Sentences with phrase «prevailing wisdom of»

George Rupp: The vote in the U.K. in favor of Brexit, the rejection by referendum of the peace agreement in Colombia, and the 2016 U.S. election all illustrate the power of democratic processes to register forcefully how the prevailing wisdom of a social order may not be in touch with substantial segments of the population.

This was in direct contradiction to the prevailing wisdom of the time (1990s), which included treating patients with insulin and a diet high in carbs.

The proposition challenged the prevailing wisdom of the 1960s that things worked the other way around, that attitude was the engine from which behavior emerged.

By postulating the existence of two natures in this one person, the Doctrine of the Incarnation allowed one to say that the suffering of Jesus as reported in the Gospels was experienced by the one human - and - divine person through his human nature, which avoided a run - in with the prevailing wisdom of the time.

James is revealed as a late - Victorian gentleman, unwilling to act on his impulses, unwilling even to acknowledge them, and yet, contrary to the prevailing wisdom of the twenty - first century, a man leading a worthwhile and satisfying life.

That statistic flies in the face of all of the prevailing wisdom of the day, which is that if you are not using content marketing, you are falling behind.

The stats also arguably show the prevailing wisdom of Nike's golf strategy: apart from its multi-million-dollar men McIlroy and Woods, who each have long - term, head - to - toe endorsement deals with the brand, it doesn't sponsor any other golfer that could reasonably be called a star.

It's a life that has a lot to teach us about the prevailing wisdom of productivity, and why we just may have it all wrong.

Not exact matches

The prevailing wisdom for much of the internet age has been that digital, owing to its many superiorities over analog, will replace it wherever the two meet.

A belief in fallibilism has helped Soros consistently challenge and stay ahead of prevailing market wisdom.

The prevailing personal finance wisdom of today says that this allocation to public equities is thought to offer sufficient diversification across geographies, industries and firm - specific risks, while bonds are generally believed to further mitigate risk through an inverse correlation with stocks.

So once again, the wisdom of crowds prevails.

Once, in a debate over the wisdom of buying the largest battery manufacturer in China, Lemann prevailed on his fellow board members by saying the strategic value of the acquisition outweighed concerns over price.

In science, it's completely encouraged to challenge prevailing wisdom, and see if you can disprove it with experiments of your own.

clarity Just so no one is led astray, Adams also said:, «The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity, let the Blackguard Paine say what he will.»

According to Maclaurin, we learn from Newton that «Our views of Nature... represent to us... that mighty power which prevails throughout,... wisdom which we see... displayed,... the perfect goodness by which they are evidently directed».

Our engagement and interventions in public life should be sincere, yet not ultimate, vigorous and intelligent, but with a spirit of charity born of the knowledge that God's wisdom — often mysterious and hidden — prevails in the end.

The author of Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, Detweiler prepared us for the upcoming week: «If the Hollywood studio system can be said to dispense the wisdom of happy endings where justice prevails, offering some comfort to the afflicted, then the wisdom of Sundance tends to present the opposite: afflicting the comfortable.»

Two prevailing themes have emerged thus far in the partnership between a company whose approach is outside the box and tends to do the opposite of conventional wisdom, and an image - conscious sanctioning body that often skews conservative.

But with the standard of play increasing season - by - season as more and more top notch stars make their way across the pond, the prevailing wisdom is that those domestic players will also improve exponentially, and as such the United States will become an attractive market for Europe's biggest clubs to mine for new recruits.

By the mid-twentieth century, as the next chapter details, the prevailing wisdom, which gained credence in the 1930s, was that while the early introduction of solids might not necessarily help infants, neither would it harm them.

In the late 1920s, just as commercial baby food manufacturers began national advertising and distribution of canned baby foods, prevailing wisdom advocated introducing strained fruits and vegetables around seven months.

With that being said, the prevailing wisdom for years was that you should hold off on introducing peanuts until your child reached their toddler years to reduce the chances of developing allergies.

Many of these findings run counter to now - outdated research and prevailing practice wisdom in the field of divorce.

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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).

The prevailing wisdom at the Capitol is this: Both chambers of the Legislature want a pay increase, but Assembly Democrats, especially those from the New York City region, want it much more.

1) While the conventional wisdom is that Gipson indeed will maintain a good portion of his election night lead and ultimately prevail over his GOP opponent, Sen. Steve Saland, Saland hasn't yet conceded and the paper ballot count is not yet complete.

«It is with great compunction that this Court renders this decision as this Court recognizes the benefit that such a law would provide,» Judge Wright wrote in his decision, going on to question «the wisdom in the Mayor's zeal for the possibility of welcoming to New York City a business that would pay its building service employees less than the prevailing wage.»

The prevailing wisdom is that Clinton will clear the Democratic field in 2016 since no potential challenger will be willing to take on her combination of political muscle and fundraising prowess.

«I know that with the immense talent, wisdom and experience of this body and with all of you, we will prevail.

They produced a mathematical model showing that turbulence in fusion plasmas, contrary to prevailing wisdom, bears little resemblance to the snarling rivers of Newman's youth.

Eric Hoek, a UCLA professor of environmental engineering and a member of the University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, said the prevailing wisdom is that silver isn't toxic to humans.

«While the prevailing wisdom would suggest that vaccines that make really strong CD4 T cell responses would, in their helper capacity, strengthen the responses of both antibodies and CD8 T cells, we often see that vaccines and viral infections seem to generate fewer CD4 responses than they do CD8 responses,» says Penaloza - MacMaster.

Prevailing scientific wisdom asserts that the deceleration of circulation diminishes the ocean's ability to absorb anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere as surface waters warm and become saturated with CO2.

The prevailing wisdom throughout much of the 20th century and before had been «integration» into society.

A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric - led study challenges the prevailing wisdom by identifying the atmosphere as the driver of a decades - long climate variation known as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO).

«People called us mad when we started collecting DNA more than once, because the prevailing wisdom was that it couldn't change,» says Spector, author of Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes.

The original DASH diet research was not originally designed for weight loss, and was relatively high in refined grains and starchy foods, since it was based on the prevailing nutrition «wisdom» of the mid-90s.

The prevailing wisdom has been that we should focus on the absence of the body in cyberspace.

In contrast to prevailing wisdom, perhaps some of the currently unknown directors of 2020's big movies aren't in film school or slaving away on a small film that will earn them fame.

With one careless gesture Tommy threw a century of prevailing film - production wisdom into the wind.

When he comes across the lucrative world of nightcrawlers, freelance stringers who race after breaking news stories — the bloodier, the better is the prevailing wisdom — he has the ambition, opportunity and, most importantly, the moral flexibility to excel.

The Kendrick Brothers have evolved into commercially formidable filmmakers by ignoring every piece of prevailing wisdom in Hollywood.

researchers found a correlation that went against 40 years of prevailing wisdom in education circles.

The prevailing wisdom is that standardized testing drains the life out of a classroom, saps students of interest and engagement, brings on unnecessary and at times crippling stress, and limits the view of what students are really learning in school.

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:

The prevailing wisdom seems to be that we should all offer pre-orders for our books, either through every digital outlet selling those books or at the very least, at some of those online stores.

The prevailing wisdom behind this is that when the country's economy is struggling, lower interest rates can motivate purchasing and borrowing behavior, helping generate a positive cycle of increased financial trust that supports it.

The prevailing wisdom among index investors is that regular investors can't beat the market over long periods of time.