Sentence examples for myth from inspiring English sources

Arnold Schwarzenegger is apparently on a mission to terminate the myth that protecting the environment hurts the economy.

Even when we had 14 pairs here, the RSPB still wanted more, instead of dispelling the myth that the harrier could take gamekeepers' livelihoods away".

We are more confident than ever in destroying the myth that we are a single-issue party.

To make things worse, it was not a myth copied and perpetuated solely by the tabloids; the broadsheets were equally responsible for repeating it, and perhaps did more to legitimise it than the tabloids.

Between them, the Times and the Sunday Times have in fact managed to repeat the myth 40 times in total since 1998, an achievement only surpassed by the Daily Mail, which leads the field with 44 mentions.

The Sunday Times, for instance, used the myth as a question and answer in three quizzes, twice in 1998 and then again in 2000.

The myth of the 'pause' is based on ignoring 98 percent of global warming and focusing exclusively on the one bit that's slowed.

The other myth, as Cole highlights, is the belief that the government grabs 40% of everything left over £325,000.

The myth that the budget deficit was caused by Labour "overspending" has become such a "fact" in the minds of the public that Ed Miliband was greeted with incredulous abuse by the studio audience when he tried, very mildly, to put the record straight.

The only problem is that the New College story appears to be false, or as the college's archivist Jennifer Thorp put it back in 2008, in an essay about the tale, a "myth".

I can only assume that the Tories are so caught up in the paranoid myth of young people in semi-feral criminal gangs living on the margins of society, that they've decided to come up with a policy to make it actually happen.