On December 14, which is observed as Martyred Intellectuals Day, a group of Al-Badr people took away the eminent intellectual from his house.

Calculating the dates of the beginning and end of the world were projects to which the most eminent intellectuals of the period devoted their energies.

The three eminent Roman intellectuals of the mid-1st century BC - Cicero, Varro, and Nigidius - supported Pompeius in the civil war.

This text was well regarded among eminent French intellectuals, and gained followers for Cartesianism in many other countries including Turkey and Poland.

He also played a significant role in helping many eminent intellectuals fleeing Europe to find refuge in Turkey.

She never attended a formal school, all her education took place at home, but instead she is ranked an eminent intellectual, reader and writer.

"My father, one of the most eminent intellectuals of his time, is retiring," Podhoretz, a stout, prematurely balding man, tieless and perspiring, said in a wounded tone.

Certain eminent intellectuals are likely to be tolerated, too, on the strength of honours earned in the days when they had fresh ideas.

The congress, a club of scholars and artists founded in 1950 and subsidized by "the Company" until the late 1960's, encompassed some of the most eminent intellectuals in the West.

He is also an eminent intellectual, author, editor of academic journals and advocate of intercultural dialogue.