Sentence examples for bad notion from inspiring English sources

One bad notion is that the monarch really does provide a constitutional safeguard, that its role is not a fiction.

So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near-death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds — this would be the bad notion of philosophy — on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

If, for example, you're allergic to bee stings, pursuing a career as a beekeeper perhaps isn't advisable; however, if your one weakness happens to be doughnuts or another, equally delicious confectionery, maybe it's not such a bad notion.

At one point, George Will could compare Hefner to Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby — not an entirely bad notion, given that the essential vulgarity of Gatsby's taste, obvious to his creator, has been eclipsed by the retrospective glamour that has been placed on the book.

"The Taliban created very bad notions about women," he said.

Until then, the standard "cell-centric" view of cancer was that of "one cell gone bad" — the notion that when gene mutations within a cell reach a critical number they cause it to start dividing inappropriately and turning into a tumor.

One of Peter Thiel's favorite bad-boy notions is that competition is "antipodal to capitalism": once a company becomes successful, it should try to establish a monopoly position, so that it can charge the kind of prices and make the kind of profits that are available only to companies without meaningful competitors.

The toll has gone down despite predictions that it would rise in a bad economy — a notion rejected by the city's police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly.

The idea that he could be labeled as a player who stayed around too long, Cone said, was not as bad as "the notion of walking away too soon".

When a Jain monk volunteers to lie upon a bed infested with vermin that suck his blood, he may do so to diminish a client's or patron's burden of bad karma (the notion that every deed, good or bad, receives due reward or retribution), but at the same time he practices the monastic virtues prescribed for him as a monk.

If it's really bad, entertain the notion of attending a 12 step program or meeting.