Sentence examples for accepting received from inspiring English sources

Fontenelle, for his part, saw that the furtherance of truth depended upon the elimination of error, arising as it did from human laziness in unquestioningly accepting received ideas or from human love of mystery.

The corporation said it was looking for risk takers: architects accustomed to "not accepting received wisdom but starting with fundamentals to go beyond easy and safe design solutions" and to "synthesizing disparate or contradictory information in an energetic way so that the whole is greater than the sum or the product of the parts".

Between the songs and her nonstop patter — she is an assassin of dead air — the show was a seminar on the peril of accepting received wisdom, whether the subject was drag queens, the rural poor, working stiffs, politicians, Pentecostalists, young media stars or bosomy women.

Those who were not accepted received a simpler message.

Yet despite all that, sometimes we should accept received wisdom is basically right.

The relatives who had accepted received the ICG, IDS-SR and PCLS questionnaires at 1, 3 and 6 months after the death.

Speaking to the BBC, fellow former Labour MP Tam Dalyell described Mr Benn as a man who "made people think about politics - not to accept received wisdom".

Based on the submission files describing how and with which means they planned to delay the institutionalisation of older people, the projects were selected by a jury and, if accepted, received funding during four years (2010 2014).

Any plan that is accepted receives $15,000 in seed capital.

It's disturbingly easy to get accepted, receive thousands of dollars in loans and then flunk out with crippling debt and no degree to show for it.

A small set of projects is pitched, and the ones that are accepted receive funding for early-stage research.