Sentence examples for notion goes from inspiring English sources

If you think you can legislate teaching, the notion goes, why not try legislating parenting?

Once we've done so, the notion goes, we can then leave with a clear conscience.

Valentine, the notion goes, would never have let his players drink beer, eat fried chicken, or play video games in the clubhouse during games.

In tough economic times, the notion goes, each person might be doing something that seems perfectly sensible, like saving money instead of buying a new house.

But as Stephen Greenblatt describes in "The Swerve," this notion goes back at least to the Greek philosopher Epicurus and the poem by Lucretius that explicated his philosophy, "De Rerum Natura".

Although the notion goes against our intuition and even our common sense, we are told that smaller Texas will lead to more freedom for the average person, and thus to greater private outlays, resulting, finally, in enhanced infusions into the coffers for Texas (mostly in the form of the usual energy expenditures).

Independence for New York City is an old notion, going back at least as far as Civil War times.

How delicious, the notion went, that a situation so fraught with high-level figures would have been treated in an advice column to a newspaper months before.

Neither notion went down well with the top ranks of the mandarinate.Putting officials in the spotlight would blow apart the tradition of confidentiality between ministers and their civil servants.

The notion of "ground" stormed into contemporary analytic metaphysics in the beginning of the 21st century, but the roots of the notion go back to Aristotle (for an overview, see Fine 2012).

But that antiquated notion went extinct when every kid became just a click or swipe away from interacting with classmates via email, texting and social media.