Sentences with phrase «to challenge the orthodoxy»

Refused to report quarterly to Wall Street analysts, thus challenging the orthodoxy of managing on a 90 - day payback period.

See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy — John Coleman.

The guy who helped save the city by challenging orthodoxies on crime and whose own complicated personal life informed his public broad - mindedness was last sighted in about 1996.

Similarly, we need to guard against losing our ability to hear the voices of those at the margins who challenge orthodoxies — some of our greatest breakthroughs have come from that quarter.

The only way to counter this is to actually do science — in other words, challenge the orthodoxy at every turn.

Now, in fact, Davies's intention, made clear in his response to critics of the article, is to challenge this orthodoxy concerning an immutable law which is just a «given».

The centre - left thinktank's study, which challenges the orthodoxy of pursuing a stable inflation rate at the expense of everything else, envisages a major improvement in employment among 18 - to 24 - year - olds and those aged between 50 and 64.

How a science diplomat's career was influenced by things he learned from his father: a shared commitment to solving a problem is the bedrock of a friendship, life is not linear, and change requires challenging the orthodoxy.

Irving is the sort of figure who has become oversized in today's culture — the maverick, the self - taught authority, the outsider challenging the orthodoxy of the establishment.

Presents artworks by early and mid-career artists whose close examination of contemporary issues and use of materials challenge orthodoxies.

«In different ways and different periods you see him constantly challenging the orthodoxies of picturemaking and challenging the idea of signature styles.»

The most extreme charges came from Benoít Landais, an outsider and enfant terrible who delighted in challenging orthodoxy.

His lecture, given the title, «Science: a challenge to TV Orthodoxy» was disappointing given his previous arguments for scientific research, and didn't challenge orthodoxy as much as it reproduced it, almost entirely uncritically.

We developed this session to honor the great tradition of science and scientific inquiry, as exemplified by Galileo when, 400 years ago this year, he first pointed his telescope at the Earth's moon and at the moons of Jupiter, analyzed his findings, and subsequently challenged the orthodoxy of a geocentric universe.

But, we've been about challenging orthodoxy from the beginning, so eventually Mark and Peter's wisdom prevailed.

Sixth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations: Challenging Orthodoxy Hosted by The Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada July 17 - 20, 2012

People close to her say that she admires how Trump challenges orthodoxies, even though she has flinched at some of his more unvarnished comments.

See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy and Changing Seas.

Following the birth of one's first child, most of us are not in a good place to challenge orthodoxies on our own.

External input from providers and specialists must challenge orthodoxies within a school and provide multiple, diverse perspectives.

Exploring Fatal and Non-Fatal Violence Against Parents: Challenging the Orthodoxy of Abused Adolescent Perpetrators.

I must say that today I see many of the same characteristics that I was just talking about — a free and open spirit of inquiry, the willingness to challenge orthodoxy and assumptions, and to chart new directions.

challenges the orthodoxy of these positions, which were established to exclude women from positions of leadership.

Here's a question that challenges orthodoxy: What makes you assume that the «word» is the «Bible»?

For a leader not known as an orator Theresa May delivers some remarkable speeches, ones that challenge orthodoxies and point in new directions.

The Left has a responsibility here to challenge the orthodoxies of the rival nationalisms, but it can not do so by abandoning the field of politics to those parties who feed on division.

The authors admit that nobody knows what would have happened, but they challenge this orthodoxy (which the Lib Dem leadership often relies on to argue that a supply - and - confidence arrangement would have been much worse than a coalition);

It does mean though that we need to challenge some orthodoxies that are no longer useful in this new era of near - total human planetary dominance.

The Taung child was the first fossil to challenge that orthodoxy.

With the distance of nearly four decades, it's possible now to look back at this period and recognize that yet again, the Bard from Hibbing, Minn., was doing what he's done so consistently through all phases of his career: challenging orthodoxy.

«We must challenge the orthodoxy and find a new way of doing business in our schools because nothing less than the future of our kids is at stake,» the governor - elect proclaimed.

But the very robustness of the debate is testament to the fact that Mr. Klein did deliver on a central promise: to challenge orthodoxies, shake up the status quo and risk dislike in the name of progress.

I remain very optimistic that NET's energy, willingness to challenge orthodoxies, and celebration of great practice in the nation's schools will keep us at the top tables for another decade.

In every period, teachers have challenged orthodoxies and helped students navigate disputed issues.

Not to mention that it can be a thankless job because you may need to challenge the orthodoxy.

«If there is a defining strand which can be drawn from this collection of essays, it is a determined will to challenge orthodoxy.

This shift of mindset will challenge orthodoxy and could be transformational.

By the way, does anyone out there still believe that the Climate Commission isn't just a mouthpiece for trumpeting Labor government policy, staffed as it is by a team of alarmists with not one single person in the clique to challenge the orthodoxy or put a contrary view?

How might such an approach to those challenging the orthodoxy played out over history?