Walker's major thesis was that "a determined air attack, once launched, is most difficult, if not impossible to stop when directed against land objectives".
His major thesis is that divine knowledge is predicated to a great extent upon knowledge of the heavenly bodies, which bodies are in turn "systematically directed toward his [man's] preservation and guidance so that all his activities and thoughts are ordered by them" (Wars, II.2, p. 33).
"The major thesis of this book," he wrote in 1998, "is that investors overreact to events".
And it's not -- I suspect this is Klein's major thesis, and the novel's unifying element, insofar as it has one -- a pretty picture.
But he dismisses this refutation of his major thesis because it "turns out to be largely about the role of money in shaping legislation in Congress, … hardly news".
The book's major thesis, however, is that Pentecostalism survived and flourished because the absolutism and certitude stemming from its quest for direct contact with the divine was always balanced by a "clear-eyed" common-sense recognition of practicalities like finances or dealings with the law.
The extensive research Kohn did for this show powerfully advanced his major thesis that to fully understand how Darwin came to his ideas about natural selection we must acknowledge the central importance of his plant studies all along.
The major thesis of Cosans' Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog might be summed up as follows: "The humanistic approach to science, in contrast to those of materialism and social constructivism, allows for a consideration of values as part of conducting science from a human perspective" (pg. 142).
Lonsdale is sticking to one major thesis from Formation 8, too, which is what he calls the "smart enterprise" — or using digital data to measure, analyze, and aggregate large data sets to solve non-linear problems in everything from banking to healthcare to intelligence gathering.
Looking at the money that's already spent on mobile advertising, Long continued, "Our major thesis is that at some point, all of these companies are going to say, 'Okay we got the installs, we just spent $3 million, what's happening now?
