Sentence examples for notion to avoid from inspiring English sources

There is an interpretational tradition which holds that Descartes only took the first, 'ordinary' sense of motion seriously, and introduced the second notion to avoid conflict with the Catholic Church.

The notion that Laura was (beyond her obvious sensory deprivation) medically exceptional was, of course, a notion Howe wished to avoid.

He castigated Mr. Bush for invoking the notion of "states' rights" to avoid taking a position on whether South Carolina should remove the Confederate battle flag from its Statehouse.

The attempt to generalize the notion of a modular to avoid its restriction on a linear space or on a space with additional algebraic structure resulted in defining and developing a new modular which works on an arbitrary set.

Just as some people relish the idea of a beef tongue sandwich and others are repelled at the notion, many consumers want to avoid pink slime for reasons both rational and irrational.

"We need to avoid the notion that because the most material is in Russia, that's where we should direct all of our effort," Potter said.

They can be whipped out as a handy excuse to allow a man to avoid the notion that he might – imagine it!

Marketers need to avoid the notion that they must do something to react to big events and instead simply consider the possibility that they could do so if relevant.

The following notion was introduced in order to avoid the necessity of commutativity.

Kuhn's (1962) strategy was to avoid the notion of truth and to understand science as an activity of making accurate predictions and solving problems or "puzzles".

Although these endeavors are well intentioned and significant progress has been made in our field over the past few decades, I believe that we need both to re-emphasize the importance of results derived from meaningful study designs and to avoid the notion that nonsignificant P values represent study failure.