Sentences with phrase «centuries old notion»

Never mind that you are de facto criminalising a wide range of perfectly law - abiding people, never mind that you are going against the centuries old notion that an Englishman's freedom should only be taken away in very precise and well - understood circumstances.

Not exact matches

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Mindfulness may sound like the latest buzzword, but the centuries - old notion of enjoying the present moment is more than trendy philosophy.

If we get away from silly notions of a spatial transcendence, in which God is (so to speak) «out there» and which is in effect the God of eighteenth - century Deism, we shall be able to maintain with the Old Testament that God is «the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,» yet is also near to us, with us, in us, and for us.

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

«The ancient Egyptian attitude towards Nubia took root in their minds, until by the end of the century it had entirely supplanted the old notion of Nubia as the well - spring of civilization,» Adams writes in Nubia: Corridor to Africa.

an obscure writer named Cooke noted, «Conception is nothing els but the wombs receiuing and imbracing of the seede,» suggesting that centuries - old notions of conception referred, perhaps wisely, to when an embryo survived its perilous first week and was «imbraced» by the womb.

The notion that cancer and immunity are closely connected and that a person's immune defenses can be turned against cancer is at least a century old.

And to the person ranting about the amount of «recent» movies on the list, if they were all old mid-nineteenth century movies, they would be representing very dated notions of the states and the list would be a lot of nostaltic smalltown Americana.

To move from old notions of group work or cooperative learning into real teams, use a team collaboration and work ethic to help students identify the exact tasks associated with 21st century teamwork.

Efforts to collapse the barrier between art and life during the past half century are often associated with the material innovations of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg — with his rejection of notions of mastery and craftsmanship and insistence on bringing everyday materials into his work, like his bed, the morning newspaper, or an old tire — and the enactment of ordinary daily rituals like eating and drinking in the «happenings» of Allan Kaprow and others.

«It is not clear when the essentially formalist notion of inner light became a commonplace in the criticism of Venetian painting of the sixteenth century, but it was certainly a major concern of the Bavarian painter Max Doerner, whose handbook The Materials of the Artist and Their use in Painting, with notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters (1921), had been published in an English translation in New York in 1934 and came to be much used in the circle of the abstract expressionists.

At the same time, the related graphic, a timeline of 21 centuries of deviations from normal precipitation in New Mexico, showed that the authors» notion of a «new normal» could easily be said to be the «old normal» given how much of recent history has been extremely dry in that state.

The old 20th century notion of the page - one story or nightly news report definitively distilling the world into sound bites is history.

The peculiar notion that the human race will grow much more quickly than it can be sustained by food supplies is at least as old as Thomas Malthus, whose grim Malthusian Theory of more than two centuries ago predicted just such a scenario.