Sentence examples for is the received opinion from inspiring English sources

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It is the received opinion that the colonies succeeded to the title of the crown to all the ungranted lands within their respective boundaries, with the exclusive right to extinguish by purchase the Indian title, and to regulate dealings with the Indian tribes.

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This was the received opinion throughout a long career which, he said, was sustained by discipline and application.

7.34pm GMT An email from Ryan Dunne... "Wasn't the received opinion that everyone rotates, but Rafa, like Ranieri, did so badly?" he asks.

"A lot of the people who worked on the plans are still around and keen to tell their story," says Dodge. "Some of them feel they've been misrepresented, in all the received opinion about architectural carbuncles, and everything being the fault of the planners.

'But the reality couldn't be more different.' Until now, the received opinion has been that Gauguin's wife was a bullying harridan who chased her husband from the family home.

These days, and certainly in the Philippines, the received opinion is that the Tasaday were unquestionably a hoax - dreamed up by Manda Elizalde purely for personal aggrandisement (his discovery brought him international celebrity) or else in cahoots with Ferdinand Marcos.

"Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds".

The only thing that is holding us back is the anachronistic political system and the received opinion among the public that democracy threatens progress.

It is, after all, good to have a list which challenges the received opinions and is dominated by the sort of films that real connoisseurs have seen at festivals.

A target is the receiving entity of the opinion to which the opinion is entitled whereas; source is the person holding the opinion.

The universally received opinion is that no suit can be commenced or prosecuted against the United States; that the judiciary act does not authorize such suits.

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