Sentence examples for a received wisdom from inspiring English sources

There's a received wisdom that Greens don't do well in a recession.

A received wisdom is that automated decision-making serves as an anti-bias intervention.

There is a received wisdom – which may be unfounded and unfair – that it is frivolous and a waste of time.

There's a received wisdom that tree stumps, shoots and bushes should be cleared from a field before planting crops.

"When we started, there was a received wisdom that these guys were the fringe of the fringe, just odd people".

It has become a received wisdom on the left that poor Londoners are being pushed out of the heart of the city by an influx of rich people - especially foreigners with money to burn - and the effects of government benefit reform.

Journalists meeting him last year – when the Vaccines were exploding in a way received wisdom suggested guitar bands no longer did – often reported him to be shy, defensive and unhelpful; one review of their first album was split between excoriating Young as a person and celebrating his songcraft.

Jacobs' writings have led to a collective received wisdom – driven by the spurious discipline of "placemaking" – that decrees every street frontage should be "active", every public space should bustle with civic life, every bit of the city should be configured around clear "desire lines" from A to B, with citizens' movement intricately choreographed.

"That's a kind of received wisdom: If a place gets too expensive, people move out and it shuts down.

In presenting a Nobel to Robert J. Shiller, of Yale, the prize-giving committee did the right thing, recognizing a contribution that challenged a piece of received wisdom — the idea that financial markets are efficient, in the sense that they accurately reflect all available information, and, apart from some short-lived aberrations, generally get prices right.

"The guerrilla always carries his masas into battle with him" was a famous Army saying of the era, a piece of received wisdom from that darkest period of the Salvadoran civil war, and its author was Colonel Monterrosa himself.