Sentence examples for dominant strand from inspiring English sources

Many of the places we love are threatened – the ideology of "territory" remains the dominant strand in our thinking.

In their desire to be polite, you can see the treacheries of the dominant strand of liberal-leftism of the last decade rebounding on others.

Yet though Wilson was defeated, his belief that America should promote freedom, democracy and self-determination has remained the dominant strand in American rhetoric and a part often a large part of its foreign policy.Human rights have rarely loomed as large as they did under Jimmy Carter.

Soft M-naturalism is probably the dominant strand in philosophy today.

The concept of autonomy, then, figures centrally in at least one dominant strand in this tradition, the strand the runs through the work of Kant.

While Cavendish's account of causation did not carry the day, vitalism of one form or another was a dominant strand of thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

But Wyndham found the book to be a "variation on the themes of bewilderment, shame, and regret which [Ishiguro] has previously and more gently presented as dominant strands throughout human existence".

The reappearance of interest in institutions in the early 1980s followed a familiar pattern: it was a reaction to dominant strands of thought that neglected institutions, historical context, and process in favour of general theorizing.

Thrash has since bled into death metal and spawned myriad variations away from the Anglo-Saxon rock world, in South America, continental Europe and beyond, and remains one of the dominant strands at music festivals like Download, Hellfest and Sonisphere.

"There are loads of lovely, radical leftie Muslims who represent groups of a few hundred, but if you look at how Sunni Muslims are divided internationally, the two dominant strands in contention are the Saudi-backed Wahhabi – intolerant, broadly underpinning the Taliban and al-Qa'ida – and then you've got Sheikh Qaradawi writing about how Islam can engage with he modern world".

Two dominant strands of literature explain household behavior on energy choice, the "energy ladder" and "energy stacking" [26 28].