Sentence examples for conventional conceptions from inspiring English sources

Q. -- Napster, a company founded by a college student, is challenging conventional conceptions of intellectual property and copyright.

This challenge is one all Lispector's work confronts as it cuts away, sentence by sentence, at conventional conceptions of reality.

Here you find Rothko, Pollock, Kline and Barnett Newman preparing to go beyond relatively conventional conceptions of what a painting could be.

These videos, the subject of House legislation and of a bill that we plan to introduce, are beyond "disgusting" -- and go beyond conventional conceptions of animal cruelty.

Before going on to the monastery itself, I must give some account of Père Roland de Vaux, who does not in the least resemble any of the conventional conceptions of a typical French priest.

The problem is especially acute concerning environments, such as wetlands, that do not fit conventional conceptions of scenic beauty (Rolston 2000, Callicott 2003).

The more conventional conception of the sport, though — certainly among those who do it — is that it represents adventure, freedom, and transcendence.

Because my understanding of conventional conception was so thin, my mom remained vague about the details of my conception — in all its complexity — until I got older.

His pieces were always site-specific; they were always temporary, with whatever was made or moved for them being destroyed or put back after the exhibitions; and they were not salable, in the conventional conception of the word.

As a result, "we pursued a policy unsettling to ourselves, for ends humiliating to the Salvadorans and at a cost disproportionate to any conventional conception of the national interest".

Recently, discoveries and notions related to the "seesaw" model for cell fate conversion have introduced a novel scenario for cell fate conversion causing us to re-evaluate the characteristics of pluripotency factors and lineage specifiers, which are two rivals in the conventional conception of the development of cellular identity.