At the time, it was a groundbreaking notion: no such institution existed on the African continent, where funding for women's rights was primarily channelled through international NGOs based in the global north.
Being sober at a music festival is not a groundbreaking notion.
Here, the notion of a groundbreaking or experimental pop single seems oxymoronic.
Mr. Getzels spent a half-century on the faculty of the University of Chicago, helping establish educational administration as a field of scholarship and conducting groundbreaking studies in the 1960's that challenged traditional notions of what makes a student gifted and the reliability of I. Q
Additional common preconceptions described by the authors include the notion that "everyday" research activity leads to groundbreaking results, and that it is a solitary activity guided by a quest for truth and understanding.
This notion presented an exciting challenge to push forward with groundbreaking concepts inside and out, and these practical, distinctive designs generated memorable urban identities in cities such as Manhattan, Chicago and San Francisco.
Ron Ashkenas first introduced the notion that simplification should be a core leadership strategy in his groundbreaking Harvard Business Review article, "Simplicity-Minded Management" (December 2007).
In the 21st century, or even the 20th, the notion that a woman might have a job and a family doesn't seem particularly groundbreaking, and I don't buy the assertion that working mothers rank "between felons and shoplifters" in the public eye.
"And their original idea -- the notion of doing an anthological series of miniseries with a repertory cast -- has proven groundbreaking, wildly successful and will prove to be trendsetting.
Our findings suggest a groundbreaking concept of 'living bone minerals' that actively communicate with the surrounding system to induce self-healing, while previous notions about bone minerals have been limited to passive products of cellular mineralization.
