Sentence examples for contested idea from inspiring English sources

Even so, the reader should be warned that the revival of multilevel selection as the principal force of social evolution remains a hotly contested idea.

By Jill Lepore The legal scholar Zephyr Teachout is running for governor of New York to focus attention on corruption, a fiercely contested idea.

The idea that genes 'carry information' about phenotypes in a special sense which distinguishes them from other causes is not the piece of common-sense it is often taken to be, but rather a highly contested idea that is the focus of current research in the philosophy of biology (Oyama 1985, Maynard Smith 2000, Griffiths 2001, Robert 2004).

Racism itself is a contested idea, and this problem has dogged Balotelli's career.

Elegance is a contested idea in rock, a music dedicated to smashing through society's divides.

The former is not a radical proposition; the latter, given the weight of history and habit, is a contested idea.

Arts are uniquely positioned to illuminate contested ideas across cultural divides.

The eighteen essays in this new book deal with the meaning of two highly contested ideas: race and racism.

The academy is not like the Catholic Church or an autocratic state, which has precious little room for contested ideas.

One of his biggest and most hotly contested ideas is forcing the bank to print money to fund infrastructure projects: so-called "people's quantitative easing".

In a political context, reactions to our country's increasing diversity, the prospect of female leadership, the presence of immigrants and contested ideas about what constitutes genuine success have congealed into a moment of extraordinary ugliness.