Sentence examples for common notion of from inspiring English sources

What does the common notion of a new baby as a gift mean?

Kuhn introduced the now common notion of paradigm as an accepted set of principles by which the world is viewed.

Executive producer Richard McKerrow of Love Productions said: "Our ambition is to uncover a common notion of what it means to be British in the 21st century.

Does that tell you there's a common notion of responsibility now at hand in France and Germany about how to keep Europe from sinking into irrelevance?

Apparently, Rosenbaum always had a certain resemblance to the common notion of what Satan looks like, and, with the trim of a goatee here and the addition of a devilish waistcoat there, he began trying to heighten the resemblance.

But his careful investigation of the relationship between scores and shows offers surprisingly persuasive evidence for his claim that "the common notion of Gershwin's musical comedies as so much window dressing for hit songs" is wrong.

Dan Rooney, the Steelers' owner, recalled that Carson defied the common notions of his era.

IN the 1960s, mainframe computers posed a significant technological challenge to common notions of privacy.

BUT it underscores the notion that the Middle East is a region that defies common notions of friend and foe.

Egoist doctrines are less concerned with the philosophic problem of what is the self than with the common notions of a person and his concerns.

They seem less reasonable to many than the more common notions of the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud and others that laughter either results from or is related to the nonconscious reduction of tensions or inhibitions.