Sentences with phrase «prevailing opinions»

There is a wide range of prevailing opinions as to what is acceptable sexual behavior.

Q: You show how prevailing opinions about life and death can change the course of politics, and can in fact be dangerous.

A short helpful illustration of standard underwear in the late 1940's and of prevailing opinions on women's control underwear in that era; namely that control garments were beneficial to a woman's health and figure.

Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).

If you are honest with yourself, you will realize that you never have had any proof, that you simply conformed to that prevailing opinions.

He was harrassed because he bucked the prevailing opinions of the day, much as, say, a scientist who is anti-global warming is today.

I just knew it was wrong, and yet I went with the prevailing opinion within the car.

As to what happened in November, it appears that the prevailing opinion is that John Kerry lost what should have been a winnable race.

The message is clear: those who disagree with the prevailing opinion of the mob are to be drowned out — or perhaps just drowned.

In LDS theology, the prevailing opinion is that the patriarchal order is of divine origin and will continue throughout time and eternity.

The report did not distinguish clearly at this point between disloyalty to the nation and honest dissent from prevailing opinion as to the best course of action.

1 One notable exception to this uncritical trend is an essay by Victor Lowe, «The Influence of Bergson, James and Alexander on Whitehead» (BJA), arguing, contrary to prevailing opinion, that the impact of these three predecessors was more that of encouragement or expressed common sympathy with Whitehead's views, rather than «indispensable influence.»

Only the person who drifts along with prevailing opinion — and such drifting tends of itself to put one into the nonpacifist majority — can escape decision when he is faced concretely with the alternatives of military service and conscientious objection to war.

James wrote that her re-admittance had been based on professions she made to various faculty and staff that she would change her behavior, but that «the prevailing opinion is that those professions appear to have been insincere, at best, if not deceitful.»

The books that are in the bible were chosen by men and the selected books represented the majority view of the time, leaving out «books» which were considered not in tune with the prevailing opinion.

Prevailing opinion was that the game was serving the same reunification duty that had been the inspiration for that first five - borough race.

For sure, Chamblee's was the prevailing opinion of the weekend, as he and almost every broadcaster, writer, colleague, and Doral owner made excuses for and fawned over the golden boy's terrific sidearm toss.

Its possible that Rep Winkler views Uncle Tom as a positive character, but since the opposite has been the prevailing opinion from the 1950s.

Robert Romanowski of Monsey explained that the town board's support was a mistake which approved the criminalization law - abiding citizens, did not address the real causes of crime, and did not express the prevailing opinion of gun owners in the town of Ramapo.

Despite the progress, Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy said he doesn't think Turn NY - 27 Blue represents the prevailing opinion of most of the district's constituents.

But Cheryl Eissing, 24, who traveled to the march from Franklin Square in Long Island, better reflected the prevailing opinion of the crowd.

While this prevailing opinion of nonscience graduates is rarely valid, there is an undeniable advantage to having a science degree.

Prevailing opinion would expect them to be absolutely identical at that stage, and that the cause of uneven growth of MZ twins would be due to their position in the womb or other unknown environmental circumstances at later stages of pregnancy.»

Since the 1970s, prevailing opinion has held that Yellowstone's activity is driven by a giant plume of hot material rising up from the mantle, the thick middle layer of Earth's interior.

The prevailing opinion is that while short rest periods are provide greater efficiency to your muscle pump and increase the levels of growth hormone, long rest periods are much more suitable for strength athletes.

Back in 1973, the prevailing opinion was not great; only 11 % of Americans believed that there was no problem with sexual relations between two adults of the same sex.

The prevailing opinion is that static stretching should be performed before you start with weight training.

The statements about essential fats or the life threatening effects of certain fats and their significance for the cancer problem lead to a collision with prevailing opinion.

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Whilst it is certainly unlikely that Key To The Kuffs will do much to alter prevailing opinion towards his work, the record will serve as a worthy addition to Dumile's increasingly fascinating discography.

We've been quietly blessed with some very good movies over the past few months, despite the prevailing opinion that the summer movie season was a bit of a bust.

Some of their conclusions run counter to prevailing opinion (that class size should be increased, for example), and some — like the one presented in the following excerpt — represent common sense wisdom undergirded by fresh insight from research:

On the Huffington Post, writer and former book editor Jason Pinter argues that, contrary to the prevailing opinion, men will read, they're just not being provided with the proper manly material (and, those ads for The Nook and The Kindle?

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The thinking and prevailing opinion used to be that puppies shouldn't attend organized puppy socialization classes or be taken out into the greater public until after their entire puppy vaccination series was complete — which typically happens at about 16 weeks of age.

But that's definitely not the prevailing opinion you'll find if you search around for other opinions and experiences with the program.

The prevailing opinion among a sizeable slice of the UK games press, as the UK Premiere wraps up, is that the Switch is coming out too soon for the available - at - launch games to really do the platform justice.

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Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the graphics looks good but not great.

To be held at Vancouver's Centre for Digital Media, this unprecedented event will dispute the prevailing opinion that video games are for guys and that games with strong, female lead characters will not sell (as observed in a recent Gamasutra article), sending a message that such stereotypes are not only incorrect, but have a negative impact on the industry.

Richter was caught in the stormy seas of dissension (again), where the prevailing opinion was that painting's «aesthetic reserves were spent.»

Is the prevailing opinion that that upward trend is primarily caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases or am I looking at a natural phenomenon that humans are now adding to?

What's the current prevailing opinion on its significance?

Pelley explained in 2006 that he actually «tried hard to find a respected scientist who contradicted the prevailing opinion in the scientific community, but there was no one out there who fit that description.»

that he actually «tried hard to find a respected scientist who contradicted the prevailing opinion in the scientific community, but there was no one out there who fit that description.»

The prevailing opinion is that the resulting variations in sunlight are not strong enough to have caused the ice age cycles shown in Fig. 6 unless there are positive feedbacks amplifying that small amount of forcing.