Sentences with phrase «held notions»

Science shows that previously held notions about motivation are in fact, incorrect.

Every day, engineers are taking a different route, designing more environmentally sustainable modes of transportation that may overturn long - held notions greener, efficient traveling.

Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal, the founders of Fastcase, seem to revel in disrupting long - held notions of how legal publishing is supposed to operate.

Meanwhile, aviation engineers are taking another route, designing a more environmentally sustainable airplane that may overturn long - held notions of flight engineering.

The environmental left leapt on climate science because it seemed to confirm deeply held notions of the planet being fragile, and modern civilisation being in essence destructive.

Underlying all of KAWS's work is a deep ambivalence around culturally held notions of entertainment and fun and its relationship to advanced art.

Ecological and technological changes have created a less defined cycle of life, one that is sped up by the velocity of communication and slowed down by unpredictable environmental behavior, calling into question our long - held notions of how time behaves.

FLAR has continued appropriating commercial and art - historical images with irony, challenging commonly held notions of how feminism is embodied and expressed.

While exploring and challenging long - held notions of feminine beauty, Mickalene Thomas creates stupendously textured paintings through her sublime use of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel.

The work suggests a rethinking of long held notions of the contemporary Californian aesthetic as envisioned by a cross section of artists representing ideas with decidedly global perspectives.

The work also suggests a rethinking of long held notions of the contemporary Californian aesthetic as envisioned by a cross-section of artists representing ideas with decidedly global perspectives.

Seung - taek Lee's experimental practice holds an influential place in the history of Korean art; throughout his career, he has challenged traditionally held notions of identity and history, forging a new path for artistic exploration of environment, culture, and philosophy.

Neuroscientists are turning previously - held notions of creativity on their heads, including the fact that creativity does not involve just a single side of the brain.

Great Film Great Cast, I am a person born in 1943 and a student of WW2; I found the film clashed with none of my prev held notions.

Earlier this year, Sleeping with Other People paid lip service to challenging long - held notions of the superiority of monogamous relationships before finally conforming to them.

What's worse, the fact that the film plays upon long - held notions of devious behavior amongst trans people only deepens the divide between audience and subject.

New scientific research on old methodologies is challenging some of the long - held notions about conventional cancer treatments, and some of this research is making it into mainstream medical journals.

Cases like yours are really interesting because they disprove a lot of the commonly held notions about cellulite.

However, economist Joshua S. Graff Zivin and professor of management Elizabeth Lyons tested these previously held notions by creating a contest for UC San Diego's engineering and computer science students.

The research has not only encouraged new treatment ideas, but challenged long held notions that being fat, or not, is a matter of free will.

Christian theology undoubtedly contributed something to the enshrining of concepts of freedom, law and justice in our system, and to some commonly held notions of morality.

These various affirmations are matters of belief, based on misinterpretation of facts, misunderstanding of psychological and sociological discoveries, and, finally, on popular, commonly held notions.

Precisely because of their «industry outsider» status, the team has been able to reimagine the traditional customer experience, unencumbered by long - held notions of what might or might not work in the industry.

That creates the possibility that they're wrong about other long - held notions as well.

To Zillow senior economist Aaron Tarrazas, the data shows how some locations and career fields contradict the widely held notion that millennials — defined by Zillow as age 34 and younger — are struggling «to find good jobs and affordable homes.»

Only when this loosely held notion of unity in diversity is held in tension in a community of love can we tolerate, even with wit and a slightly ironic eye, the idea of corporate worship, communal learning, organized fellowship, and the traditions of the church.

Yes, science does build upon itself but when science discovers a long held notion is bunk, it's not because it was right and then it was wrong.

He challenges the widely held notion that they came solely from the ranks of the dispossessed.

Thus, if a couple have nointention of having children, or despise the Faith, or hold the notion of a sacrament in contempt, then no marriage can possibly take place, no matter how grand and meaningful the wedding.

One of the significant obstacles to Christian evangelisation in the 21st century is the widely held notion in the West, both by fundamentalist [1] Christians and by non-Christians, that there is an inherent conflict between science and religion.

His size refuted the widely held notion that height made might in the sport, while at the same time he tapped into the national fancy for the underdog who keeps a stiff upper lip.

There is a widely held notion among pro players that this was the last year in which anyone would have a chance to beat the Bucks for a long time.

Furthermore, the previously held notion that anything in a packet marketed for babies is automatically a healthy choice is beginning to fade away... and many parents have doubts over the necessity of those little packs of commercially prepared baby rice.

In agreeing to meeting Kim Jong - un, he has rejected the long - held notion that a face - to - face meeting between the two leaders should come at the end not the beginning of negotiations, after details have been agreed on and concessions won.

«Anything less will confirm the long held notion that President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration consider themselves to be above the law and not subject to the provisions of our laws and the institutions of our democracy,» the statement added.

The survey, conducted by Murphy's former pollster and paid for by an unnamed Murphy supporter, bucks the commonly held notion that centrism — including a Murphy unity ticket with former Republican Rep. David Jolly — has no place in a partisan Democratic primary in Florida.

The new study also challenges the earlier held notion that animals with eyes to the sides of their heads can not glean information based on the direction of one another's gaze.

In marked contrast to the widely held notion that the insulin - producing pancreatic beta cell loses function with wear and tear, the researchers now show that mouse and human beta cells are fully functional at advanced age.

But it turns out this widely held notion doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny: New Danish research has found no evidence that routine checkups increased longevity or reduced the risks of dying from diseases like cancer or heart disease.

«Our work overturns the previously held notion that Panderichthys was primitively fishlike in [what became] the middle ear region,» says Brazeau.

The finding, reported here on 25 June at the Evolution»99 meeting, overturns the long - held notion that a double complement of chromosomes in mammals results in either sterile or dead individuals.

«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

Templeton concludes that the humans who departed from Africa probably interbred with other early humans in Europe and Asia, contradicting the widely held notion that the Africans wiped out existing populations as they moved.

A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA could turn this long - held notion on its ear, paving the way to new therapies for Alzheimer's and other diseases that cause dementia and memory loss.

The discovery turns on its head the long - held notion that surgical drainage alone is sufficient for treating abscesses.

One possible reason for the discrepancy is that the long - held notion of Mars being like Earth in the past is wrong.

This challenges and disproves the commonly held notion that circadian rhythms were strictly organized in a hierarchical manner, and that light resets the master clock in the SCN, which then coordinates the other, subordinate clocks in peripheral tissues.

«These results challenge the long - held notion that images are appropriate proxies for real objects in the study of human brain function,» Snow said.

Sepsis, Drs. Tracey and Deutschman wrote, «is not a stereotypical, steadily progressive immunological process that follows infection or injury; that innate and adaptive immune responses do not inevitably damage host cells; and that the long - held notion that sepsis is a distinct immunological disorder is incorrect.

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.