A city in southern England northwest of London

Usage examples of oxford.

Newman left Oxford and the Anglican Church for the Church in which he died.

The Reverend Sayce has just been appointed to the new chair of Assyriology at Oxford.

Late on the night of September 19, Governor Barnett, flanked by Order of Battle71 two beefy Highway Patrol bodyguards, strode into a secret strategy meeting of the Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning in a conference room at the University Medical Center in Oxford.

At the little Oxford airport, Ross Barnett was asked by a reporter if he would desegregate the university.

In Washington, Bobby Kennedy figured Ross Barnett must by now have had his moment in the sun, so he decided to register Meredith on September 25, not at the Oxford campus, but at the office of the university trustees at the Woolfolk State Office Building in downtown Jackson.

Later in the afternoon, RFK and Barnett seemed to work out a tentative agreement for a decoy plan: Meredith would register quietly at Jackson on Monday while Barnett and Johnson were at Oxford standing heroically at the entrance to the university.

Me- Daniel, felt that if Barnett gave the word, all 41,000 people would burst out of the stadium and march 170 miles north to Oxford to surround the university, and another 50,000 would join them on the way.

Oxford time, JFK put a call through to Governor Barnett to beseech him to get the Highway Patrol back on the job.

Given the level of extreme hostility between the state and federal governments, Falkner guessed that his outfit might be ordered away from Oxford to remove them from any federal efforts to force James Meredith into the university, and to prevent any unauthorized attempts by state officials to mobilize the Guard to support Barnett instead.

But Barnett also chose not to make a clear, unambiguous plea for the fighting to stop at Oxford.

Johnson had been dispatched by Governor Barnett to try to restore some order to the chaos in Oxford.

In a 1998 interview, James Meredith offered a startling salute to Barnett and his performance during the Oxford crisis.

Nalanda, in Bihar, which has been called the Oxford of Buddhist India.

Hill and North Oxford at gay, contentious little parties, or at other senior common-rooms, or at the meetings of learned societies, for the annual Bollinger dinner is a difficult time for those in authority.

I would at any time prefer to be for 24 hours in the most exposed portion of a bombarded town, than walk 24 times across Oxford Street in the middle of the day.