Sentences with phrase «challenges conventional views»

The author sets out to challenge conventional views of British government and governance, and paints a portrait of a storytelling political - administrative elite, with beliefs and practices rooted in the «Westminster Model», which uses protocols to deal with rude surprises and recurrent dilemmas.

This finding also challenges the conventional view that Pompeii was a cosmopolitan society.

«An expert on planetary impacts and global catastrophes, Boslough's work on airbursts challenged the conventional view of asteroid collision risk and is now widely accepted by the scientific community.

Lorna Simpson is known for working in a wide range of mediums including photograph - and - text works, videos, drawings, collage and paintings that confront and challenge conventional views of culture, representation and memory.

She is a conceptual artist who has primarily expressed herself through photography and video, using the human figure and pairing images with text to explore and challenge conventional views of gender, culture, identity, history, and memory.

Children: Allegra Goodman, «The Dark Dreams of Global Warming,» Boston Globe, Sept. 8, 2008; similarly, John Stossel, «Man vs. Nature: Challenging Conventional Views About Global Warming,» ABC News, Oct. 19, 2007; Anne Applebaum, «The Apocalypse Is Not Upon Us,» slate.com, Dec. 14, 2009.

United States About Blog Changing Aging is a multi-blog platform challenging conventional views on aging.

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B2B leaders will be faced with the challenge of no longer holding a provincial view of the conventional roles of sales and marketing.

Challenging what he calls «the Guild» of «critical» Bible scholars, Finnis argues that the conventional view widely accepted today that the Gospel of Mark is of earlier date than the Gospels of Matthew and Luke is quite wrong, and that the evidence is clear that Mark comes third and last in time among the synoptic Gospels.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

With his characteristic ability to look at the «big picture» and ask questions that challenge conventional thinking, Michel Odent once again manages to persuade readers to view themselves, and their species, in a new light.

T: Challenging people's conventional views on food, health, lifestyle products and their daily habits.

A concept car such as this should, in my view, challenge conventional thinking and explore the art of the possible.

Join Martin Conlon, Head of Australian Equities for an introduction to this exciting way of investing in Australian shares, where he will discuss our current views, positioning for the Fund and challenge some conventional thinking.

From Claudia Hart's critique of digital technology and the misogyny of gaming and special effects media to Carla Gannis's performance video where the artist competes with her virtual self; from Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions of skin to Laura Splan's mixture of scientific and domestic in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's challenge of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particular.

Bucher's work is currently included in the group exhibition Women House, on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., through May 28, 2018, which challenges conventional ideas about gender and the domestic space.

We support a strengthened mandate for the CCW to work on and explore this serious emerging challenge for conventional arms control, with a view to developing positions for the CCW Review Conference in 2016.

I'm an optimist because I believe very much in the courage shown by many Indigenous leaders; individuals with the courage to challenge conventional thinking, to promote economic opportunity, wealth creation and self - reliance; to assert the view that individual responsibility on the part of Indigenous Australians is as much a part of the reconciliation process as is the discharge of government responsibilities in the name of the rest of the Australian community.