From my point of view, they are just fat guys without academic backgrounds.

She used her personal and academic background to understand how people respond to serious illness.

"You give them that so they go to high school a little more confident than the kids who are not from an academic background."

I know she'd be eager to meet someone with your academic background.

I'm just a computer scientist with an academic background in physics.

As we saw earlier many of those interviewed had little traditional academic background having left school at an early age.

But, he said, "we don't get into eye color and academic background."

But both teams of commercial and academic backgrounds are allowed.

This limited candidates to those with an academic background in law.

O'Connor's academic background made him a strong supporter of education.