Our job at Davos will be to not only challenge prevailing assumptions, monitor trends, map interrelationships and address knowledge gaps, but to propose solutions, devise strategies and evaluate the effectiveness of actions.
Paulson's story also casts a harsh light on the prevailing assumptions behind corporate compensation policies.
Mojzsis is now on his fourth assault against prevailing assumptions about conditions on early Earth.
Well, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute tells us that it's time to re-evaluate our assumptions.
Will Americans re-evaluate cultural assumptions that equate ever-larger houses with success and stability?
Special relativity, a way of relating the motion of objects in the universe, led scientists to re-evaluate their assumptions about things as fundamental as time and space.
Many who previously understood the legal system and its enforcers to be dispassionate arbiters of justice working in the interests of society as a whole have been forced to re-evaluate their assumptions.
It is a perception Dostoyevsky apparently shared in his student days, but by the time he came to write "Crime and Punishment," he had ample reason to re-evaluate many assumptions, among them the relation of thought to action.
Explaining concepts and ideas to students with good critical minds forces me to re-evaluate the assumptions behind them.
These networking activities have encouraged more intricate disciplinary dialogues, which challenge participants to re-evaluate their assumptions so that they are eventually resolved or dissolved.
Such departments afford an important sphere of freedom in which students and academics can delve into the past, re-evaluate assumptions, grapple with difficult and complex ideas developed and expressed by artists, writers and thinkers, and challenge existing orthodoxies.
