism, led by the liberal intellectuals who formed a vital part of Bismarck's coalition.

Marxism appealed to Chinese intellectuals, because it was bookish, introduced a modern moral orthodoxy, and was based, like Confucianism, on a promise of perfect harmony.

Yam remains a hero to many in Hong Kong, including journalists unschooled in international finance.

And I want to remind you that the giants upon whose shoulders today's intelligentsia stand did not have to have English, they didn't have to pass an English test.

In fact, some intellectuals close to the right have long advocated an opening towards Europe s Muslim immigrants and their descendants.

From Bill Clinton to Robert Redford, countless pundits blamed Sandy on climate change.

Intellectuals, on the other hand, have a special obligation to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable.

In the 1970s, under the Pol Pot regime, the Khmer Rouge killed over a million people, and they focused and targeted the elites and the intellectuals, the artists, the dancers.

(f) To accelerate the process of the investigation into the suspicious deaths and killings of intellectuals and political activists and to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice

After a century slowly fomenting among Chinese intellectuals, national sentiment has captured and redefined the consciousness of the Chinese people during the last two decades of China s economic boom.

Articulate intellectuals and groups such as labor unions and environmental organizations in the advanced economies have voiced anti globalization fears and sentiments for at least a quarter century.

The campaign was met by great enthusiasm from Mauritanian intellectuals and figures, who praised the campaign and and donated many books. Hussein Ould Mohammed Omar blogged about the initiative

However, a subtle shift took place in the way that intellectuals approached religion that was reflected in many other areas of cultural life.

That trend is generally called Islamic modernism, and it was advanced by intellectuals and statesmen, not just as an intellectual idea though, but also as a political program.

Since 2002, the program has helped connect about 650 persecuted intellectuals (many from Iraq and Syria) with schools in the United States or in other safe countries.

Similarly, Indian academia may be moribund, but new public intellectuals like Pratap Bhanu Mehta have emerged from outside the mainstream.

The arrest of intellectuals women's rights flogging and stoning implementation of Sharia law and now the arrest of a mascot for not complying with Islamic attire. It is painful that Muslim's causes are now issues that the civilised world has moved away from

We were burying the collective dream of intellectuals and democrats for a Russia where freedom and the rule of law would, after a long and cold Soviet winter, take root and bloom.

ALBERTA As the twentieth century neared, Pope Leo XIII, grieving for humanity s choice between atheistic socialism and venal liberalism, commissioned Catholic intellectuals to devise a better solution.

Well I say we have to stop thinking about the number of iPods per capita and start thinking about ways in which we can empower intellectuals, dissidents, NGOs and then the members of civil society.

As South African writer Zakes Mda recently tweeted Zimbabwe compares only with Nigeria in the per capita production of African intellectuals (scholars, writers, scientists, economists etc.)

So he must surely loath writers who represent everything that the Tea Party and other radical right wingers abhor the highly educated, intellectual, urban, secular, and not always white.

I was at the Global Health Conference here in Washington last week, and I could see the wrong concept even active people in United States had, that they didn't realize the improvement of Mexico there, and China, in relation to United States.

Equating Sarkozy with Marshal Pétain s collaborationist Vichy regime is, of course, an exaggeration, but Rocard s concerns are shared by many French and not only intellectuals and pundits.

American intellectuals failure to challenge these ideas and to help the US population shed complacent attitudes based on ignorance perpetuates a culture of coddling the public.

In response to a period of Russification initiated by the Russian Empire in the 1890s, Estonian nationalism took on more political tones, with intellectuals first calling for greater autonomy and, later, complete independence from the Russian Empire.

As a result, a growing number of intellectuals have routinely found racist or xenophobic speech, writing and, therefore, acts acceptable and legitimate.

In Israel, the educated Jewish activists who criticize Israeli abuses against Palestinians, the peaceniks who believe that negotiation is better than violence and that even Arabs have rights, are called, with a knowing sneer, beautiful souls.

Unless India s highly educated stand up for better schools for all, protests against caste preferences will only succeed in heightening tensions and selling newspapers, rather than improving the lives of India s destitute.

Akram Yari was a teacher and propagator of Marxism and introduced Marxism to a large number of intellectuals and political activists in Afghanistan, among them Dr. Faiz Ahmad, founder of Afghanistan Liberation Organization (ALO).

Instead of a show of lofty disdain, or official silence, it made a colossal fuss, protesting fiercely about plots to undermine China, and putting dozens of prominent Chinese intellectuals, including Liu s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.

For one, Lebanon is not even on the map for most of the world For me, today, Lebanon is mostly a bunch of low class, rubbish people that rule out any image the few intellectuals behind the scenes strive to propagate.

For example, the civil services in Iraq have recently crossed a threshold beyond which they are now probably impossible to administer.

The letter, which was signed by 104 Saudi intellectuals, petitioned the Government on several political issues, including the necessity of adopting comprehensive institutional reforms in order to establish a constitutional monarchy, to strengthen relations between the leadership and the community and to guarantee the unity and the stability of the Kingdom.