Sentence examples for held myths from inspiring English sources

That support endures because of five widely held myths.

There are some widely held myths about how the football industry works, especially when it comes to finances.

But Britain had been largely deforested by 4000BC – contrary to commonly held myths about shipbuilding and ironworks removing our woodlands.

He tried to debunk commonly held myths about the language — for example, that Chinese characters are ideograms, which represent ideas.

The 70th anniversary of the event presents an opportunity to set the record straight on five widely held myths about the bomb.

On the basis of our combined 30 years of researching, building, and leveraging brand communities, we identify and dispel seven commonly held myths about maximizing their value for a firm.

First, it's worth dispelling a widely held myth that it's the second or third wine on the list that's the least good value.

There also seems to be a widely held myth that lotteries for school places will automatically attract a genuine social mix of applicants to schools.

In this prize-winning book, a renowned political scientist debunks the commonly held myth that the American national government functions effectively only when one political party controls the presidency and Congress.

"There is a widely held myth that extending your tax return is going to cause you to be examined by the I.R.S.," said William J. Goldberg, a partner at the KPMG accounting firm in Houston.

Invoking a widely held myth here that all Japanese are middle-class, he explained that meeting in this way had become popular, because Japanese, perhaps unlike people in some other societies, "don't have to be concerned about race, religion and the socio-economic standard of others -- so you can just send your e-mail and make friends instantly".