Sentences with phrase «accepted wisdom in»

Indeed, it remains accepted wisdom in the province of Alberta, the very epicenter of Canada's oil and gas industry.

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It's accepted wisdom that the pace of change in business is accelerating.

Since China joined the World Trade Organization, in 2001, it has been accepted wisdom that low - priced Chinese labour will undercut western manufacturers, driving them toward extinction.

She expects earnings per share of $ 3.52 in 2006, the year in which its retail strategy will be unveiled, and a majority of analysts have a Buy on the company — which is something you might not expect, considering the accepted wisdom about the China Threat.

As an investor in start - ups, I have heard the accepted wisdom that out of 10 portfolio companies, only one is likely to be a big success, the rest will either fail or barely return the investment — «only» half of my investments failed.

The generally accepted political wisdom is that any party willing to «accept» a deficit and more debt would be trounced in the election.

I accept the conventional wisdom bull story in Gold — even though I know that conventional wisdom is usually wrong.

Perhaps someone with the stature and wisdom of Solomon will emerge and find a way to develop a framework in which both sides could accept each other within an agreed consensus.

In a society where accepted wisdom changes by the minute, they claim that some truths are so critical that they must be repeated over and over again.

The motto of the Dominican Order is «Veritas», which throws down the gauntlet to our age in which the accepted wisdom is a relativism that asserts, «Something may be true for you, but that doesn't make it true for anyone else.»

As difficult and humbling as it may be to accept, the only explanation for all the energy and matter that has been formed into the overwhelming order and design in the natural world, is a Master Designer with unlimited power, intellect, wisdom.

Philosophy (which means love of wisdom) I thought it wise to accept the fact that there is someone greater than I that could have made all that has happened in the natural course of events.

Learning about Nirvana and accepting the wisdom associated with it need not in any way weaken our convictions about God.

A charming story about his impact concerns the so - called Serenity Prayer in constant use by the half - million acknowledged alcoholics in Alcoholics Anonymous groups throughout the world: «O God, give us serenity to accept what can not be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.»

Thus, Clarke and some other Thomists now accept, in some sense, what Hartshorne referred to in 1963 as «divine openness to creaturely influence» (Wisdom, 92).

Those who are wise in their own minds (whether they are «educated» or not makes no difference) often depend upon their own wisdom; whereas those who are know they have much to learn (that is, they are «babes») are willing to accept what Jesus reveals to them about the character and nature of God.

He accepts them because they «contain something characteristic, new, reaching out beyond popular wisdom and piety and yet are in no sense scribal or rabbinic nor yet Jewish apocalyptic».

It is of less significance to know how many of such optimistic or resigned «wisdom» sayings were really spoken by Jesus, than to see that the view of man set forth in this proverbial wisdom is in general accepted by Jesus.

In the summer of 1943 he wrote a notable prayer: «God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that can not be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.»

If we are to accept the conclusions of St Thomas then, since he was the Wisdom of the Father, his capacity for intimate participation in our humanity was that much greater, since sin darkens our intellect, as it weakens our will.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

But wisdom does more than accept the presence of other life than our own, more than place the self outside the self and in the context of others: it orders life.

And to truly understand the scriptures you must accept Christ and receive the Holy Spirit in order to receive the wisdom to understand them.

We appreciate and admire humility in our former great folk and love then all the more for showing courage to accept the mental decline, and still having the wisdom and humility to accept when their time at the top is over.

This season has defied conventional wisdom and accepted tenets in EPL such as spending a lot of money on quality players, keeping the established order intact etc..

Chelsea favourite Pat Nevin has taken a stance against the accepted wisdom that Alvaro Morata was shocking in Saturday's match against Southampton.

Chelsea favourite Pat Nevin has taken a stance against the accepted wisdom that Alvaro Morata was shocking in Saturday's match against Southampton, and that the striker's removal was the real catalyst for the team's stunning three goal turnaround.

Joining Championship outfit Derby County in September 2013, it was accepted that Wisdom needed experience away from Liverpool playing weekly in a competitive environment.

By then I had accepted the prevailing wisdom that the Conservatives would win a landslide victory, providing them with a three - figure majority in the Commons.

«Those individuals — I'm not going to prejudge them; they deserve due process — but anyone who accepts personal gifts in the year 2016 is not paying attention to today's ethics standards or the ethics training I'm sure they were given along the way, or didn't have the wisdom to consult with a lawyer,» de Blasio said.

Contrary to the accepted wisdom, local campaign spending can result in important shifts in the vote.

The idea that U.S. students are avoiding science has been repeated so often in recent years, by so many scientific organizations, that it has become accepted wisdom.

Scott Armbruster, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Portsmouth, and one of the authors, said: «Contrary to the accepted wisdom, the role of nectar seems in this instance to not be just about attracting and rewarding pollinating insects.

How a self - taught naturalist unearthed hidden symbioses in the wilds of British Columbia — and helped to overturn 150 years of accepted scientific wisdom

Writing in the June 2017 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.

The Kavli Foundation recently held a conversation with the new laureates to learn what led them to study memory and cognition, the challenges they faced in getting the neuroscience community to accept findings that often went against the conventional wisdom of the time, and where they see cognitive neuroscience as a field headed.

And then there are the peculiar standards in place in scientific journals for articles submitted by those who raise questions about accepted climate wisdom.

A new study led by Western University's all - star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins — a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

If you're a believer in the 5 - second rule, you've accepted the popular wisdom that it takes longer than that for germs to transfer from the floor to a dropped piece of food.

In other words, the accepted wisdom on pumpkin seeds and acne is a mere shadow of the truth.

Making insecurities hold you back in life is such a waste of precious time and love the advice the trainer gave about accepting where you are and working towards what you want to be, great words of wisdom!

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Somehow, Bob finds wisdom in his patter and learns to accept his mortality better through the reality of statistical probability.

The two impart their wisdom to beat cops, who are equally accepting of and perplexed by their methods, and occasionally dip their sticks in some odd murders in the county.

The sweet hereafter of the title is that zone of wisdom where we ultimately come to accept the unacceptable and in some provisional, broken way, go on living.

In the guise of Marcy May, she acquiesces to the whims of calculating commune leader Patrick (John Hawkes, Winter's Bone), accepting his words of wisdom as gospel.

Even though our NatureMapping project is designed to fill gaps in existing information about where certain plant and animal species are located (see «How To: Start Counting Critters»), we didn't set out to challenge accepted scientific wisdom.

If we impart knowledge and empower a human being must we not also accept the responsibility to help him grow in wisdom?

And in the title story, a young woman turns to her painting and the wisdom of her grandmother for the strength to accept her fiance's past when it arrives on her doorstep.

I have always favored the Serenity Prayer my mother has hanging in her house - grant «God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I can not change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.»