Sentence examples for long-standing notion from inspiring English sources

Not the Pope's kind, but the economics kind — the long-standing notion that developing countries were especially vulnerable to financial crises because they borrowed in foreign currency.

This is the long-standing notion, peddled by the most vehemently pro-European Tories and echoed by Mr Major when he first entered office, that Britain's destiny is to be "at the heart of Europe".

"There is a long-standing notion on the very far right that there's going to come a moment when all the patriots will rise up and there will be some kind of revolutionary taking-back of the country," Dr Rosenthal says.

Borrowing ideas from Dr Wilbur's work about the motions characteristic of telic and atelic verb signs, the team even invented nine of each from scratch: respondents accurately spotted the correct, sham ones 64% of the time.All of this, Dr Strickland says, challenges the long-standing notion in linguistics that the relation between a symbol and its meaning is arbitrary.

More than half of the nation's Latinos are in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a survey released on Thursday, dispelling a long-standing notion that their religious beliefs offered a safe path to Republicans looking to stake a claim in the community through shared social values.

The findings challenge the long-standing notion that bacteria's antibiotic-fighting arsenal arose in response to modern antibiotics.

Together, these books trouble our long-standing notions of Western universalism.

Rather than an attack on manhood or a radical call to overthrow the patriarchy, the commercial instead celebrates men and affirms long-standing notions of masculinity as honorable and virtuous.

Moreover, it has a clear, if often implicit, sexist underpinning - as it is the selling woman who is harmed, not the buying man, reflecting a long-standing gendered notion of sexuality, in which female sexuality is inherently problematized.

Kuhn's challenge to long-standing linear notions of scientific progress and his argument that transformative ideas do not spring from a gradual process of experimentation, but from eureka moments that disrupt conventional wisdom and offer unanticipated breakthroughs, were themselves a revolution.

Ai had painted the Han Dynasty-era vase to resemble a cheap modern-day container, an example of his long-standing interest in notions of cultural heritage, authenticity, and — appropriately enough — the value of art.