Sentence examples for conception refers from inspiring English sources

It's a common misconception (no pun intended) that "Immaculate Conception" refers to the Roman Catholic teaching that the Virgin Mary conceived Jesus without having sex.

In some studies, risk of conception refers to lack of contraception use (Dulberg and Stephens, 1993; Bhattacharya et al., 2009) while in others it refers to regular, unprotected sexual intercourse (Webb and Holman, 1992).

So, if you thought the phrase "Immaculate Conception" referred to the idea of Mary conceiving Jesus without having sex, consider yourself Sunday-schooled. .

Boris adopted Byzantine political conceptions, referring to himself as ruler "by the grace of God," and the new religion provided justification for suppressing those boyars of Bulgar origin who clung to paganism and the political and social order with which it was linked.

Privacy conceptions refer to the subjective ways in which individuals frame privacy: their perceived vulnerabilities and specific issues of concern.

In particular, privacy conceptions refer to the cognitive aspects of privacy attitudes, as opposed to the affective aspects [18].

Naive ideas (or misconceptions; alternative conceptions) refer to explanatory units that are inaccurate based upon the context in which they are being used (Nehm et al. 2010b).

In the 1960s and 1970s, theories, which contained ideas about reforming society and struggling for truth, and religious convictions were not referred to delusional paranoid disorders in practically all foreign classifications, but Soviet psychiatry, proceeding from ideological conceptions, referred critique of the political system and proposals to reform this system to the delusional construct.

Immaculate Conception instead refers to Mary's conception in the womb of her mother, St. Anne.

This background conception of a good human life (a conception Ronald Dworkin refers to as "the challenge model") has been subject to telling criticism (Arneson 2003); but its availability nicely illustrates how an ethical concern for promoting good human lives can ground resistance to perfectionist state policies designed to promote such lives.

A woman in the audience was humiliated when she gave an incorrect explanation of the Immaculate Conception, which refers to Mary's being born without sin, not the virgin birth.