Sentences with phrase «most conventional wisdom»

In fact, most conventional wisdom suggests that legalization actually makes illegal drug cartels less powerful because more legitimate businesses will be able to enter the market.

Most conventional wisdom says that if, at the time, we had made a sensible offer of 45 - 50m, we could've secured him, or at least not got LFC's back up to the extent that they weren't going to negotiate at all.

There is much to be said for this portrayal of the 1996 campaign, but like most conventional wisdom, its insights are overstated.

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But what would come next was an unexpected turn, one that belies the conventional wisdom of most startups today.

I realize that, if we were only dealing with conventional wisdom, the simplest, most straightforward answer to the textbook question of, when should a company's CEO stop selling its products and services day - to - day, the answer would be: never.

The First 20 Minutes debunks a number of health and fitness myths and lays out a simple blueprint for getting the most out of exercise — without all the conventional wisdom and marketing b.s. that tends to lead us astray.

And I also appreciate that the conventional wisdom suggests, in almost every tech - based or tech - enabled business, that markets over time will tend to become «winner take all» or «winner take most» in which a single player dominates.

Through detailed analysis of four countries, ranging from Singapore as the most successfully wired, to Ireland, Spain and finally Argentina, where the Internet is the least developed, Guillà © n and Suà ¡ rez's paper, in part, confirms conventional wisdom.

«Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most dangerous period for entrepreneurs is not when they start up from scratch but when they scale up for growth,» professor Daniel Isenberg told the Harvard Business Review.

While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.

The Deputy stirred enormous controversy at the time, but its line on Pius XII and the Holocaust has become the conventional wisdom in most circles.

Most research tends to confirm conventional wisdom, and that on «Religion and Television» is no exception.

It was musically and dramatically extraordinary, but like most good drama, it was also an attack on the conventional wisdom of the audience.

According to conventional wisdom, the Rise of the Nones is the most important phenomenon in American religion today.

Roughly speaking, so conventional wisdom has it, a player should attempt to be at a club of a level where he stands a fair - to - good chance of playing most weeks.

The winning / losing culture thing has to be one of the most overused and outdated ideas of the conventional wisdom crowd.

The bottom line: Wagering on a man nicknamed Big Lub in a footrace might not seem like a wise move, but Roosevelt's struggles — one of America's most vigorous, active presidents was winless in his first 525 races — show that conventional wisdom means very little in a race among oversized foam representations of long - dead politicians.

Conventional wisdom had the Ford struggling most weeks and it would face a long season where wins would be hard to come by.

Conventional wisdom would have it that Mourinho left behind a group of his most trusted lieutenants embedded deep within Chelsea, tasked with one mission alone — to keep the Mourinho method the de facto way of doing things and passive - aggressively wreck the ambitions of any new manager seeking to do away with the old.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the less children exercise the more at risk they are at risk of obesity, but a new study finds that the most overweight and obese children are actually members of ethnic groups that are some of the most active.

Turning the conventional wisdom about child development on its head, New York Times Magazine editor Tough (Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, 2008) argues that non-cognitive skills (persistence, self - control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self - confidence) are the most critical to success in school and life.

«The findings about fathers and mothers are important because it turns what most of us think is conventional wisdom — that mothers have the most influence on children — on its ear.

«The findings about fathers and mothers are important because it turns... conventional wisdom — that mothers have the most influence on children — on its ear,» he said.

Turning what was once conventional wisdom on its head, a new study suggests that many, if not most peanut allergies can be prevented by feeding young children food containing peanuts beginning in infancy, rather than avoiding such foods.

A new analysis of President - elect Barack Obama's campaign fund - raising punctures one of the most enduring pieces of conventional wisdom from his presidential run — that small donors powered his record - breaking money machine.

The ballot papers for the Conservative leadership election will be sent out next Friday, and conventional wisdom is that most party members will return them almost straightaway.

The satisfaction of older scientists Conventional wisdom and at least a few scholarly articles suggest that scientists do their most creative work when they're still young.

Daniel Kahneman, one of the world's most influential psychologists, has made a career from challenging conventional wisdom on our choices, intuition and happiness.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the hope of winning a major award such as a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal helps spur top researchers to do their most outstanding work, thereby advancing progress in many scientific fields.

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: Maintaining a lower weight reduces disease risk, according to most authorities at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, they found that most songbirds first appeared in Australasia — the ancient landmass that included Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and parts of Indonesia — not in Eurasia, as was long believed.

Conventional wisdom has it that the high latitudes and polar regions are the most vulnerable.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, new research indicates the eastern tropical northern Pacific's anoxic zone was shrinking for most of the 20th century before beginning to expand in about 1990.

Possingham questions the conventional wisdom that severely threatened places deserve the most attention, and he sees a better path to preservation.

That's because the conventional wisdom has long been that most, if not all, ant species carry antimicrobial agents.

When asked what he would most like the public to understand about science, Holdren said that, although skepticism is a healthy part of science, «one should not assume that the conventional wisdom is about to be overturned every time someone points to a contrary result.»

According to the conventional wisdom it is most beneficial to consume meals high in carbs and some protein within the 90 minutes window following the training session.

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Finally, and perhaps most at odds with conventional wisdom, there is substantial research that dairy products — the foods we all associate with calcium — do not contribute to bone strength.

Our varied experiences show that this disease is complex; it is not as simple as the article in the Chicago Tribune, most doctors, or conventional wisdom suggests.

The most logical answer is that what conventional physiological and training wisdom call «high» and «endurance» really aren't particularly «high», nor are they really «endurance».

Conventional wisdom tells us that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

That's why most doctors almost reflexively fall back on the «conventional wisdom» of fiber and stool softeners when patients seek relief for constipation.

It might change your life and most certainly your outlook on foods and all of the conventional wisdom that comes to us via the MSM and Internet sources.

Conventional wisdom would tell you the Oscar acting races are, for the most part, all but settled.

The conventional wisdom here would be that Dunkirk — a big, technically marvelous British production that memorializes a grim but heroic time in European history — would be most to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's liking.

Most of the proposed remedies are thoughtful, as far as they go, but they amount to little more than the accumulated conventional wisdom of traditional school reformers.

There's plenty of conventional wisdom, to be sure, mostly along the lines of, «unions are most powerful where every teacher must belong to them and every district must bargain with them and least consequential in «right - to - work» states.»

While conventional wisdom, at least in some circles, holds that people judge schools on the basis of something other than academic quality — most odiously, the racial mix of their student body — here we have reassuring evidence that people evaluate schools on the basis of academics.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.