Sentences with phrase «widespread belief about»

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There's a widespread belief that retirement brings about Living Expenses Lite.

What about the widespread creationist belief that God created the universe in six literal 24 - hour days?

This fallacy is widespread in Shakespeare studies, true enough, but the business of wrenching passages out of dramatic context as evidence of the playwright's personal beliefs usually reveals more about the critic than about Shakespeare.

But while the German centre back talked about the widespread confidence in the Arsenal squad and the belief that we would not slip up and have a slow start to the campaign that cost us so dearly last year, he did have some words of warning.

«The widespread belief now in the Labour party that whilst Jeremy is a good man with great Labour values who has done a lot for this party and I think changed the debate in this country about our economy, he's been right about lots of things,» he said.

There's no two ways about it: It was a pretty terrible time to be an American, but then again, the combination of a crumbling belief in our country's bedrock institutions (government, religion) and widespread economic anxieties made the»70s a glorious, unprecedented (and, ultimately, unsurpassed) time to make horror movies.

Good examples of this are speaking to children about different religions and cultures and helping them to understand the widespread beliefs of those around them.

«Widespread sexual harassment, bullying, and relationship violence in schools is a reflection of unhealthy assumptions and beliefs about gender, consent, power, and relationships,» Finn says.

For example, test - bashing wouldn't be so popular if progressive theories about education didn't resonate somehow with widespread American beliefs about children and learning.

The bottom line is that while our knowledge about teacher training is now quite limited, there is a widespread belief that it could be much better.

Many of us are afraid to write about issue that matters most because it is scary to contemplate how much financial misery we have caused with our tolerance of the widespread promotion of Buy - and - Hold strategies (it is the Buy - and - Hold Model — rooted in the long - discredited belief that markets are efficient — that is responsible for studies that fail to take valuations into consideration when identifying safe withdrawal rates).

All the attempts to argue from authority are about as silly as Lord Kelvin espousing the caloric theory of heat, Newton's belief in alchemy, or even the widespread belief in the luminiferous ether.

For these reasons and others, it is not possible to reach valid and reliable judgments about systematic patterns in news coverage either through anecdotal blogging about specific articles or by a lone individual reading through a population of articles, especially when the individual has a deep and longstanding commitment to a belief in widespread false balance.

Although there seems to be widespread belief to the contrary — i.e., that a criminal proceeding where liberty is at stake necessarily takes precedence over a civil one which is «only about money» — in fact, a criminal case has very little legal impact on a civil case.

Perhaps it is sadly unsurprising, then, that this belief about depression may be incorrect, and the adoption of it so widespread owing to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.

This cultural belief is slowly weakening as the role of women changes in our society, but it is important to acknowledge the way in which its widespread influence affects our feelings on the issue, and the way we feel about our roles and behaviors in our own relationships.