Sentences with word «unquestioned»

Silver, the once powerful and unquestioned leader of the state Assembly since 1994, was found guilty in November of fraud and extortion, forcing him to surrender his seat in the Assembly in the process.

There are fewer places for critics to write where real criticism is called for and there's, more and more, a kind of unquestioned assumption of collusion between all these various media.

That's OK; it's hard to challenge what has gone unquestioned for centuries (in the Western world, anyway).

The church needs a few mavericks to demonstrate that the era of unquestioned authority is over for many.

Critical thinking must be developed and practiced, and even then it is easy to fall back on magical thinking and biased logic based on unquestioned assumptions.

Driskel's season as unquestioned starter ended three games in, as he broke his leg against Tennessee in 2013.

The recognition of how language plays a powerful role in legitimising unquestioned beliefs invites educators to consider how students define their role as learners.

This film deserves to be in the conversation with unquestioned King classics like Carrie and Misery.

Despite regular public criticism, he has cruised to reelection for nearly four decades, as someone whose center - left politics match his district's, and whose ability to deliver for it remains unquestioned by potential rivals.

I feel bad for Wenger, he did so much for the club but now he lost it and he is allowed to go on unquestioned by the cluelless board.

Firstly, this is because, as a young leader, you are less bound by the same long - standing unquestioned norms and inherited practices as your counterparts.

There are some, of course, who don't like Hein at all, who say his slash - and - burn methods and demand for unquestioned loyalty as county executive would not work in the private sector.

Large gaps in knowledge and understanding create unquestioned acceptance of illogical situations.

Better estimates of the Holocene variability would be of unquestioned value.

Unquestioned highlight of this video is Marquez dipping away from the bike like it's about to explode while track workers rush in.

Porter is unpersuasive in her repeated claims that the figures under study tended to use the theological framework provided by Scripture, nature, and reason merely to legitimate the prevailing but often unquestioned views of their culture.

The distinctive challenge religious faith could have made to television's func - tioning within American society — the challenge for commercial television to give representation to socially powerless groups as well as the powerful, and to decentralize television's decision - making processes has been laid aside by churches in their clamor to protect their own interests and to survive by television's unquestioned rules of economic competitiveness.

Andre Johnson is gone, leaving DeAndre Hopkins as the Houston Texans» unquestioned No. 1 wide receiver for this season.

Devoid of deep - seated beliefs, hierarchal power structures, or unquestioned political agendas.

Cherry picking or the religious is a way of protecting beliefs, of reinforcing unquestioned orthodoxy.

In the West, the identification of the self with the seat of existence has been virtually unquestioned until recent times, although many of the connotations of the Indian Atman have confusedly been associated with it.

In their first year, The Racial Imaginary Institute has focused on whiteness as a starting point, stating, «Whiteness as a source of unquestioned power, and as a «bloc,» feels itself to be endangered even as it retains its hold on power.»

«There will always be some conflict between the worlds of religion and art, a world that cherishes unquestioned faith in fundamental beliefs and a world that is bound only by individual creativity.»

It was considered virtually unquestioned earlier this year that Bloomberg would endorse City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for mayor.

But I've also been to a church where there was absolute, unquestioned trust placed in a pastor who was given free range to do anything that he claimed was God's will.

Children need parents to provide unquestioned leadership as they struggle to learn self - discipline.

His own conversion to the school reform movement offers one more reason why defenders of traditional public education such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestioned support.

It has made the pursuit of ever greater economic growth an almost unquestioned social goal, a goal with which all other proposals for social policy must be consistent.

James was born to an easy and unquestioned place near the top of the social pyramid; Royce was the loner, the unwilling individualist who feared loneliness and yearned to be part of a band of brothers far from the unheroic isolation of the frontier.James hoped to bring Royce into the Harvard faculty once Royce had finished his doctoral dissertation — not surprisingly, on Kant.

Similarly, it is a sign of hope that there are rank and file members of huge organizations — unions, corporations, government, universities, and churches — who are beginning to question orders from on high and to say no to previously unquestioned authority.

Our vision of reality is the system of unquestioned presuppositions in relation to which other ideas appear as plausible or stupid.

§ 107 of the ordinance, which provides for the posting of «No Solicitation» signs and which is not challenged in this case, coupled with the resident's unquestioned right to refuse to engage in conversation with unwelcome visitors, provides ample protection for the unwilling listener

It took a whole year, but the secret cabal that rules the Home Run Derby has decided, in its infinite and unquestioned wisdom, to give Major League Baseball's top home - run hitter a shot.

It all seemed like it was going to work out so well, with the Frenchman coming in to Arsenal's squad to replace Bacary Sagna as unquestioned number one right back.

He insists on the mastery of every case, clarity in thought and expression, courtesy to colleagues and counsel, and, above all, unquestioned independence and integrity.

It's not a question who are the «unquestioned owners of the land» (a politically - charged red herring from the article's conclusion) but rather a question of who are the legitimate users of the product.

The list above is intended to make the point that the course books endorse several unquestioned moral commandments and explore how to put them into practice.