Sentence examples for supposed common from inspiring English sources

Applying supposed common sense has repeatedly led to mistakes.

"Let him play, let him play," they yelled, these boozed-up arbiters of supposed common sense.

(I love it when interviewees, mostly politicians, start sentences with "Look" – it heralds a doomed rhetorical attempt to lead the interviewer back to supposed common sense).

In his incomparable book, "L'Ennemi Américain," Philippe Roger describes anti-Americanism as a constant of French political life, "halting hostilities between factions in the face of supposed common enemy" and in "manufacturing a tissue of consensus".

Declared medically unfit for service, his experience of the war was dominated by the Red Clydeside industrial and rental disputes, characterised by workers' resistance to state and industry attempts to re-organise work practices and personnel in the interests of a supposed common national interest.

To date, there is no evidence that the supposed common magnitude system would work similarly from childhood to adulthood.

It pre-supposes a common set of social values, and links the use of analogical reasoning to optimal promotion of those values.

Cantor's paradox arises if we try to apply Cantor's theorem to the set of all sets (or to the universal set, if we suppose (with common sense) that not all objects are sets).

He later declared of the seventh stanza: "And now for the great stanza in which the imagination is fanned to yet whiter heat, the stanza that would, I suppose, by common consent be taken, along with Kubla Khan, as offering us the distilled sorceries of 'Romanticism'".

We first fitted a random intercepts model, which supposes a common association (slope) between CD4 cell counts and variables such as time or VL [10].

The Godfather, Wiley's forthcoming album and first since grime's recent renaissance, was supposed to provide common cause between his new and old-school fans.