Sentences with phrase «widespread assumption»

The results not only conflict with the Ostrer and Behar results, but also with widespread assumptions about Jewish identity.

There seems to be a fairly widespread assumption the Conservatives have modernised under the leadership of David Cameron.

Superficial analyses yield superficial results; yet a glance at the numbers can be illuminating, especially when the data seem to contradict widespread assumptions.

This visibility is somewhat ironic, because Chan's art — and his persona — play the edge between the visible and the invisible, probing widespread assumptions about the nature of visual arts, and privileging a coded, language - based form of address.

As detailed by a 2014 report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), manufacturing jobs in the US are now in the bottom half of all jobs in terms of pay, despite significant public subsidies and bailouts and widespread assumptions among politicians and the public that manufacturing is the backbone of the middle class.

Next is the widespread assumption in the U.S. that Buddhism is a happy, carefree, and compassionate set of beliefs and practices — note that I avoided the word «religion» there.

Such diversity also calls into question the widespread assumption that disagreements on abortion inside the Christian community stem from theological differences.

It is important to make this point because of the widespread assumption that man's self - understanding develops autonomously and is projected on other things.

Given these strong objections, process theologians, more that most others, are motivated to test the widespread assumption that whether one likes it or not, one must recognize omnipotence as a characteristic of the biblical God.

This is a dramatic change from the widespread assumption of the past hundred years or more that smoking cigarettes is a remedy for respiratory problems and one of the surest ways to extend life expectancy.

There is a widespread assumption that community is sputtering to an undignified halt, leaving many people stranded and alone.

This upended the widespread assumption (one I made, along with so many others) that capitalism may produce more wealth, but socialism is the morally superior system.

If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread assumption that reason and faith belong to different realms, or represent different, even conflicting, dimensions of human experience.

A widespread assumption, especially in German language research, is that there existed in Jewish apocalyptic the conception of a transcendent, pre-existent heavenly being, the Son of man, whose coming to earth as judge would be a major feature of the drama of the End time.

This pattern is consistent with the widespread assumption that, because the individual religious conscience is free, religion itself is entirely private.

The widespread assumption of safety has led researchers in fetal behaviour to assure women volunteering for clinical trials that ultrasound exposure of one to one - and - a-half hours (sometimes on more than one occasion) is safe for their unborn babies - yet we know of no follow - up of these exposed children.

It is a widespread assumption that soldiers engaged in combat have to wear uniforms.

The widespread assumption is there will be a top down, control freak mentality: that it will be an essentially in - house effort, indistinguishable from the output of party HQ.

There has been a widespread assumption that the Conservatives have nothing to gain from electoral reform, and the work that has been done so far — such as the YouGov poll for the Spectator earlier this month — has indeed suggested that the Tories would be the biggest net losers when comparing A.V. with First Past The Post (FPTP).

More specifically, he wanted to investigate the widespread assumption that areas that are more ethnically diverse find it harder to provide public goods such as hospitals and schools.

Which helps explain why the widespread assumption about Bharara was always that he must be setting himself up to run for something.

The Corbynites» dilemma is the widespread assumption that were he to quit after the general election, no left - winger would get on the ballot to replace him.

One major surprise from the YouGov exit poll data is that Corbyn only managed to secure 45 % of under - 24s, a shock given the widespread assumptions of his greater popularity with younger Labour members.

Let's first consider the widespread assumption that Ukip is about to collapse.

The widespread assumption that milk is inherently good has arisen despite a lack of randomized trials capable of parsing the true health value of the drink, she says.

Fellow co-author Dr Toby Gardner, researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute, said: «There remains a widespread assumption that concentrating conservation efforts on the protection of isolated reserves is the best way we can safeguard biodiversity.

There used to be a widespread assumption that electroencephalography (EEG) could not be used to reliably record complex brain activity, such as that used in movement or thought, from outside the skull.

Toppling a widespread assumption that a «lactation» hormone only cues animals to produce food for their babies, Cornell researchers have shown the hormone also prompts zebra finches to be good parents.

But overall, the findings challenge the widespread assumption that moderate drinking has a beneficial effect on the mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases.

Morris Fiorina joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss his new book, which aims to correct the widespread assumption that Americans today are more polarized than ever.

Morris Fiorina, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of «Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate,» joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss his new book, which aims to correct the widespread assumption that Americans today are more polarized than ever.

Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth and a strong believer in eliminating all homework, writes that, «The fact that there isn't anything close to unanimity among experts belies the widespread assumption that homework helps.»

While this is a widespread assumption, research does not support this theory.

Though understandable and in many ways unavoidable, the lack of relevant research and widespread assumptions that schools make while appointing coaches is an indicator that the field not yet fully recognizing instructional coaching as the unique discipline that it truly is.

A widespread assumption of magnet and charter schools was their marketed demographic of students who were unhappy in public schools.

A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts — the non-religious included — is that religious faith is especially vulnerable to offence and should be protected by an abnormally thick wall of respect, in a different class from the respect that any human being should pay to any other.

That focus on money betrays the widespread assumption that the only model for publishing success is becoming a bestseller.

Our findings of both positive and negative growth responses to climate warming at treeline challenge the widespread assumption that arctic treeline trees grow better with warming climate.

Geoengineering options are very diverse, but one thing that seems to unite them is the widespread assumption that they will somehow enable us to push climate politics to one side.

As if that were not bad enough, the warning then produces this gem: ``... the widespread assumption that tax avoidance is legal no longer applies».

The widespread assumption is that the new product will be a smart speaker to compete with Amazon Echo, Google Home and Apple HomePod.

However, contrary to a widespread assumption that criminals are abandoning Bitcoin altogether, we are convinced it will remain one of the main payment instruments, albeit with a significantly smaller market share.

There is a widespread assumption that rates can only go up, and a related belief that higher rates will hammer the real estate market.