In 1990, the struggle between the two camps revolved around admission to the highly prestigious, autonomous military academies.
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The birth of modern education: the contribution of the dissenting academies 1660-1800.
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The sons of impoverished farmers poured into the military academies and increasingly turned against corrupt urban politicians.
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English folk music is similarly under-represented in the concert hall and in dance academies.
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He enjoyed visiting schools, military academies, museums, zoos, parks and scientific institutes.
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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centur ies, scientific academies helped support potential adjudications by recording new research results and pr ior ity claims.
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They offered fewer subjects than comparable white academies, but provided tuition in washing and ironing, which might prove useful to girls for whom domestic service constituted a probable occupation.
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A casual look at the academies might give the impression that they were mostly social in nature, that they functioned as a pastime for bored aristocrats and ambitious letterati.
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Partly excepted from this crisis were some major national research centres at the national academies of sciences, but the crisis severely damaged regional and local institutions and heritage protection.
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Moreover, a close-knit social network exists among graduates of the different military academies, many of whom have taken impor tant posts in the military and elsewhere.
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The admissions criteria of these academies have provoked acrimonious debates about secularism and the role of the military in fashioning the country's political culture and educational policies.
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Is it to sit in our academies and insist that we know the truth, we are the experts who can say that it was not so?
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What about academies and agricultural societies, banks and bridges, charitable associations and churches?
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By about 1750, most scientific academies had established regular contact with one another, exchanging publications and occasionally collaborating on joint scientific projects requiring many scattered observers.
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Sponsors of academies are expected to play a key role in the strategic leadership of the schools they support.
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Collocationswithacademy
academy
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national academy
The tenders are to be let by mid-1996, and we hope that the national academy will be built fairly soon thereafter.
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naval academy
I had never before been in anavalacademy.
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police academy
However, the eligible pool was skewed due to negotiations between the two parties in 1993 which permitted fewer ex-guerrillas in the very first senior officers' class of thepoliceacademy.
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