Sentence examples for preconceptions surrounding from inspiring English sources

In an artistic statement she wrote that she wanted to address the preconceptions surrounding the continent, including "Africa as violent/Africa as disease and dying/Africa as famine and hunger/Africa as exotic".

For Wilson it's easier to compare his work to comedians like Steve Carell or Stephen Colbert than try and fight against the preconceptions surrounding his profession.

UNICEF's presentation – held in five languages – was the first opportunity many players had had to discuss and learn about HIV/AIDS with their peers, and the session provided an important forum to dispel myths and preconceptions surrounding the epidemic.

When I decided to visit North Korea, my memory of these students humanised the common preconception built from disturbing rhetoric surrounding North Korea in the West.

When I decided to visit North Korea, my memory of these students humanized the common preconception built from disturbing rhetoric surrounding North Korea in the West.

The agent uses these structures to maintain an egocentric representation of affordances of the surrounding environment, without any preconception about the elements that compose the environment, and without using notions of geometrical space.

These preconceptions have also created barriers to proper education surrounding naloxone and how to effectively use it.

In high-risk communities and individual pregnancies, prevention strategies not only need to target the pregnant mother, but also need to focus on preconception alcohol use in both parents as well as attitudes surrounding a culture of drinking.

(Ages 10 and up) WITH all the hoopla surrounding the publication of "Eragon" and its 19-year-old author, Christopher Paolini, it isn't easy to read this first novel "plain" -- that is, without preconceptions.

Location The house is half an hour's drive from Faro on an olive grove surrounded by implausibly pretty countryside that will challenge your preconceptions of the hurly-burly of the Algarve.

That said, after all the controversy that has surrounded Lorin Maazel as music director of the New York Philharmonic, I decided at the outset of this season to wipe away any preconceptions and to attend as many Maazel programs as I could.