Sentence examples for old conceptions from inspiring English sources

He said the nature of work was changing irrevocably, and Australia must embrace a future in which old conceptions of traditional working hours, and full-time permanent jobs, was less applicable.

"And because this discussion does not take place behind closed doors between politicians and intellectuals only, but in schools, between colleagues, family-members and friends, it offers us a chance to challenge old conceptions of self and other at many different levels.

That has shocked Tokyoites, who thought the extended family was long gone.Hard-headed northernersOver the past three months this strength in adversity in one of the country's most under-reported regions has made people rethink their old conceptions about Japan's geography.

For example, old conceptions of the sanctity of the private space of the household and the role of women primarily as child-bearers and caregivers served to protect male domination of women in the household from public scrutiny.

The problem is that so many middle-aged people are still living by old conceptions of education.

That's why we're in a kind of interstitial place right now, reaching for a new model of shared responsibilities while still clinging to our old conceptions.

Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again".

It seemed to legitimise a model he had already, in a 1959 article, proposed to replace the old conception of a single dense core surrounded by a wall.

The nation states which replaced Metternich's old conception of European order and dynastic sovereignty in the 19th century turned the succeeding century into a bloodbath.

Too often their old conception of conservatism strikes others in the G.O.P. as a form of surrender or, at the very least, an acceptance of the liberal status quo.

Even if I know, as others do, that cancer research has undergone an incredible development over the past 50 years, and that cancer no longer indicates the inevitable outcome, the old conception no doubt lingers on somewhere inside me.