Sentence examples for prevailing conceptions from inspiring English sources

The disagreement among liberals over whether government should promote individual freedom rather than merely protect it is reflected to some extent in the different prevailing conceptions of liberalism in the United States and Europe since the late 20th century.

Despite prevailing conceptions, said Lisa Kersavage, the senior director for preservation and sustainability at the society, many historic buildings actually already incorporate energy-efficient design features — a legacy of having been built before the advent of cheap energy and modern mechanical systems.

Russell was dissatisfied with the prevailing conceptions of necessity and possibility among philosophers of his day, and argued instead against necessity (or possibility) as a fundamental or irreducible concept (see NP passim).

He acknowledges that Russian politics could pull the country back down into the mire, warning "prevailing conceptions of what a state should look like were formed in Soviet times, so there is a danger of a return to that kind of state".

The researchers note that while there are promising charter school practices that traditional public schools can adopt, patterns of charter school resource use are "at odds with prevailing conceptions of spending changes that are needed for school improvement".

This is at odds with clinically based attention to severity of dependence, prevailing conceptions of the nature of dependence itself, and also what is known in population health sciences.

Until only a few generations ago, the prevailing conception of illness was that the sick were contaminated by some toxin or contagion or an excess of one humor or another.

Therefore, the prevailing conception of value of the traditional approaches needs to be revised (e.g. Normann and Ramírez 1993).

In line with the prevailing conception of logic as essentially sentential, however, they are not usually thought to play a role in rigorous mathematical reasoning.

Thus, to properly understand Dual Coding Theory and the controversies that have surrounded it, it is important to be aware that the prevailing conception of the nature of this common code have changed quite radically over the course of the dual coding versus common coding controversy.

There are just two problems with the prevailing conception of "public health" -- the public, and health.