Sentences with phrase «conventional thinking says»

Conventional thinking says putting insulation in a building prevents heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer.

Conventional thinking says that these are weight training or strength training exercises.

Conventional thinking says that to see your upper abdominal muscles, your body fat ratio should be around 14 %.

Conventional thinking says that any defense trait — in this case, herbicide resistance — should come at a cost to the plant.

the Sixers post shots are only a little bit below average shots for them, so I don't think it would effect it enough to put Simmons number up to where conventional thought says they should be.

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That's not to say Fraser - Jenkins is opposed to bucking conventional thought — he readily acknowledges the importance of such behavior throughout history and says research - driven arguments have helped shape the world we live in today.

«At the time, the conventional wisdom held that golf was dead, but I thought we were seeing some green shoots and there might be a few smart ways for you to make money with it,» the «Mad Money» host said.

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.

«We look for passionate people who can think beyond conventional job responsibilities,» he says.

But technology transfers and investment restrictions are not conventional trade, says Dean Baker, economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan think tank.

Some might say it is a presumptuous book, so frontal is its assault on some conventional ways of thinking.

Our first thought may be that here is simply a conventional way to say that at just this point we are beginning the gospel story that follows, that Mark's little book is itself «the good news.»

«You might not think that there would be much difference, but people can take the biodynamic rice home and cook it and say «this tastes totally different» than conventional or even organic rice.»

He thinks the perception that organic is much more expensive than conventional is stopping retailers from stocking it; however, he says now with the availability of Absolute Organic, it's not such a valid excuse, and as awareness grows about their range, the perception should change over time.

Pick 3 was way too high to take Lattimore last year but I think we all woulda been happy taking the CB at # 3 even though «conventional wisdom» says thats a bad spot to take one.

«I think the conventional wisdom has missed what's going on here,» de Blasio said.

«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.

«The conventional wisdom is that FDA regulation will stifle innovation, and that's a very short - term way to think about this,» Cortez says.

Conventional thinking tends to back the idea that communities that house big, stable businesses can better withstand trade shock, said Goetz, who worked with Jiaochen Liang, doctoral student in agricultural and regional economics.

It addresses the biggest problem facing conventional market research, says Thom Noble, managing director of Neurofocus Europe, the company running the demo: «What people say and what they think is not always the same.»

And the longer the nation waits, the more expensive it will be to move to cleaner technologies in those sectors — a finding that runs contrary to conventional economic thought because prices of solar, wind and battery technologies are rapidly falling, they say.

«I think the conventional role of a secretariat is to shut up and make sure things work,» de Boer said.

«It is interesting work that does fly a bit in the face of conventional thinking,» says Vijayakumar Bhagavatula of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

«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.

I just posted a post on uh — Facebook which I think might be a slightly controversial which was I wrote this little bit of a letter and I put kind of like these five things that have happened over the last year or so where people have said, «Evan, I've ditched psychiatrist or I've ditched my psychologist or my marriage counselor, or my conventional doctor because of functional medicine.»

You know, he — he challenged the original conventional wisdom and said, «Look, quit eating carbohydrate and he — what he was onto is he was on — I think he was on to two very important things.

But I think it's fair to say that «conventional wisdom» still favours much heavier weights than 30 % of 1RM for building muscle mass.

Yet since most of these same experts are stuck in conventional thinking that says saturated fat is bad for you, they advise against eating most of the foods that are richest in essential fatty acids and fat soluble vitamins!

Ask a conventional MD what they think of people who believe that adrenal fatigue is real and they'll typically say that they're quacks.

I think a story with... I don't want to say «broader appeal» about a movie on its way to becoming the most successful ever, so let's say «more conventional plotting» could have been created for Infinity War if it had opened with Thanos already possession of 3 or 4 of the stones.

Nevertheless, I must also say that, while I think 3D world looks great, I would prefer to see a less conventional Mario like Mario 64 or Mario Galaxy.

The less said of the plot, I think, the better: Though its premises are conventional enough, it swerves down unexpected avenues.

«From the very first sketch of the ZDX, I wanted to create an emotional vehicle that challenged conventional thinking of what a sports coupe should be,» said Michelle Christensen, ZDX exterior designer.

That being said, I also think that ebooks and conventional printed books not only co-exist beautifully, but will continue to do so quite amicably — even as ebooks continue to slowly increase as a percentage of overall sales.

«He thinks of cash differently than conventional investors,» Ms. Schroeder says.

At the time, he said the system's overwhelming popularity «defied the conventional thinking,» which the... Continue reading →

«I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense,» says Diller, 63, who met her then tutor Ricardo Scofidio, now 82, while studying at the Cooper Union in New York in the 1970s.

Joanna Marsh, The James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum says, «The artists nominated this year «continue to show a sustained commitment to distinctive work that challenges conventional thinking and expectations about the nature of art.»

They go on to say that, the artist strives to create a «new form of thought» by transforming conventional language with the use of images that «at times... explosively ignite the world of language and concepts,» proving that the relationship between language and photography is central to Nakahira's artistic practice.

«For the quasi-biennial oscillation, the conventional thinking has it that waves travelling upwards from tropical convection create the oscillating winds,» said Osprey.

A representative from Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development made a couple of brief statements on the topic last November at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva during a meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), describing fully autonomous weapons as «an emerging issue» that the government is giving «due consideration» to and said it «requires further discussion and thought.»

It's a conventional loan, so I think it may be tight, but the agent says that the mortgage broker isn't concerned a bit.

«After any major fallout like a financial downturn, it's natural to examine and sometimes alter the way we think about fundamental issues in our lives,» says Ludwig «So it makes sense that this survey shows we are re-thinking what passed for conventional wisdom during the «boom years».