Sentences with phrase «assumption of the kind of person»

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«Our work challenges the widespread assumption that true creativity requires a kind of anarchy in which people are permitted to speak their minds, whatever the consequence,» commented study lead author and Cornell organizational behavior professor Jack Goncalo.

And I find this assumption by the personal finance establishment that most people are deliberately not trying to do their best to be kind of offensive.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

A lot of people run their lives under the assumption that Adam and Eve were real and what they did gives Jesus some kind of salvation power over (and justification for torturing) everyone.

The net effect of both the assumptions and the conclusion is that some boys are born into situations in which the combination of gene expression and social context heavily determine what kind of person they will be.

If she had, she would have witnessed a different kind of radical inclusion — one based not on the assumption that each person is secretly intelligent, or capable of consensual and pleasurable sex, but instead on Christ's blood poured out for many.

The relations between people, especially in institutions like marriage, are far too subtle to allow the assumption that social equality will be translated into the kind of equality that Aristotle deemed necessary for friendship.

So to fundamentalist structures as we've seen rise in post-war America, science is actually a threat to those kinds of systems because it gives people the cognitive tools to question the assumptions of the collective fundamentalist ideology.

When I meet someone who identifies himself as Reformed, I make all kinds of assumptions — that he is stuck up, that he thinks Calvin must sit on the right hand of the Father, that he delights in the idea of people being predestined for hell, that he will call me «uninformed» and «unenlightened» when he finds out that I've explored Open Theism.

it's no good saying he moves in mysterious ways or that he has purposes that are opaque to us because that kind of evasion is predicate on the assumption that the person espousing this knows more than I do about the supernatural but I haven't yet met anyone that does have a private line to the creator and neither have you.

We could get a different kind of tactical voting, where people try to send messages through the voting system by voting for single - issue candidates first, then the candidate they want second, on the assumption that the single - issue candidate will be knocked out before the candidate they want.

«There has been a kind of assumption there that if you encourage people to adopt healthy eating that it naturally leads to a decline in unhealthy eating,» Pirie said.

«You operate on the assumption, «I'm Christian, I'm single, that's the kind of person I am hoping to meet,»» Mr. Moorcroft said.

According to Omri Gillath of Kansas University, people make automatic assumptions about your age, income, and overall personality based on the kind of shoes you're wearing.

Sometimes, people apply these kind of assumptions even to businesses where they clearly see that competitive intensity is rising consistently.

Whilst their assumptions are flawed, many people do genuinely believe or suspect that it simply isn't possible to train a puppy effectively without corrections of some kind, at some point.

This isn't some kind of assumption, it's an admittance by Spencer that they don't have what they know people seem to want.

I'd say Nurse «knows» Montford is a «bad person» and that he is therefore predisposed, as is our dim friend above, to assume Montford holds ALL the kind of views that «bad people» hold and probably feels quite safe in that assumption (no need to actually check it).

Sam Glover: I haven't checked in with some local criminal defense lawyers lately to see if this is still the case but it used to be that the assumption was that you had to get yourself in like the jailhouse phone book, hear I think it's called the blue book, and that's the book of lawyers directory that is available to people who've recently been arrested and that was like the whole thing, is you had to be in there, and everybody kind of poo pooed online advertising because I guess they don't think people who've been arrested are able to search, how does online marketing work if that's true?