From 1969 to 1976 he headed the university seminars, an organization that includes nearly 80 scholars and authorities from many fields.

A very confident performance, which would not have been out of place as a university seminar, but which was not, perhaps, geared to this audience.

Ms. Phillips will be joining a male-dominated institution in which expertise counts for a lot and policy debates often take on the air of university seminars.

He warned that the party sounded like a "university seminar" or "debating society", an apparent criticism of r Miliband's conference speech.

"Our president at the time, Charles Taylor, was against all three," Gbowee told a university seminar in Boston in 2006.

Mr Johnson conceded that the leadership was not helping itself by failing to present its policies effectively and too often sounding like a "debating society" or "university seminar".

Once again, Gant was forcibly reminded of a university seminar, rather than a vital intelligence briefing.

The books were presented at schools conferences and university seminars, and both quickly become set texts.

The idea of green taxes has been kicking around university seminars since it was proposed in the 1920's by the English economist Arthur Pigou.

Find someone who has attended a university seminar.