Sentence examples for challenged received from inspiring English sources

(No word on whether Mr. Paulson and Mr. Blankfein, both folliclely challenged, received discounts).

This drew hostility from practitioners because it challenged received wisdoms about the benefits of nursery education to children from less privileged backgrounds.

It challenged received notions of knowledge, meaning and truth, and exceeded even the extreme empiricism of logical positivism by arguing that logic and maths, like factual statements, are open to revision in the light of experience.

In this climate, there has been a hard core of young and not so young clinical academics who have ploughed along, and challenged received knowledge and ancient wisdom.

Then Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend challenged received views of science and made talk of revolutionary breaks and incommensurability central to the emerging new field of history and philosophy of science.

"When I took at job at EFF a few years later and Barlow became my kinda-sorta boss," Doctorow writes, "I discovered the immense joys (and inarguable frustrations) of working with him: Barlow challenged received wisdom, made you revisit your assumptions and look at problems sideways and upside-down to get the lay of them.

Writers and artists challenge received opinion.

Hurston also happens to challenge received ideas of family drama.

When jokes are good, they illuminate, challenge received opinion, and make unacceptable ideas irresistible.

At its best, Hussey's offbeat, irreverent approach also challenges received wisdom about French history.

He challenges received ideas about performance with humour and ingenuity - and he's a marvellous mover.