Sentences with phrase «prevailing idea»

It's a prevailing idea in our society that if you want to be successful, you have to work hard, struggle and strive.

Perhaps «going with the flow» would be better as that was the prevailing idea at he time.

Although a high school teacher had introduced him to the concept of abstraction, he found himself rebelling against the prevailing idea of «art for art's sake» put forth by Clement Greenberg and other proponents of Abstract Expressionism, focusing instead on spiritual, therapeutic, religious, and political motivations for his own practice.1

These reviews of the journals may support or criticize prevailing idea in the content.

It takes as its starting point the influential 2011 Pathways to Prosperity report, which challenged the prevailing idea that the core mission of high schools was to prepare all students for college.

This alarmingly prevailing idea that this movie somehow proves that women can too be funny is a pretty insulting thing, but the fact remains that a disproportionate amount of movies with female leads tend to be cloying tripe that hide behind the firewall of the «Chick Flick,» a bullshit subgenre classification invented to give an excuse for women to like crappy rom - coms and men to avoid great ones.

However, this represents a major shift from the prevailing idea that most sugar daddies are lonesome married men who desperately seek a woman to spend their time with (and their hard - earned money on).

Werber addresses the common argument against this prevailing idea, which says crimes are increasing because online dating usage is increasing.

But one United Kingdom - based photographer is challenging the prevailing idea that only flawless bodies are beautiful.

it's only to point that i recently read on a book that defends Dukan's diet wrote by a MD that happens to have only one kidney since he was a child, and he links the occurence of kidney stones in those children of the early ketogenic studies to the prevailing idea of water in those days, ie, that water should be consumed in small amounts because it was thougth to provoque interferences with ketonic bodies production, and that was though to lessen their positive effects

Spinney says that the prevailing idea in 2001 was that the colossal statues or moai on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)...

Instead, the prevailing idea is that these behemoths had a head start.

For a long time, the prevailing idea was that parasites and pathogens evolve to target a particular host and as they get better at infecting a specific animal or plant, they become less effective at infecting other organisms.

The prevailing idea was called special creation: that every species was created by a supernatural power and put in place on the earth for a specified role in a specified time by a completely mysterious process.

Although the prevailing idea has been that the devastating disease, which strikes some 1 percent of U.S. adults, is primarily caused by something going wrong with neurons, the scientists suspected the brain's support cells, called glia.

The feeling that somebody has just passed away whose horizons and global appeal extended the international significance of this country is omnipresent — as well as the prevailing idea that his death marks an end of one era... Even the other Vaclav in the presidential office, his successor Klaus, who has been Havel's rival and critic ever since 1989, is now giving him credit — to the degree of admitting that we owe his predecessor «like nobody else for the international position, prestige and authority of the Czech Republic in the world.»

The prevailing idea is that mothers will want to attend to their own careers and fit the needs of their babies around them.

The prevailing idea during the 19th century was that women were passionless.

There is certainly a problem with the prevailing idea that addiction is a blameless state arising from involuntary behaviors.

«There's been a prevailing idea that we can put a bubble around a national economy for goods, to control what goes in or out, and provide incentives or affect prices in other ways,» Dawson argued.

Authenticity is a much sought - after leadership trait, with the prevailing idea being that the best leaders are those who self - disclose, are true to themselves, and who make decisions based on their values.

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The physics world is buzzing with news of an unexpected sighting at Fermilab's Tevatron collider in Illinois — a glimpse of an unidentified particle that, should it prove to be real, will radically alter physicists» prevailing ideas about how nature works and how particles get their mass.

The role played by surveillance culture in the struggle for social justice frames changing and prevailing ideas about race, justice, and freedom in America.

The taming of art could be less about advancing prevailing ideas than about unlearning them, and perhaps this entails intensification over simplification.

The work is site - specific installation, having a relation to its setting in contrast to prevailing ideas of an autonomous work of art.

In this regard, art's taming could be less a matter of advancing prevailing ideas than of unlearning them, and perhaps this entails intensification over simplification.

He believed (correctly, but not in accordance with then - prevailing ideas) that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 might have varied widely over geological ages.

And I know some felt I was acting superior and condescending because I would not conform to prevailing ideas.

Just as earlier Indigenous health research was consistent with earlier policies of protection and biological assimilation, this research was consistent with prevailing ideas of cultural assimilation.7 The 1950s and 1960s also saw the rise of research written by those in the NT providing health care for Aboriginal people about the issues causing most Aboriginal ill health (not just affecting white health), along with descriptions of interventions for their control.7

Not exact matches

There's a prevailing notion that «good» candidates shouldn't need a quota to get elected.In this episode, University of Calgary political scientist Melanee Thomas talks about why she disagrees with that idea.

Unlike conditions prevailing at the turn of the century (massive stock valuations and recession), we think the earnings fundamentals underlying many idea - companies (of which tech is a part) remain solid.

Truth Prevails: — RRB -, Your idea is incorrect.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

The idea that it is impossible to distinguish between the German Volk and Nazism — that to be German and National Socialist are one and the same thing... is untenable and will not prevail.

Those principles are: «time is greater than space»; «unity prevails over conflict»; «realities are more important than ideas»; and «the whole is greater than the part.»

If ideas are robust enough they can prevail.

Ideas about property and equality, poverty and unemployment, and the whole challenge to a prevailing view of what I call «the almost moral self - sufficiency» of the free - enterprise system are similar in both documents.

This idea pictures sin in terms of infractions of prevailing moral and social standards.

Such a well - defined idea seems to have prevailed in the Middle Ages.

In those periods when clear - cut ideas of the ministry prevailed pastors and people were relatively agreed on the acceptable answer to the question: By what authority do you do these things, i.e., preach, care for souls, preside over the church and administer the sacraments?

Whatever the variations, it seems true that when a clear idea of the ministry prevailed there was also a clear idea of what constituted a call to the ministry and for the most part such a clear idea took into account the necessity of all four calls and ordered their relations.

In every age, people naturally form World Pictures that are syntheses of ideas derived from various sources - prevailing scientific theories, philosophical speculation, revealed truth, widely accepted notions, and «common sense».

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Central to the prevailing philosophy of the day was the idea that a free man ruled over his household as a sovereign, exercising unilateral authority over his subordinate wives, children, and slaves.

This idea of the «social strand» stands over against the prevailing cultural paradigm.

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.

hopefully good sense will prevail and we get the CB and DM needed, giving us a wider selection pool for the defensive area in regards to certain matches, it also removes the idea that certain players have to play because the are irreplaceable or no other alternative

Various ideas and potential initiatives were put forward and discussed, including a proportion of tickets being sold via a ballot, but as with away tickets the prevailing feeling was that abuses and shortcomings of the existing system must be addressed first.

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.