Sentences with phrase «predominant view»

The church's predominant view of humanity seemed to be that people are bundles of desires waiting to be expressed.

The predominant view was that the strong US economy would mean that US interest rates would rise more than those in other countries (including Australia), and this contributed to a strong US dollar and falling Australian dollar.

I can think of no time in this century, with the possible exception of the 1950s, when it was not the predominant view among cultural conservatives that things were in very bad shape indeed (and even the fifties are regarded more fondly in retrospect than they were at the time).

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

Earlier we saw it as the predominant view of the Salvation Army approach.

Although at the time there was only limited Jewish speculation about the Messiah, Jewish expectations of the Messiah were very varied.2 The predominant view was that the Messiah would be a human and earthly deliverer and not a divine figure.

What I'm ready for, is for atheism to become the predominant view in America.

This predominant view sees advances in computing, telecommunications and travel largely in terms of economic transformation.

The predominant view in AA is that any such attempts are foredoomed to failure.

It is indeed the case that the predominant view within the neurosciences (with psychology following) is that the mind will ultimately be understood in terms of the mechanical working of neurons, synapses, and neurotransmitters, with consciousness somehow an «emergent» property of this mechanical system, and free will merely an illusion.

The predominant view among non-affirming Christians regarding gay and lesbian Christians is that if they wish to remain faithful to Scripture, they must pursue celibacy.

This used to be essentially the predominant view of inherited wealth in the US.

The predominant view amongst political scientists studying national forms of government has long been that parliamentary forms of government are inherently more stable and produce better results than presidential ones.

The predominant view is that we must restructure our country and, failing that, we must exercise our right of self - determination and redefine it.

The predominant view has been that high - tech development happens only organically, in places with built - in advantages or a high - tech history.

«The predominant view of late has been that bilinguals will never be able to perceive a second language beyond what a late learner is capable of, or someone who learns a second language late in life.

While some in the party have expressed support for school choice, the predominant view is hostile.

In a recent article published in the journal Neuron, neurobiologists Blake Richards and Paul Frankland challenge the predominant view of memory, which holds that forgetting is a process of loss — the gradual washing away of critical information despite our best efforts to retain it.

The predominant view among BME teachers was that they found the school environment challenging in that they had been forced to deal with «microaggression» from other teachers and students.

But he noted that there are plenty on both sides of important scientific debates, including many researchers finding that warming could be far higher than the predominant view.

The paper, assessing tropical sea surface temperatures in relation to flows of energy into and out of the atmosphere, asserted that the climate system was far less sensitive to human actions than the predominant view had it.

Certainly, if the I.P.C.C. is to be relied on as a bellwether of the predominant view of climate experts, that is a dubious assertion, even if it refers to the 2001 report from the panel and not last year's.

In Ontario, the predominant view was that a stay of proceedings should not be entered unless there is a reasonable likelihood of new incriminating evidence coming to light.

Sir David was undoubtedly doing no more than articulating the predominant view of the elders of the legal profession of the time.

Other visionary jurists, constituting in fact and in law the predominant view, reduce the removal inquiries to an unadorned single question — irrespective of the custodial parent's constitutional right to travel, is relocation in the best interests of the affected child?

But the predominant view was that the backing should look more like catastrophic insurance, with the federal government acting as a backstop only after private insurers took the first hit.