Sentence examples for longstanding idea from inspiring English sources
Several experts said the new result was plausible because it generalized the longstanding idea that DNA is more bendable at certain sequences, which should therefore favor nucleosome positioning.
A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.
In Google, the longstanding idea of the corporate family, traceable to Peter Drucker's "The Concept of the Corporation" (1946), may reach both its modern peak and its creative limit.
[C8.] Using Humans as a Computer Model I.B.M. is renewing the push for "autonomic computing," a longstanding idea of dealing with the increasing complexity of computing by making the computers more like the human nervous system.
In addition to explanations that focus on individual strategies, a longstanding idea is that cooperative behavior might arise as a consequence of the population structure itself [10].
A longstanding idea in the literature on human cooperation is that cooperation should be reinforced when conditional cooperators are more likely to interact.
Some of the proposals would attempt to improve on longstanding ideas.
A new look at the human Y chromosome has overturned longstanding ideas about its evolutionary history.
If there is an overarching theme to the show, it is, as expressed by Dr. Greene, "How could we be so wrong?" In every realm that the show explores, discoveries in recent years have demolished longstanding ideas, he reports.
Certainly the historical basis to Chinese behaviour has emerged ever more clearly in the past few years, as leaders in Beijing have expressed a desire for a prominent global influence based on longstanding ideas of China as a great power.
It was created using the standard scroll and ink, but he eschewed longstanding ideas about Chinese composition by painting the trees in bright reds and greens rather than muted hues and by arranging the foliage in horizontal clusters instead of opting for the more typical zigzag pattern.
