In the scholarly world of old master paintings, debates about authenticity are common and constitute a kind of blood sport.

The intent was to study and analyse the results of the excavations and publish the information for the scholarly world.

He's spent his working life gathering data, but that is a difficult way of making one's mark in the scholarly world.

Almost inevitably we were made conscious that each of us was on trial, especially in the eyes of the scholarly world.

Although this case is now making headlines in Europe, the idea of "universal jurisdiction" was already the subject of intense debate in the scholarly world.

She came to the attention of the scholarly world in the early 1970s, when she was "discovered" by students of Bean.

"Low culture," she continued, "is infiltrating the scholarly world, a curriculum of aptly 'higher' learning in which shallow amusements have no place."

Because of this work he received recognition in the scholarly world and gained many enthusiastic friends, especially S. D. Luzzatto.

But the scholarly world is moving quickly to accommodate what already seems clear - that some of Hemings's children were descended from Jefferson.

"But I give you my word that they're all figures whose stature in the scientific or scholarly world is equal to your own."