Sentences with phrase «received wisdom»

There are many pieces of received wisdom concerning the «correct» way to decorate.

You are a brave woman to question received wisdom's holy cows.

Well, unfortunately, the received wisdom about providing your personal details on a «secure web form» is just plain wrong...

We interviewed Patti one - on - one and received wisdom about career success for women, which later became the subject of a blog post that had thousands of hits on Twitter and Facebook.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) has had a major impact on employment law, with the received wisdom being that it was intended to go beyond ordinary notions of equality (the basis of the rest of discrimination law) and give greater rights to disabled employees, as a matter of social policy.

Received wisdom has tended to be that a mobility clause gives the employer the best of all worlds (subject probably to an implied obligation not to exercise it capriciously), in that the employer can choose to exercise it to move the employee or can choose not to exercise it and go down the redundancy route instead.

It's almost received wisdom in our profession that many practitioners couldn't afford to hire themselves if they needed a lawyer, a statement that I suspect is at least a little exaggerated.

When the newspapers gloriously grasp the stick by the wrong end, there is of course always the possibility that that becomes the received wisdom, not the actual ratio of the case.

It became the received wisdom — accepted in New Brunswick Liquor Corp — that judges should stay out of this area, and defer to the experts carrying out the will of the legislatures.

Furthermore, LJ Wall castigates «intelligent» parents who — when faced with the unpalatable prospect of losing frequent, regular and meaningful contact with their children as a consequence of LTR, and with the equally unpalatable expectation (according to the science) that the resulting separation will have disasterous consequences for their progeny — have the audacity to apply their «intelligence» in challenging the received wisdom of the courts!

It used to be received wisdom (back when I was teaching legal writing, 15 years or so ago) that with - serif font was easier to understand than sans - serif, because it has more clues as to the identity of the letter.

This has been received wisdom for a good many years now.

«We deserve a magic circle firm» was the received wisdom.

Second year draws the focus a little tighter, dealing as it would with received wisdom, or what most of us think of as law most of the time.

Yet, the received wisdom is that it's better to find ten or a hundred people who don't know the first thing about it and act on their views.

The second metric draws on the received wisdom that when outside counsel spending in an area of law reaches around $ 450,000 per year on a foreseeable basis, that can justify hiring a lawyer.»

Received wisdom among non-lawyers is that somehow Brexit will represent a boon in regulatory and counselling work, but until we know what the process and negotiating stance of both the UK Government and the other remaining 27 EU States is, and this ain't happening any time soon, we are still left with more uncertainty.

Over 150 years of accumulated knowledge have led to this consilience, and was until recently, received wisdom amongst leaders of all political persuasions, as important and actionable knowledge.

There is a deep reluctance to engage because of the received wisdom that it is not the place of governments or civil society to intrude into people's lives and tell them what to eat.»

«Eschewing jargon and received wisdom, she possessed an extraordinary clarity of mind that enabled her to reveal truths so obvious they were in visible to the rest of the world.»

When the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon.

It requires careful and public scrutiny of information which does not conform to received wisdom.

Even if only one cantankerous and unreasonable individual tries to challenge the received wisdom he or she should be celebrated and respected as a person of integrity with an unshakeable belief in the Scientific Method.

In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007).

A lot of received wisdom seems to have gone at least one Bridge Too Far.

Monbiot and Caldicott are playing my - evidence - is - better - than - your - evidence, but neither can explain why we should trust their «sources»; the origins of received wisdom.

But like «climate change», road safety has been over-run by the «think of the children» brigade and in the process logic, common sense and plain good practice have been tossed aside to placate the loudest speaker making the most outrageous clams, despite significant evidence to the contrary, and anyone who dares to question the received wisdom of these self - appointed «experts» is (metaphorically at least) tarred and feathered and completely ignored — to the detriment of the very people these «experts» think they are helping.

However it was very rough going for Prusner precisely because he went against the received wisdom.

And as DD says, please stop with the «dares question received wisdom» stuff.

Remember too that they are respected figures in bureaucracies in which received wisdom passes for truth, and where the incentive structure places less weight on scientific discovery and accuracy than on getting things published, defending the party line, and swinging next year's budget increase.

Prince Charles, heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has praised his younger son Prince Harry for endorsing the received wisdom on climate change.

As far as I know it has long been conceded, and is now «received wisdom», even among AGW - promoting scientists, that this is the strongest signal in this correlation.

Sadly, such things are inevitable, particularly for those of us, such as you and I, who march to a different drum, who are individuals whose often - different perspective draws on broad experience rather than received wisdom or popular views.

What we see is two groups with entrenched positions: the mainstream scientists at CRU and other institutions and an assorted range of sceptics who have varying degrees of concern about the current received wisdom.

New Scientist covers their work only to show it up as scientifically flawed, politically motivated, the result of industry - funded misinformation and bad moral fibre, just as they did when they reported on Willie Soon's paper challenging received wisdom that climate change is imperiling polar bears.

Perhaps this view will become the new received wisdom — it's quoted in today's NYTimes column by economist Paul Krugman, «Grains Gone Wild,» who cites «the rise of demon ethanol and other biofuels,» and points out, «Oh, and in case you're wondering: all the remaining presidential candidates are terrible on this issue.»

For your font of government bought and approved received wisdom.

Just a few short years ago, it was received wisdom that the subsea permafrost would stay frozen for some decades.

Another iteration of the received wisdom, we don't need.

Truth be told, the New York School — or, at least, the typical accounting of its accomplishments — has been coasting on received wisdom for some time.

At the same time, the gallery will host a Henry Moore exhibition, «going beyond the received wisdom and considering him afresh, looking at his sometimes dark, erotically charged side», according to Stephen Deuchar, director of Tate Britain.

Through this conversation, a combination of language play, moving image and installation, Theobald explores conflicted feelings about societal conventions, the repeated cycle of human existence, and the ways that received wisdom about life, love, death, freedom and personal growth feed back into daily life through depictions in film, television and music.

He challenges received wisdom on every level.

It coasts on received wisdom.

Ligon doesn't aspire to agitprop or revelation; he coasts on received wisdom.

The Snail, according to the received wisdom of art historical myth - making, takes us to the cusp of a new kind of visual drama, one of colour and shape devoid of subject - matter adhering only to the shape of the canvas itself.

It is a piece of received wisdom — the old yin and yang cliche — made devastatingly literal.

But it also animates the received wisdom with impossible, over the top situations — which confer religious, social and political commentary, in order to change the narrative and add fresh perspectives to an otherwise commonplace subject.

Walking through the Blume retrospective, I couldn't help but be relieved that I wasn't suffering the umpteenth iteration of the received wisdom.

Nowadays, a skepticism of formal beauty is received wisdom and the favored landscape to draw subject matter from for art includes both the sacred and profane.