Sentences with phrase «against the conventional wisdom in»

Investing in major capital projects perhaps goes against the conventional wisdom in a recession, but CDG knew that in order to improve the business, the basic infrastructure had to be in place.

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Her advice totally goes against conventional wisdom, Vigeland admits, and following it is likely to be terrifying, but nonetheless she urges «everyone who's ever dreamed of setting fire to expense reports or tossing a uniform in the dumpster to take a flying leap in the year ahead.»

Why It's Worth Reading: This book is largely a reaction to, and against, the conventional wisdom in Getting to Yes.

Mr. Gurley, who cuts a distinctive figure in Silicon Valley in no small part because of his lanky 6 - foot - 9 frame, went against conventional wisdom even before he became an investor.

«We are going against conventional wisdom that these platforms are a vital component of a successful business,» chairperson and founder Tim Martin said in a statement.

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.

He is interested in helping the church use its best resources to cut against the grain of conventional wisdom.

Against the conventional wisdom that Niebuhr's theology is pessimistic, lacking in hope and therefore immobilizing, I propose that, whatever its provisional pessimism, his theology is ultimately optimistic, hope - filled, and therefore energizing.

The difficulty was, that to say so, even for a scientist with the factsat his fingertips, was to go against a powerful and intolerant conventional wisdom: «We liberals», he wrote, «who work in the fields of global HIV / AIDS and family planning take terrible professional risks if we side with the pope on a divisive topic such as this.

But the announcement drew attention in part because it goes against the conventional wisdom that social media marketing and email marketing complement one another and in fact work better in concert.

Nothing against Harkavy as a candidate, but conventional wisdom suggests that if the town chair can't find anybody to run, which is his or her primary job, the ticket is in trouble.

Conventional wisdom holds that Sen. Ted Cruz doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the GOP presidential nomination, but I wouldn't bet the ranch against him yet.

Ed Miliband's brother, David, in a valedictory TV interview at the weekend, cautioned against the conventional wisdom that a hung parliament was likely after the next election.

In an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers go against conventional wisdom to show that each neuron functions as a collection of excitable elements, where each excitable element is sensitive to the directionality of the origin of the input signaIn an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers go against conventional wisdom to show that each neuron functions as a collection of excitable elements, where each excitable element is sensitive to the directionality of the origin of the input signain the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers go against conventional wisdom to show that each neuron functions as a collection of excitable elements, where each excitable element is sensitive to the directionality of the origin of the input signal.

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.

Other scientists just did not believe our results, because they went against conventional wisdom of blood circulation and metabolism in the brain.

Acura, going against conventional wisdom, figures the category will grow 26 percent in the next five years and aims to be ready.

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The moment of truth came in a windowless basement laboratory on January 23, 1997, at around 2 or 3 a.m. «JD and I put a microcapsule in between two copper electrodes on a slide, put it under a microscope, and for the first time, against conventional wisdom, proved that you could move a particle inside a microcapsule with an external electric field,» Comiskey wrote.

While conventional wisdom would be against using credit cards and we would never advocate carrying any type of balance on one because of the near usurious rates, in certain situations, it might just be your only option.

Although conventional wisdom is that the CAD has been weaker against the USD (given its recent strength), in fact, since HBG was launched, the CAD gained ~ 7 % versus the USD and the EUR, and gained a substantial 21 % versus the GBP.

It comes with the territory of arguing against normally well - reasoned Conventional Wisdom.But occasionally I hit... [Read more...] about Targeting Conventional Wisdom in 2015 (and 3 Predictions for 2016)

(Keep in mind I'm arguing against the Conventional Wisdom here.

I'd only argue against Conventional Wisdom which perhaps Scott had also happened to agree with in passing though he probably wasn't that passionate about it and hopefully he won't get upset with me for writing this and if he does maybe I can claim Plucky broke into my account and wrote it while I was distracted watching «The Voice.»)

Conventional wisdom holds that East Africa's Maasai pastoralists hunt lions for two distinct reasons: to retaliate against lions that kill livestock or to engage in a cultural rite of passage.

By now it has become conventional wisdom that age discrimination against hiring workers 50 + years of age has become excessive in recent years.