Sentences with phrase «by conventional thinking»

Meanwhile, climatologists are impressed with nature's showing in 2005, because by conventional thinking it should not have been first or second on the all - time list.

As the name implies, it's targeted at people who've struck out on their own and are no longer confined to a nine - to - five physical office, or bound by conventional thinking.

By conventional thinking, that's the sort of power you'd put through all four wheels.

By conventional thinking, the spring had ever so slowly weakened the head - wall rock, which fell as boulders and debris that the seepage eventually eroded away.

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«By taking the bold step of removing a well - established brand symbol from its packaging, General Mills is further challenging marketing's conventional thinking to underscore its point.»

Conventional economic thinking suggests restaurants would respond by raising wages to compete for talent.

This is where I start doubting the advice about the stock market tending to generally rise, because we all thought that about housing, and I feel like we got burned again by buying into the conventional wisdom.

By midday Tuesday Mr. Snowden himself, in a Twitter message from his exile in Moscow, declared that «circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility» for publication, which he interpreted as a warning shot to the American government in case it was thinking of imposing sanctions against Russia in the cybertheft of documents from the Democratic National Committee.

So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.

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Practically, however, the problem is intensified both by the pervasiveness of sin and by the fact that relatively few people think of it as other than the infraction of conventional moral standards.

Thus Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, far from being the cockamamie «Stars Wars» scheme it was promptly dubbed by political adversaries and journalists stuck in the conventional thinking of the era, was the technological expression of the president's moral conviction that nuclear weapons were a grave danger that ought to be taken off - the - board in international public life.

The overarching weakness, he thought, was «a deep need to fulfill the emasculating and benign - to - a-fault role of the good little boy who pleases Mom by following all rules (the civil law, school rules, conventional morality, politeness, etc.)[while] remaining unthreatening and unphysical.»

While both prophecy and tongues are inspired by the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues calls attention to the realm of the Spirit's working that is not irrational, but that can not be adequately comprehended by conventional languages, categories of thought and rational explanations.

The basic assumption of conventional human rights thinking regarding the freedom of information is that freedom of expression as such is given and that there should only be protection against the danger of interference by the state.

There are interesting challenges here to the conventional narrative, but confidence in the author's credibility is severely undermined by his getting through the story with nary a reference to a certain bishop, Karol Wojtyla, who almost everybody else thinks was at the center of it.

Whitehead concedes that this conception is difficult to reconcile with any conventional philosophical tendency of thought or with the usual conceptions of the world cultivated by common sense:

Please just avoid it if you're not comfortable with that sort of humor, and avoid judging people by their senses of humor — maybe it's contrary to conventional wisdom, but I don't think a person's sense of humor is actually a very good indicator of whether they're warm, caring, loving people when / where it counts.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

If you don't think you'll need a conventional one, at least consider bringing a lightweight portable type for use in airports; this will give you a free hand as you tend to tasks such as luggage check - in and pickup, while keeping your child safe and close by.

The problem, I think, is that many people are understandably dissatisfied with a conventional demo followed by listening to speakers.

«There was this initial thought that [circulating tumor cells] are only present at late stage,» says Sollier - Christen, but she notes that in the past year, several studies using more sensitive techniques have found such cells much earlier in tumor development, even before the tumor becomes visible by conventional imaging techniques.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

Researchers think they may soon do even better — perhaps achieving 30 % efficiency — by integrating perovskites with conventional silicon solar cells.

Conventional counterinsurgency thinking tries to get into the heads of rebels by understanding their motivations and methods.

«By challenging conventional thinking and expanding knowledge over the long term, scientists can solve the biggest problems of our time,» said Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, and one of the prizes» founders.

There are thought to be loads of exoplanets out there, but a few of them are too small and too distant from their host stars to be detected by conventional telescopes.

We can then use our conventional, light - based telescopes to look at the transient light signals from the merged neutron star, which we actually think will be powered by the decay of these precious elements.

I'm thinking that synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, etc can not be used for organic crops, but crops could be contaminated by chemicals in the atmosphere just like conventional crops?

Unlike in conventional deadlifting, where you want to initiate the movement by pushing the floor away from you, for the sumo deadlift you want to initiate the movement by thinking about spreading the floor apart.

It got me thinking about the myths surrounding our feminine health and how they are continually perpetuated by the conventional medical industry because of it's lack of viable solutions for women's reproductive and menstrual health conditions.

Conventional medicine, as you called it earlier, was created in response to mainly acute disease where you have a single cause and single effect, and now medicine is trying to adapt to this now environment of chronic disease, which is driven by lifestyle, it's multi-systemic, it's across many different organs, and so that linear model of thinking doesn't really work.

Evan Brand: I think that's awesome that you mentioned that and you're never gonna get told to run that by your conventional doctor.

This is surprising to many people as olive oil is typically the first «healthy oil» that they think of due to heavy promotion of this Mediterranean oil by conventional doctors and nutritionists.

Thoughts by TSR: This trailer for 12 Years a Slave looks a bit more conventional than I would have expected from Steve McQueen, but that is by no means a major knock against its quality.

A Memoir by Sonsyrea Tate Strebor Books Paperback, $ 15.00 288 pages ISBN: 978 -1-59309-122-4 Book Review by Kam Williams «The story I must tell in order to be transformed is the story of my coming out — out of Islam, out of my parents» house, out of traditional choices, out of conventional thinking — in a way, out of my mind... This is a story I need to tell as much as the world suddenly needs to know more about Muslim women behind the veil... I began questioning Islam by the time I was twelve, and by the time I was twenty - one I was sure Islam was not for me.

Chalamet's work in Call Me by Your Name, a film I think is a more potent Best Picture contender than Darkest Hour, may well challenge the conventional wisdom.

I mean, you'd think it was by design, but it wasn't... So even if I wanted to be a little bit more conventional, like, the system doesn't want me to be.»

The active learning of English skills appeared as a result of modifying the conventional thinking by substituting misconceptions with the new belief system.

In a conventional game of Twenty Questions, one person thinks of something and everyone else tries to guess what it is by taking turns asking one yes - no question at a time.

When we practice reflection and think about words as labels to the new concepts which children formulate gradually by observing various aspects of the concept, we understand why the image — word combinations used as the main learning tool by all conventional methods don't work.

Conventional thinking has it that Honda went off the boil when its entrée into hybrid power was overshadowed by Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive systems.

The sound system, which integrates conventional radio, Sirius radio, a multi-disk CD player, a «music box» into which one can upload MP3s, an interface for a thumb drive / MP3 player, and a phone (by Bluetooth), does so through a well thought out screen.

The SL550 also features a manual shift mode actuated by steering - wheel paddles, but I found timing the shifts of the conventional manual transmission tricky and elected to let the Sport program do the thinking for me.

Sticking to the bounds of conventional thinking, taking a path well - worn by others before you... this brings a certain comfort.

I'm a fan of the ebook subscription models as manifested by Oyster and Scribd because I think they complement conventional ebook retail channels where readers purchase books one at a time.

Two thoughts: First, investors are not thrilled by the expanded 2008 loan limits for FHA mortgages and conventional loans.

In this thought provoking and going against the conventional thinking, Christian explains how buyback by companies are not wealth enhancers.

But true value situations by definition are already outside of safe conventional thinking.