This is a most unusual circumstance: a planetarily renowned historian who trained few direct students and who did not establish, even for a time, major dominant interpretations of his own.
The results serve to challenge dominant interpretations of these enigmatic sites as well as demonstrating the utility, value and potential of the GIS-based approaches developed.
I argue that underlying the violation of dominant interpretations of space and normative patterns, often expressed as commodification of 'tradition', are diverse worldviews and concerns about the ways self- and community interests are expressed and realized.
The dominant interpretation has been weighted in favour of malevolence and that which forbodes evil, misfortune, and mischief.
The "dominant interpretation" of the Ferguson Effect, he wrote, is that criticism of the police after the killings of unarmed black citizens causes the police "to disengage from vigorous enforcement actions".
It's not every day, or even every few decades, that a scientist tears up the dominant interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, but two years ago that's what the eminent biologist Edward Wilson and two of his Harvard colleagues did.
Right now, Ms. Buck-Morss suggests, there is a "hegemonic discourse" -- a dominant interpretation -- that affirms the moral superiority of the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall: totalitarianism was evil and democracy virtuous, and virtue emerged victorious.
No matter if the scenery toppled, if the pioneers tripped in their boots, if the dogs barked and bayed; the audience had been treated to a concise restatement of what was then a dominant interpretation of the rise of American democracy — that it was fuelled by the settling of the frontier and that it chiefly involved the hardscrabble striving of poor white men.
The dominant interpretation of his work is that he was a capable, extremely efficient journeyman whose greatest triumphs were the result of Warner Brothers' collaborative studio system, more the product of the contributions of the studio's gifted contract cinematographers, writers, actors, designers, and composers than of Curtiz's vision or control.
Although not the dominant interpretation of the Upanishads, multiple intimations of panentheism are present in the Upanishads (Whittemore 1988, 33, 41 44).
The dominant interpretation in traditional China is that Dao represents the source of the original, undifferentiated, essential qi-energy, the "One," which in turn produces the yin and yang cosmic forces.
