Sentence examples for entrenched assumptions from inspiring English sources

As the presidents of organizations that build and operate major US publicly funded telescopes on behalf of the NSF and NASA, here we set out how entrenched assumptions and patterns of funding, development and collaboration must be reassessed.

Any plans for revision should consider a series of University of California studies that have unsettled some entrenched assumptions about testing students' readiness for college.

The vehemence of the critics is not matched by their evidence; it is often based on entrenched assumptions and on mis-representing published material.

Moreover, enlightened claims about natural human equality were tempered by entrenched assumptions about complementary male and female sex-specific attributes, which provided ammunition for the delayed expansion of women' civil and political rights in modern times.

In practice, scientists face some constraints in the selection of background assumptions, based on cognitive values such as simplicity and conservatism (resistance to revising deeply entrenched assumptions on which many other beliefs depend).

The chapters of Believing Is Seeing are taken from those blog posts, which show the author doggedly investigating entrenched assumptions about photographers and their pictures.

No, the new emphasis is on challenging the deeply entrenched assumption that work will save us, so the more the better.

(It's old news, by the way, which makes it even odder that so many of us still haven't got the memo.) It's such a deeply entrenched assumption, although I had in the past questioned whether I was too quick to blame sugar for my son's ill behaviour (or my failure to control a three-year-old).

Concerned that the extension of maternity leave from six to nine and soon to 12 months has "entrenched the assumption that women do the caring and pay the career penalty", the EHRC will set out a series of measures to redress the gender imbalance by encouraging fathers to become more involved in caring for their children.

But in 1962 almost everything about it was controversial because of the challenge it posed to powerful, entrenched philosophical assumptions about how science did – and should – work.

In working with scores of companies since the 1980s, we've studied how complexity infects a company's entire value chain and identified the most common culprits for its spread: bad economic data, overoptimistic sales expectations, and entrenched managerial assumptions.