Sentences with phrase «despite common opinion»

Despite the common opinion that composing an outline is a waste of time and one should better spend this time on developing the essay, we believe the opposite is true.

Not exact matches

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

Unanimous... what a great article & what an awesome dialogue between some moms who, despite any differences in opinion / perspective, clearly have at least two things in common (in my humble opinion / observation):

Despite failing to ignite action from the Senate, Congressman Brian Higgins says the Democratic sit - in at the House chambers «effective in galvanizing public opinion» on what he calls «common sense gun safety measures.»

Despite these differences in opinion, one thing nearly all successful bodybuilders have in common is that they generally have to add cardio when dieting down for shows.

Despite the alarmist tone of the book you were citing, please trust your common sense, work with your dentist for the teeth problems you are having and don't let unresearched opinions blame the healthy foods you are enjoying.

Barnard, who has been running Points.com for a decade, has found that despite this difference of opinion about the value of miles, «one common thread of people who participate in these programs is they all have this aspirational view of them: «I'm doing all this to get to Fiji one day on these miles.»

Despite the common perception that opinions vary across different parts of the country, survey data analyzed by Jon Krosnick at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment establishes that the vast majority of Americans are in agreement with the scientific consensus on global warming.

Despite my disappointment with the tone of his criticism, I am a fan of Dan Kahan's work and I think he provides many insights on why we adopt the positions we do, and he exposes the fallacies of some common - sense explanations of how and why we form opinions.

In fact, despite widespread and growing discontent with the perpetually vexed expert witness system in the Ontario auto insurance system — OTLA has never shown up at any of the many media battles over systemic shoddy IMEs / IEs which morph into flawed expert opinion evidence (substandard «expert» opinion evidence is as common as dirt in the Ontario personal injury context).