Sentences with phrase «challenges this notion by»

Your learners probably think revision is the last stage of a study programme before exams — this resource will challenge that notion by encouraging them to build in small scale revision activities every week from the start of an academic year and embed good revision habits as part of a continuous study plan.

Friends with Benefits is a type of relationship that challenges this notion by claiming that you can have a friend that you sleep with in between romantic relationships.

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My colleague Stephen Gordon challenges the notion championed by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau that Canada's middle class is facing hard times.

Some financial technology companies are challenging that notion by bringing the concept of micro investing to the masses.

Ironically, Plato's dialogues, intended as a challenge to the notion that paideia would be accomplished by ways of conveying information, were themselves included in the mass of information conveyed in the name of teaching knowledge of the Good.

The problem with the notion that your god sends natural disasters to challenge us is that it, by your definition, is omniscient and should know that after having beset man with numerous natural disasters throughout history, it matters not.

Another of the classical Western notions that is challenged by Hartshorne is what I call the Western conception of the atomic individual.

Women are speaking with a new voice, a courageous voice which challenges many traditional assumptions — the most important is the challenge to the notion that women are required, by tradition and by the biblical heritage, to submit to all forms of inhuman treatment.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

In doing so he challenges the unfortunate notion that metaphysics is nothing to do with physics and finally resolves the impasse concerning objective knowledge thrown up by Immanuel Kant.

I question the author's notion that connecting yourself to a doctrine by blind faith, based on no evidence whatsoever, is a sign of a critcal person willing to question and challenge.

That claim is challenged by the reality that the overwhelming majority of Christians in the world, who are in the broadest sense the ecclesia, have never heard of «justification by faith alone,» and most who have heard of it have not the foggiest notion of what it means.

After all, if we «swallow the camel» by not challenging the notion that unplanned natural forces gave rise to all living things, starting from nothing but nonliving chemicals, and «strain out the gnat» of man's consciousness as the sole exception to an otherwise completely natural explanation, are we not allowing religious beliefs to interfere with scientific explanation?

This rights - based ethic is being challenged by the growing recognition among feminists that the notion of «choice» may be a myth; that not only social attitudes but public policies that promote so - called «free choice» can be subtly coercive.

The later Liechtenstein Address continues the criticism of modern Western life, challenging its notion of progress for diminishing the human soul by glorifying materialism and trivializing death.

How many times have we been assaulted by our parishioners when we challenge the notion of the immortal soul.

That includes helping a friend to feel more confident about her parenting choices by flaunting her crunch, getting people to reconsider whether punishment is an effective discipline tool or if there is a better way, or challenging the notion that babies should sleep through the night and that if they don't, you need to let them cry it out.

Let me begin by challenging the questions» notion of even handedness or equivocation.

The study, by the University of York, reveals that Neanderthal healthcare was uncalculated and highly effective — challenging our notions that they were brutish compared to modern humans.

«I think we're to the point where we've made this too big to fail,» Aumack added, «but we're still challenged by the notion that it might be too big to succeed.»

A new study by researchers at the University of South Carolina and University of California Los Angeles challenges that notion, and demonstrates that the effect of temperature increases on peat storage could be minor.

The research, which was funded by the Royal Society, forms part of a broader programme of study challenging the traditional division between marine ecology and «mainstream» ecology, the notion that marine systems are somehow fundamentally different from terrestrial systems, and that this demands separate research approaches and indeed research institutes — to study them.

But a new study co-authored by four Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Ecosystems Center scientists challenges this notion.

The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of human ancestor, push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first to bang two rocks together to create a new technology.

Hartl and Horwich challenged the widely held notion put forth by Nobel Prize winner Christian Anfinsen that proteins fold spontaneously in cells, just as they do in test tubes.

In line with this notion, some investigators report higher cyst density in amygdalar regions known to be involved in innate fear [6], although this has been challenged by others [32].

By the end, our collective data challenge the notion that CD32 identifies HIV latently infected T cells.»

The Single and 30 - Something blog challenges the notion that everyone has to be hitched by 30 and fights back against the author's constant encouragement to settle down.

The movie makes smart use of that record as translated by Krakauer, cutting back and forth in time, embedding stories within one another, and so challenging common notions of subjectivity and identity.

By making us think about that in this context, it challenges pre-conceived notions of how the world works.

In doing so, he seems interested in challenging the notion that art can often be inaccessible and alienating by re-emphasising the far - reaching impact that artistic visionaries have on all members of society.

More than the rare expletive, the zany stylings may make this more of a challenge to youngster enjoyment, especially those whose notion of animated cinema has been shaped by the reasonably standardized CGI marketplace.

He's racing to stop the marriage of his daughter (Hope Davis) to a man he considers beneath her (Dermot Mulroney), but his notions are challenged by his daughter and her future mother - in - law (Kathy Bates).

Indeed, the notion of these documentaries as belonging to a particular genre is challenged the most by French and Japanese films that borrow narrative techniques from their coinciding «new waves.»

The trailer also won't erase skepticism toward Wright's assertion that the film will challenge «preconceived notions» by being «multiracial,» since it basically just shows a bunch of white people playing dress - up.

Kingsland, blogging this year on the Education Week website, sparked controversy by challenging superintendents of struggling school districts to relinquish their systems instead of trying endless reforms: «Rid yourself of the notion that your current opinions on curriculum, teacher evaluation, technology, or anything else will be the foundation for dramatic gains in student achievement.

I emphasize the word willingly to challenge the notion — accepted by many teachers and administrators — that coaching is a tool for fixing people or enforcing a program.

In teaching students how to persevere and overcome adversity, Lori encourages students to embrace learning as a tool for personal advancement by moving students beyond preconceived notions, challenging assumptions about the world as well as its citizenry and preparing students for entrance into a global community.

By seeing black men in positions of power and influence in close proximity, a cognitive dissonance can occur that challenges negative notions of black men honed by the media and bias - forming conversationBy seeing black men in positions of power and influence in close proximity, a cognitive dissonance can occur that challenges negative notions of black men honed by the media and bias - forming conversationby the media and bias - forming conversations.

In two separate interviews Chris Cleave talks about Incendiary (2006), in which a distraught woman writes a letter to bin Laden after her family are killed by a massive suicide bomb; and Little Bee (2008) which «delivers a timely challenge to reinvigorate our notions of civilized decency.»

Notion has certainly challenged the tablet manufacturer's norm by designing a tablet that has the capability of replacing a desktop thanks to USB peripheral support.

More recently though, games like Gone Home or Firewatch have challenged that notion by pushing nearly everything to the side except delivering a sharp, focused narrative.

In 1998, both Thief and the original Rainbow 6 turned first - person shooters on their head by challenging the notion that «shooting» was the important part of the genre.

This can lead to myopia that's kind of staggering, and challenges the notion that the industry is too driven by casual - oriented business - think: 10 years later, the Sims has sold 125 million boxes or expansions for more than 2.5 billion in revenue, and yet no one has shipped a serious, well - funded competitor.

In 1965, Carl Andre challenged preconceived notions of sculpture by placing work flat on the floor in his first public exhibition, Shape and Structure.

By opening up her studio to the public and being present to interact with museum goers, Dawn challenges the notion of an artist's creative space as an insular and private environment accessible to a select few from the art world.

These eight works reveal the vast range of materials and processes used by contemporary designers as they challenge our notions of what design can be through the enduring form of the chair.

Developed by the Royal Ontario Museum, Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art challenges preconceived notions of Blackness in Canada through the work of eight contemporary artists, to which the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has added three Montreal artists in its presentation: Sandra Brewster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, Chantal Gibson, Bushra Junaid, Charmaine Lurch, Esmaa Mohamoud, Michèle Pearson Clarke and Gordon Shadrach, as well as Montrealers Eddy Firmin a.k.a. Ano, Manuel Mathieu and Shanna Strauss.

They innovated by challenging preconceived notions of how to experience space, materials, institutional settings, and the structures with which we interact on a daily basis.

«In the Absence of Color» challenges this notion, presenting a selection of work by artists who pursue black and white and prove that the works are anything but.