Sentence examples for fighting preconceptions from inspiring English sources
An awkward new relationship takes on a different dimension in a week when Australia's disability community once again finds itself fighting preconceptions about relationships and childrearing.
When I spoke with Katzew about this in February, she told me that these depictions were, in their own way, fighting preconceptions about the New World in Spain.
"Being an Irish writer both hampers and helps me," he once said, "hampers, because one is fighting the preconceptions of audiences who have been conditioned to expect feyness and parochial subject matter; helps, because the writer can utilise a vigorous and poetic idiom which enables him to combine subtlety with richness".
"We are fighting against preconceptions of other superhero shows that have been on TV in the past," De Meo said.
Haggis says he's fighting daily against the preconception that in the five years since the earthquake shattered Port-au-Prince – killing 220,000, wreaking $14bn in damage, and leaving 1.5 million homeless – Haiti should have been fixed by now.
Thing is, rather than challenging our preconceptions, making legitimate arguments or even fighting against the political status quo, memes have instead become a vehicle for taking cheap shots against people we don't like in exchange for likes and retweets.
Thing is, rather than challenging our preconceptions, making legitimate arguments or even fighting against the political status quo, memes have instead become a vehicle for taking cheap shots against people we don't like in exchange for likes and retweets.
Negotiating is not fighting.
