Sentences with phrase «entrenched ideas»

I'm not very good myself at persuading others with entrenched ideas on a subject (I tend to rant too much).

Even over a decade after its enactment, killing far outpaces adoptions statewide, not because of the Hayden Law, but primarily due to entrenched ideas and an outdated shelter model that has proven that self - regulation is ineffective.

Publishers have long - entrenched ideas, facilities, processes, and business models that can't turn on a dime, and they're seeing increased competition from online retailers (like Amazon and B&N) and smaller publishers, who don't need the huge economies of scale and financial capital that the print book business requires.

Its findings undercut some entrenched ideas about how athletes should eat in preparation for spring marathons and other endurance races.

According to paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his colleagues, who unearthed and analyzed the remains, they represent a new species of human — Homo naledi, for «star» in the local Sotho language — that could overturn some deeply entrenched ideas about the origin and evolution of our genus, Homo.

The extraordinary diversity of cichlid fishes challenges entrenched ideas of how quickly new species can arise

No one was looking because we had entrenched ideas.

Entrenched Ideas Early on, a few great minds did suspect that science might be getting dinosaurs wrong.

They are taking on deeply entrenched ideas and deeply entrenched constituencies.

This would be a game - changer in tackling entrenched ideas about who works and who cares.

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In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

The success of the 1996 — 2001 Yankees helped entrench the idea that postseason experience is critical.

It's next to impossible to work with a SME who has an entrenched idea of how a course should work when you're going in a different direction.

Duncan's championing of the Common Core State Standards — and the tests that came shrink - wrapped with them — has ushered in developmentally inappropriate standards in the early grades that punish late bloomers, while further entrenching the idea that the intellectual and emotional process of teaching and learning can be reduced to a test score.

Not exact matches

If you can counter those jaded ideas with irrefutable arguments based in history and fact, that could go a long way in helping to further a more sensible dialogue and finding solutions to racial disparities that remain deeply entrenched.

I tell them not to be so entrenched in working on their start - up ideas that they don't build deep, meaningful relationships with their peer group.

Since Shaddai and El Shaddai appear frequently in Genesis and Exodus in many familiar stories, the idea that the biblical God is chiefly characterized as almighty became deeply entrenched in the imagination of Christendom, especially in the West.

As Colson and Neuhaus remarked in their 1995 volume, Evangelicals and Catholics Together: Toward a Common Mission, ECT was intended as «an invitation to reexamine stereotypes, prejudices and conventional ideas that have been entrenched, in some cases, for almost five hundred years.»

A sincere ecumenical dialogue would serve to overcome the «stereotypes, prejudices and conventional ideas» that had been entrenched for decades and, indeed, for centuries.

It just shows how deeply the church is entrenched in obsolete ideas.

This fits with ideas of God's omnipotence that were deeply entrenched in Western Christian thought at the rime of the rise of modern science and still widely prevail.

An attempt was made to secure the adoption of a clear - cut statement that the church has no rights for which it can properly demand recognition by the state except such as can be stated in terms of the rights of citizens to freedom of thought, expression, assembly and organization; but the idea of special rights for the church as a divine institution was too strongly entrenched.

Where does the «entrenched view on AA» idea come from?

But the drift at the Emirates has gone on for so long, become so deep and entrenched, that Wenger resembles a tired old man out of ideas in contrast to Guardiola.

Throughout OSPI there is the concept that, although our School Child Nutrition Programs are not for profit but to feed students, we should be cutting costs as a priority over what is sometimes recognized as good nutrition — a subject where many entrenched and trendy ideas prevail and are promoted by giant food manufacturers.

The idea that the state runs things terribly and private firms run things efficiently is so deeply entrenched in all three mainstream parties that we won't see a change anytime soon.

The idea that democracy began and ended on June 23rd 2016 has become entrenched in the public consciousness and our opponents would deploy the powerful argument that we were undermining the will of the people.

The ad hits it perfectly... an idea most people support that makes huge ecomonic sense is being stopped by big money and entrenched political interests... what a shock!!!

Rather than becoming sympathetic to ideas retweeted by the bots, their views became more entrenched.

The idea of the Jew as «feminised» was entrenched and widely internalised by Jewish medical scientists.

Today, ideas like files and windows have become so entrenched that they might as well be elementary particles.

True or not, the idea that you need a research grant to get a job is, apparently, an entrenched part of the postdoc mythology.

She tried to right the wrong when she made a second edition to the book, but the idea was already entrenched in dietary literature.

Your ideas become even more entrenched, and it becomes even harder to admit that what you're doing isn't working.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

And for those of you who have no idea what close to four million Americans are listening to on Saturday afternoons, this movie will fill you in on what has become an entrenched broadcasting tradition.

It does provide some insight on why the idea of a «Great Wall of Trump» has gained traction in segments of the American public while it is equally regarded as impotent farce in the face of the entrenched underworld, both crime and law enforcement and their symbiosis, essayed herein.

How can they get more experienced or entrenched teachers to be receptive to their new ideas?»

To date this recommendation has made little headway in entrenched special - education communities; it failed to find its way into the 1997 reauthorization of IDEA.

Change - oriented ideas and policies are entrenched at the state level in a way that would have been unimaginable in 2000.

Bill Drayton is the originator of the term «social entrepreneur,» someone who seeks to drive large - scale ideas to tackle entrenched social problems — in a word, changemakers.

She believes it's a possible game changer in public education, where she said ideas for quick fixes to entrenched problems abound.

After a hundred years of public schooling entrenched in authoritarianism, it comes as no surprise that the past twenty years of school reform efforts have been an adult - driven process that relies on adult ideas and conceptualizations about education.

Because many teachers work in isolation, they can get entrenched in a certain way of doing things and resistant to outside ideas.

While the idea of turning our schools into the backdrop for a war - zone video game is alarming enough, the call for militarization of classrooms threatens to entrench an even deeper dysfunction in our school system, one that threatens students» wellbeing from inside the school walls.

One thing such ideas will require (and facilitate) is upending the entrenched paradigm of learned elitism.

Since Apple was coming into the e-book market late and was trying to mount an attack on Amazon's (s amzn) entrenched market share, the deal with publishers to institute what is known as «agency pricing» seemed like a good idea: It gave Apple plenty of content (plus 30 percent of the revenue from each book sold), and the publishers got to control the price of their books, something they weren't allowed to do with Amazon.

The content not just passes plagiarism checking software programs but it will definitely have some unique and innovative ideas entrenched in it.

Right now, especially as regards ideas related to Global Warming, many people (on both sides) are very thoroughly entrenched in a Must Believe It To See It mindset.