(a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.
(n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst , emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions.
(2) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(3) Emeritus Professor Centre for Innovation and Research in Science Education, University of York.
(4) One idea is that the money should be invested in universities such as the London School of Economics – where David Metcalf, chair of the MAC, holds the post of emeritus professor.
(5) Paul Cheshire, professor emeritus of economic geography at LSE and a researcher at the Spatial Economics Research Centre, has produced data showing that restrictive planning laws have turned houses in the south-east into valuable assets in an almost equivalent way to artworks.
(6) It would be prohibitively expensive to break the contract and Russia has no viable candidate to replace him, the RFU president emeritus, Vyacheslav Koloskov, has argued.
(7) First of all, I would like to say a prayer for our bishop emeritus, Benedict XVI.Let us all pray together for him, let us all pray together for him so that the Lord my bless him and that the Madonna may protect him.
(8) Emeritus professor of medicine at UCL, John Yudkin , said pre-diabetes "is an artificial category with virtually zero clinical relevance .… There is no proven benefit of giving diabetes treatment drugs to people in this category before they develop diabetes, particularly since many of them would not go on to develop diabetes anyway."
(9) Christopher Todd Emeritus professor of French, University of Leeds • Angus Robertson is entirely right to say that young voters need a say on their EU future.
(10) This is the stark view of Norman Dombey, emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
(11) Philip Hedley Director emeritus, Theatre Royal Stratford East, London • It is true that the decline of working-class representation in all spheres of British public life represents a narrowing of our culture for the worse.
(12) While many accept the need to update the existing state information law – which dates back 30 years – opposition MPs, civil society groups, trade unions, academics, journalists, writers, archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu and friends of Nelson Mandela have lined up to condemn the bill.
(13) "I'd be highly sceptical about gains to medical science from this merger," said Nick Bosanquet, emeritus professor of health policy at Imperial College London.
(14) John Thornes, professor emeritus of applied meteorology at the University of Birmingham, remembers these rain experiments of the 1960s.
(15) you can only call it an epidemic," says Julian Leff, emeritus professor at the Institute of Psychiatry.
(16) The archbishop emeritus, who has been described as the moral conscience of South Africa, and the de facto leader of the liberation struggle while Mandela was in jail, has become a fierce critic of the African National Congress (ANC) under president Jacob Zuma.
(17) Machines at work “I can see mass unemployment on the horizon as the robotics revolution takes hold,” said Noel Sharkey, a professor emeritus of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield in the UK.
(18) Frank Close is professor of theoretical physics at Oxford University and emeritus fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, and the author of Neutrino (OUP)
(19) Peter Muchlinski Emeritus professor of international commercial law, The School of Law, Soas, University of London • As a nation with a trade deficit of some 7% of GDP, it is obvious that we have to flog things off but I would like to make the case that it would be less culturally damaging to sell off Ely Cathedral than ARM Holdings.
(20) This is the conference given by Jorge Mardones, Emeritus Professor of the University of Chile on the occasion of receiving the Juvenal Hernández award.
Professor
Definition:
(n.) One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
(n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(4) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(5) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(6) Harvey Whiteford, Kratzmann professor of psychiatry and population health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said depression was very common and was the second leading cause of health-related disability.
(7) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(8) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
(9) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
(10) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
(11) In the 17 student groups (nine in the morning shift, eight on the evening schedule), significant differences were found in the biochemical subjects under study (p = 0), among the nine individual professors (p = 0), between the morning vs. evening shift students (p = 0.014) and between the 17 student groups (p = 0.04).
(12) Professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.
(13) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(14) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
(15) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(16) "The more I've worked on data protection over the past 20 years, the more I've realised that at the heart of this, what matters as much as the privacy aspect is the issue of human decision-making," said Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute.
(17) Professor Joseph Pearlman City University, London • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
(18) He was supported by Professor John Appleby, chief economist at the King's Fund, who calculated that the NHS would have £910m less to spend over that period.
(19) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.
(20) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.