Sentence examples for become the received from inspiring English sources

It has become the received wisdom, in the White House and beyond, to suggest the current situation is unsustainable — the 46-year-old Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the undefined borders, the simmering conflict, the oppression.

Until recently it had become the received wisdom that in the old nature/nurture debate it was the way a child was brought up which was the key determinant.

Similarly, the novel's implication that the Union general Buford's delaying action west of Gettysburg was intended to preserve defensible ground south of the town for Gen. George Meade's army has become the received wisdom.

Hard Brexit, with all the damage it will do, has seemingly become the received wisdom, without any mandate at all from the British people, and seemingly without any challenge – at least until this week.

Bennett, unreliable as he has been since being drafted in the second round in '08, has actually evolved into a good in-line blocker, which is critical because he has not become the receiving weapon that many expected.

His numbers became the received wisdom.

Thanks in good part to the championing of George Bernard Shaw, their opinion became the received one.

But what became the received wisdom on furs here, wasn't forced on anyone.

Arens's view also became the received wisdom among many trained anthropologists, since it meshed in with the intellectual mood of the time.

Five years ago, in the aftermath of the 2010 election, it became the received wisdom that next time things would be different.

Suddenly a banking crisis became a government deficit crisis and in a spectacular ideological coup, the idea that this was because governments had spent too much on social programs became the received wisdom.