Sentences with phrase «common wisdom holds»

Common wisdom holds that Eve's temptation was an apple, a piece of which lodged itself in Adam's throat, giving that particularly male anatomic feature its name.

Based on these test scores, common wisdom holds that the nation is rife with failing schools and that some of those schools are so bad that they should be closed or subjected to immediate takeovers.

After all, the common wisdom holds, urine is sterile.

Such an «active galactic nucleus» (AGN) presumably arises when ultrahot gas falls into a galaxy's central black hole, and common wisdom held that the matter is tipped into the black hole when galaxies collide.

When Microsoft released the original Xbox in 2001, the company dominated the computing world, and common wisdom held that its console was going to use games as a gateway to conquering your living room.

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For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life,....

For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou has given us in our Savior Jesus Christ.»

This common «democratic» wisdom does not hold true any longer.

Common wisdom in this field had held that the endothelial cells must help immune cells squeeze through by contracting themselves like small muscles, but the present study found no evidence for such contraction - based help.

The common wisdom, promulgated by carmakers since the 1920s, held that traffic fatalities were exclusively the fault of individual drivers (or, to put it another way: cars don't kill people; drivers kill people).

Furthermore, this computation formally proves the common wisdom that the dealer in the game holds a substantial advantage.

It's economic and environmental conventional wisdom that natural resources held in common tend to get over-exploited.

Few people talk about climbing the corporate ladder and holding out for more money; instead, common wisdom has focused more on lateral moves to secure companies, accepting smaller salaries and racing to snap up job offers before someone else does.