Sentence examples for a prevailing myth from inspiring English sources

IT is a prevailing myth in Washington: big bailouts are over for good.

The YWT's report challenges a prevailing myth that boys are having it bad, while girls have never had it so good.

There is a prevailing myth that the African extended family will cope with this double burden of care.

Mr. Bergdoll said he didn't want to perpetuate what he called a prevailing myth that prefab housing can't work in practice.

The agency attributes the resurgence in heroin use to new forms of the drug, smokable and snortable alike; to a prevailing myth among the young that heroin is safer when not injected; and to the "heroin chic" look of models in the early 90's.

It was described as a "prevailing myth" that the drugs were needed to treat such infections.

Many have suggested that the big ideas for the Four Seasons, from the Picasso painting to the Saarinen furniture in the ladies' room, came from Mr. Baum, but a news release for Mr. Freundlich's book argued that it "clearly discredits the prevailing myth that Joe Baum, a Brody hire, was the prime mover responsible" for Restaurant Associates.

Then, in the mid 1980s came the Aids crisis, and the appalling anti-gay prejudice and hate prompted by the prevailing myth that Aids was a "gay plague".

Moreover, there is an increasing recognition that, contrary to the prevailing myth, most western countries, including Britain and the United States, aggressively used industrial policy in the earlier stages of their developments.

Contrary to the prevailing myth, Yankee Stadium went through more than a "face lift" back then.

From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order.