Sentence examples for disputed thesis from inspiring English sources

In many cases Mr. Kagan seems to be referring to Francis Fukuyama's frequently disputed thesis that liberal democracy will inevitably triumph around the world, or the psychologist Steven Pinker's also contested argument that violence has fallen drastically over thousands of years, but he does not always identify them or their followers by name.

The American Crucible likewise amasses substantial data to support Williams's famous but disputed thesis that slavery financed the industrial revolution.

The convergence view, according to this critique, thus either depends on a reasonably disputed philosophical thesis, or else it fails to show that all parties to a convergent justification are indeed justified in endorsing the rule in question (Quong 2011, 261 273).

Indeed, when Mr. Rove suggested last winter that Republicans could turn war to their advantage, Democrats denounced his words but did not dispute his thesis.

The befuddling influence of a singular classification also traps those who dispute the thesis of a clash: To talk about "the Islamic world" or "the Western world" is already to adopt an impoverished vision of humanity as unalterably divided.

While it is hard to dispute this thesis, there is certainly more to say about how this 'rediscovery' illustrates complex dynamics between psychiatry, politics and society (Pickersgill, 2012).

Mr. Gingrich was articulating a much-disputed thesis in vogue with some conservative thinkers but roundly rejected by many American Muslims, scholars of Islam and counterterrorism officials.

Joe Nocera of The New York Times disputed Mr. Gladwell's thesis by picking up the lie motif, arguing that Mr. Skilling had "lied to the investing public about the true condition of the company".

Cranach was already friends with Luther in 1517, when the Reformer nailed — or perhaps didn't; the tale is disputed — his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, denouncing a public sale of indulgences, by which purchasers could shorten their time in Purgatory, to finance the renovation of St. Peter's in Rome.

I don't dispute Greenwald's thesis as far as it goes, but there is another important way to look at the situation, which is that appearing to commit the United States government to the project of overthrowing the Syrian government was a poorly-thought through and deeply immoral strategic blunder in the first place, and now we have a strategic opportunity to correct that historic blunder.

Little of that is seriously disputed, yet Klein's key thesis remains contentious.