Sentence examples for mainstream conception from inspiring English sources

Dent's valuable reportage reveals a hard-won self-sufficiency among black Americans, a sense of fulfillment that more and more often resists the mainstream conception of normal.

Pakistani society is immensely diverse, but with an all-too-often monolithic and intolerant mainstream conception of national identity it is frighteningly easy to face extreme prejudice and violence.

Facebook's notion of identity on the Web has become the mainstream conception of it; with more than a billion users and continuing brisk growth, the company no longer needs to be so dogmatic about users' real identities.

If instead the concept of retributive justice conveys the idea of getting even with wrongdoers, as in the Old Testament "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth," version of justice, then forgiveness and this sort of justice are indeed inconsistent, as is presupposed in the mainstream conception of forgiveness as requiring that a forgiver renounce retributive emotions directed at wrongdoers.

Her conception of capitalism is, thus, more radical than the mainstream conception, and her defense of it significantly different both from the utilitarian defenses given by most economists, and the religious defenses given by many conservatives (Den Uyl & Rasmussen 1984c; Machan 1984).

Instead, Charles and Palkowski tell me, nearly all of the mainstream conceptions of feederism are wrong or at the very least, fail to represent the diversity of the community and the role of women within it.

These findings problematize mainstream conceptions of accounting for quality improvement purposes.

And the relation between forgiveness and children raises questions about who may be forgiven and who may forgive those who wrong them, perhaps challenging the mainstream philosophical conception of forgiveness as being overly cognitivist.

The notion of forgiving others for what they are (Macalaster, 2008) or, perhaps, for what they were, if it is possible to forgive the dead, as opposed to what they do is not, it seems, part of this mainstream philosophical conception of forgiveness.

Do mainstream philosophical conceptions of objectivity, knowledge, and reason reflect an androcentric perspective (Bordo 1987; Code 1991; Flax 1983; Rooney 1991)?

This has critical implications for mainstream epistemological conceptions of knowledge, insofar as the latter are based on false generalizations drawing only from examples of ungendered knowledge.