Sentence examples for reigning theories from inspiring English sources

Dinosaur lovers of all stripes are invited to a two-day symposium the weekend of April 29-30 to hear scientists debate the two reigning theories about how they died: asteroids vs volcanoes.

He added that the professionals were pleased that reigning theories of how the universe was born, generated chemical elements and formed structures like galaxies mesh remarkably well with the observed amounts of ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy in space.

When reigning theories are replaced by incommensurable challengers, the purported facts are re-described according to new and incompatible theoretical principles.

If you're left cold by reigning theories on why some countries and groups prosper while others fall relentlessly behind, I doubt you'll want to put down Thomas Sowell's "Race, culture and equality," beginning on page 92.

She says reigning theories view pain in general as a "biopsychosocial (that's biological, psychological and social) construct".

In addition to offering Obama a sort of backhanded tribute -- so much damage wrought by just one man in so little time -- the Republican critique reinforces reigning theories of presidential omnipotence.

The reigning theory of matter, called the standard model, cannot explain why any particles have the masses they have.

The reigning theory says banks can survive only as part of global conglomerates that offer corporate customers every conceivable financial product.

Instead, it was his spirited attacks on the reigning theory in the field of immunity studies, the side-chain theory formulated by the German medical scientist Paul Ehrlich, that attracted attention.

The reigning theory in this town has been that both Republicans and Democrats, worn down and exhausted by the summer debt ceiling standoff and the ensuing collapse of their poll numbers, had returned to the Capitol eager to play nice.

When new evidence conflicts with a reigning theory, scientists face a choice: they may throw out the theory itself (say, that the sun goes round the earth) or they may reject one or more of the background assumptions which, along with the theory, they need to make experimental predictions.