Sentences with phrase «narrow conception of»

(102) In more recent cases, the Court has indicated that a narrow conception of ambiguity is to be rejected.

It is plain, therefore, that the courts will not be attracted to technical arguments seeking to take a narrow conception of what is meant by property.

This speaks about the very narrow conception of «freedom» in environmentalism in general, and in Monbiot's perspective in particular.

To educate all learners to higher levels, education must now shift away from a narrow conception of curricula focused on language arts and mathematics.

The irony is that if we want our kids to be truly successful (happy, healthy, fulfilled, and prepared for life outside of school), we need to challenge the narrow conception of success as solely related to grades, test scores, and educational credentials, and we must focus on these other critical components.

Translation: We think 21st century skills consist of a narrow conception of mathematics and western English language arts.

It also has the ability to criticise a wider set of social relations than narrower conceptions of freedom.

We stipulated a narrower conception of shared leadership for the research reported in Section 1.2.

The reasons are complex and include an overreliance on standardized tests, narrow conceptions of intelligence and the resulting definitions of giftedness, and the procedures and policies that guide local and state gifted programs.

The key weaknesses include «reliance on relatively shallow, vague or narrow conceptions of competence» and «too great a reliance» on initial qualification as a foundation for continuing competence.

Not exact matches

But even with this restriction, there should be considerable opportunity to argue that international law might inform such matters as: the content of the duty to consult, the significance of the right to culture, the respect that should be accorded to indigenous conceptions of property, and the question of what might constitute an unjustifiable infringement of an aboriginal right or title or a treaty right: see my post on the Supreme Court's Grassy Narrows decision here.

[8] One should note that the negative perception not only arose out of the narrow understanding of mission, but also the failure to read the development and changes of the mission conception through time.

Religion tends to be understood in ways narrower than Berger would have had us recognize, while behaviorist and reductionistic conceptions of the individual — which discount the importance of religion — continue to hold sway in many places of power and influence.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

The difference between the Biblical and non-Biblical conceptions of myth is indeed implicitly recognized by HBK, for it quotes Alfred Jeremias's definition of Biblical myth: «Myth in the narrower sense... is one of the supreme creations of the human spirit.

In the young Marx there was a double vision of the nature of alienation,... Marxist thought developed along one narrow road of economic conceptions of property and exploitation, while the other road, which might have led to new, humanistic concepts of work and labor, was left unexplored.2

German National Socialism, for example, based itself on an interpretation of history through the conceptions of race and Volkstum («nationality» — but the meaning of the German word is both wider and narrower).

The narrow view that only voters in the affected region can vote is consistent with a federal conception of regions that existed in the 1957 Constitution but is inconsistent with the 1992 Constitution's unitary conception.

«Chief among them is vitamin A. Individuals who have been deprived of sufficient vitamin A during gestation tend to have narrow faces and skeletal structure, small palates and crowded teeth.16 Extreme vitamin A deprivation results in blindness, skeletal problems and other birth defects.17 Individuals receiving optimal vitamin A from the time of conception have broad handsome faces, strong straight teeth, and excellent bone structure.

A diet of this type, before and during pregnancy, may make the birth process easier and faster — especially if the mother does not have narrow pelvic arch / hips caused by nutritional deficiencies in her own conception and early gestation

The baroque intricacies of life among the rich and gossipy is ripe for satire, but the film plays it mostly straight, focusing on Kaguya's dwindling opportunities for quiet rebellion, as well as her father's and Lady Sagami's narrow - minded conceptions of female happiness.

There are legitimate concerns about test quality; the noisiness and variability of calculations; the fact that metrics don't account for the impact of specialists, support staff, or shared instruction; and the degree to which value - added calculations rest upon a narrow, truncated conception of good teaching.

I want a system which champions and rewards a robust vision of good teaching and that doesn't settle for a narrow, distorted conception because that's what econometricians can measure.

Third, current pre-service teacher education and subsequent in - service professional development (PD) is characterised by very narrow conceptions about how teachers should teach — aided and abetted by the content of Australian State and Territory curriculum documents.

Successful policy and practice therefore needs to take an approach that is at once broad in its conception of disadvantaged, and narrow in targeting the specific aspects of disadvantage pertinent to particular young people or settings.

It does not belong to someone else's conception of fair play, of narrow restrictive grinding, of recognizing skill or merit or enforcing something so ridiculous as fairness among people who want different things from their games.

His formalist conception of art was violently contested by the succeeding generation of artists and critics, who found Greenberg's approach narrow and dogmatic.

They are narrower in that nothing in that TWU covenants prohibits a TWU student from being openly gay — indeed, I understand that TWU has had a number of openly gay students in recent years, and the provisions of the covenant prohibiting prejudicial language and mandating that one «treat all persons with respect and dignity, and uphold their God - given worth from conception to death» would tend to serve to protect gay students from the prejudice one might find on more secular campuses (and who are we kidding, anti-gay prejudice exists in secular universities).