In a thought-provoking talk at the Washington Ideas Forum this week, The New York Times columnist, David Brooks, maintained that we live in an era of "expanded conception of self".
During the era of baby boomer conception for example, the specific rules and dynamics of marriage were imprinted on the mass consciousness in omnipresent ways.
Divorce rates rose in the Victorian era, as the conception of marriage shifted from a primarily economic and social arrangement to a bond of intimacy, emotional sustenance, and love.
This was an era in which an American boldness of conception went ahead with an optimistic and unprejudiced approach to the interests of the average consumer.
Part of the reason for this backslide is the popular conception that the era of segregation is long gone, and therefore legal remedies are no longer needed.
Architecture continued in a series of buildings which, in graceful originality and ingenuity of conception, yielded nothing to the works of the preceding era.
During the founders' era, the modern conception of human rights had yet to emerge.
Although the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes was very much mistaken when he described indigenous peoples as living in conditions in which there were "no arts, no letters, no society" and experiencing life as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," his description encapsulates the era's popular conception of the "savage".
At the moment of conception.
NTDs occur within 1 month of conception.
Reid distinguishes between several functions of conception.
