Sentences with phrase «to accept this notion»

Our society just can't accept the notion of a woman without a sex life, no matter how otherwise extraordinary she may be.

So don't accept the notion that you need to wean or «pump and dump» to take a medication.

My point in exploring this extended stock market history is to demonstrate that the widely accepted notion of a reliable 5 percent equity risk premium is a myth.

The exhibition explores multiple themes that challenge accepted notions of belonging and identity; the everyday and the fantastical; the past and the future; the public and the private.

That is why it is a commonly accepted notion.

However, this study offers new insights behind the generally accepted notion that subject knowledge matters for math teaching, even in the earliest grades.

After her son became chronically sick with asthma at the age of 2, she refused to accept the notion presented by conventional doctors that her son would live his life on medication.

I have no problem accepting the notion of «love at first sight» in films.

These changing exhibitions are developed specifically to suggest new perspectives on art and invite fresh questions that expand accepted notions of history.

How does this undermine accepted notions of judicial immunity?

It also shows that your results are important and that you are challenging accepted notions.

That existence matters to them; they can not accept the notion that they are meaningless and accidental incidents in the cosmic enterprise.

Because we live in a world where our decisions and actions affect others on a global scale, we must acknowledge and accept the notion of global citizenship.

Quite apart from the gracelessness of the expression, it conveyed the increasingly accepted notion that the purpose of polity is to govern the church: to direct, regulate, and manage the affairs of an institution.

Even so, Rothko refused to be considered solely in these terms, arguing, «It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.

This conclusion, it must be carefully pointed out, has been reached by many scholars (only a few of whom have been mentioned), 1 not simply because the modern mind, dominated by a mechanistic and non-supernatural view of the universe, can no longer accept the notion of a dead body coming to life again.

Applying all of this to the passenger pigeon is challenging many widely accepted notions about the bird.

As for me, I'm having a hard time accepting the notion of LW iOS as potentially good because I know it was designed around having a stick and a pointer.

By pushing the physical boundaries of her studio in order to intervene on collectively accepted notions of scale, the artist set to work from disorienting vantage points.

Some of the artwork in the exhibition takes on the normative positioning of success and utilizes the idea of failure as a strategy for artistic practice, undoing more accepted notions of success within representation itself.

If we furthermore accept the notion that these units are internally related, in the sense that the earlier drops of consciousness enter into the consciousness of subsequent drops, it follows that these units or drops of consciousness can not know themselves.

But to accept that notion one has to discard all that Matthew says in 6:1 - 18 about rewards.

The moment we begin to see it that way: and also accept the notion that suffering entered the world (Romans 1 & 2), and that ultimately there's another plan at work to redeem creation (also Ephesians 1): then we begin to switch from pursuing healing for the stuff WE prioritise, and switch to «Your will be done»... which is, after all, what we were told to pray for.

Some scientists accept the notion that experience affects body functions but try to formulate the problem in a way that does not involve conflicts with thermodynamic laws.

Can an intelligent or «enlightened» person honestly accept the notion that our life is not the one - sided affair of which we spoke in the opening pages?

Many folks accept the notion of evolution * and * God (or a «Higher Power» or whatever your preference is).

As a Lutheran pastor I completely accepted the notion that men and women are ultimately the same.

Palin accepted the notion with a «laying on of hands.»

You wholeheartedly accept the notion that a super complex creator just «exists» without any explanation at all, yet, you find it unreasonable that a universe could just «exist» without having been created.

If he had been intellectually honest, he would have acknowledged that Buchanan accepts the notion that free trade among all nations is a desirable goal.

To take another example, one can scarcely imagine American Indians accepting the notion that a white European United States has an a priori right to exist because «God gave the Puritans this land,» to make a «city set on a hill.»

2) I actually think this is a good idea, though it does somewhat backhandedly accept the notion that the minimum wage can occasionally be bar to employment, especially for smaller companies, and the government needs to compensate accordingly.

Either way, it is also difficult to see the public accepting the notion of one party being permanently in government — the Liberal Democrats are currently the only viable coalition ally for both Labour and the Tories — and leaving their controversial leader in place is likely a bridge too far.

It breaks my heart that so many people just accept the notion that relationships inevitably start out hot and fizzle over time.

Finicky Eaters and What to Do About Them Too many parents accept the notion that children only will eat the type of foods listed on childrens menus — think chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese.

A close examination of the similarities between the 1 - series and the 3 - series helps explain why the two are so close in price, but we never fully accepted the notion that this was a nearly $ 49,000 car.

When they changed the weighting algorithm, most of the Kindle publishing world accepting the notion that the weighting was 10:1.

Her work subverted accepted notions of gender, sexuality, social class, and ethnicity, and was prophetic in anticipating the broader cultural concerns — postcolonialism, feminism, civil rights, multiculturalism, and globalization — that reached a crescendo in the 1960s and continue to be relevant today.

Other works in Talking Heads adopt critical stances toward accepted notions of female beauty and behavior, whether in paint, photography or moving image media.

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part, an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations.

Often playing on the double - identity of art dealer and artist, Spaulings» work undermines professional divisions of labor and disciplinary hierarchies, while interrogating accepted notions of individual authorship and agency.

She dismisses accepted notions of silhouette or contour instead creating unique, bold and innovative forms.

Not that Martin Creed has ever accepted the notion that he is a conceptual artist as such.

The Group's aim is to encourage the viewer to re-consider accepted notions of truth and history.

Do not blindly accept the notion that a single - use plastic cup inscribed «made with corn» is somehow going to save our planet.

But tribal leaders at the Rocky Boy's Reservation in northern Montana apparently went too far astray from accepted notions of fairness when they adopted an anti-defamation ordinance Feb. 7 that allowed them to seize a defamer's personal property and permanently banish the offender from the reservation.

With online, we are less inclined to be seduced by length and volume of content and certainly less tolerant of the idea of updating very infrequently while still accepting the notion of «service».