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academy English

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academy

An academy is an educational organization, similar to a university or college. She passed the exams to enter the local academy. An academy is a place for special training, such as a military academy. I learnt about horses at the riding academy. An academy is a group of experts in a particular field of arts or science, who regulate and promote their speciality. He was made an honorary member of The Academy of American Poets.

academy

a secondary school (usually private) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature a school for special training a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

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Simple sentences

When we reached the Academy there were scores of students there from all over the Island.
Tom and John roomed together at the academy.
Yuri graduated with honors from the Soviet Air Force Academy in 1957.
Dan studied psychological warfare techniques at infantry academy.

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From today on, I will be a student at Ashford Academy.
The academy, at last.
There's one at the Academy on 14th.
He's a graduate of the military academy at Saint-Cyr. And he's very intelligent and very clever.
You will become fencing instructor at the Royal Academy.
You show such interest in the academy.
You have achieved some popularity since you have been at the academy.
Proceed to enlarge the academy.
But I've always looked upon the academy as a school for the art of defense.
I mean, I was at the academy yesterday afternoon and I saw certain things.
You've been summoned here tonight because as students at the Royal Academy I know your loyalty to the king and queen.
Phil meant for the academy, Sam.
It speaks a knowledge of the savage Indian which I am sure you did not acquire at the military academy.
Very Academy of Dramatic Arts. That bitter cynicism is something you've acquired since you left Radcliffe.
He also became an acting teacher at the famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he worked with such students and later luminaries as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as the suave but corrupt senator in Frank Capra's Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
Rains gave one of his finest performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, for which he was Academy-nominated for the fourth time.
Did you receive my letter regarding the rent due on the dancing academy?
He's a graduate of the military academy at Saint-Cyr.
So he'll hustle and get himself a job setting up pins in the Imperial Bowling Academy.
Leave my own party? Phil meant for the academy, Sam.
Very Academy of Dramatic Arts.
She's had rehearsals all day today at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
As though it were a play you were acting in at the Academy.
The best thing you can do, my girl, is to go back to your Academy and practice your soul-shaking antics in surroundings where they can't do any harm.
She goes to dancing academy now.
If you will grant me the privilege. I'd like to submit your work to the Royal Academy when I get back.
This is what the State Academy thinks of.. Your son.
You are no longer a member of my academy.
Gentlemen of the Stegg Academy. And you my dear parents.
The Academy this year, has selected for it's Banner Pupil.. It's model of intellectual youth. None other than Monsieur Charlemagne de La Tour La Tour.
Next to the Academy of Magic.
Take them to the academy.
Oh, of the Academy of Painters in Water Colour.
We rounded out our apprenticeship at an exclusive dramatics academy.
He's been selected from the NCOs trying for the Saumur military academy.
He's a retired army Commander. He gives lessons to boys who want to enter the military academy. And, first and foremost, Don Anselmo.

News and current affairs

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently warned that TV viewing by young children is dangerous for their brain development, and called on parents to keep children under two away from the TV and similar media.
The IPCC report makes it clear that exaggerations of this magnitude have no basis in science - though clearly they frightened people and perhaps will win Gore an Academy Award.
The US National Academy of Sciences estimates that DDT saved 500 million lives from malaria before 1970.
In his recent foreign-policy speech at the US Military Academy at West Point, Obama barely mentioned East Asia.
He graduated from a military academy in Manchuria, where Kishi had once ruled over an industrial empire that was built on Chinese slave labor.
Zhang, who appeared in this year's Oscar-nominated film Hero, refused to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood in protest.
From these data, Bridge's evaluation team determines which lesson is most effective and distributes that lesson throughout the rest of the Academy's network.
Indeed, when asked by Bush to look into the matter, America's National Academy of Sciences came to a resounding verdict (the only one they could honestly reach) that greenhouse gases are a menace.
Indeed, soon after the award was announced in October, Deaton published some startling work with Anne Case in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - research that is at least as newsworthy as the Nobel ceremony.
Best of luck to you as you leave the academy for your chosen professions in finance.
About five hundred belonged to the prestigious Academy of Sciences and worked mainly in basic science.
Indeed, this year's annual session of the Academy of Military Sciences saw army commanders and military theorists try to prove that a future source of conflict will be America's desire to control the world's oil-rich regions.
The National Academy of Engineering identified some possible answers.
Each has a special responsibility for disseminating a report's recommendations throughout its own country, which can considerably enhance the academy's effectiveness in influencing national policies.
Moreover, this summer, the writer and literary critic Sarah Danius became the first woman in 200 years to serve as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel laureate in literature.
The film An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award, led to a Nobel Prize for Al Gore, and attracted huge international attention to the disastrous impact of climate change.
A recent study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences concluded that China's urban-rural income gap is the worst on earth, maybe only slightly better than Zimbabwe.
He is a graduate of the FSB academy and is the son of the former FSB director, Nikolai Patrushev.
If there is any surprise about bin Laden's hideout, it is its location in a military town, Abbottabad, in the shadow of an army academy.
That is why, after being elected for his third (illegal) term as president, Putin asserted full control over the Russian Academy of Sciences.
And this month, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Academy will host a conference in Moscow, with local and international experts discussing the same subject.
Lindberg also served as the Police Academy's spokesman against sexual violence.
Indeed, three years ago, a group of scientists led by Derek Wildman proposed, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that chimpanzees have been shown to be so close to humans genetically that they should be included in the genus Homo.
In 2002, a review by the Dutch Royal Academy of Science found that the chimpanzee colony there was not serving any vital research purposes.
Rickover was a small man, far from the top of his class at the US Naval Academy, who did not look like a warrior or swashbuckling sea captain.

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