Sentences with phrase «prevailing views»

MPs and human rights lawyers say they expect Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attempt to swing the pendulum of Supreme Court of Canada rulings toward the prevailing views of Conservative Party supporters as he fills the court's two vacancies in a secretive and high - stakes

Recent research has focussed on exposing the dynamics of carbon cycling across rapid climatic warming events within the Eocene extreme «greenhouse», where he has offered an alternative explanation for their genesis compared to prevailing views that invoked repeated releases of carbon from buried sedimentary reservoirs.

Bohm noted of prevailing views among physicists: «the world is assumed to be constituted of a set of separately existent, indivisible and unchangeable «elementary particles», which are the fundamental «building blocks» of the entire universe... there seems to be an unshakable faith among physicists that either such particles, or some other kind yet to be discovered, will eventually make possible a complete and coherent explanation of everything» (Bohm, 1980, p. 173).

Nonprofit organizations with ties to energy interests are promoting a controversial climate study as proof that prevailing views of global warming are wrong.

If you had been against the prevailing views during the 20â $ ™ s with race or Victorian England with sexuality you would have been in the extreme minority and have been right.

Seemingly in lock - step with the prevailing views of the conservative government in Australia, that man will be Nick Minchin — a rusted - on denier of the science of human - caused climate change and power broker in the country's Liberal (that's conservative) Party.

'' In addition to critiques by well - known global warming deniers, the issue of hurricanes and global warming has been debated intensely within the meteorological community, identifying clear differences in the prevailing views on this subject...............»

More importantly, they were in contradiction to prevailing views.

The high level of confidence ascribed to the hockey stick inferences in the IPCC TAR, based upon two very recent papers (MBH) that, while provocative and innovative, used new methods and found results that were counter to the prevailing views.

Comprising works from the 1960s to date, Lynda Benglis highlights the artist's extraordinary creative output, which has defied prevailing views on the nature and function of art over 40 years.

Recognizing this, the artists in this section have exploited archives as repositories of material that can be reexamined and reordered to challenge prevailing views.

PROVIDENCE, RI — American sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) has defied prevailing views on the nature and function of art for more than 40 years.

Given the animosity between the older and more prevailing views, you'd hope the debate and discussion about the relative merits of competing perspectives would be thoughtful and respectful.

For a historical deep dive into the prevailing views, attitudes, and concerns among writers we faced at the time of our launch, check out this thread at Absolute Write from 2008.

Indeed, much of my research and administrative work has challenged the prevailing views of what was important, and what was possible.

DEC and MAC parsimony reconstructions that place the most recent common ancestor of haplorhines in Asia are also consistent with prevailing views based on the fossil record [86].

It would measure progress by counting, among other things, the percentage of news articles that raise questions about climate science and the number of radio talk show appearances by scientists questioning the prevailing views.

Teams working with the world's most sensitive dark - matter detectors report that they have failed to find the particles, and that the ongoing drought has challenged theorists» prevailing views.

New research from Case Western Reserve University found that compassion can produce counterintuitive results, challenging prevailing views of empathy's effects on moral judgment.

The finding challenges prevailing views on the causes of age - dependent impaired glucose balance regulation, a condition that often develops into diabetes type 2.

During my biochemistry studies, I was often struck by the great gap between the prevailing views on biotechnology from within the university setting and the views put forward in the public debate «outside.»

However, this is contrary to the prevailing views on social media, with many Nigerians lambasting Krane for trying to live and portray a lifestyle above his means.

A prophetic community is nurtured when the interpretation of Scripture is seen as both transformative and nurturing (Brueggemann), when its sagas renew identity, its parables explode prevailing views, and its apocalyptic passages offer hope amid crisis (Allen).

Glass Lewis» «In - Depth» reports are a series of issue - specific primers intended to provide general background and context regarding the prevailing views of investors, academics, and regulators.

«I would recommend that private investors tune out the prevailing views they hear on the radio, television and the internet.

Nevertheless the incident has been held up as indicative of the prevailing views of women at the startup.

«The prevailing view is that balance sheet tapering will be mild and that Jerome Powell will prove to be a dove.

These facts are at odds with the prevailing view that spendthrift U.S. consumers and governments are pulling those savings into the United States.

That should leave the y / y pace steady at 2.7 per cent, consistent with the prevailing view at the Fed that wage growth remains only moderate.

Going into the UK's referendum to leave the European Union last month, the prevailing view was that the Stay camp would win by a narrow margin.

That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects.

Yet even against this backdrop, the prevailing view is that the Trump - shaped Fed will remain cautious about rate increases.

Recently, however, there has been a reaction against the prevailing view of divorce.

This interpretation runs counter to the oftentimes prevailing view of Samuel, that he is what he is predominantly as a result of his membership in the associated prophetism of the day.

At each stage it has usually been the prevailing view in society that it is inconceivable that anyone would want to move beyond the proposals currently being examined and there has been a broad willingness to accept assurances that developments would go no further.

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.

The widespread practice of academic dishonesty is a further reflection of the prevailing view of work.

So long as the prevailing view is that they are not necessarily wrong, public policy in a pluralistic system must be indifferent to any beliefs that can not be independently supported by rational (utilitarian) argument.

But this is right where most professing Christians are left today, with the prevailing view that discipleship is a special calling having to do chiefly with religious activities and «full - time Christian service.»

The now prevailing view, and perhaps the simplest and best, regards the Song of Solomon as a collection of frank, uncomplicated poems of erotic love.

The prevailing view holds the plethora of biological forms that now exist have evolved through transitions from simpler autocatalytic reaction - networks to more complex ones.

Two decades ago, Peirce Teilhard de Chardin observed: «The prevailing view has been that the body... is a fragment of the Universe, a piece completely detached from the rest and handed over to a spirit that informs it.

The prevailing view today is that everyone should live by the religion — or perhaps by the atheism — in which he happens to find himself already.

If nothing less, the Church has taken a step back from its prevailing view of infallibility within its walls.

It does not fit the prevailing view of the two parties.

This, in fact, is the prevailing view of moderns who insist that foreign policies must be humanitarian in character.

The tones and suggestions of many of the cartoons that slight conservative churches because they have a view towards same - sex marriage that isn't consistent with the prevailing view here.

This prevailing view has had its able opponents.

At the dawn of England's colonial thrust into the American continent, the prevailing view did not distinguish between the ends of State and Church — the two being conceived indeed as «personally one Society, which society... [is] termed a Commonwealth as it liveth under whatsoever form of secular law and regiment, a Church as it hath the spiritual law of Jesus Christ.

The prevailing view is that China still holds around 300,000 tons (mostly WMP) in storage.